All Set for Valentine's Day {with a freebie!}

Hello friends! Shew, I have been busy getting everything ready for Valentine's Day! Students only have a 4 day week {only teachers go on Valentine's Day this year}AND they are calling for snow Monday and Tuesday. I guess we shall see how much Valentine's I can cram in to a few days!

To see any of these in my store, just click the picture. :) 

Here's what we have going on this week:

Of course, the Old Lady! We will be working on using sequencing to retell.

Then, one of my favorites, "Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse!". I've only been able to find the little board book. But, this book is totally adorable! With this book we will be focusing on my Mouse gave each of his friends a card.

My favorite pocket chart station! My students are working hard on building sentences. This helps them practice in a fun meaningful way. After we practice, they will read the emergent reader {to the right}. Then, I will pull them one on one to read the passage below. I mark words to work on if needed and stamp it homework. If the student does well reading it, I stamp it with "Awesome job reading! -Mrs. Lindsey". Either way they get to pick their favorite one and write it on the bottom. There they have the chance to get my "I *heart* your handwriting!" stamp. Whatever it takes to motivate! 

We will be using our Valentine's Morning Messages each morning for our journal time.

We will be using my Kindergarten Valentine Math Tubs for our beginning addition.

To practice skip counting. 

And to practice numerical order.

We will be using these to decorate our Valentine bags. In my kinder class, students will only write their name on the valentine on the "from" part. Students will have their decorated bag at their desk. Students, a few at a time, will walk around and place one valentine in each bag. PTL to the wonderful colleague who came up with this idea. This way students don't have to figure out which valentine goes where. 

For our bags, students will get to decorate a white paper lunch bag with hearts and stickers however they want to. We try to keep things simple back in the kindergarten building. ;)

I have a little Valentine's freebie for you! It is from my Kinder Valentine's Math Tubs . It will help your kiddos with numbers 1-10. Just click on the picture to snag it!

Don't Miss Out on Cyber Monday + Tuesday! {and a giveaway!!}

Hello friends! I don't know about you, but my Thanksgiving break flew by really, really fast. I had way more planned than I actually got accomplished! At least lesson plans are finally done and I'm ready for tomorrow. 

Did you know that tomorrow starts TpT's Cyber Monday + Tuesday Sale?! Of course, I'm excited. My shopping cart is full, again. But, shhhhh...don't tell my husband! Here are some things you can snag from my store during this sale for CHEAP!

I'm still loving the morning messages (and my students, too). This has been a great addition to our morning circle time. We discuss the message and student write about it in their journal.

For the month of December, I will be using

Gingerbread Morning Messages

Polar Express Morning Messages

&

Christmas Morning Messages

With the TpT Sale you can get the entire year's worth of messages for $12.96. 

{That's only $0.26 for each week!!!}

This week we are working on "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell"

My kiddos love these books. :)

With the sale you can snag all 11 units at a great deal. It works out to less than $2 for each unit!

Ok....now on to the giveaway!! I just uploaded my newest unit:

And I would love to give some away!!

 Use the rafflecopter below to enter. 

3 luckies will get this unit for free!

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All Set for "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie"! {mini giveaway}

Hello friends! I just got back from working in my classroom to get set for next week. Sadly, we are testing most of the week. We have to give the benchmarks from our Central Office for Math and ELA. They have made these in such a way that they have to be given one on one. It takes FOREVER! On top of that our interims go out on Thursday (again, one on one testing). We don't have them yet (which is stressing me out a little bit). So I'll have to get that in somewhere too. Their thinking with interims is that if we test as we go, we shouldn't have to test before we fill them out, just copy our previous assessments onto the interim. However, MY thinking is that I want to send home the most up to date information to these parents to prevent many unnecessary emails and parent notes.  Ok, rant over, I promise. 

Anyway, I'm hoping to squeeze in some Thanksgiving activities. I'm going to start with "There Was an Old Lady to Swallow a Pie". I adore these books! 

We will use this sequencing circle to retell the story. I have pocket chart cards so we can do it whole group as well. They also love it when I put these cards in a station for them to do on their own. 

 This is my absolute favorite writing from the pack. On this one they get to pick their favorite thing she swallowed and write about it. 

 We have been working on syllables kind of informally. Most of it has been during our morning circle time. So I feel it's about time to do it "for real". We will be sorting based on syllables with the pocket chart cards. Then students will get their own pictures to cut and paste to sort the syllables.

 I'm sorry trees, but I love using emergent readers. I know not all of my little ones have many books at home. They do such an awesome job reading this little books and always get excited about taking them home. 

I'll have these on my focus wall for students to use in their writing. It helps tremendously! 

You can click here to see this pack in my little store:

Now if you have stuck with me this long, I have a funny...

While working in my room today, I was getting things ready to start running records next week. As I was reaching for one of my notebooks, a big ol huge spider darted across my books! Here is a Google image similar to the one in my room.

I'll be honest, I screamed. I will never casually grab anything from that shelf again!

I'm going to be giving 3 of my "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie" units away.

Leave a comment (with your email) about what you have been  up to in your classroom.

I'll use random.org to pick the 3 winners tonight before I go to bed!

Halloween with Lots of Freebies!

Hello friends! It's about time to pull out the Halloween activities! Here's some Halloween things you can snag from my little store. Just click on the picture to check them out!

These activities are for K and 1st for tons of station fun!

The Old Lady books are always a hit with my kinders. I actually used this pack for my evaluation 2 weeks ago. 

Morning messages are great to get your kiddos talking about that certain subject and learning new facts. I extend these morning messages by having my kinders write and draw about the message in their journal. 

The bats morning messages are free in my store so you can try them out to see if you like them!

These are free until Monday afternoon with the Facebook Frenzy. Just click on the picture and then the FB Frenzy. You can snag about 40 more FB Frenzy freebies by following the hop!

Now for a freebie just for my blog followers:

These freebies are from this pack:

Just click on the pictures to go to the Google doc.

Happy Halloween Planning!

Old Lady All Year Long! {and a giveaway you don't want to miss!!}

Hello friends! I have just completed and uploaded a literacy mini pack for all of the Old Lady books! Shew, that was an undertaking, but my kiddos {big puffy heart} LOVE these books and I do too! I got to use the Jan-May packets with my kinders this year and we had a blast. Now that they are all finished I can't wait to use them with the kinders I'll have this coming year!

Click on the picture to check them out!

The individual packets and the bundle are all on sale for 20% off to celebrate!

And it wouldn't be a celebration if I didn't give one away!

Enter below with rafflecopter for a chance to win the whole bundle!
The giveaway is over.
Congratulations Jane A.!!
 

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