Mother's Day Ideas

Hello friends! How's your week going? Anyone else have major summer brain problems? I CANNOT wait until summer. It's so close! :)

Since Mother's Day is around the corner I created a few activities for my kids to do for their moms. First I had them draw a picture of themselves with their mom. I got cheap frames from the dollar store and I'm going to wrap them to send home with the kids on Friday.

I also had the kids write an acrostic poem about mothers to make into a card. We made one together that the kids could copy, but a few kids created their own. They are adorable!

Finally I had the kids fill out an All About My Mom book that I will wrap with the framed picture. They wrote all about what they like about their mom and why she is special. Just precious! 

 

I put these activities on TpT as a freebie so go HERE to download your own copy! 

New Units...FINALLY!

Hello, faithful blog readers! (If you are still out there!)

I am SO sorry I have neglected this blog. This semester has been a tough one: mixture of working full time, being a part time graduate student and dealing with crazy behavior problems in my classroom. When I get home, the only thing I want to do is lay on the couch. I promise to get back on track though!

I've already created two new units I'm excited to share with you: one on health and the other about the human body. In an effort to ask your forgiveness, I will be giving away my Human Body unit to the first FOUR people to comment and leave their emails.

Please click on the pictures below to check out previews of my new units!

 

Celebrating MLK Jr.

Once again, so sorry I haven't been posting much. It's been a hard semester so far. I'm looking forward to Spring Break. My kinders are wearing me out! Anybody else have kiddos whose behavior just took a nosedive after the break? I feel like we've gone back to square one! This job sure does require patience!

Even though it's been hard these past few weeks, we still have gotten a lot of awesome learning in! A few weeks ago we learned all about Martin Luther King Jr. using my MLK Jr. unit. It always amazed me how compassionate young kids are and how they are so sad about how life used to be in our country just a few decades ago. They really enjoyed learning about Dr. King.

We started reading a lot of books about Dr. King. We talked about what a biography is and what we learned about him from each book. We also read several books about President Barack Obama. We talked about how Dr. King's hard work made it possible for President Obama to become the first African American president. We then filled out webs about each of them to show what we learned.

We also read a book about Dr. King from my unit and the kids colored and filled out their own book about what they learned. 

 

 

 

We also created a class book where each student got choose one thing about Dr. King to write about:

Finally we did a cute craft where they kids painted the world and colored a heart. On the heart they wrote one way they can make the world a better place:

 

 

 

 

There are also a few Black History Month activities in my unit so if you are interested in my unit, check it out by clicking on the picture below.

I also just updated my presidents' unit. It has lots of fun activities about our presidents and is perfect for Preisident's Day. Click on the picture to check it out!  

New Year Fun!

I'm so sorry I have been MIA for the past month. I decided to take a break from blogging. I have just been exhausted lately. It was SUPER hard for me to get back into the school mode. I'm still dragging a bit, but I'm making it. MLK Day yesterday sure did help! :)

I'm hoping to get caught up and share with you what's been going on in my classroom! I'm going to skip over holiday stuff (too much to share!) and share New Year's activities with you. Please check out my New Year's unit if you are interested!

Our first week back we talked about how we were in a new year, 2013! We learned what a resolution was and that sometimes people make goals for themselves at the beginning of a new year. I had the kids brainstorm ideas for resolutions which they drew or wrote about in their balloons.

 

Next I had them choose one resolution, illustrate it and write it down:

 

(help my little sister learn to read)              (being a nice friend, that's my resolution) 

 

                  (take more care of my fish)                              (exercise)

 Later in the week, the kids worked on a craft where they illustrated their face and decorated a party hat. Below their face, they wrote one new year's resolution. It made a super cute bulletin board!

 

 

 

 For our last activity, I had the kids think about a resolution they wanted to make just for school. We came up with different ideas and then I let the kids choose one to illustrate. They wrote their goal and how they would reach their goal.

  

            (listening; listen to the teacher)                              (reading; practice)

(reading my spelling words; practice)

If you liked these activities, please check out my New Year's unit by clicking on the picture below!