Five For Friday: Decorate with Dr. Seuss!

It's Five For Friday!!  I swear this day never felt so good...  I needed a weekend! ;)

 Next week is the famous Read Across America week and our class is ready to get down and READ!  I decided to add a little pizazz to my room and dress it up with Dr. Seuss!  I just L.O.V.E. how my new Seuss Banner turned out.

It was so easy!  All you need is colored prints of the book covers (google, copy, paste, enlarge on Powerpoint and print), a hole punch, and ribbon!  I wanted mine to be durable, so I laminated each cover.  

Ribbon from Michaels!!

Hole punch in the corners and tie.

You could also use colored construction paper and alternate the covers and colored paper.

The faces on my firsties when they saw this banner were hilarious!  Their jaws dropped to their feet and they immediately started calling out which was their faves, which ones they had at home, etc.  So fun!!

My Loves on their Daddy Daughter Dance night.  Mommy is very blessed! :)

Spring break is in two weeks, TWO!  But right before that is Parent Teacher Conferences...dum dum DUM!  I am looking for something awesome for the kids to create as artwork plus showing off their reading and math skills to their parents.  This weekend I will be working on this baby!  Enter QR codes and frustration, lol!

If you've seen any of my TPT products, you'd know that I'm more of a cutesy, sweet graphics lover.  But I've decided to make the trip to the OTHER side, the MODERN side on this one!  I loved using these Rockin' Rainbow papers from Ashley Hughes and these awesome fonts from Cara Carroll!  I think the best thing about this product is the anchor charts and the I Can statements.

I've also included Write the Room activities and Exit Tickets for each skill: Root Words, Suffixes, Prefixes, Categories, Shades of Meaning, Context Clues, and Making a Connection.   I'll be using this guy next week.  This will come in handy with report cards!

Find Vocab Artist on sale this weekend!  Check it out HERE at my TPT Store.  

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Sweet Science for Valentine's Day!!

Thank goodness it's Friday!  I've had a week filled with ear infections, walking pneumonia, and pinkeye!  Yikes!!  Get this stuff out of here!!

Last week was our 100th day of school, hooray!!  It came so quick I barely had time to whip up some 100 day goodies!  But I'm glad I did and I'm glad they are all FREE!!!  Here's a peek:

Click on the picture above to get the whole pack, poems and task cards included!

Another part of our 100th day goodies was a 100 cookie bag!  I took a sugar wafer cookie and two fudge striped cookies to make 100.  You can find the baggie toppers and pictures HERE at my last blog post.

Twin Day at school!  My best janitor friend, Doug loves his overalls, so I decided to join the fun.  Love those things!

Our new puppy, Otis has gradually won over our hearts!  Love this little guy (even when I have to wash poo poo off him at 6:30 in the morning).  Here he is with our Mo Mo.

I'm so psyched for Valentine's Day!  My Winter Science Experiments were such a hit with my students, that I decided to create a Valentine's Day unit!  Sweet Science!  Here's a few pics of the experiments my girls and I just HAD to try at home!

All you need are these ingredients to "Fill Your Heart" with love. :)  hehehe

This one was so fun to watch!  You can't tell in the pic, but the hearts would go all the way to the bottom and back up again, pretty cool!

You can find Sweet Science at my TPT Store HERE or enter the rafflecopter below to win a copy of your own!!! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Happy Happy 100th Day

The 100th day of school is finally here!  It will be here tomorrow, anyways. :)  I honestly can't believe how fast 100 days went.  The kiddos were totally excited for the 50th day...the 100th day is going to be even better!  



I created a few FREEBIES for my sweet teacher friends to use.  At this time of the year, I'm a little shell-shocked at how much I spend on TPT items.  I mean, I buy what I really really need and my mouth still drops at the tax deductible total.  Wowza!  

Enjoy these 100th day freebies my friends!  And check out my doorway decorations and baggie toppers for the big day. :)

Baggie Topper FREEBIE!

                        Happy 100th Day!!

Five For Friday! Galaxy Bottle Experiment FREEBIE!

Meet Otis, our newest fur baby at the Baker house!  What a sweet little chocolate lab pup he is!  He's quite a snuggler.  I have a feeling he'll be getting plenty of love.

Just a pic of our Arctic Volcano that erupted yesterday...no students were harmed in this icy experiment. ;)

I am so happy to see my unit flying off the presses at TPT.  Makes me excited that other teachers like my work. ;)  You can check it out here.

GOOOOOO CHIEFSSSSSS!!!!!!

I came across the coolest website called Imagine Childhood.  They have awesome kids activities, from gardening to engineering kits.  We ordered a brick construction kit and a basket weaving kit.  Just a few 4H projects. :)  The products are so cool, check it out here!

And finally, a FREEBIE for my science experiment GALAXY IN A BOTTLE!

This experiment is so quick and easy and best of all, the kiddos get to take it home!  

All you need is: an empty water bottle, water, food coloring, baby oil, and glitter if you'd like some stars. :)  Check out the freebie below!

Click HERE for your freebie!  And if you'd like a closer look in my SCIENCE NOTEBOOK: PLANETS unit, check it out in my TPT STORE!!

Happy Weekend!!

Five For Friday! WINTER GIVEAWAY

Five For Friday + one day???  Post- holiday blogging comes a little slow, folks.  :)  But it's either this or clean my house some more...

So countdown to back to school has officially begun with TWO days left of winter break.  I have barely started lesson plans! Yikes!  But I have created two lovely products that will get me through the back to school winter blues.

I would love to give these beauties away!  At the end of the blogpost, enter the Rafflecopter to win!!

New Years was spent snuggled at home as usual.  Even if we did have a babysitter, do I really want to put on makeup and wear something that requires buttons?  :)  It was lovely and calm.

We spent a few days in Springfield, MO with friends.  The girls were in heaven getting to swim while its freezing outside.  We also tried ice skating and I'm happy to say it was a success!!  Only a bit of crying at the end :)  from one blister, but no broken bones.  I call it good.

Before Christmas break, our school decided to try other math programs.  We are currently in the middle of a module in Engage NY.  I've found this to be worlds different from Everyday Math (what we had before), but I think I like it.  We needed more of a focus.  Have any opinions on Engage NY?  I'd love to hear it below!!

My wonderful mother created super cute baskets for each daughter/daughter-in-law for Christmas.  Here's mine!!

Love it!!!

Don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter below.  I'd love for you to follow my TPT store for sales and freebies!  Help me reach 100 followers and start my 2016 off with a bang! :) 

Happy New Year!

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