My Northwest Adventure! and an Earth Day FREEBIE!!

Hi Friends! Kerri here...
Yes, I am currently on Spring Break so I'm gonna keep it short, so my husband doesn't JUDGE me too much for blogging whilst on VACAY! I know, I know, I have a problem, but in my defense, it IS 10:00 p.m., the chitlins are in bed, and the hubs is laying next to me watching TV, so I feel no guilt! :)
Here are some photos from our Washington/Oregon adventure so far...

NO rain!! YAY!

Gum wall outside Pike's Market. TOTALLY weird, but cool!

My sweet baby brother who we went to visit! He's such a cutie pie!

And an awesome uncle! I made him take this pic with Katie and he did it for me! 

Aren't gorillas so AWESOME!!

As are orangutans! This girl was chillin like a villain staring at all of us!

Trying to get my girls to take an artsy fartsy picture was like PULLING TEETH! I must have taken 20 and every single one was SILLY! Grrr...

Underground Seattle tour. FASCINATING! Did you know the old city is underneath?

Multnomah Falls. SOOOO gorgeous! YEs, those are bright lime green rain ponchos and yes, I am ROCKIN it!

Ahhh, feel the sisterly love! And the Columbia River in the background!

A teeny tiny flower and a teeny tiny bug! So pretty!

Me and the Hubs! He's the ying to my yang!

Lastly, here is a little Earth Day FREEBIE for all of you, just in time for Earth Week next week!! Number Puzzles for numbers 13-24. 

A sweet follower emailed me with the request and I thought, hey, why not!! 

I KNOW!! I have a problem!! I know I shouldn't be doing this on VACAY, but TinTin was on and I was only semi-into it, so I needed a diversion! Click on the picture below to go to my TPT store and download for FREE!!

Can't wait to share my Northwest Adventure Part 2 with you all later! Tomorrow we go to the Timberline Lodge! Can't wait!!

XOXO Kerri

Spring Has Sprung Freebie and More Meatball Madness

Hi friends!  Lindsay here  . . .


So the countdown to Spring Break is officially on - only 4 more days to go!!  I have been SUPER jealous of all of you who have been on Spring Break already . . . talking about sleeping in . . . going to the movies . . . working on your tans . . . Yep. Jealous. That's me. J-E-A-L-O-U-S.   But come next week the tables will be turned folks.  That's right . . . you may not even hear from me while I'm on break. I may just hole up underneath my down comforter and hibernate during the entire week.  Oh wait.  I have a seven month old at home. Who wakes up at 6 o'clock every morning. Even on weekends. And holidays.  Awww shucks . . .


Well, even though Spring Break is next week, this week we are busy busy BUSY!  We have been having so much fun with our Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs unit.  Here are some excerpts from our class book:


First we had someone predict that it would be cloudy with a chance of pumpkin pie.  (Mmmm . . . a girl after my own heart!)

Then we had a prediction of cloudy with a chance of Easter Egg marshmellows.  (Sounds sticky.)

Next up . . . cloudy with a chance of burritos. (Love the little speaking bubble - "delicious!")

And last but  not least . . . cloudy with a chance of applesauce.  Yikes!  Giant jars of it falling from the sky!!

To wrap up our C.W.A.C.O.M. unit on Friday, we will be having a finger food potluck.  Sounds delish right?  All tiny finger foods to nibble, sip, dip and enjoy!! 


Haven't picked up your Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs unit yet?  Click {HERE} and pick yours up today!


In addition to the meatballish goodness going on in Room 17, we are also diving into our Spring activities as well.  After doing number sequencing with my students in centers last week (part of my C.W.A.C.O.M. unit) I decided my kidlets could use some MORE practice, so I came up with this freebie to go along with my Spring Has Sprung Math and Literacy Centers (check it the whole unit on TPT HERE). 

Here is a preview of my little freebie for y'all. Enjoy!  Click on the preview to download off of TPT.

Well, that's it for now folks.  I am off to do some lesson planning . . .I am so excited to jump into our Rainforest unit when we get back from  Spring Break (using all of Kerri's fabulous resources, of course) AND get ready for Earth Day.  Its right around the corner!

Signing off for now!

Lindsay

Spring into Spring!! TPT and FREEBIES!

Greetings friends!  Lindsay here . . . Its bread & butter Monday. That's right . . . you get a little of BOTH of us girls tonight!  Hmmm . . . and if you are SICK like me, you can pair your bread and butter with a little chicken noodle soup!  (Seriously though . . . am I the only one out there who caught the plague that is going around?  I'm dyin over here people!!)

I promise to keep my sneezes, snot and sniffles to myself during my part of the blog tonight.  Scouts honor.

Well, in addition to fighting off some sort of mutant mega-virus-cold thingie, I have been hard at work finishing up my spring centers and they are **FINALLY** done!!!  (Drumroll please . . .)  It's my Spring Has Sprung - Math and Literacy Centers pack!!  This unit contains:

-My Oval Is An Easter Egg (a book about shapes)
-Spring Jellybean Graph, Sorting Mat and Data Sheet
-Egg-cellent Addition and Subtraction
-Spring Swip Swap
-Rhyming Rainboots Match-Up
-Scrambled Spring Sentences

Your students will be able to practice number sentences, shapes, addition, tallying, estimating, sight words, rhyming words, CVC words, and phonemic awareness all within this adorable unit!  And in addition to all of the cute, colorful hands-on resources, there is a recording sheet for each activity as well! 

Click the preview image below to head on over to my TPT store.  Your kidlets will love these fun spring centers!

In addition to picking up my Spring Has Sprung pack, you can check out my Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs unit as well!  They will BOTH be 25% off on my TPT store through Saturday only!!

I started my C.W.A.C.O.M. (Cloudy With . . .) Unit today and my kidlets adored it!! 

They thought measuring with meatballs was simply marvelous!!! (Eww . . . notice the dirty tissue!  Gnarly-megavirus DEFINATELY originated at school! )

And graphing our Wacky Weather was wonderful too!

There is still plenty of time to dive into this magically meaty unit!  (That was for you Kerri!)  And while you are at it, check out Kerri's darling C.W.A.C.O.M. Writing Center!!  Its meat-tastic!  (Okay . . . no more meat jokes. Promise.)

Just one more thing!  Don't forget to join in the fun with our Timree giveaway!!  In addition to getting your very own, one-of-a-kind folder, lunch box, and notebook, Kerri and I will each be giving away one TPT item of the winner's choice from each of our stores!  Holy hamburgers!!!  (Okay, THAT was the last meat joke. No really. . . )

My turn!! Hi Friends! Kerri here...
I have been working on a few little goodies that I have posted onto TPT, besides my Rainforest Art and Writing Pack (GINORMOUS thanks to those of you who already bought it! It's on SALE through Saturday!)  Here is what I've been working on...

Spring Words Posted and TOTALLY ADORABLE!!

This clip art KILLS me, it's SOOOO cute!

Companion piece to Lindsay's FANTABULOUS Cloudy Unit!!

Click on each picture above to go to my store!


Here is a little something to make you giggle. One of my cutiest cuties drew this picture when we were studying the -ank word family. I about D.I.E.D from laughter last night whilst grading a mountain of papers from last week!!

What the WHAT?? Is that not the raddest thing you have ever seen?? 

Last, but not least, here are a three FREEBIES for you. Simple little diddies, but I use them in my class every week and they work really well for my kidlets! The first is my "Word Family Machine" paper that we do every week as a warm-up. My kids write 8 words from our chunk of the week and illustrate each word. This really increases their vocabulary AND improves their drawing skills. As you can see from the above photo, they REALLY get into it! Click below to download...

The next FREEBIE is my Number Machine (Why is everything a machine?? I have NO IDEA! I feel like it makes my kids crank out quality work, but it's probably all in my head!!)

For this one, my kids cut and paste their numbers in order, for example 1-10, and then write the number word, draw tallies, write even or odd, and write a number sentence that equals each number. I have included numbers 1-50, but I am CERTAIN I won't be using all of them. Can you imagine our kiddos drawing 50 tallies in a fairly small box?? YEESH! What a mess!

Click on the picture to download...

Last Freebie of the night is some Rainbow (ROYGBIV) writing paper for your kids to write about the colors of the rainbow. After we talked about colors, my kids wrote sentences, such as "Red is for apples and cherries.", etc. You get the idea, right? My kids were NOT all that excited about brainstorming things that were indigo. Indigo?? What's indigo, anywayz?? :)

Click on the rainbow hot air balloon to download...

I have heard that if you are having trouble downloading from Google Docs, just click on file and download that way...Hope it works for everyone! It should!

Have a great week!

Kerri

Rainforest Fun! FREEBIE-whoot whoot!!

Hiya Peeps!! Kerri here...
Well, I am in the midst of conference week and I have 10 conferences down, 13 to go!! They are going very well (I have the sweetest parents!) but I am excited for the weekend to get here so I can work on PART DEUX of my Rainforest Fun! Unit!! By Sunday, fingers crossed, I will have it completed and it will include directions for 8 rainforest animal art projects, tons of graphics organizers, writing paper, recommended books and websites, and other goodies!

Thanks so so much to those of you who have already purchased this from my TPT store...

 and this

I just created a little FREEBIE to go along with these that you can upload from TPT! It is a Rainforest Fun! Number to Number Word Match and Greater Than/Less Than Activity. Of course, whilst in the midst of creating it, my computer decided to FREAK THE FREAK OUT and I lost almost the whole darn thing! AAARRGGHH!! Will I never learn to save as I go?? DANGIT!!
Excuse the above rant...anyhoo, I refused to be beaten down by my MAC (who is usually so good to me, but she is turning 3 this year so maybe she's getting old??) and I re-made it. That, my friends, is called obsessive compulsive disorder for all bloggy type things!! :)


Click on the ADORABLE sloth (my all-time favorite rainforest animal! Did you know they only come down out of the trees once a week to go potty? Now that's awesome!!) to download your very own copy. 

I'd love to a little comment if you download it!
Thanks Peeps!
Kerri

Rainforest Madness!! Plus...Pigs and Pancakes, Baby!!

   Happy Sunday, Peeps! Kerri here...
OMGarsh! I am so so excited that FINALLY Scrappin Doodles made some "proper" rainforest clip art! I have been waiting for this for a year! (insert happy dance!)
I did rainforest as my theme for Open House last year, and the kids ATE IT UP!! It was so so fun! Click here to see pictures from that post!


I have been hard at work making some rainforest themed centers on TPT!! Presenting (drumroll please!)...

  With this Rainforest Fun! Literacy and Math Centers packet you get 9 fun-filled learning centers! (click on pics to go to my TPT store)

and

Next weekend, I will be working on a GIANT art and graphic organizer pack for the rainforest so you can make craftivities and write about rainforesty things like these:

sloths

rainforest flowers

monkeys

                     rainforest flowers

parrots

red-eyed tree frogs

butterflies

layers of the rainforest

rainforest fishies

Finally, quite a few of you requested it, so here is your If You Give a Pig a Pancake comprehension cut and paste activity, and also an endings (-s, -ed, -ing) sort that I will be using this week...  click on the links to download!                                                    

If You Give a Pig a Pancake Activity

Word Endings Sort

To those of you on Spring Break, JEALOUS!! I still have 4 more weeks to go!!  

I'll be back later this week with a fun rainforest math FREEBIE, and as I think of them, I will be posting more rainforest things! Have a great Sunday!

Feeling LUCKY today!

Hi Friends! Kerri here...
Lindsay and I are having a "peas and carrots" Thursday (Forrest Gump reference-MY FAVE!) since we both have things we would like to share with you! I'm first!


YES, I still have 6 report cards to do, but in true Miss Procrastination style, I decided to blog instead of buckling down and getting them done. Blogging takes me to my happy place, and so did our leprechaun art today. Check these little guys out!

I mean, COME ON!! Could they be any cuter?? This lesson is from Kaye Espinosa's TLC art Spring Book, which you can get here on TPT!! It is FANTASTIC, girls! If you have not checked out the TLC Art website, you really must. I have made SOOO many of her art projects with my kidlets and they come out great every time!


After we made our leprechauns today, we learned the following poem and my kiddos copied it onto the leprechaun paper I blogged about here. I found it online called "Five Little Leprechauns":

5 little leprechauns on St. Patty’s Day,

The 1^st one said, “I’d like to play!”

The 2^nd one stood beside a rainbow.

The 3^rd  one waved and said, “Hello!”

The 4^th  one said, “Good luck to the bold.”
 

The 5^th  one said, “Just don’t touch my gold!”

They all danced around,

And then ran off with a bound!

I also have a little Shamrock Spelling Scramble activity to share that I created last year for my kiddos to do in centers to practice their spelling words. I have not been able to find cute Shamrock boxes, like the heart boxes I got from the Dollar Tree in February, but I do have NOT-AS-CUTE boxes that will work just fine (MUST STOP OBSESSING OVER CUTENESS!!) 

My kids will choose a numbered box, unscramble the letters to make a spelling word, and write it in the correct shamrock, then choose 5 words and write 5 juicy sentences. Click on the shamrock to get your own copy!

That's all I got tonight! Back to the grind with my last report cards! Lindsay's up next with something FABULOUS!!

Hi guys!  Lindsay here . . .

Well, I guess I will do a little procrastinating tonight too, seeing as how I only have 23 more report cards to do. Oh wait. That's all of them. Dangit!

Well, tonight, I will be brief . . . but I do have something exciting to share!!  Next Friday is St. Patrick's Day Eve and I will be doing one of my favorite kinder traditions . . . a leprechaun hunt!! 

 Every year my kidlets and I have so much fun following the clues and the glittery trail our tricky little leprechaun leaves behind all over school!  This year I decided to share this tradition with you all, so I created the Lucky the Leprechaun Adventure Pack!  Included in this pack are nine pages of colorful shamrock clues to lead your students all around your school, Lucky the Leprechaun writing paper for your students to write about your adventure, and an adorable little recalling/sequencing activity for your students to complete after the hunt.  I even included some tips on how to set up your hunt!   Click on the image below to see the  preview of my "Lucky the Leprechaun Adventure Pack":

Hurry and head over to my TPT store by clicking the little leprechaun below to get your Lucky the Leprechaun Adventure Pack!  Your lads and lassies will adore it, and so will you!  But hurry, St. Patties is right around the corner!

Well, that's it for tonight. 

(Cue ominous music)

I am off to do some report cards!!!!

Good night folks!

Lindsay