The Very Hungry Caterpillar posted!

Hi Peeps! Kerri here...
6 report cards down, 18 to go! I have myself on a strict schedule-6 per night, so I don't have to worry about them next weekend. We'll see if I stick to it! :)


Here is one more writing center and man, oh man, is this clip art CUTE!! It is from the very talented Kristen at her adorable blog: 

Love Two Teach!

Check it out and see all of her fabulous clip art and other stuff! Some is FREE (which we all LOVE!)

Introducing...

This one is PERFECT for having your students sequence the story because all of the food is included (20 pictures all together!) Click on the pic above if you are interested!


Have a happy Tuesday!
XOXO Kerri 

Just call me Miss Procrastination...

Happy Sunday! Kerri here...

Yes, I know I said I needed to spend the next to weeks focusing on report cards and on organizing all of my assessments...Exhibit A- GAH!!

First pile-assessments to be looked at and filed, Second pile-Stack of work from last week that I graded last night!

Holy Guacamole-don't you just shudder looking at all of that madness?? I have been told that not only am I a procrastinator, but I am also a "piler", you should see my desk in my classroom. My husband calls it the beginning stages of hoarding (thanks alot, HONEY!), but I prefer piler, thank you very much!


Instead, I spent part of yesterday having fun and doing this!

Many of you requested sports, so TADA!!

I had to make this one...I think the girls will especially love it!

Not Cirque Du Soleil (my fave!), but still cutey cuteness!

I told you, I HAVE A PROBLEM and I think my husband would like it just a little bit if someone would please give me an intervention. I just can't help it! When I displayed all of the writing centers for my kidlets last week, they were LITERALLY clapping and cheering. I felt like Selena Gomez, girls!! Seriously, I was a rock star! Hey, as long as they keep cheering, I'm going to keep making these!


You can pick 'em up from my TPT store, if you think your kidlets might just promote you to rock star status too when you show them these!


I have BIG STUFF coming soon (major excitement and cuteness!), and I can't wait to show you all, but first, I must get back to my HUGE piles. BOO!


XOXO Kerri

Dr. Seuss FREEBIES, George Art, and Thank you!!

Happy Thursday, Peeps!! Kerri here...


First off, a big GINORMOUS THANK YOU to all of you who purchased something from Lindsay or I during yesterday's MEGA TPT sale! Was it AMAZING or what?? I bought a few goodies myself and I can't wait to use them!


Dr. Suess Day...is that REALLY tomorrow?? I feel a little behind the times since I was off last week. For goodness sake, I am still teaching about George Washington this week! I know, I know! But, with one week gone in February due to my break, what's a girl to do?? Here is our direct draw art for good ole GW, which we will be gluing next to Abe Lincoln for our First Grade Adventure books. 
He came out pretty funny...

This one is my FAVE! He is squashed!

I know, it looks like he is wearing SUSPENDERS!! Those were SUPPOSED to be his General uniform stripes (Whatever...) but they totally look like darn suspenders! Sigh...


I have also made an executive decision that Dr. Seuss week will trickle into next week because there is just too much good fun that is funny that I need to do! Today, in reading groups, I had my kidlets partner read different Dr. Seuss books that I have multiple copies of (Cat in the Hat, Hop on Pop, Green Eggs and Ham, There's a Wocket in my Pocket) that are also at their reading level more or less, and then go on a rhyme hunt through the book. They LOVED it big time. Here is a copy of the paper if you would like to spread the rhyming goodness in your classroom...click below.

I saw this ADORBS idea on Michelle Oakes' blog Fabulous in First (LOVE IT!), so I thought I would make them for my daughter's class and for my own class as well. Edible truffula trees!! Oh, such cuteness!!
 MY kiddos have to take the STAR reading test again tomorrow (GAG!) which they DETEST taking, so I thought a little bribe would help them through their misery!

Modeling shot courtesy of Miss Katie B!

I also uploaded a pretty fun FREEBIE to TPT this morning- a Cat in a Hat Sentence Scramble with recording sheets as a HUGE thank you for all of your support of our blog and TPT stores! You can click below to go get your copy from my store...

You can also pick up this little number while you're there! My kids did this one today in centers and they love love loved it!

Hope your Friday is wicked awesome and you all can enjoy your weekend!!
XOXO Kerri

Dr. Seuss Rhymes, Leprechaun writing paper FREEBIE, Skittles Math, and HUGE TPT Sale!!

One more added, just in time for tomorrow's BIG SALE!! A rhyming center for Dr. Seuss DAY!

Happy Monday, Peeps! Kerri here...
Well, it rained today and it was C-O-L-D! I'm talking 50 degrees cold! For California, that is COLD, man!! But, now I am home in my PJ's (fat pants, standard, of course!) and I am enjoying hearing the rain outside. It better dry up by tomorrow, or this teacher is going to be G.R.O.U.C.H.Y! You know what I'm saying??




Here is a little baby freebie for you if you plan on having your kiddos write about anything St. Patty's Day/Leprechaun related. Just a little writing paper for you to use....click below!

Did you also know that I made little "Taste the Rainbow" Math Packet to use with skittles LAST March?? Well, my kids LOVED it like crazy last year and I'm sure they will again this year! Here is the link if you are interested in sugaring your kids up teaching your kids important math concepts using skittles:

Finally, have you heard about TPT's GINORMOUS Leap Day sale on Wednesday?? I am SOOO excited! I already have some goodies loaded into my cart which I will be happily buying on Wednesday with this coupon:

Both our stores will have EVERYTHING on sale for 20% off, plus TPT's discount code, well, it's gonna be cheaper than DIRT!!


You can pick up Lindsay's Fabulous Five Senses Unit:

And, you can get all of these from my (Kerri's) store!


Writing Centers:

March Words Writing Pack

What's the Weather? Math and Literacy Centers

We Heart America! Math and Literacy Centers

Hope your Tuesday is full of sunshine and smiles from your kiddos at school!
XOXO Kerri

Math FREEBIES, and some new TPT Goodies!

Happy Saturday Night, Peeps! Kerri here...
Well, here I am, wearing my "fat" pants, my cozy socks, and my grungiest sweatshirt on a Saturday night (Can I get an AMEN??) 


I know, I know, my husband is such a lucky fella! Tonight we took a walk and I was wearing the above items, plus a hideous scarf, AND my mukluks! I was a HOT mess. He just looked at me and shook his head. HA!! I just love being married sometimes. To be able to take a walk with a handsome man, while you look ridiculous. That is LOVE, man!


I feel like I haven't shared any Math freebies for a while, so here we go... Whilst thinking about what I need to do when I go back to work on Monday (BOO! YAY!), I was thinking that my little friends DESPERATELY need to work on counting forward and backward to 100. Actually, counting forward is pretty easy peasy for them, but counting backwards, well...let's just not recall the "counting backwards from 100" Envisions lesson where I almost pulled my hair out and came home feeling like the WORST MATH TEACHER EVER. yucky...


ANYHOO...To help them practice this RIDICULOUS FUN concept, I made this little worksheet that has BOTH counting forward and counting back from 100. You can use one or both, depending what your chitlins need. I also made a little 100's chart that they can use to help them. 


I plan on giving my kiddos numbers from 1-100 that are printed on colored cardstock and cut out, so they just pull a number, write it in the box, and either count forward or count back (depending on the worksheet). You can have them close their eyes and point to a number on the 100's mat, roll two 10-sided dice and make a number to start on, whatever floats your boat! These worksheets are NOT cutesified (THE HORROR! I know...I'm so sorry) but they will get the job done as a warm up, or math station, homework, whatevs... 


You can download the worksheet (click the link) and 100's mat (click the picture) below:

Here is the Counting on and Counting Back from 100 Worksheet!




On to the TPT Goodies!! 


I am SOOOO proud of my girl, Linds (aka Mrs. Messyhair! Long story, goes WAY back to our Kindergarten days together, but she LOVES LOVES LOVES when you call her that, so I highly encourage you all to do so!!) 
I have been BUGGING HER forever to put this unit on TPT, because it is SO RAD! She originally created it when she was my student teacher and she drew all of the little characters by hand (Did you know she is an AMAZING artist?? It's true!) We used her vintage edition for the next 4 years with our Kinder kiddos, and now that she gave it a facelift AND wrote her own little book to go with it (Did you know she's also an author?? I am so impressed!), it is just so awesome!


 I already bought my copy (she would've given it to me, but I wanted to be her most loyal customer) and I will be doing this little 5 Senses Unit with my kiddos the week after next. CAN'T WAIT!! I hope you all will support her little store and pick up your copy by clicking on the picture below! It's sooo pretty!

I also have been hard at work because A-I had this week off (I know, I'm lucky! But, who'll be laughing when I am teaching until June 23rd?? That's right, all y'all!) and B-I MUST devote the next 2 weeks to report cards, so there will be NO TPTing in my future. I had to bust a move this week. Here's what I have created...(click on each picture to go right there!)

Of course the March Words are posted (one of my best sellers), but I am oh so excited about my new Weather Centers! I will be teaching about weather in 2 weeks, and this will be PERFECT! 


I now have a grand total of 26 Writing Centers posted in my TPT store. I think I may have a problem and MAYBE I need an intervention! Actually, I did this so that every single kiddo can have a mat if I ever want to use them ALL at the same time for my writing block (I showed them on the Friday before break and they about FLIPPED THEIR LIDS, they were so excited!!), OR for every single possible conceivable theme that I may now or in the future ever teach. I have my eye on making a Luau themed writing center, but I think that maybe is just too obscure! I can't help it!! It's so so cute! 


My husband just looked at me and judged me (In his mind, I can tell!) for typing too long. Men! They just don't understand, do they ladies??


Have a Happy Sunday! Hope your Saturday was as WILD and CRAZY as mine!! :)

Five Senses Unit on Sale Now!

Hey friends! Lindsay here . . .

Well, I am SUPER excited to share with you my very first item for sale in my TPT store . . .

Drumroll please . . .

Its my Five Senses Unit!  (Click on the picture below to link up with a bigger preview.)



I seriously feel like I just gave birth to this giant unit - its a monster!  40 pages of scientifical goodness!!  (Is scientifical a word?  Maybe I just invented it . . .)  This unit has been a work-in-progress for weeks and I'm so glad to finally share it with you!  You can check out all the details at my TPT store HERE.

This unit has everything you need to explore the five senses with your kiddos, including:
-Daily, hands-on activities (including student response activities)
-A Five Senses Song
-Literature Connection ideas for each lesson
-A printable student book for your kidlets to complete page-by-page as you guide them through the unit
-Mini posters with a stick kiddo icon for each of the five senses
-A summative assessment worksheet
-Lined writing paper
-Graphic organizers (bubble maps and Step Up To Writing outline)
-And . . . an original mini story by yours truly! :)

Anywho . . . this is one of my all-time favorite units to teach, and I hope that you will enjoy teaching it as much as I do.  I will be doing this unit with my kiddos in March and will post pictures SOON of all of the SCIENTIFICAL action!  (See . . . it IS a word! )

Hope you all have a restful weekend, and don't forget to stop by my TPT store!  My Five Senses Unit is on sale through February 29th, so hurry over and get yours today!  

Lindsay

Dr. Seuss Graph Freebie and TPT Store Opening!

Hey there my bloggerific peeps!  Lindsay here . . .

As Kerri mentioned earlier, our district gets this WHOLE week off from school.  Sounds nice, right?  Well, I have come to discover that that are quite a few things that can take the joy right out of a week off from work . . . like getting sick perhaps.  Or a teething baby. Or maybe a funeral. Or online traffic school.  Ooooh, or if you are REALLY lucky like me, maybe you will get all that in one week.  Don't be jealous people. Don't be jealous. ;)

Okay, I really didn't get on here to tell you about my pathetically non-relaxing vacation week.  I DID come here to tell you that I love Dr. Seuss.  Like SO much.  In fact, this week I have planning and preparing for Read Across America and Dr. Seuss's birthday next week, and I kept coming across these GREAT quotes from all of his books that I just had to share . . . So, may I present the Top 11 Dr. Seuss Quotes of ALL TIME!!  (There were just too many to only do a Top 10.)

Drumroll please . . .

11. And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.  

10.  I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elepahnt's faithful, one hundred percent. 

9. From there to here, from here to there. Funny things are everywhere.

8. A person's a person, no matter how small.

7. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

6. Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

5. You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so . . . get on your way!

4. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

3. Today you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

2. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go!

1. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the think you can think up if only you try!

Yep, he was a pretty amazing guy.  I plan to celebrate him all next week with my kidlets with some fun activities, centers, etc. AND most of all by enjoying as many of his books as we can possibly squeeze into one week! 

At the end of the week, we will be tallying up our class's favorite Dr. Seuss book.  I have posted a Dr. Seuss Graph freebie for you to download at Teachers Pay Teachers.  (Click the image below to access this freebie.)

Be sure to keep your eyes open . . . there will be more to come soon in my brand-new TPT store!

Well, I am off to bed, seeing as how I will be up at 5:00 a.m. with my precious little teething munchkin.  Tootles!

Lindsay