Five for Friday!



 

 

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching today to share 5 things about our week!

 

1.  Today was our traditional Valentine's Day cookie making!

 

I love these icing pouches! We used to use a can of frosting and knifes to spread it, but these are so easy for the kids to just squeeze on the cookies!

We may not make the cutest cookies....but we make some great memories!

 

2.  Craft time! Take a toilet paper roll, squeeze it into the shape of a heart and tape it. Then use it to dip in paint and stamp some hearts!

 

 

 

3. We hung up our coffee filter hearts {see previous post} on the back door. They are quite the festive decorations!

 

 

4. My preschooler is working on reading simple sentences with cvc words and sight words! She is very proud of this completed (and quite decorated) Read and Match page!

 

 

You can see the whole pack we're working on here:

CVC Word Family Review Pages

 

 

5. Sometimes you walk around the corner and find a pencil taped to the wall.

 

 

Oh...kids are funny!



Coffee Filter Stained Glass Heart Craft

Today we did these simple and fun Valentine's Day crafts using coffee filters and markers!

First I folded a handful of coffee filters in half and cut out some heart shapes.

Then the kids colored them with markers.

Typically, you would use a spray bottle to spritz the hearts with water, but we could not find our spray bottle anywhere! So, we just used little paintbrushes to paint them with water and it worked just fine. It was actually a little easier for the little ones to paint than use the spray bottle anyway.

 

Cute, easy, and fun!

Secret Admirer Blog Hop



This week I was a part of a secret Valentine's gift exchange with my blogger friends at the Elementary Entourage! I got this awesome box of goodies from Stephanie over at Mrs. D's Corner!

 

I love everything! I've always wanted to try the eos lip balm, and I love it. And how cute is that canvas 'T'?  Such a wonderful gift. Thanks, Stephanie!

 

As a gift to all of you, we are also offering some free Valentine's Day cards for you to use to give to your students! I made a simple one that you can use with Smarties candy.

 

 

 

Click here to download this freebie!

 

Don't forget to hop around to all our other blogs to see more of our secret gift exchange and grab more free Valentine's Day cards.



An InLinkz Link-up

Conversation Hearts Fun



We love using food to practice skills! The kids get so into it, and work diligently so they can have their treats at the end! I found these conversation hearts tubes at Walmart ($1 each) that are the perfect size for each kid.

 

We sorted, graphed, tallied, measured, and practiced patterns and sight words - all using the conversation hearts!

 

 

 

 

 

 You can get the Learning With Conversation Hearts pack that we used HERE!

Valentine's Fun!

We had fun this year during Valentine's week! We did a lot of art, which the kids love, but we don't usually get to it everyday! Here's some of the things we enjoyed:

 

Heart Symmetry Painting: Put paint on one side of the heart,

then fold in half to create a symmetrical picture!

 

 

Pop Art Heart by Art With Jenny K

 

Dot Marker Heart Art: Tape a paper heart with the center cut out on white paper. Use dot markers all over the page, then gently take off the taped heart!

 

 

Conversation Hearts Sorting & Graphing by Pocketful of Centers

 

 

Valentine's Mystery Pictures using Hundreds Charts & 120 Charts!

 

 

I hope your week was great!



Valentine's Day Forever Freebies

This weekend I'm involved in a Facebook Free-for-all, where you can get some great free resources for a limited time! (See previous post)

But I also wanted to get together a collection of Valentine's Day forever freebies that will be available all the time! Link up your favorite V-Day forever freebies below and be sure to browse around at all the other great resources!!

Here are two of mine:

Free Valentine's Day Heart Owl Hundreds Chart Mystery Picture

 

 

My Valentine Count & Color Book

 

 

January Facebook Free-for-all!

This weekend (Jan 25-27) I'm joining up with some amazing teachers to offer you some great free resources (many will be Valentine's Day themed)! Mostly elementary, but a few for middle and high school as well! We're doing a Facebook Free-for-all, so you can find all the links to the free products from our Facebook pages! The list of everyone participating is here. When you go to someone's page, look for the small tab that looks like the picture below.

Get ready for some great stuff!

Hope to see you there! <3<3<3<3<3<3