Valentine's Day Fun!

Wow!  My students had so much fun yesterday that they were still talking about it today!  I am so glad for these opportunities to make learning fun:)


Here's a few snapshots of our day…

 My students enjoyed sorting their Valentine's Greeting Cards based on their attributes.  Wow were there some great homemade ones.  I am so privileged to be working with such creative students this year!  The activity directions and resources for this activity can be found at my Teacher's Notebook Store: My Sweet Valentine

They also enjoyed a read aloud of "Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse."  Then we talked about how special everyone in our class was and filled out a chart of what makes each person special.  They also reviewed the events from the story by completing a bubble map of Mouse's Valentines.  These resources are called: Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse

Then they had a chance to think about their own special qualities and made a Valentine of what they thought Mouse would give them.  These turned out adorable:)

We also had fun with candy heart explorations!

My candy heart exploration packet is also on Teacher's Notebook: Valentine's Candy Hearts and More

Lucky Charms

I am so excited to share my Lucky Charms packet with you!  I know Valentine's Day isn't even here yet…but I wanted to get ahead of a few things in planning.  


I've tried to incorporate a variety of learning skills in this packet.  Students will really enjoy all the fun they can do and probably won't even realize they are using their math skills.  When you get a chance, please stop over at my Teacher's Notebook store and check it out!  All you have to do is click the picture below.  After all, what kid doesn't like Lucky Charms cereal????

Here's a sneak peak at a few of the pages included in the packet!

Groundhog's Day and 100th Day of School

Wow… February has been so busy!  There are so many fun events/holidays in February!!!  Here are some things my class did to celebrate Groundhog's Day and the 100th Day of School.


My students worked so hard on their Groundhogs.  We made predictions, read a story about Groundhog's Day (for the life of me I can't seem to remember the title right now…), and then created this project.  They predicted an imaginary story of what the groundhog would be doing now that we have 6 more weeks of winter.  Then they created a visual of his burrow.  I think they turned out great!  I have to shout out a big Thank You to pinterest for these inspirations.

Whew… we made it to the 100th day of school.  I am sitting here thinking how fast this school year is flying by.  My kids had so much fun creating their portraits of what they'd look like as 100 years old.  Then they wrote about what they'd be doing at 100 years old.  They came up with some very creative ideas.  They also created a picture with the digits 1 0 0 used in a picture and wrote about what they'd do if they had 100 dollars.

 Here are some of my favorites from another class…  (I think they were sooo creative!)

                                                          Mickey Mouse

                        Peacock                  Sting Ray                           Key

 We spent the afternoon on the 100th day of school completing some math challenges centered around the number 100.  

                     Skip Counting to 100                     Roll the Dice 100 times

                          Surprise picture on 100 grid

Rolling 100 Cents to make $1.00

Valentine's Day Bags and Writing Fun!

We are having so much fun!  Today we prepared out Valentine's Bags using the Puppy Love glyph from Glyph Girls on TPT.  I think they turned out sooo cute.  My students added their own bit of creativity into the patterns:)  My students can't wait until the bags are filled with the cards they are writing/making for each other.

I can't wait until tomorrow… my students will begin their "technology" Valentine's Day writing activities.  They are going to write a V-Mail Message and a V-Text Message.  You can get your own copy of these writing activities (and a mailbox one, too) from my Teacher's Notebook store just click on the picture below!

Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse

I just LOVE Valentine's Day - maybe it's all that red and pink hanging up:)


I would like to share another fun activity I do with my students during this lovely season!


I read aloud the story: Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse and then my class creates some cute mice of their own.

I've done all the work for you - all you need to do is click on the picture below to go visit Teacher's Notebook and pick up your packet:)

My Secret Heart

We have been working on adjectives, describing words and properties of matter.  To help practice these skills I created this fun little activity to do around Valentine's Day.  The nice thing about this project is most of it can be done at home (the actual decorating of the heart) and then it only takes a little class time to work on the adjective thinking map and descriptive sentences.

Here's how the activity works:

First my students will decorate a large heart.  They will do this part at home and can be as creative as their little minds will allow them using stickers, paint, glitter, glue, etc…

Then they will bring their hearts to class (hidden in a folder or bag) and fill out their adjective thinking map.  Once that is done they will write some descriptive sentences and try to get the class to guess which heart is theirs!  

Please visit my Teacher's Notebook store to pick up the packet if you'd like to do this with your students!

http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/dmlp/my-secret-heart