Valentine's Day and a Friday, Oops, Saturday Freebie!

What a week it has been!! We had administrative walk-throughs, a half day for professional development, no recess, and Valentine's Day!! All in all it was a great week with a lot of excitement in the air. There were a couple days in there where I wasn't feeling too great so I was a little grumpy with the children, but I did apologize to my "babies" to being a grumpy teacher! And you know what??? They still loved me! :)

Here are the boxes we made to hold our Valentines. They turned out so cute!! I am in love with them. I found the idea online from 1st Grade Hip Hip Hooray!! Please go and check out her adorable blog!!

 

We are also offering another Friday freebie (a day late) by linking up with Teaching Blog Addict once again. This week we are offering a matching a numeral to a set activity for dental health.

In this adorable activity, children will match numerals 0 to 10 to a tooth with the correct set of germs on them. You can get it here.

 

 

Don't forget to hop on over to Teaching Blog Addict and check out more fun freebies!

 

Lastly, I am going to laminate tomorrow. I am so excited I could burst!

C'mon, I know you all know the feeling, that secret thrill you get out of laminating all your hard work. ;)

Here is the pile....oh my....that might take several months to cut out! :)

100th Day Friday Freebie!

Happy Friday everyone!! We hope you all had a wonderful week.

This week we are linking up with Teaching Blog Addict again this week and offering a 100s day hat freebie!!

We know some of you have already had your 100th day celebration, but if you are like us, we haven't celebrated yet. We are getting there though, today was day 92! If you already celebrated, you can save this cute hat for next year's festivities.

You can download this hat here.

 

 

Come check out other fun freebies here and link up too!

Super Bowl Sunday SALE!!!!

 

Who's ready for some football?!??!?!??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Teachers Pay Teachers is throwing a super sale in honor of the Super Bowl! Our entire store will be 10% off and then TpT is giving everyone an additional 10% off!! So that means that everything in our store is 20% off tomorrow! Please click on the banner above and come check us out!! Don't forget to use the promo code SUPER when you check out.

 

On another note, being from Baltimore, I am cheering for the Ravens!! Ravens all the way!! In the sales banner above the cheerleader and football player are ready to go. I made these adorable little clipart children for each of my students. I used clipart for the body and a photo of their head on the top. The turned out absolutely adorable. Unfortunately, we had a snow day on Friday so I was unable to give them to the children, but they will get them on Monday as the celebration continues!

 

Enjoy the game and the sale!!

Snow Day Sale and a Freebie!!

Yesterday they were calling for a "dusting" of snow this morning. So we thought okay, maybe a delay tomorrow. However, this morning, I woke up to big, huge snowflakes falling from the sky and a 90 minutes delay. Within an hour we had about 5 to 6 inches of snow on the ground and then they called a Snow Day! No school today!! We hope all of our "babies" are having fun in the snow!!

So we thought, "It's a great day for a sale!!" All of our "Winter themed products" are 15% off today and tomorrow! Please stop by our store and check them out!

We are also linking up with Teaching Blog Addict and offering a cute Valentine Freebie! Your students will have fun rolling the dice and coloring in this adorable bunny who is spreading some love. You can download it here.

Come and check out other freebies here too and join in on the fun!

Snow Day and 100th Day!

Yesterday we had a surprise snow day! I didn't even realize it was suppose to snow and then my phone is ringing at 6AM with a robo-call saying, school is closed!! Wow!! So I look outside and there is hardly any snow on the ground, seems silly that we have off school. Well, apparently it was very, very icy out there and they didn't want to bring the buses in and even chance an accident of any kind. Completely understandable!! So, it was a surprise day home! :)
Kelly and I were burning up the email, messaging back and forth about our next TpT project. We did manage to get a new old lady up in the store just in time for Valentine's Day. We just love those little old ladies! This time she is swallowing a rose, lace, glitter, and a diamond. Wow!! Is there nothing this old lady won't eat?

 

The 100th day of school is right around the corner! What are some of your favorite activities that you do with your class? We are always looking for some fun and creative ideas! We have always had the children work on a 100th Day project at home. The idea is to make something using 100 objects. We give them ideas, but we don't tell them exactly what to do. We love to see creativity. Here are a couple examples from previous years:

Flower made from 100 white buttons. Very cute!

 

The outline of a T-Rex made from pasta. Very original!

 

100 piece puzzle! Hang ten Scooby!!

 

We also like to make this 100th day hat too! The children color and cut out the hat and then we put them on sentence strips and wear them!!

 

What do you do? We would love to hear all about it!! Enjoy your weekend everyone!

 

 

Random Thoughts

First I have to give a shout out and congratulations to my home team, the Baltimore Ravens!!!

We are going to the Super Bowl!! It was a hard fought season and well deserved. I am looking forward to watching the game February 3rd!! I wonder what the commercials will be like this year?

Second, I have to give a shout out to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. What a great man he was! 

 Most people I know believe that everyone should be treated fairly and treated with respect no matter what they look like, believe in, etc. Not everyone thinks this way though.

It is such a shame that we live in a world with so much hatred. 

Do I get angry? Yes, I do. Do people get on my nerves sometimes? Ha, yes they do. 

Am I mean to people? NO, I AM NOT!! 

Having said that, I will say there is a lot of love in the world too! I see people doing wonderful things in the world: taking care of children, each other, the environment, themselves, etc. These are the people we want in our lives, the ones that have something nice to say and are willing to lend help when needed. 

As Robert Fulghum said:

"We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they have all learned to live together in the same box."

Third:

 Happy Inauguration Day Mr. President!! 

Even if you didn't vote for him or don't believe in his policies and agendas, he is still our President. I am proud to be an American and love the country I live in.

Enjoy your Monday everyone!! 

Remember: 

"When you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."

Winter Themed Centers

Kelly and I are so very excited to have finished our winter center pack!! We got it up in our store last week. We have included some literacy centers, writing centers, and some math centers. All together there are 12 activities. Check it out in our TpT store:

Our students have been trying them out over the last week and have given us some very enthusiastic thumbs up! We have been working on number sentences and number stories a lot lately and the children are really starting to grasp the concept. We made this adorable center to help reinforce these skills in a fun way. These snowman are feeling cold out in the snow without a warm hat on their head! So, the children will come to the rescue and find that perfect hat! Children will count the buttons on the snowmen to add the sets of colors and find the correct sum of all the buttons together. Then, they will find the hat with the correct number sentence and place it on each snowman's head. Now the snowmen are ready to face the cold winter days!

 Another activity in the pack is Chilly Challenge Memory Game. All the cards have winter-themed words on them! Who doesn't enjoy a fun game of memory?

We have also included a favorite of all five year olds we know, Write the Room! Seriously, the love it!! I have some students who will sit on the carpet during center time while they are waiting for someone to finish their turn with the center!! Of course I say, please go to another center while you are waiting. Haha. Kids are funny!!

Thanks for checking us out!! Enjoy the weekend!