Valentine's Day Goodies and a Freebie

Yay!  So excited that Valentine's Day is this week!

It is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate at school.

Since my kiddos are only at school Monday, Wednesday and Friday,

we are having our party on Wednesday afternoon.  Should be fun!

Also, because my class is a 3 day class, we aren't celebrating 100 day

yet, so I have the whole week to focus on hearts and love! :)

On Friday, we painted symmetrical hearts.  They turned out adorable!

Our room was quite a mess, but boy did the kids have fun. 

This week, we'll be playing I Have, Who Has with our Sight Words.  

Click HERE to purchase from my tpt store.

And practicing number words, ordering teen numbers, counting tally marks, 

placing numbers before and after and practicing simple addition with my Math Centers.

And even though I don't teach 4th grade anymore, 

it still has part of my heart, so I made a I Have, Who Has game 

for multiplying.  My 4th graders would have loved this!

And now for the FREEBIE!

Click HERE for this lovely worksheet!

Enjoy!

Winter Love

Ah, I'm loving all the winter fun my class has been having!

Earlier in January, we made these sweet mittens to practice symmetry.

They colored the designs in crayon and then water colored over them.

We cut them out and added some yarn to tie them together- too sweet.

My class loved imagining what snowmen do at night!

I used this craft that I saw on The First Grade Parade blog.

I know that a few other classrooms have done it too.

I LOVE kindergarten art projects! :)

 And we used my Winter Wonderland Centers.

My kids are loving them.

Excuse the poor iphone photos and the fact that there is

 no work on the worksheets, but I decided winter is coming to a close

so I should probably just take some pictures and get them up. :)

My door is the perfect place to put up sight words for a Snowflake Sight Word center.

Plus don't the penguins just look like they are cheering you on?

We've been working hard on number words!  

My kids love working on tally marks!

Especially when we chant our tally mark poem.

Found HERE through pinterest.

We are getting pretty good at counting by fives!

Colors and pictures make ten-frames THAT much more fun!

Who doesn't love kindergarten spelling?

We practice sounding out words everyday!

Interested in our Winter Centers?

Check them out here:

Polka Dots and Bees!

Oh my- it's been a while!  I've been gearing up 
and getting ready this summer 

for a switch from 4th grade to kindergarten!

We have already had a few weeks of school, 
but I'll start with a tour of my classroom this year.  

I had so much fun putting together my room!

 The view from my desk.  I wish we could have balloons in our room everyday.

Well...maybe not on second thought...but they were fun for our open house! :)

Our meeting area...

that polka dot rug was just sitting there 

waiting to be bought for my classroom- it's perfect for my theme!

There a few pinterest projects in my room...and this is one of them!
A $7.00 craigslist table, can of spray paint and chalkboard paint = a perfect art area table

Love the polka dot seat pennants!

It's easy for the kids to find their seat and doubles as being adorable!

(Obviously the blurred part is where their name is)

Polka Dot boxes tied to the balloons...more on these to come later.

(tags from schoolgirlstyle)

Table numbers

polka dot and bees of course!

Always a good reminder...right above our sink

Our Word Wall

Just missing the part that says it's our word wall :)

Our door from the inside

(bees inspired by First Grader...at Last!)

And a little higher...

I just HAD to have these when I spotted them!

(from Miss Nelson on TPT)

My new book rack that my father-in-law made for me...

Another view of our meeting area

Our reading table and view out our windows.

The flowers cheer up our room every morning!

The outside board...

 

I'm loving having a board where I can just switch their work in and out quickly!  

I cut out frames from scrapbook paper, painted clothespins and added some ribbon and chalkboard label for their names.  You can see it in the background of some of the pictures.  I should have taken a picture before I put all their names and pictures up.  Trying to blur that all out messed up some of the pictures...when it comes down at the end of the year,

 I'll try taking another one.

Our playing area full of games, legos, and magnets!

Did I mention magnets!?

The Trust in the Lord poster was just printed

at Office Depot.  $3.00 for a large poster?  Yes, please!

Theme Flashback- Safari

Welcome to the Jungle!

This theme is from 2 years ago and was a ton of fun!

It was a bit tricky to make it colorful instead of all brown/black

colors, but I really liked how it turned out!

First up... my behavior chart or "Critter Control".

Their names were on the left side, but erased for this picture.

This was our door!  I searched and searched for monkey cut-outs and finally found 

a monkey on this fun site. Check out Mrs.Pancake's site- so many cute things!

The monkeys had the students' names on the them.

I found lots of animal posters which worked 

perfectly for my cupboards.

The locker tags...

I made these with my Cricut.  I cut the frame out of animal print

scrapbook paper, glued it on colored cardstock, and put their names in the middle.

This always made me SMILE!

Wouldn't you be WILD about reading if you saw this board? :)

Classroom jobs...

S-T-R-E-T-C-H 

Your Vocabulary

*A place to put our vocabulary words for the week.*

This picture is a bit hard to see...but it was the board out in the hall.

It says, "Roaring into 4th Grade" with animals on the bottom

and their names in the circles.

I love how the border turned out- a happy accident.

I didn't have quite enough of one border, so I put all the extras together.

Nametags for their desks...sorry, I had to erase the name so it's hard to 

see exactly what it looked like.

Our calendar...

It isn't very "safari" like, but it's colorful and fun.

The board on the bottom says, "Monkey Business"

and it's where I put hot lunch stuff and schedules.

This is from back in the day when we studied our state

in 4th grade.  I put cities from our state up with a pictures

from each place in the "spot."

 

There you have it...our wild classroom! :)

Theme Flashback- Ocean Style

I LOVE LOVE LOVE setting up my classroom!

Every year I think that maybe the next year I'll reuse one of my themes,

but so far that has never happened. :)

I know that I lot of people are getting ready for next year and looking

for ideas for their new theme, so I thought it might be time to 

post my themes from the past.

The further back the theme goes, the less pictures I have of them unfortunately.

But I'll share what I have.

In the past, I have done an ocean, safari, travel, western and owl theme.

So, here we go with the ocean theme....

I love the little fish calendar numbers.

I used the little fish cutouts for calendars that are aqua on one side and orange on the other.

Then, I cut scrapbook paper to add some pizazz and some stickers.

I also love my the title of my hot lunch/intermural/miscellaneous board.

I found the idea on proteacher.com - so cute!

My traditional book bulletin board to start off the school year...

 

I always laugh when I see this board...

First of all, the fabric for this board was quite something- 

it wasn't quite the right size for the board, so a lot of piecing together

went on- it was like a puzzle!  Also, I had great intentions of putting up student

work each week, but sadly it didn't really work out that way.

One of my favorite birthday displays I have done.

It was just too time consuming to do again!

If I were to make them again, I would laminate them before

I put the names on so I could use them again.

(I erased their names from these, but each cupcake had 

the student's name and birthday on it)

My Student of the Week board...

when they were student of the week, I gave them

a starfish to take home- they loved it!

 

The board outside my room...welcoming students to 4th grade!

Each surfboard had a student's name on it.

The surfboards were actually wall stick-ons that I just laminated.

 

And locker nametags...

to match the rest of the fish!

I think this is one theme that I may use again with some new ideas.

Well, there is my o"fish"ial post on my ocean theme...enjoy!