Glow Stick Valentines Tags {freebie}

Hey yall!

 

Raise your hand if you're a last-minute-kind-of-girl...

 

Me, too!

 

I picked up some cheap glow sticks at the Dollar Tree last night, whipped up these tags, and

VOILA!

 

Valentines gifts for the kiddos are DONE!

 

Snag your free tag HERE and then make a run to the store :)

 

 

 

Happy Love Day!

Valentine's Day Gift Tags {freebie!}

Hey yall! Happy Monday!

{Well, really, the only happy thing about Mondays is The Bachelor...}

 

I've been pretty productive today...I got my Valentine's Day gifts ready for my kiddos!

 

I snagged these adorable sweetheart crazy straws at Hobby Lobby for less than $5. Whipped up a cute little tag for them and done!

 

 

 

Cheap and easy...my kind of gift :)

 

Want to snag this gift tag? Click on the picture below! I even made them editable, so you can type in your own name.

 

 

Now, I'm off to get ready for The Bachelor :)



Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake {Quick Giveaway!}

Hey yall! Happy Friday!

 

I finally finished my newest pack...just in time for Valentine's Day! If you are a last minute kinda teacher {like I am!}, then check out this pack. I think it's pretty sweet :)

 

 

 

This pack includes:

 

*Sweet Sentences: 5 scrambled sentences and recording sheet

*Compound Cupcakes: 24 word cards {12 compound words} and recording sheet
*Grammar Grams: 18 grammar cards (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) and recording sheet
*Sweet Endings: inflectional ending {-s, -ed, and -ing} word hunt with 6 words and recording sheet
*Cupcake Scoot: asking and telling sentence Scoot game with 24 task cards and recording sheet {and answer sheet}

 

Want to win a pack? Leave me a comment telling me your favorite kind of cupcake and I'll choose a winner tomorrow night!

 

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Five for Friday {love edition}

Hey yall!

 

Can I can a whoop-whoop for 4 day weekends? No matter that Tuesday is a furlough day and I won't get a penny for it...this girl will take it!

 

Its been a rough week for the family. My uncle passed very unexpectedly on Monday morning, so my family has been mourning the loss of a gentle giant. Uncle David was always quiet, but would give you a big smile and ask "What's going on, youngen?" Please keep my aunt and cousins in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with the loss.

 

I'm linking up again with Casey for her weekly Five for Friday.

 



 

It's all about love this week, folks!

 



 

1. This is my Uncle David and Aunt Donna. It was taken a couple of years ago at my brother's wedding. They were so in love and had been married for longer than I've been alive. RIP Uncle David...you will be missed by so many.

 

 



 

2. I found these adorable bags at Dollar Tree and they were perfect for my little Valentines! With all the stress of work and graduate school, I just went the easy route for gifts this year-a pencil, some cutesy erasers, and a lollipop :) Oh, and I made them some special Valentine's Day cupcakes that were oh-so-tasty.

 

 

3. I was so loving Casey's cute Valentine bags that she posted last week, so we made some of our own! They turned out super cute and the kiddos loved having their own special bag that they had made. Score!

 



 

4. Do you see those gorgeous flowers? I was telling my hubby last week how I had heard on the radio that roses were the way to go on Valentine's Day, but I disagreed. I have always been partial to tulips. That sweet man remembered our discussion and gave me these beauties for V-Day. Love him!

 

 

5. Speaking of the hubs, this was the card I got for him for love day. Now, I know what you're thinking...he was super sweet and got me beautiful flowers and this is the card that I got him?

But trust me...this card is so us. The thing I love most about my marriage is that neither I nor my hubby take ourselves too seriously. We love to laugh and have fun with each other. He actually really loved his card :)

 

Now that this crazy week is over, I can turn my full attention to the 30 page paper I've got due tomorrow. Remember that resolution I made to not procrastinate? Yeah....not so much. I've only got about 15 pages done so far...yikes!

Five for Friday!

Hey yall! TGIF!!!

 

I'm linking up with Casey over at Doodle Bugs to share five things from my week. This is perfect, because our week has been all kinds of random :)

 

 

Here we go!

 

 

 

1. My littles have been working hard on our Valentine's Day themed math centers this week. I stocked our centers full of activities from my Lots of Love unit and from Cara's awesome unit My Funny Valentine & Friends that I bought last week.

 

 

2. The Sweetheart Snatcher came to our room this week! If you don't have this unit from Abby, you must go get it! They were so engaged and loved every minute of it.

 

 

3. We were so glad to get our sweethearts back, so we could get to some sweetheart graphing! Sorry the pic is so blurry :(

 



 

4. We've been learning all about Harriet Tubman this week, and my kiddos were full of information about her! We put everything we knew on some cutouts of our feet and made this fun anchor chart.

Funny story about Harriet Tubman. The other day we were making a Venn diagram about how our lives compare to Harriet Tubmans. The kiddos had no trouble describing how their lives were different, but struggled with how they were the same. Until one little sweetie raised his hand and said, "We both got whoopins'!"
I about died.

 

5. This one isn't school related, but I couldn't resist! My sweet old lady always snuggles deep under the covers and I usually have to carry her outside in the mornings. Yesterday morning she just looked too cozy to move :) Love my baby girl! {please ignore my pajamas and the unmade bed}

 

Happy weekend, friends!

 

 

Manic Monday {freebies}

Hey yall!

 

I am seriously loving this long weekend! For those of you that had to work today, I feel for ya...

 

But this girl has another day off tomorrow! PTL!!!

 

This {short} week, my kiddos will be learning about long /o/. I made this little activity to throw in with our literacy centers this week. Hope someone can use it!

 



Click on the picture to get your freebie!



 

I was also hard at work yesterday finishing up my Granny Swallowed Love pack! This pack is exactly like my Granny Swallowed Winter pack, except for its Valentine's Day themed!

 

Love those Lucille Colandro books!

 



Click on the picture to pick up your copy!



 

This unit includes...

 

 

Want a preview of the unit? Click on the picture below to get a Story Sequencing freebie! It can used as a cut-n-paste OR as a pocket chart activity!

 



 

Want more freebies???

 

Go check out Manic Monday over at Classroom Freebies :)

 



 

Have a wonderful week, yall!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Hey yall! Happy valentine's day!

I'm not sure about yall, but this girl is beat! Between our schedule being a little off today, all the excitement with valentiney activities and math centers, indoor recess, and our card exchange, it was one rough day! I love to see them get to excited about things, but sheesh, it's exhausting.

So....since I'm so tired, my post is going to be primarily pictures.

Read this book.

Made our own Valentines and wrote descriptions about them.

Math Center: Chocolate Covered Fact Families

Math Center: Sweet Number Stories (thanks to Abby from The Inspired Apple)

Math Center: Even and Odd Love (thanks to Anna from Crazy for First Grade)

Math Center: Valentine Top-It

Math Center: Sweet Memory Match

Math Center: Take Your Sweet Time

Math Center: Sweetheart Graphing

Read this book.

Made our own Splats (inspired by Amy at Step Into 2nd Grade with Mrs. Lemons)

Valentine's Day gift was from of my students...they know me so well!!!



This is what's waiting on me as we speak.

Night yall!


The Day It Rained Hearts...and a *FREEBIE*!

Hey yall! Happy Monday!

I don't know if its anticipation of tomorrow, or the fact that our schedule is a little different this week, but my littles were insane today! Anyone else have that problem??? I swear, I had to stop every 5 seconds to redirect and get their attention. Needless to say, I am beat.

Today, we read the book "The Day It Rained Hearts" by Felicia Bond.

Then we made our own little Cordelias! Here is the one I made to show them...

And here are my littles...

I thought they did pretty good! And their writing was just so sweet and heartfelt :) I had told them to do their very best work because I was only able to put 5 on our bulletin board! You should have seen them trying so hard! I need to start telling them that everytime, because even the ones that aren't always crazy about craftivities really made an effort! (BTdubs, I could only put 5 on the board, because it is the board for all of 1st grade...and as much as I would have loved to have all of mine up there, I had to share :)

I'm sorry, but is this not the cutest board you have ever seen??? In the words of Skippy Jon Jones, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh."

Click HERE to get a copy of the template. For some reason, the hat and hair showed up twice...sorry about that!

I have been working really hard this weekend on 2 new units-On the Loose with Dr. Seuss Literacy Activities and Lots of Luck Math Activities. My Dr. Seuss unit is already for sale on TN and TPT, but I am still tweaking my St. Patty's Day unit. But I thought I would give you a little sneak peak with this freebie! Click on the picture to get your copy.

Please leave me some love if you grab a copy :)

Off to have my nightly bowl of Cocoa Pebbles and watch How I Met Your Mother.