Muffins with Mom

I am home sick AGAIN!

The stomach bug has been making it's way around our school and I was a victim of it all weekend. Apparently, it isn't all out of my system either : ( I am resting all day today and  hopefully I will be back to normal tomorrow. I am so sick of being sick : ( 

On Friday we had a special Muffins with Mom Breakfast for Mother's Day. It was a cupcake themed little celebration. Here are the gifts we made for our moms:

Then on the inside of the envelope, we put our little gifts:

A portrait 

An All About My Mom writing activity

They were so funny! 

I hope all of the mothers out there had a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! 

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week, SALE TIME

Happy Monday! 

This was a crazy Monday for me! I was out Thursday and Friday last week with an absolutely miserable headache and sinus stuff. So, I have spent most of the day playing catch up and trying to get myself back in the groove. I'm still not feeling 100%, but way better than I was.  I will post some of my plant unit picture soon. 

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! My school chose to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week back in April. It was a really fun week! 

Are you excited for the big Teacher Appreciation Sale? I can't wait to do some shopping! My store will be on sale! : )

Here are a few of my newest and best selling  products that may interest you. Click on any of the following pictures to check it out! : )

Happy Shopping y'all! 

Parts of a Plant Freebie

Hello friends,

What a great weekend! I  feel like I was so productive! Fiance helped me get the flowerbeds ready for planting! Actually, I should say I helped him. Sort of. Yardwork isn't my thing : ) We got a few rose bushes planted and two flowerbeds done! Yipee! How fitting that this week we are starting our plant unit. I have a little freebie for you to use with your students. 

I had a really hard time finding a basic labeling sheet for my students to use. So, I made one and decided to share with you. A color copy is also included. 

Go to my Teachers Pay Teachers Store HERE to download for FREE. While you are there make sure and follow me so you don't miss anything! : )

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. According to my calculations,I am down to 24 days of school. AH! I can't believe that I have almost taught for one year. It has been an AMAZING year! : )

Cheep! Cheep!

Chicks have taken over our classroom! 

For about 21 days we watched and turned our eggs in the incubator. Then last week,THEY HATCHED! 

SO EXCITING!

My sweet room mom even made us a special little chick snack!

Meet Gingerbread, Crispy, Kitty and Fluffy. 

Here are a few pictures of some of our chick fun:

Today, the chicks were taken to the farm. My kids were so concerned about the farm calling them by name and being able to tell them apart. It was so sweet. It was so much fun to have chicks in the room and I can't wait to do it again next year!

We have also been learning about insects although they have been over shadowed by the chicks! We made these really cute butterfly life cycles today as a way to cope with our loss of the chicks. : )

I can't wait to hang these up in the hallway. 

Next week we are starting our plant unit. Hooray! : )

Y'all have a great weekend. 

The Wedding of Q and U

1. Friday was a very exciting day in our classroom. We had the big wedding of Q and U! I have seen this idea before and I knew I just had to do it. My kids have been especially into weddings since I am getting married, so they LOVED this! I think this will be one of those days in kindergarten that they will always remember. We read a precious little book created by Kathleen at Growing Kinders. It was so cute and got my kids really excited about the upcoming event. It is available in her unit: The Wedding of Q and U. 

1. Here are some pictures from the big event:

The bride and groom. I bought giant wooden letters at Hobby Lobby and dressed them up! 

I made the wedding cake by stacking Little Debbie white fancy cakes. I was trying to cut out a fancy Q and U with my Cricut, but they look skinny and weird in this picture. But, it worked great! : )

I took each child's picture with the happy couple. I will put this in their little kindergarten memory book for the end of the year. 

The wedding was also complete with a reception. We did some traditional wedding dances like the Cupid Shuffle and the Chicken Dance haha. I can't wait to do the wedding bigger and better next year!

Have a great week! : )

An EGGcellent Week

What a fun and busy week in Kindergarten! This week we did lots of fun Easter themed activities. We started off the week with this writing piece. I am EGGstra special because...

They painted the back of the eggs and then I sent them home as a special little keepsake! They turned out really cute.

On Wednesday we had our big math egg hunt. Every child brought 21 filled Easter eggs and wrote a number on each egg. So they brought an egg with the number 1 on it, an egg with the number 2 on it, all the way to 21. Then each student was assigned a number and they could only pick up the eggs with that number on it. When my team was explaining it to me it sounded really complicated, but it wasn't and it was a great way to reinforce number recognition and it was an Easter egg hunt! : )

I bought these cute pails for the kids at Dollar Tree and then let them decorate with some Easter foam stickers also found at the Dollar Tree. 

Hunting eggs!

Here is number 21's egg basket. 

After the egg hunt we counted, sorted and graphed the eggs we found.I was also lucky and had some sweet parent volunteers to hide the eggs.

Thursday we had some special Easter visitors...

Two rabbits! Max and Ruben! One of my student's parents had a friend with two bunnies she was willing to let us play with for the afternoon. All of the kindergarten students rotated through my room to see the Easter bunnies. 

The kids loved it!

Friday we made Easter nests. This is one of my favorite childhood recipes  I was so excited to share it with my little kindergarteners. 

First you make rice crispy treats just like normal, but only with Cocoa Krispies instead. Then you give each child a blob of rice crispy dough to mold into a nest shape like this:

Next, I gave each child a sandwich bag with coconut and green food coloring then they shook it around and put it inside their nest.

Next add some eggs. I used jelly beans!

Not the best picture, but you can see how cute they turned out! : )

We also read one of my favorite Easter books, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick. We acted out the sequence of the story:

I even let my kids swallow a little Peep chick too. But, I made them chew : ) 

We had such a fun week even though we didn't get Good Friday OR tomorrow off. Boo : ( 

Happy Easter Yall! 

Compound Word Work

I spent most of this afternoon working up at school. I am really excited for some of the fun Easter themed activities.  This week we are really going to be working on compound words. I put together a new mini unit of compound word work activities in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. Here are some of the included activities: 

I am really excited about this packet! I hope you will be able to use it in your classroom as well.

I put my CVC Word Egg Hunt in my word work center too. 

My kids are going to love this activity! It is a super easy and quick game to review CVC words.  Click here to download it for FREE in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. While you are there be sure to check out my other CVC Word Activities such as my CVC Initial Sounds Sort and CVC Bingo Game.