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!

100th Day!! {and freebie}

Hello friends! Today was our 100th day! I LOVE 100th day, but this one was more chaotic than usual. We were on a 1 hour delay and it was 2 degrees outside when I got to school this morning. That is like, crazy cold for East Tennessee. Anyway, here are some pictures from our day!

We worked throughout the day on writing 100 words. 

 Students were asked to bring 100 things in to count.

We used counting mats to sort them into groups of 10 and then count by 10. 

 They had fun "checking" to see if they really had brought 100 things!

The counting mats idea came from Erica Boher's blog.

We have morning messages for all occasions, so of course we spent all week on 100th day morning messages. 

 This morning we brainstormed things we have learned in the past 100 days. The first little one that wanted to share what she had learned said she learned how to do good deeds and be kind to others. Talk about feeling like you are making a difference. :)

 Here are some journal entries about what they have learned. 

 We also have pocket chart sentences. These help my kinders build and read sentences.

Here's a little freebie from this packet: 

Just click the picture to get it from Google Docs. 

 And last but not least is my 100th day shirt. Sorry, this is the picture from last year. I kind of forgot to take one this year. My kinders loved it! {But I got some weird looks from the older kids today, lol.} I think there are still 100 wiggle eyes on there, but after crazy today, I'm not so sure.

What do you do to celebrate 100th day?

Giveaway Blog Hop - Come Check Out the Fun!

Hello friends! Are you ready for some great giveaways? I sure hope so! I'm joining in with 12 awesome bloggers for a giveaway blog hop. We are planning to do something each month for our followers, and each month will be a little different. 

So join in the fun and get started entering some giveaways! You will find a giveaway on each blog. 

For my giveaway, I'm giving my newest Valentine's unit, Valentine's Sentences {Pocket Chart Stations}. I have them for each month. I use them once a week with my kinders to work on sentence building and reading sight words.They have so much fun putting the sentences together and reading them to each other. Then, by the end of the week I have each one read the sentences to me one-on-one and mark the words they still need to practice.

Here's a closer look at what you can enter to win: 

Here are the some of the sentence cards. We start out using them whole group and then I put them in a pocket chart station for students to put the sentences together with a partner.

 By the end of the week, I pull students one-on-one to read this page to me. I mark the words they need to work on, and it's a great way for parents to see what their child was able to do that week.

 I use the 2 emergent readers throughout the week during stations and independent reading times.

Now for your chance to win!!

There are lots of ways to get entries!
Please enter with integrity. 

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