Thursday, April 12, 2012

GIVEAWAY Contest!!

GIVEAWAY CONTEST!!! :)
Three Lucky People will be getting these two things FREE :)
All you have to do.....
1. Follow me
2. Comment on this post and include your email address
3. Post about this giveaway on your page


Contest will end in a week. (April 19, 2012)


Giveaway 1:
Addition to 10 Ten Frame Cupcake, Smart-Board activity. This is a fun activity to do with students as a mini-lesson for math workshop. This notebook file for the smart-board has a cupcake on the first page. Students click on a sprinkle to bring up a problem. Students will read the addition problem and fill the tens frame with color coded dots to get the answer. There are 35 slides. 34 of them are different addition problems. This can be adjusted to fit the needs of your grade level and their abilities.


Giveaway 2:
I am giving away shape people posters.  Students are learning to identify a circle, rectangle, square, triangle, and hexagon.  They are also learning the shapes attributes.  I thought of a fun way to help my students remember the attributes for the shapes by using the poems.  I have created this posters to help teach my students the poems that will help in remembering the shapes.  I have included a preview of one of the posters.  The whole document that includes the following shapes circle, rectangle, square, hexagon, square, circle, oval, diamond are for sale on my teachers pay teachers site. 



Wednesday, April 11, 2012

DIY Projects I have made!

While looking through Pinterest, I decided to attempt to make a wreath for my door.  I was very excited about this wreath.  It is in my favorite three colors (black, white, and pink) :)
Wreath

 The only materials that you need to make this wreath is:
Foam wreath
Ribbon of choice
Felt
Straight Pins and Straight Pins with pearls
Steps:
1. Pin the beginning of the ribbon to the foam wreath.
2. Start wrapping the ribbon around the circle.  I wrapped mine twice to make sure that I could not see through it. After you are finished wrapping it around pin the end down in both corners.
3. Grab the felt and cut out lots of circles.  It does not matter the size or if the circles are perfectly cut.
4. Fold the circle in half and then fold it again in half (should look like a triangle) Pin the folded point to the wreath. Fluff out the end to create the look of a flower.  Keep pinning more felt until you are happy with the look.
5. Take the pearl straight pins and randomly place them in the felt to give the look of the center of the flower.  This adds extra details. 
6. Cut ribbon to make a handle and use straight pins to pin in place.
7. Hang on door


Birthday Gift to My Dad
Hero Package
My dad absolutely LOVED this gift.  He loved the individual labels that went along with each food.
The material I got (which you can create your own)
Wooden Box to put everything in.
Energy Chips: BBQ chips
Hero Juice: Mountain Dew
Jerky
Secret Identity Bar: Heresy Bar
Freshens Breath: Mints
Hero Nosh: Cookies
Energy Booster: Yogurt Pretzels 
Hero Vitamin Pellets: Peanuts
X-ray Vision Drops: Peanut Butter M&Ms

Here are the Labels for you to use: Label Page One and Label Page Two



Birthday Gift to My Friend
Sunshine in a Box
The only thing you have to do to make this is find anything that is the color YELLOW.
Candy, drinks, gum, Jewelry,  etc.
Here are the Labels: Labels for Sunshine in a Box



Mail Holder for Fridge
I made this mail holder because I got tried of having mail all over the table and counter.  
Materials you need:
Cereal Box, Scrapebooking paper, and glue
1. Cut the cereal box so that you have an opening to place your mail
2. using scrapbooking paper to cover the outside and inside. 
3. Place on fridge.

Wedding Sign for Ring Bearer to Carry
I still have to drill holes in the corners to add the ribbon so that our ring bearer will be able to carry it. 

Here are the steps to making this sign.

Step 1:
Buy a board, I bought mine from Hobby Lobby, and paint it.  I painted mine white. 
Step 2:
I added damask boarder at the top and bottom of the board by using stickers I found at Hobby Lobby.
Step 3:
Start writing the message with paint.  I wrote mine out with pencil first.
Step 4: 
Add the flowers for details.
Step 5: 
Drill Holes in the corners to place Ribbon through so it can be carried. 

Wedding Sign for the Back of the Bride/Groom Chairs
These will be the chair signs I will be having on my chairs at my wedding.  They will be placed on top of white chair covers.  Here are the templates: Groom and Bride


Sunday, March 4, 2012

Read To Me-- Awesome Websites

Read to Me is an engaging site where kids can listen to books told by celebrities. 
The celebrities are all Las Vegas performers and are pretty entertaining. Kids may recognize some of them but probably not all.
Printable PDFs of lesson plans are available as well as the author’s site, celebrity reader’s site and publisher site. Stories can be viewed full screen.
I watched a couple and they were very good, something I think students will enjoy. The Read to Me videos took a bit of time to load so I would suggest loading them before showing to students.
Notice in the screenshot above that they even have one in Spanish. Would be great if they added a few more like this. They also had a few for students who are hearing impaired, which uses American Sign Language.

Another great website that has high quality books online: We Give Books!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

St. Patrick's Day & Slap Game

Wow, what a day! I had to leave school earlier because I was sick! Three kids were absent, sent one home before I left, and another left after I did. This sickness has got to GO AWAY!  I have been laying in bed all day long.  I am finally feeling a little better to be able to hold down food.  If you know me, I am the type of person that can not sit around without doing anything.  After feeling a little better, I pulled the laptop out and started working on St. Patrick's Day stuff (it will be here before you know it).  I put together a packet. This St. Patrick's Day Math, Reading, & Writing Packet includes:

Math Activity:

What makes 10? Students will match equations to the correct ten frames. (pg. 2-5)

Lucky Charms Sorting Sheet and Graphing Sheet (pg. 6-7)

Literacy:

CVC Words (-at, -an, -ug, -ig, -op, -og): Students will sort cards to the correct cvc family. (other games can be created with the cards) (pg. 8-15)

Writing:

Write the Room Paper (pg. 16)

Writing Paper with Topics (pg. 17-19)
How can you catch a leprechaun?
How could you get to the end of the rainbow?
What would you do with a pot of gold?



I also was looking through different blogs and I found this CUTE idea for students to review their High Frequency Words.  Thanks to Kindergarten and Mooneyisms for the idea.


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The game is simple.  I put our vocabulary words on different colored sheets of tag board.  (That way if a word gets mixed up with another stack, it's easy to spot.)  Words cards lie on top of table face up.  I call out a word.  Person to find it first slaps their hand down on top of the card, then takes the card and puts it to the side in "their pile".  Person with the most words wins!

(Hint:  Don't call out the last word when there's just one card left on the table.  Otherwise it becomes a wrestling match.)

Monday, February 20, 2012

Dr. Seuss Literacy

This includes Dr. Seuss Activity sheets to do while reading his books.  This packet includes:

*Oh, The Thinks you can Think: Mental Image Sheet
*Oh, The Thinks you can Think: Real vs Not Real
*Cat in the Hat: Inferring
*Cat in the Hat: Rhyming Cards
*One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Mental Image Sheet
*Green Eggs and Ham Rhyming Cards

Check it out on Teachers Pay Teachers!





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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Versatile :)

A really big thank you to Wild about K Kids and K is for Kindergarten for graciously awarding my blog with The Versatile Blogger Award!

These are the rules:

1. Thank the person that nominated you with a link back to them. 
2. Tell 7 things about yourself. 
3. Pass this award on to 15 newly discovered blogs and let them know that they’ve received an award!  
And now 7 things about me...
1. I work in the same school and in the same grade level as my best friend.

2. I am getting married June 22, 2012.

3. I live in North Carolina where The NC Zoo is located.

4. I have my motorcycle licenses.

5. I love snowboarding.

6. If I could be anywhere I would choose to be on a beach somewhere topical.

7. I am a perfectionist.

And some really great kindergarten blogs!

And there you have it!