As many of you already know, I am on maternity leave but only have ONE WEEK LEFT!!! AAHHHH! I am SO sad to be leaving my baby to go back to work, but I feel so fortunate to have had this time to be home with her. 

I am slowly trying to prepare to go back to work so I have been doing something small each day to get ready to go back. Yesterday I decided to log on to my school email and start cleaning out my inbox. (My sub check the emails but does not delete anything so when I come back I can catch up) There were TONS of emails and as I was quickly reading and deleting, I came across this:

Really?! I swear I laughed for about 20 minutes. (I absolutely LOVE this little girl, she is so mature, smart and just amazing.) I have never received an email from a current student and I love the subject line :) It is little things like this that remind me of how much I love this age group. 

Happy Valentine's Day

Today is my last Showin' Some Love Freebie! Thanks for stopping by my blog, leaving comments and feedback over the last 14 days! I love being part of the blogging and TpT community and I love hearing from everyone out there! 

Today I have TWO freebies for you! I created both of these and couldn't decide which to offer as a free item so I just decided to give you both! One is a Roll and Color game, my kids LOVE these games and they make a perfect math station so I thought I would share it with you and the other freebie is a True or False math sentence sort. 

I hope you have a wonderful day celebrating with your loved ones and a huge THANK YOU to all my wonderful friends who left feedback on the items they downloaded for free. I so appreciate you taking the time to do that. I read every comment posted and the positive feedback inspires me to continue creating and sharing with you. 

 For those of you who missed the 14 days of freebies, you are in luck because I just bundled all of the activities and posted in on TpT. This MEGA Pack has over 100 pages of February activities/printables and games to address the CORE standards with your K-1 kids. 

You can purchase each item separately for $2 but the MEGA Pack with all 15 packets is posted for only $12! Check it out here!

   

Happy Valentine's Day!

Build A Word - Valentine Style

Hey Everyone! Here is the FREEBIE of the day! It is a fun word building activity that also incorporates math, YEAH! With this activity students use the letters in Valentine to build words. Each letter has a number value so students then use the values to write a number sentence. You could make this a class contest, the student who comes up with the highest value word wins! I also included a Valentine Word Search because you just know you are going to have that one kid who finishes building their words in 5 seconds flat, so run these pages back to back and keep them busy.

 For those of you who missed the 14 days of freebies, you are in luck because I just bundled all of the activities and posted in on TpT. This MEGA Pack has over 100 pages of February activities/printables and games to address the CORE standards with your K-1 kids. 

You can purchase each item separately for $2 but the MEGA Pack with all 15 packets is posted for only $12! Check it out here!

SEE YOU TOMORROW!

Today's FREEBIE!

Happy Tuesday everyone! Here is today's Showin' Some Love Freebie - Heart Toss. Today's freebie is short but sweet. Your kids will love this activity!
 
Students cut out the heart at the bottom, fold it in half then glue the middle to create a heart "coin"! Now students will toss the heart into the air and graph what it lands on - polka dots or stripes. After students are finished graphing they can tally their data and use the lines to write about their data.

See you tomorrow!

Meet the Measurements!

Introducing - Mr. and Mrs. Measurement! 

It is finally finished! I am so excited to share this new product with you! I just finished my nonstandard measurement unit for K-1! If is a huge packet with tons of activities for your students to work with measurement. 

I have created Standard/Nonstandard Posters with Mr. and Mrs. Measurement, a tool lesson and printable for students to sort standard/nonstandard tools, Measurement Vocabulary Posters for height, weight, and length and a vocabulary printable page for students to use, several activities that would be PERFECT for math stations, measure the room activities, comparing weight printables, a Mr. and Mrs. Measurement Craftivity and much, much more!  I have spent so much time on this unit that I am now seeing Mr. and Mrs. Measurement IN MY SLEEP! AHHH!

 If you are currently using my Kindergarten CORE Math Units all of these activities will be part of Units 12-16. If you are a kinder teacher who is not using my CORE units, WHY ARE YOU NOT!? 

Here is a comment that was posted on TpT just this weekend from a teacher who just tried my kinder math units:

"Absolutely love this, my school has no curriculum and I have an hour and 15 minutes a week for a break. This is a life saver. I just found it so I will be starting it in the middle of the year. No more staying up until 3am. And no more 10hrs of weekend time at school. Thanks:)"

I totally understand the frustration and stress that comes along with being expected to implement new CORE standards with little to no curriculum support! That is why I have been creating math units for K-1 and the feedback has been AMAZING! If you are still unsure, click here to take a look at the comments teachers have been making!

In Search of LOVE

It's Monday, three more days of FREEBIES! Today's free activity is an Around the Room activity. I bundled four Around the Room math activities, 2 addition and 2 subtraction. There is two different levels of each so this would be perfect for K-2. 

Enjoy the freebie! Have a wonderful Monday everyone! 

Busy Day....BUT I Didn't Forget the Freebie!

Happy Sunday everyone! We have been so super busy today, but I would never forget to get the FREEBIE posted! Today is a little something with ten frame. Before you say "My kids are WAY past ten frame!" take a look at the resource. It has a double ten frame math mat and ideas on using ten frame for addition. I have also provided two practice pages that would be perfect for a math station! ENJOY! 

In totally unrelated news, my five year old daughter lost her first tooth yesterday! Let me tell you, I can handle all the blood, vomit, boogers etc... all that fun stuff that comes with young children HOWEVER for some reason teeth freak me out! I hate when the kids come up with a tooth just dangling or even worse show me their little tooth that just fell out still covered in blood, I swear my stomach just does FLIPS, it is horrible. So when we went to the dentist and they said she would be loosing a few teeth very soon I was not excited. 

So yesterday I suggested instead of sitting there with her fingers in her mouth wiggling it maybe she should try eating an apple. Well it fell out...and she swallowed it! She was traumatized! (I know what your thinking, good job mom!) She was so worried that the tooth fairy was not going to give her money so we had to write a letter to the fairy and explain ourselves. I also printed her my free tooth fairy craftivity and she made her own little tooth fairy that she fell asleep with.

Everything turned out OK because the fairy left her a note and she was so excited this morning as she came running into my room at 5:00 AM! The fairy only gave her $2 and I am little worried that she may find that other kids at her school get paid much more for their teeth. The tooth fairy must have won the lottery since I was a kids because when I was little we got 50 cents and that was only if you were able to find all the nickels and dimes LOL! Now my students come to school and tell me how they get $5 - $10! WHAT?!

How much does your tooth fairy pay?

Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful evening, see you tomorrow :) 

Valentine Corn

What??!!! Valentine Candy Corn?! 

We had Bunko last night and I was introduced to my new favorite Valentine Candy...

  DELICIOUS!

If you have not tried Valentine Corn you are seriously missing out, it is amazing! (You can get it at WalMart.) My FREEBIE for today is in honor of my new discovery and I call it - Candy Corn LOVE! This packet would make a great math station with 40 fact family cards and 2 recording sheets. Students pick a card, record the numbers on their recording sheet and write the four facts for each family.

Hurry and get this FREEBIE because it is only free today! Don't forget to stop by tomorrow. Only 5 more days of FREEBIES!

Five For Friday

Hey All! IT'S FRIDAY!!! I wanted to link up with Doodle Bugs Five for Friday Linky Party with 5 random moments from the week. 

1. I hope you have been visiting my blog this week and been picking up your FREEBIES! I have been Showin' Some LOVE to my followers and posting new free items everyday, but it's only posted as a FREEBIE for 24 hours. Here are a few of the fun products I have posted this week.

 

2. Here is today's FREEBIE! It's A Number Line, Valentine!  

 

3. I LOVE being on maternity leave BUT I could desperately use some adult conversation so thank goodness it is....

Yep! I am so excited to see my lovely BUNKO ladies! (Do I sound like I am 80 years old getting SO excited to play Bunko? Seriously, its so much fun when you have an awesome group of ladies to play.)

4. I just finished reading The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, AMAZING but if you pick up this book be prepared to shed some tears, it's one of those. Now I am reading something a little lighter, The Skinny Rules by Bob Harper. I love Bob, The Biggest Loser is one of my favorite late night shows, it is so incredibly inspiring! 

5. I am working on my new Nonstandard Measurement Unit and I should be done and posted on TpT this weekend! It has TONS of activities, your students will be nonstandard measurement experts!

Have an awesome weekend! Stop by tomorrow for another FREEBIE! 

Valentine Monster Graphing

Happy Thursday! It is day number 7 of my Showin' Some Luv FREEBIE extravaganza! I am back with another fun Vday freebie! 

Today is a graphing and data analysis activity. Students get to create a Valentine monster pictograph then analyze their data! They will tally the data, write about the data using words from a word bank and create a pie graph of their data. 

Download this item today while it is free and come back tomorrow for some more!

If there is something you are working on it your class and you would like me to make a Valentine FREEBIE for it, let me know! Leave me a comment and I will make it happen :)

Valentine Measurement!

 Hey All! Here is your FREEBIE today, VALENTINE MEASUREMENT! It is short and sweet today. Students will measure six different items and graph their results, FUN! 

I decided to create a measurement freebie today because I am working on a NEW nonstandard measurement unit and I should have it posted soon!  It is a HUGE unit with TONS of resources to teaching standard and nonstandard measurement and I can't wait to share more about it, so I need to get to work and finish it!

But before I go, I have to share this because it is WAY TOO CUTE! Miss Jacobs Little Learners sent me a note about my No! David Freebie on TpT and these pictures are the cutest thing ever so I had to share! (I swear I have a student that looks EXACTLY like that second pic). These awesome pictures come all the way from AUSTRALIA! Oh how I would LOVE to come visit you Miss Jacobs! Australia is on my bucket list!

Have an amazing Wednesday friends!

In LOVE with Base Ten

In honor of Valentine's Day I wanted to show all my followers some LOVE so I will be posting a FREEBIE everyday until February 14th!  (Please return the love by leaving me feedback in my TpT store after you download :)

Here is the FREEBIE for today- In LOVE with Base Ten! This is only free for TODAY so hurry and stop by my TpT store to download it.








Today's free item includes a Base Ten Valentine Monster Matching page. a base ten Mystery Picture and a War of Hearts game that would be perfect for a math station. The game has 54 different playing cards. Simply run the cards on cardstock and laminate. Students will deal the cards out and then play "WAR". Each player sets the top card in their pile down and the player with the bigger number gets to keep their card ASD their opponents card. I LOVE this game because it lasts FOREVER and the kids really enjoy playing it.

Enjoy the freebie! See you tomorrow!

Show Your Stuff Linky Party

 Blog Hoppin' is hosting a "Show Us What You Bought" Linky Party. Well here it is!

I know, THAT'S IT!!!! I didn't go CRAZY this sale because I was just WAY TOO BUSY yesterday, but I am very excited about the couple new things I did get!

I hoped you scored some great stuff! 

My best sellers yesterday were my "Totally Teeth" Dental Health Unit 

and my new 3D Shape FUN Packet. 

Valentine ABC Order

In honor of Valentine's Day I wanted to show all my followers some LOVE so I will be posting a FREEBIE everyday until February 14th!  (Please return the love by leaving me feedback in my TpT store after you download :)

Here is the FREEBIE for today -Valentine ABC Order! This is only free for TODAY so hurry and stop by my TpT store to download it.

Today's free item includes a ABC order Class List page. This was such a great review for ABC order in our class. We had all the kids whose names begin with A come to the front of the room, we had more than one so we discussed alphabetizing by the second letter then we wrote their names on our lists and had them sit down. Then the kids with names beginning with B came up and we did the same thing. When we were finished we had a complete list that students could then take home and use to make their Valentine cards.

I also included some picture cards for students to cut out and glue in ABC order on a sentence strip.

Finally there is a center game for students to practice ABC order. Students will choose a card, read the four words and write them in ABC order on the recording sheet.

Enjoy the freebie and have a wonderful Monday!

See you tomorrow!

Noun/Verb Valentine Sort

In honor of Valentine's Day I wanted to show all my followers some LOVE so I will be posting a FREEBIE everyday until February 14th!  (Please return the love by leaving me feedback in my TpT store after you download :)

Here is the FREEBIE for today - Noun/Verb Sorting!

This is only free for TODAY so hurry and stop by my TpT store to download it. Become a follower of my blog and store so you don't miss out on all the limited-time free stuff I post! 

This product was created because of Stefanie! She left the nicest comment on my Facebook page about the Noun Tree Map Freebie from Friday. She said that this week she is going to be working on nouns and verbs in her class so I decided to create a noun/verb word sort, color by code and Love Lib all focusing on nouns and verbs! Thanks Stefanie for the comment!

What are you teaching right now? Let me know by leaving me a comment and I may create a product just for you and your needs!

Well now I have some shopping to go do, have you stopped by my sale? I will be back tomorrow with another freebie and to show you what I bought. 

Thanks Ashley Hughes for creating the sale graphic!

ValenTIME Delivery!

Showin' YOU some more LOVE!

In honor of Valentine's Day I wanted to show all my followers some LOVE so I will be posting a FREEBIE everyday until February 14th! 

Here is the FREEBIE for today - ValenTIME Delivery!

This is only free for TODAY so hurry and stop by my TpT store to download it. Become a follower of my blog and store so you don't miss out on all the limited-time free stuff I post! 

This activity has a six page mini-book where students will read the Valentine rhyme and draw the hands on the clock to match the time, a clock template so students can make their own clock and practice telling time and because I was feeling especially sweet I included a time concentration game! 

Like I said, HURRY before this freebie expires! I will be back tomorrow with another free item so stay tuned!

Please return the love by leaving me feedback in my TpT store after you download :)

 

By the way I will be having a sale on Sunday!

Thanks Ashley Hughes for creating this graphic!

 

Showin' YOU Some LOVE

In honor of Valentine's Day I wanted to show all my followers some LOVE so I will be posting a FREEBIE everyday until February 14th!  

The daily freebie will be posted for only 24 hours so you need to follow my blog and store so you don't miss out! 

 Today's FREEBIE is my favorite Valentine project!
(I blogged about it last year and since I am still on maternity leave I will have to use the pictures from last year to tell you about it.)
I wanted to share this freebie first because they make a GORGEOUS February bulletin board. 

Students will use the tree map to write 5 people they love, 5 places they love, and 5 things they love. 

Here is my list: 

5 People I LOVE - Ellie (my beautiful 5 year old daughter), Avenly (my newborn baby) my hubby, my mother, my father

5 Places I LOVE - Starbucks, Cheesecake Factory, Pizza Hut (I am on a post-pregnancy diet), the gym, school.

5 Things I LOVE - Bella and Marley (our 2 boxer puppies), candy, books and boardgames

After completing their tree map, I gave students the heart template provided and they divided their heart into sections to write all of their nouns in. The middle heart is reserved for their name (I had to blur that part out).

Then students used watercolors to paint each section of their heart and when their art was dry we traced it with a black marker and VOILA a beautiful display! 

       

This item will be posted for FREE until Saturday, February 2nd.

Come by tomorrow for the next FREEBIE! 

Happy Valentines Day!