Mother's Day RoundUP of Ideas

Are you beginning to plan now for Mother's Day? 



I created a RoundUP of all of the ideas that I saw last year into one article. Then I invited others to share their links and I've incorporated those into the article and then I made it a bloghop! There are a TON of ideas: gifts, cards, mementos, poems to include with your gift..... the whole nine yards! 

Those little photo magnet baubles are a big hit with my readers and would be very inexpensive to make for an entire class. Click right here for all of those ideas. If you're a blogger, please add your links to the hop!

I just recently had my GOLDEN anniversary of articles related to Fine Motor Development.  There are literally 50 articles FILLED with ideas, if you're looking for support in that category. 

Yesterday I posted the CUTEST giraffe idea EVER! 

If you need a follow-up activity for your zoo visit, 

or it would make an awesome gift for a special teacher! 

"You are as unique as the spots on a giraffe!"

 -- Debbie -- 

I'm now at 116,685 followers!

Now at 301 followers!

Spring Break Freebie!

Hi friends,

This is Laura from Teacher Laura. I'm hanging out on my highly anticipated Spring Break! Before I run off to the Oregon Coast I thought I'd share my little freebie for those of  you who are going back to school this week or next. It's a Spring Break writing activity. Maybe you want your kiddies to stay busy while you gather your thoughts about being back to school, or maybe you want them to respond to the prompts instead of ambushing you with their stories. Either way, hopefully you'll find this useful. You can hop on over to my TPT store to grab it there.

Thanks, and have a happy break!

Laura

Pow! Measure That

Here peepers

Shuna here from Pocket Full of Kinders

I 

you

Can you measure?

I seriously asked my kiddos this and they looked at me like I had a third head growing!

Kinders are so much fun

I told the kinder hearts that we were going to practice measuring using mustaches 

The boys were super excited but the girls were all like ewww

Mustaches are for boys

Come on over and check out our 

fun!

Click the stache to pick up a couple of seriously cute freebies and check out my class having some measuring fun

See you there

Put on your stache and hop over

What the Heck?! Marshmallows For Reals

Hiya Peepers

Shuna here from Pocket Full of Kinders

I just finished up a super fun unit

One of my favorite units to teach

Can you guess what it is?

Here is a clue

Hop on over to see what we did with these puppies 

and pick up a ton

and I mean ton

of freebies to use with centers

See ya there

Peace Out Peepers

Ready to Roll

Hiya there peeps

Shuna here from Pocket Full of Kinders

Are you ready to roll?

Need a quick way to practice addition

Come over and check out this freebie to help your littles review addition skills

See you there 

Book Forms? {Freebie}

Hiya Peepers

Shuna here

Long time no post huh?!

Sorry about that

I am counting down till the summer so I can finally have some free time

It is so hard to try to keep up with everything

Anyhoo

Do you use Scholastic Book Order forms?

Do you always have a bunch of them laying around

and have no real use for them?

Hop on over to my blog and see how I use them in my classroom

Click the pic to take you there

Now before I post this

I must say it is not the cutest 

It is actually one of the first things that I created and could use some serious updating

It still gets the job done and its F.R.E.E

So I can get a pass right?!

Why thank you for that

Moving on

Peace Out Peepers

Valentine's Math Center: DIY

Hi there! It's Michelle from Apples and ABC's.  I want to share an easy DIY math center that you can make for you kids!  We are learning how to count numbers 1-30 right now in my Kinder class.  I drew some 30 frames inside a heart and wrote a number at the bottom of each page.  Then I bound about 6 different sheets together so they could flip through and practice different numbers.  On each page the students place that many objects in the 10 frame boxes.  Here are the materials:

-mini objects {I used Valentine's erasers from the Target dollar bin}

-fine motor tweezers {they can just use their hands}

-30 frame sheets

I placed this at a center for math time and the kids had a blast!  I don't always have them use the tweezers, but when we do use them they get to excited.  I stress how these make their hands stronger so they can become better writers.  

I hope this is helpful for some of you!  Come by and say hi, anytime! :)

-Michelle

February Fun! Snow Globes + Penguin Art

Hope you're having an awesome weekend! Debbie Clement here, rainbow-lady.

As I type, I'm in Ohio looking out the window at an ever mounting pile of snow. At this very minute its just the type of snow that lingers in a snow globe. 

I saw these awesome snow globes on a bulletin board display a couple weeks back on one of my Author/Illustrator school visits in Florida. There are several things that I LUV LUV LUV about this project. 

• The back drop of 'snow' is created in an open-ended/process manner -- where every student will be successful. Run the marble thru the white paint across the blue paper and VOILA: instant delight! Cause and effect + science!
• The teachers have allowed the students to create their own projects independently -- as evidenced by the snowmen slightly askew and individualized. 
• The final 'presentation' of the work is truly worthy of posterity. 

Sharing the very same bulletin board were these Perky Penguins, which would be absolutely perfect for a Valentine focus of hearts tied to your winter-animals unit. 

Tomorrow is the big SUPER sale over at Teachers Pay Teachers. 

This will be my first Super-sale, as I'm still just getting my feet wet. 

My little shop of digital products!

I have a LOT to learn about connecting all of the dots to get the word out about my work at TpT! Every additional pin, tweet and + is a step in the right direction and I'm ever so grateful for your help in the social networking arena. 

Are you using the Project Based Learning Approach in your classroom? I just had a return visit to one of my fav-o-rite kindergartens and they used a PBL approach that centered around my newest picture book, 

"Red, White and Blue" 

which would be a perfect addition to your President's Day observations. I do have a digital version of the song, that includes the sign language and music notation in a zipped file at TpT. You simply must come to my blog, RainbowsWithinReach, to see the many facets of their patriotic PBL -- that culminated in their performing my music for the Veteran's of their community and then my visit in their midst. 

I will be joining many in "Kinderland" in putting my projects on sale tomorrow. TpT will add an additional 10% in savings if you use the promo code: SUPER at check out. 

Happy shopping! 

As always, I think one of the biggest services that I can provide is that of being a curator of all the great ideas on Pinterest that are appropriate for these first years of school. I'm inching up on my first 100K followers there -- so I know others appreciate my efforts on that format. Yes. Please feel free to pin my images! 

-- Debbie -- 

Something Exciting!

Tomorrow there is something exciting going on over at Teachers Pay Teachers!

Kinderland Sellers are having a sale too!! Go start filling up your cart now!

Game Time! Get your CCSS freebie! :)

Is your room filled with football chatter these days? Mine sure is!

In preparation of the upcoming big game on Sunday, I put together a pack of 10 math station activities to help my kiddos practice some of those important CCSS math skills.

You can download the FREE PREVIEW FILE (red button) to check out the preview and snag one of the activities for free! :)

Enjoy the game! :)