Pete the Cat: we love our school shoes

Pete's back for a return engagement with a new audience.

Do we love him?  GOODNESS YES!

He's singing, he's dancing, and he's rocking our classroom. So we are singing and dancing and rocking our school.

First we rocked Pete's shoes.

We needed something beginning-of-kindergarten friendly.  I found these fabulous Pete shoes at  April Larremore's Chalk Talk.  Gluing (let's get those lids on kidlets), following directions, spacial relationships, two groups of two, and putting names on the back - all good September skills.

Then we rocked our own school shoes.

I took pictures of all the kidlets (and a few adults) wearing their school shoes and we made our first class book.  A lift-the-flap book at that!  The kidlets glued their school shoes pictures onto the photo box and printed their  "best" names on the line.  Then we stapled a "guess who" strip on top of their names. Click on the graphics for your free download.

Can you guess which shoes belong to the principal, the custodian and the kindergarten teacher?

Pete has a great attitude.  I love that he wears cool shoes, that he does not cry over the small stuff, how he reminds us that whatever we step in can wash off and that "it's all good".

But the biggest reason that I love Pete is that he brings the joy of books and reading to kids.

He rocks my world.

Looks like we will have to read Pete's Four Groovy Buttons soon! 

Here are some more Pete printables that you might like...

counting with Pete's groovy buttons

Pete buttons for addition or subtraction or ????

groovy buttons for patterning

Pete's belly button

It's a new school year, and it's all good.