Friday Fun Finds

This weeks Fun Finds focus on FAIRY TALES!

We just finished up our Fairy Tale unit and I wanted to give you all of the fun finds I can to help you have a Fairy Tale of a Fairy Tale unit ;)

Here are some great ideas that I’ve found:

Fairy Tale Castle book report… I LOVE this!

cute little fairy tale anchor chart

not sure where this came from, but I thought this would be a great way for students to get interactive with the story map of any fairy tale. PLUS my students LOVE to write on post-its :)

Cute idea to go with the 3 pigs :)

how cute are these?

I’m sure there could be some cute writing activity with this!

We did the rub slippers, but didn’t think about this for the Fairy Godmother (we made wands), but this is SUPER cute!!! I also like the anchor chart for Cinderella.

have students create a little set and do a puppet show

and course some of my own stuff for you…

a castle display for all of your hard work!

my fairy tale unit

wall displays to take pictures with… :)

That’s all for today, but if you have anymore ideas for Fairy Tales, send them our way!!!

Hope you enjoyed my Friday Fun Finds on Fairy Tales!

Love,

Amy

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Fairy Tale Unit

So here is my post on our Fairy Tale Unit:

I have been waiting to post about this, because this is probably the most fun unit we’ve done all year and the kids have enjoyed ever single minute of it.

We started off our unit with Abby’s Wizard of Oz activities, which is AWESOME!!!!
I can’t really go into detail about the unit because it’s Abby’s stuff, but let me just say, my kids had SOOO MUCH FUN with this stuff! Abby is definitely a genius!

We introduced fairy tales, read the Wizard of Oz, had a viewing party, then did tons of crafts from her unit.

We did this little snazzy snack to conclude the Wizard of Oz.

Next, we used my Fairy Tale unit to do tons of activities as well, which included Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rapunzel, and tons of other books that we read.

Here is our castle in the hallway with all of our hard work on them!

To end our study we took a little Fairy Tale test and had a Fairy Tale Ball! The kids got to come dressed as a King, Queen, Prince, Princess, or a Knight. The parents were all invited. We had the ball in the gym, since it was the biggest room in the school, and all 7 of our 2nd grade classes were in there together. We partnered them up and they walked in together between a row of balloons. It was SO. STINKIN. CUTE! The kids danced for a little while, then we had them get with their partners and did the waltz for the parents (we practiced this for a few days before the ball). Some parents were in tears, the kids were so precious.

After the waltz, the kids got to dance their booties off and go around to the different stations to have their pictures taken. Our art teacher and some of the older students did all of our displays for pictures and they turned out AMAZING!

this last one is actually me and my friend Becki that I teach with :)

I have to say that our FAIRY TALE UNIT was a SUCCESS!!!!

Friday’s Fun Finds will be all about Fairy Tales :)

Hope you can get some great ideas from this post and let me know if you have any wonderful ideas that I can add in next year!

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Friday Fun Finds

Welcome to Friday Fun Finds!

This week I decided to do MONEY ideas since I see that a LOT of people are teaching money right now.

This I found on Pinterest, but it was only the picture. I thought this could be good for STARTING to count money…

cute money song! Click on the picture to download it for free from First Grade Glitter and Giggle!

thought this was a cute money song!

I liked this idea :)

Here is ANOTHER FREE download from Tpt!

Money games for every level.

I LOVE this game!!! We actually play the version that’s called KABOOM! But you it’s the exact same thing. The kids LOVE this!!!!

Here’s another cute little FREEBIE! Click on the picture.

Ok… bare with me… so I saw this and immediately thought “this would be so much fun to do with Caycen when he gets older”… but then when I was thinking about money activities, I thought this could be a fun game to put a bunch of coins in and have the students search for the different coins they see, write them down, add them up, or even make a graph to see which one they found the most of. Just an idea…

Really LIKE this!!!

And don’t forget about my fun little Money Unit on Tpt :)

I hope you enjoyed today’s FUN FINDS!!! Any MONEY fun finds for us???

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Love,

Amy

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Fairy Tales

Hey guys!

This week we’ve started our Fairy Tales Unit. We are so excited! We have used some of the activities from Abby’s Wizard of Oz Unit (thank you Abby this is great!) and then I have also created a little unit of my own. You can find it at my tpt store. Remember that everything is 20% off now through the 29th!!!

This unit is one of my favorites that we do every year! We will be doing tons of different activities and then closing our unit up with the 2nd Grade Fairy Tale Ball next Wednesday. I will make sure to take tons of pictures and o one big post when we finish with everything.

Have a great evening!!!

Love,

Amy

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Money Unit

Hey everyone! I hope your weekend was WONDERFUL!

Mine was SUPER busy, but it was a great one!!!

Well, I’m posting because I know a lot of you are getting ready to teach money or have already started and I just wanted to let you know about my “Money Fun” packet. It has a lot of really cute stuff and it’s only $5.00 on Tpt! BUT I’m going to do a sale on in my store from today through the 29th so you can go and get it for 20% off!!!

Also in my store you will find common core standards posters for grades 1 and 2 for only $6.50 (but don’t forget that everything in my store is on sale through the 29th, so you can get them at 20% off as well!!!)

I hope this will help some of you out :) HAPPY SHOPPING!!!

Also, any ideas for Fun Friday posts? What would you like to see on Fun Friday Finds?

Have a GREAT week!!

Love,

Amy

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Friday Fun Finds

Welcome to this weeks edition of

This week I’ve just picked some random fun ideas that I found to do in the classroom…

What a fun way to do writing! The students draw a setting, character, and a problem, then write a story with them. I will definitely be doing this with my kids! We are doing Fairy Tales right now, so I think I might try this with them next week.

This is soooo neat!!! If you’re teaching about the water cycle, this would be perfect! It’s supposed to be clouds and rain.

These are so cute! I actually did something similar to this in my classroom (without the book report) for decorations. My room is a safari theme, and my little guy on the wall says “We Spot Great Work”! I would love to do this with my students though!

I just love David!!! :)

What a great idea! You could even do this with vocabulary words and the definitions! I need to buy one of these :)

Well everyone, those are the fun finds for this week! I hope everyone is having a WONDERFUL week!!!

Happy Friday!

Love,

Amy

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St. Patrick’s Day Packet Winner

Thank you to all that entered the St. Patrick’s Day Giveaway!!!! Everyone who entered will be getting an email from me shortly with a little FREEBIE from my pack :)

Now for the winners…

Drum roll PLEASE…………

And the WINNERS ARE:

Congrats ladies!!!! I will be emailing you all very shortly with your packets :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and has a VERY LUCKY Monday!!!!

Love,
Amy

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