Fun Week

This week was Red Ribbon Week at our school.  In my last post I posted this cute idea for red ribbon week: Well, I stole the idea and used it for a our wall sign that we had to put up! Here is ours: Here are some of the other cute signs I saw around the school... these aren't all of them though, there were lots that were put up after I took these pictures. Also this week we did a lot of fun Halloween activities... I found this...

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Wandering Wednesday

I have been WANDERING around online to find cute ideas for Halloween... Here are some fun finds that I got from pinterest this week: soooo doing this for red ribbon week this week! I'm short on time today so this is all I can add right now... I will have more later :) There are TONS of cute things on pinterest!!! What are you finding?? ~...

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Halloween Math and Literacy Center SALE

My Halloween Math and Literacy Center is on SALE this week for $4.00!!!! Get it now! :) ~...

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Contractions

This week we've been talking about contractions.  I saw a great idea somewhere about using caterpillars to make contractions so we made some ourselves.  They turned out really cute so I thought I'd share.  We took two words, wrote them on the legs, then made the contraction on the body.  They did such a great job!!! We also played KABOOM this week with money.  I hot glued plastic coins to Popsicle sticks, wrote KABOOM...

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Boss's Day

So Boss's Day is coming up soon so my school decided to do something special for our administrators.  We are planning on decorating their offices and getting a little gift for them all.  I had all of the staff give me words to describe our principal and assistant principals and made each of them a personalized subway art piece to go in their offices.  I decided that I would make a generic one just in case any of you would like to use...

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Halloween

Well, Halloween is coming fast! I just finished my Set of Halloween Math and Literacy centers!!! I can't wait to use this stuff in my own classroom this year :)  It's so great because it is full of math and literacy games that can be used from Kindergarten through 3rd grade.  I have included some activities to do with the book "Stellaluna", some fun Halloween snacks that the kids can make, and even a witch glyph that I created.  I...

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Types of Sentences Activity Set

Wow, this week has been long already!!! Here a little sentences activity set that I made for my classroom.  It has labels to put on envelopes for telling, asking, and exclamatory sentences.  Students will sort the sentences then use the activity sheet to record two of each sentence type.  There is also a short test included. Hope you like it :) Have a WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY!!!! :) -A...

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Flashcards Race

So I'm always looking for EASY centers that I can put out that are a lot of fun for my students.  Well, my school is really STRESSING math facts this year, so I thought I would create a little center for my flashcards and have them do this OFTEN.  I could also use this as a time filler activity if I only have a few minutes to kill.  So I created a center where students will have to actually write the fact down when they get it right...

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