It's been a while!

Well it has been a really long time since my last post! I just graduated with my Master's! I will have some new material coming out in my Teacher's Pay Teacher's Store in the next couple weeks! Be sure to check it out!!!

February=Kindness

You know that love is in the air when the stores are all filled to the brim with red, white, and pink. For our students the month of February is also the perfect time to teach about one of the great Pillars of Character, KINDNESS! I love teaching about kindness, the act of good deeds, and paying it forward, through reading great books. Some of my favorites are pictured below.

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February Common Core Packet

February will be here before you know it! Get ready to motivate your students to learn the English Language Arts and Mathematics Common Core Standards through this fun filled interactive February packet. This packet smoothly integrates teaching students to be able to read and spell two new sets of sight words. Students will notice that these sight words reappear throughout this packet. This is to help students become fluent readers and writers as they use these new sight words. Students will also learn about the H family (CH, SH, TH, WH). The math worksheets build on one another. Some sheets are also to help reinforce skills learned earlier in the year. This packet is geared toward kindergarten - first grade students, but can be used to reinforce skills for second grade too. Visit my TPT store to read the full Table of Contents! These worksheets are friendly and fun with the goal of teaching the Common Core Standards. All students will be motivated to learn with these fun sheets! When students are excited about what they are learning and the activities are fun they want to learn more! Enjoy!

FRAMEZ

These frames are perfect for your Teachers Pay Teachers products or for personal use! They are high resolution PNG images. All images are easy to resize and layer into projects! You can grab them in my Teachers Pay Teachers store!

Dec. Holiday Crafts!

Each of these holiday arts and crafts projects incorporated connections to math and literacy as well as awesome fine motor skills. We made a ton of snowman crafts before, during, and after reading stories about winter and snow. One of the crafts pictured shows a painted snowman with a sentence under it. During a literacy center students cut out the words and then arranged them to make a complete sentence. I checked their sentences before they pasted it onto their snowman picture. Another craft pictured is a puzzle piece picture frame. Students pasted old puzzle pieces onto precut cardboard frames. I told the students to paste at least two layers of puzzle pieces onto their frames. After they dried, I took the puzzle piece frames home to spray paint silver. Then the students glued on buttons and bowes. I reinforced some of them with hot glue. I also took their picture and glued it on the back and then hot glued on a ribbon so their parents could hang their frame on their Christmas tree or on their fridge if they did not celebrate Christmas. My students also made beaded snowflakes, candy canes, and wreathes. They practiced counting and adding as they strung their beads onto their pipe cleaners. We practiced recalling the beginning, middle, and end of a story by writing the events down in a snowman graphic organizer. Students wrote about snowmen and made a snowy town from colorful shapes that they cut out. We made ice skates, boots, and mittens, and then they wrote about winter clothes. We had so much fun learning about math and literacy as we prepared for the holidays!

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