Winding Down the Year

Every year I wish I had an organized list of everything I need to get ready for next year. Click here for the link!

Daily 5

I have been working on my classroom next year.  I put this Daily 5 board together for my students last year.  This is what my students did this year to pick their daily five each day.

I love it, but I will have more students next year and wanted a change.  So this is what I came up with.  The students will rotate through out the week.  If you would like to download my daily 5 chart.  Click Here!

Mother's Day Idea and Home Projects

Good Morning! I know I haven't posted much lately. I have been busy at home doing some home renovation projects. We replaced all of the faucets in our house, I made burlap valances for my kitchen and family room, and have refinished some furniture . . .Here are some before and afters.

 

I also wanted to share that I am a contributor to a brand new blog called Teaching Blog Roundup.

It is super cute and going to a great place for teaching ideas.

I have a post over there today about this Mother's Day idea with included printables.

 

 How many days of school do you have left? We have 16 days after today. I can't believe it!

Ladybug Classroom Theme

Hey everyone! How are you today?

 I send all of my prayers and best wishes to Boston. I have been riveted to the TV following the tragic events of the last week.

I have recently changed my mind about my classroom theme next year. I had intended to do School Girl Style's Primary Apple theme, but am now going to do School Girl Style's Ladybug theme, integrating some of my own stuff.

I think it will be super cute! This morning, I started a Pinterest board so that I can keep track of things and ideas that I find . . .if you know of some fun ladybug stuff, let me know!

I also made a little framed sign to get me started . . .

My husband and I have also been really busy at home. I just refinished a bench with homemade Chalk Paint, he made two batches of homemade soap and we are in the process of changing out the fixtures in our kitchen and bathroom sinks. I am starting to post some of those projects on my home blog. 

Have a good week!

Hi everyone! I have a couple of things to share with you today. First of all, here is the view from my classroom right now.

 

All of the white stuff is actually snow falling. Bleh!

Now, onto the ideas. I have come up with a way to display, store and send home our writing projects. . .attaching the writing to file folders and labeling the edge for organizational purposes. I think I would file them all and then send home at the end of the year. For example, for the last couple of weeks we have been working on Narratives. We just finished the final draft yesterday. 

Here is what it looks like stapled into the folder:

Here is my display on the wall:

 

I also wanted to share our big flower project. We made a big flower and labeled the parts. I did these last year as well.

 

You can grab the labeling printable by clicking here.

Prayers to Boston . . .

 

 

 

We've had a blast reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in First Grade.  For the past two weeks I've been reading about two chapters per day.  I bought a cute unit on tpt.  My favorite activity was the journal entry from a characters point of view. You can get it here.  After my students wrote their journal entries, I had them read them to the whole class and they guessed what character it was. While reading the book we noticed there were a lot of examples in the text that indicated the Scarecrow had a brain, the Tin Woodman had a heart, and the Lion had courage.  I made this anchor chart for my students to write down specific events that supported our theory.  You can get it here.  I love the Melonheadz clip art and bought it here.  We took our First Graders to the play, The Wizard of Oz, put on by a local children's theater group.  It was amazing! We also watched the movie and compared them.  After all of this my students and I agree that the book is always better than the movie!

Writing Paper Freebie. Cute!

Hi everyone! How was your week. It is getting to that really busy time of year. We have 7 weeks left. Kinda crazy! I hope you found some fun freebies in the spring blog hop last week! 

Today, I decided to make a few new writing forms. . .it's always fun to have a change . . .and my class definitely notices. 

(Sorry that the screen shot shows a little extra line along the side.)

Click here to download all 3.
(margin problem I discovered is all fixed!)

I have recently discovered  Krista from Creative Clips. Her stuff is delightful!!

Click on the image below to visit her TpT Store.

I also used Nikki's "Kidlette's" set, which is super cute. 

(As is all of Nikki's stuff!) She never ceases to amaze me. . .

I also posted some Spring Word Art today on my other blog,

The Robin's Nest

Have a relaxing Sunday!

A Bunny Blog Hop

A Tisket, A Tasket, Freebies for your Basket!

Several phenomenal teachers and bloggers are joining forces for an amazing bunny blog hop!  As you follow us along the bunny trail, you will visit some of your favorite blogs and discover a few new blogs too!  Each with a fabulous freebie just for you!

Thank you for hopping on over to my blog!

Happy Spring Everyone! Have you ever read this book?

It is sooo cute! My first graders are now fighting over who gets to keep it in their browse box! We enjoyed it so much that I decided to make a craftivity to go along with it. . .

The kids love these little guys! 

Click here to grab the pattern. :)

Thanks for stopping by and visiting!  If you are new to my blog and liked what you see, don't forget to follow me.  A Tisket, A Tasket, next up with a Freebie for your Basket is Linda from Primary Inspiration.  Hop on over!

Just in case you didn't join us from the beginning, here is an ordered list of all the participating blogs.

Stephany from Primary Possibilities
Sally from Elementary Matters
Lory from Fun for First
Linda from Primary Inspiration
Nicole from Mrs. Rios Teaches Second Grade
Brian from Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings
Liz from The Happy Teacher
Jennie from JD's Rockin' Readers
Sarah from Learning is for Superstars
Teresa from Fun in K/1
Nikki from Teaching in Progress
Faith from Kindergarten Faith
Renee from Fantastic First Grade Froggies
Amy from Happy Teacher Heaven
Leah from Learn with Leah
Nicole from Teaching's a Hoot
Kristy from The Phonic's Phenomenon
Rich from Mr. Giso's Room to Read
Susanna from Whimsy Workshop
Amy from Motivate to Learn
Lola from Preschool Wonders
Kimberli from Mixing the Next Batch

Word Family Posters, ADORable push pins, Fun Craft Website!

Hi friends. How are you today? Are you off for Easter break yet? 

I have a few fun things to share today. . .be sure to read to the end.

First, I wanted to give you a preview of my new listing in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. It is a 104 page set of word families and sounds posters. Here is a peek . . .(sorry that the screenshots came out a little weird on a few.)

Here is the TpT Link

Second, have you seen these adorable push pins from Amazon? I just got some and they are super cute!!! I think my husband thinks I am a little bit crazy but I think he is used to it by now . . .;)

Third, I have just discovered a neat crafting website. It is 30minutecrafts.com. I love that the crafts are organized by type and how much time the projects entail.

I found this cute idea over the weekend.

Lastly, I am going to be part of an awesome blog hop with great freebies starting on Thursday evening! Be sure to come back and check it out. You won't want to miss it!