Winter Unit Giveaway Results + FREEBIE

The results are in!  The winners of my Winter Games & Printables packet are....

Commenter number 1 and 3. Gladys and Tammy.  Ladies, send me an email (mrs.lsprague@gmail.com) and I will respond with your product!

Thank you to everyone who commented and for your blogging ideas!  

Tonight I will leave you with a Snowman Number Matching Center printable.

Click {HERE} to get your download.

Thanks!

L

Countdown Until Winter Break FREEBIE

Last night I caught myself opening up my calendar and for the first time counting how many days we had left until our winter break.  Can you believe it?!  Of course you can, you are probably feeling my pain too and if not, you will soon.  November was so broken up with conferences and Thanksgiving break that the few weeks we have until our next break seems way too long.  Don't get me wrong, I love my job but with my group of kiddos this year I am living for the breaks.  I need every break I can get to re-energize for these kiddos.

I am sure as much as I am looking forward to the break my kiddos are as well.  To cut down on the amount of times I will be asked, or just for shear cuteness I created this countdown to winter break poster.  Click {HERE} to download.

I have to admit, it's pretty simple, but pretty cute too!

Enjoy!

p.s. If you haven't commented on my post below, do that before Friday to have a chance to win my Winter Games and Printables packet!  Right now your chances are high!

L

What I'm Up To

A few weeks ago, well the beginning of November, I participated in the What the Teacher Wants, Utah bloggers meet up.  Let me just tell you, I am soooo glad that I decided to go.  It was a Saturday and our first big snow and so everything about me wanted to stay snuggled up in my pjs all day but as it got closer to the meeting time I decided I better go.  It was so great to meet some of the big Utah bloggers, bloggers to be and teachers that just love blogs!  We met at The Old Spaghetti Factory and chatted for over 3 hours!  We talked about anything and everything teacher and of course blogging came up.  I had the privilege to sit next to the wonderful Teacher Wife.  She is amazing!  We got to talking about blogging and where I was in that process as well as selling my items.  If you've been around, you know I pick and poke at blogging and post my stuff when I can.  I'm not really much of a writer and I think that's what keeps me from posting as often as I would like.   Truth be told, I really wish that I would sit down and blog more because not only do you, my fellow teacher friends benefit, but I do as well.  It's a great way to keep a log and ideas fresh and who knows, I may just start to enjoy writing!

Anyways...I say all that to say, I am committing to blogging more often, hopefully once a week and.......
last week I opened a Teachers Pay Teachers store!  I was so inspired by Rachelle and Natalie at What The Teacher Wants and Linsey "The Teacher Wife" so I thought I would give it a go.  I already create so much for my own classroom and this gives me incentive to create even more.

With that said, check out my Teachers Pay Teachers Store by clicking on the link under picture below to check out the items I've posted already (I've got to figure out how to link my pictures I guess!).  I even have some FREE stuff up!

Just added today is my Winter Games and Printables Packet for $4.00!

Leave a comment telling me how you found me and what you like reading about the most on other teacher blogs or what you would like to see me post about in the future and I will give away my Winter Games and Printables Packet to 2 people on Friday!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kindergarten-Fever

L

Thanksgiving Printables

I have been way behind on posting lately due to parent teacher conferences, personal commitments and my battle with switching out all of my clip art (post on that coming soon!).

I wasn't going to post the few things that I had since most of you probably only have 2 or 3 days of school left before Thanksgiving but incase you still need something to do this week or if you want to save them for next year I will share.

The first thing I have is a poem, "5 Little Turkeys" that you can use in a pocket chart.

Five Little Turkeys Emergent Reader

Counting Feathers math worksheets.

Click {HERE} to download all pages.

I hope you can use these at some point.

*Edit: I am so sorry to those of you who have been trying to download.  No idea why my links stopped working all of the sudden.  I have grouped everything together and put them on TPT for FREE.  Go get your pack now!

Thanks for stopping by!  Please comment if you download something or have any questions.

Thanks!

L

Halloween Fun

I got an email today from someone asking for candy corn beginning sound printables that I had gotten off of another website and the easiest way to get them to her was for me to upload them to Scribd.  Since I needed to upload one thing it gave me a little motivation to put up a few other things I have made.  Thanks Sue for giving me a little motivation!

Here are the Candy Corn puzzles.  They are originally from Mailbox Magazine and I got an uploaded copy from someone else.  I prefer to color on the computer more than with actual crayons so once I got the uploaded copy that's what I did.  I figure I can do it once on the computer and then when I need to make a new set all I have to do it print them!

Candy Corn

Here is a game called Boo!  This game works on letter and sound recognition.  I can't wait to play this with my class this week.  We are almost done with our first time through the alphabet.

Boo!

10 Little Pumpkins, great for shared reading in the pocket chart and then moved to a center activity.  It's great for number sequencing as well.

10 Little Pumpkins

I found this poem in a folder that a coworker had given me last year.  I wrote it on chart paper and then drew some pictures with the help of my kiddos to help them read it. The next day we did this emergent reader.  We are now in the process of making our own pumpkins and telling about them.  I had each of my students tell me what their pumpkin was with the sentence, "This little pumpkin is..."  There were some very cute ones.  I'm hanging them on my bulletin board tomorrow, I will have to post a picture after it's up.

This Little Pumpkin

This is a great introduction to measuring and I am going to use it as a center activity in my classroom.  After you print the pumpkins you will need to label them.

Pumpkin Measuring

Lastly, here are some picture/word cards that I use for centers as well.  I use letter tiles or the Lakeshore word building blocks and have my students spell these words.

October Picture Words

If you look a post or two back, there are some pumpkin letter puzzles you might enjoy as well.

Enjoy!  Leave a comment if you download.

L

Back in the saddle.

I have been on vacation for 24 days!  I love that I have the ability to do that (even though our vacation was filled with the unexpected that cost us $1800. Ugh.). I may have to start a personal blog just to document our adventure.  Anyways, I finally got back to my computer last night and had a chance to catch up on some blogs, pinterest, and proteacher only to find myself whipping up an activity for someone moments later.

Someone on proteacher was looking for an alphabet activity with pumpkins and since I hadn't done much in the ways of teaching or creating in almost a month I decided to jump on it.

Cut the pumpkins out and have students match capital and lowercase pumpkins or use for a game of concentration.
Alphabet Pumpkin Matching


Cut each pumpkin out then in half.  Students will match capital and lowercase letters to make a complete pumpkin.

Pumpkin Letter Match Puzzle


I hope to have some beginning of the year items up soon but in the meantime it never hurts to plan out.

Enjoy!
L

Working over the Summer

How many of you catch yourselves working over the summer?  If I had to take a guess, it's not just me.  I have been out of school for 6 (counting the weekend) days and have already started to "work" again.   During the last month of school I was extremely busy in every part of my life.  On Tuesday I took the day for myself and went to a coffee shop organized my digital files and started to catch up on my blogs.

If you haven't been to growingkinder.blogspot.com you have to check it out.  Blogs have become a new thing for me this year and I have a little O.C.D. and have to go back to the very beginning of a lot of the blogs I have found.  This has been the case for growing kinders and boy and I glad I have done that.  She has so many great ideas!  She doesn't have the files for you to download so I have been recreating a lot of what I see.  I can't wait to use and post all of the ideas in Sept./Oct.

I know this is a little late but just so you don't stop by without getting anything I am going to attach the end of the year poem I gave to kiddos.  My friend next door did the same thing but she rolled a piece of chalk up in it and tied it like a diploma, too cute!

Kindergarten Graduation Poem 2

Enjoy!

L