Librarian Visit and National Pig Day

On Thursday the public librarian, Mr. Mark, came to our classroom.  He read some cute books about President's Day.  The students always love when he visits.  After he read, he let the students make a Abe Lincoln collage.

On Friday we made pig masks and an Olivia the Pig craft for Saturday, March 1st, National Pig Day.  My favorite thing is pigs!  The students enjoyed this activity and they looked so cute with their pigs!  I  got the pig mask activity here.  I got the Olivia the Pig activity here.  Just click on the word here to go to each activity.

Valentine's Day

We had a wonderful Valentine's Day!  We first made our Valentine boxes on Wednesday.   This idea came from Mrs. Morrison's Kindergarten blog.  I would give you a link but her blog is closed.  As you can see in the pictures they are concentrating on, as they said, making themselves look good for the party!

In the fourth picture below, you can see our bucket fillers.  They love filling each other's bucket with compliments!  

Finished boxes!

Finally it is the day of the party!   No Valentine's Day party is complete without ice cream sundaes!  Yum!

The first five people that comment with their email under this post will get my new Dear Santa Letter unit for free!  Click on the picture and it will take you to the product page so you will see what you are getting.  I am curious to see if anyone reads my blog!  I hope you are because I love giving away free things!

Things to Come!

I am working on a Mega Calendar Bundle and some Fry Sight Word bundles.  The Fry Sight Word bundles will include unscramble worksheets, word searches, unscramble sentences, color by code and more!  Stay tuned!

Birthday Balloons

I am finally posting my first freebie!  Birthday Balloons! I know a lot of us do this but I wanted a balloon that was just a little bigger.  For those who haven't heard of Birthday Balloons I buy the long Pixie Sticks from Sam's Club. They are about $12.  Then when one of my students has a birthday I staple a balloon on the Pixie Stick.  I make my students take them home but you could let them eat them in class if you want.  As I said before, this balloon is bigger than the one I found on Pinterest.  For a free copy click on the picture and it will take you to my Google Doc where you can download it.

Grandparent's Day

It has been a busy week!  I don't know how we teachers teach all day, create exciting TPT products,  write on our blogs, and play Candy Crush at the same time!  Whew!

Last week we had Grandparent's Day!  We read the book How to Babysit a Grandpa by Jean Reagan.  Then we brainstormed 5 ways we could babysit our grandma and grandpa.  We then wrote, edited and published our own stories about babysitting a grandpa and grandma.  BTW heads up the new book How to Babysit a Grandma, will be out sometime in March!  Our grandparents turned out really cute!  You can get the link to this craftivity here:

Classroom Organizer

I found this idea on Pinterest!  I can't wait to use this in my classroom!  It helps when you have a mother, who is a retired teacher,  help you!  Thanks mom! Now who can help me make a cute bow! LOL