Crazy Day and Freebie

Yesterday was ONE CRAZY DAY. To start things off, we finally got a GOOD snowstorm! The hubby finally got to dust off the snow blower! As you can see from the picture, some of the snow wanted to come to school. We had a hard time getting our outside door to close.

Well, that just hyped up my firsties even more because it was Hat Day in honor of Dr. Seuss. I don't know what it is about wearing a hat to school but it sure excites a kid. Maybe it doesn't help that the teacher is wearing a ridiculous hat too. Then to add to all the craziness, a district fixer guy (don't really know what to call him) came to fix my heat. It's been about 65 degrees in my room all week long. Needless to say, we've been freezing and wearing our coats all week. Anywho, this fixer guy comes in with a ladder and has his head in the ceiling for at least 30 minutes. The kiddos thought that was way too funny. All they could see were his legs and feet, the headless man! We did manage to get some Seuss-ism learning done though.

We had root beer floats which by the way is a great, cheap treat that my kiddos really love. I can serve more than 30 of them with just 2-2 liters of root beer (they don't care if it's the cheap kind or not) and a bucket of the cheap vanilla ice cream.

I thought they looked cute in their hats. This is only half my class, remember I have 31 of the little cuties! We wear hats because Dr. Seuss loved to wear hats while he worked on his books and he even had hat parties where everyone had to wear a hat. The kiddos eat it up!

And to top it all off, at recess one of my cuties lost his snow boot in the huge snow bank on the hill on the playground. His mom came with shovel in hand and searched and dug for over an hour but could not find it. We'll just have to wait until the snow melts! All in all, it was very crazy but a very fun day!

I just finished a new packet that is up on my teacher shops. It's working with Bossy R! There's an Errr-Hunt to find bossy r words, a card game where students can read sentences with bossy r words, 2 unscramble pages and a worksheet. It's only $2.50!

Click on the word for a link to my shops.

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We have been working hard on contractions and compound words. Here's a little worksheet we did together. Click on the picture for a FREE download. 

I hope you're having a fantastic weekend. I'm going to go snuggle with the hubby, eat some hot soup, and watch some basketball! Go COUGARS!
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you found something you can use with your firsties!

Seuss-ism Freebie

I've been having fun with some Seuss graphics. I know it's getting late to post this but maybe you can use it next year. This is a little activity I'm doing in small groups but you could use it in a center. The kiddos unscramble the 5 sentences and write them on the recording sheet. All the sentences are from 'The Cat in the Hat' book. Click on the picture for a PDF.

Don't forget the BIG sale on TpT tomorrow. Check out my details HERE.
I hope everyone has a fantastic day helping those little ones become smarter!

Leap Year SALE!

I hope you've heard about the BIG SALE on TpT! It's only for one day (24 hours). It's on Wednesday, February 29th which happens to be Leap Year Day. So this is a once in every 4 year sale. You don't want to miss this one!
Here's the scoop: Everything at my shop is 20% off. Then, when you check out if you use the code L2P9Y you'll get an extra 10% off. So if you do the math, that means your total purchase will be 30% off. WOW!

Also, for those of you who don't shop at TpT, I put all my packets on sale for 30% off over on Teachers Notebook as well. So you can head over to either shop and SAVE big time! Click on the words below and it will take you to my shop.

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I added a new packet last night just for the sale. We are working on learning our Double Addition Facts so this is a fun little packet with 2 games and a worksheet. It regularly sales for $2.50 but will be 30% off on Wednesday! My kiddos LOVE dinosaurs and LOVE to play these games. 

Happy shopping and happy Leap Year Day!  

4 things 2 are freebies!

I just spent the last 2 hours trying to find a really great idea I saw a few days ago on someone's blog. It is so frustrating not being able to find something. I've got to get my blog ideas more organized!

1. Anywho, while looking through countless blogs for the past few hours I read about the Pinterest permission thingy. You can learn all about it out here on Laura's blog. You need to read the fine print. Basically, you need permission to pin things from my blog. So I'm giving you permission to pin me. It would be nice if you linked back to me.

I won't be pinning anything without permission! Pass this along to all the bloggers and pinners you know.

2. The new core is heavy on writing. So this is a little non-fiction summary organizer I put together for my kiddos. I did it on one page and then after using with my firsties I realized some of them can't write all that small so I re-made it for a 2 pager that I print front to back. It seemed to work much better. My higher kids can use the 1 pager. They didn't seem to care either way. If you teach 2nd grade, the one pager would be great for your kiddos.

Click here to download

Of course, you need to model how to use it first, then we did some together before I let them do it on their own. I have been really impressed with what they have been able to write, even my lower readers.

3. This week we'll be working on the vowel blends ou and ow. So here is a FREEBIE worksheet. Click on the picture to download.

4. I posted a new mini packet on to my shops today. It's an activity for adding -s or -es to words with some worksheets and an anchor chart. My kiddos loved it! It's only $2. Check it out at my TpT or Teacher Notebook shop by clicking on the word.

I can't believe Saturday is over. Where did the weekend go? I wish the week days went as fast as the weekends.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you found something you can use in your classroom!

Have a great SUNDAY!

Dr. Seuss-ism

I've had so much fun making a little packet for Dr. Seuss day coming up next week. I just posted it to my shops.

It has a 10 page colored or black & white booklet all about Dr. Seuss. There is a graph, a favorite character page, and a thank you card writing activity. It's only $2. I got some great graphic for it on KPM Doodles and 3AM Teacher. You can check it out by click on the shop here. TpT or Teacher Notebook.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!

HAPPY Beach Sale!

HAPPY! HAPPY! Teacher Notebook featured my FREEBIE- 'Beach Creature Measuring' packet in their newsletter this week. So to celebrate I'm marking my 'Math is a Beach' packet 20% off until Friday. These two packets go together and are great for math centers or stations. Wow! That's 7 math activities for $4!

You can click HERE to link to Teacher Notebook.
You can click HERE to download the free measuring activity.

Another vowel blend freebie

Hey all! Hope everyone is having a fantastic looong weekend! It is so nice not to have to worry about getting up for school tomorrow. Love it!
Here are some little vowel blend sheet we are working on. We did one this past week and will do the other one this coming up week. I hope someone else can use them. Click on the picture to grab a PDF.

I also finish a little booklet for the American Symbols unit I'm teaching. It might be a little late for some of you that have already taught yours but maybe you can use it next year. I just uploaded it to my teaching shops. It is a 10 page non-fiction booklet teaching 6 National Symbols. It comes in color or black & white. If you do the b&w version your kiddos color, cut, and paste the picture into their booklet. There is a glossary and question and answer page too. It also comes with a writing activity on FREEDOM.

Here's the links to my shops. TpT or Teachers Notebook
I hope everyone enjoys their day off.
Happy President's Day!