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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St. Patrick’s Day Friday Fun Finds and a GIVEAWAY!!!

This weeks “FUN FINDS” are all about St. Patrick’s Day!

In Savannah, this is one of the BIGGEST holidays!!!! I am SOOOOO excited about celebrating this year!

Here are some “FUN FINDS”:

cute idea from First Grader at Last!

This could be a fun activity to do with the kiddos.

fun but healthy snack!!!

St. Patrick’s Day treats idea from http://angbrimwil.blogspot.com/ 

this could be another fun treat for the kids! Or I was thinking it might be a fun math center as well!

St. Patrick’s Day breakfast idea!!!! I LOVE this! And since Baby C can eat pancakes now, it would be fun to do something like this! My cousin and her friend are also coming into town, so maybe I’ll surprise them with a “Welcome to Savannah St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast!”… IF I HAVE TIME

FUN!!!!!! St. Patrick’s Day party idea!

We did these little guys last year, but not the rainbow and pot of gold to go with them… I LOVE this idea :)

The CUTEST.THING.EVER!

Precious!

found this on pinterest, but there was no link back to it… sorry.. but isn’t this adorable??

rainbow shaving cream

cute rainbow craft idea…

Well, guys, those were my “FUN FINDS” for this week!!! Don’t forget to link up your St. Patrick’s Day “FUN FINDS”!!!

Now for a GIVEAWAY!!!!

I have created a little St. Patrick’s Day packet that I would like to give away this weekend! Since St. Patrick’s Day is in March, I am giving away 3 packets!!!

All you have to do to enter for a chance to win is…

1. Become a follower and leave a comment saying you are following my blog
2. Pin, tweet about, or update your status on facebook about this post and leave a comment saying you pinned with the link
3. Follow my Tpt store and leave a comment saying that you are following me on Tpt

That’s 3 chances to win!!!! EVERYONE who enters will get the “Shamrock Antonyms and Synonyms” activity sheet from this pack sent to them through email! DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ON EACH COMMENT SO THAT I KNOW WHERE TO SEND IT TO!

You have until Sunday at 11:59 to enter! I will announce the winner on Monday!

Have a FANTABULOUS weekend everyone!!!!

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Dr. Seuss Week

This past week was Dr. Seuss week at our school. We did lots of fun activities from my Dr. Seuss Math and Literacy pack! You can find it at my Tpt store or my TN store.

We did reading groups all week long:

At our school we also do a little contest for birthday banners for Dr. Seuss.  The winning class gets books for their classroom library. Our banner was inspired by a picture that I found on pinterest:

Here is our banner:

We used our “Things” from my Dr. Seuss activity set and wrote rhyming words on the tummies:

it’s hard to read… but the tummy says “dog and log”. The kids had to come up with their own rhyming words!!!!

Now, I’m pretty sure that my class won’t be winning because look at this CUTENESS that one of the kindergarten classes put together!!!!

This para is SO talented!!! shh I think she used to be an ART teacher!!!

On Friday we had Character Dress-Up Day and I forgot my stinkin’ camera!!!!! Geez!!! But, I was a Green Bellied Sneetch for character dress-up day and I had tons of Cat in the Hats, Cindy Lou Whos, Sallys, etc.

It was such a fun week!!!

Check back here on Friday for some St. Patrick’s Day “FUN FINDS” and a GIVEAWAY!!!!!!

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Friday Fun Finds

This week’s fun finds are just random fun things I’ve found from MANY different wonderful teachers!

And on with our fun finds…

So, I think everyone in the BLOGGING WORLD knows who Deanna Jump is… and if you don’t, she’s pretty much the QUEEN of Tpt! Well she has the most adorable Text-to-Self activity from “Where the Wild Things Are” and she even has a FREE printable at her Tpt store!

This activity looks like a lot of fun! I think doing a compare and contrast, then having the kids draw their favorites for each one would be such a fun activity! So head on over the Life in First Grade to check out this FUN activity!

This activity is super cute! We just got done doing our Geometry unit and I wish that I would have seen this activity before. I think it would be fun for the kids to cut pictures out of magazines of the different shapes. Check this activity out over at Mrs. Morrow’s blog.

I love this math tub! The kids get to throw and add the numbers together. Check it out at the Guided Math blog.

I LOVE this idea for later in the year when we start teaching Multiplication! What a great interactive way to learn… Check it out on Mrs. Hart’s Blog.

Well everyone… those are this weeks FUN FINDS!!!

Don’t forget to link up any of your FUN activities that you’ve found or done! We would love to check them out!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

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