"Alpaca" my bags for Peru!

I have not been the best blogger lately.... sigh....  I have been teaching summer school for English Language Learners and preparing to go to Lima, Peru to work at an orphange with my church.  The craftivites are making their way to our luggage and I am so excited!

 

 

I have also posted three new Donors Choose projects for my Kinder class in the fall!  There are four days left to get donations matched by using the code INSPIRE at check out.  Click below to see what's up.

 

Happy Valentine's Week!

What a fun week we had!  I just love Valentine's Day oodles!  Before I tell you all about our fun, take a look at a gift one of my cuties gave to me:

 I got a giant, pink, fluffy dog!  How cute is he?!?

Anyways, we really enjoyed a lot of activities from Mrs. Maya's Valentine's Unit that I snagged during to Super Bowl sale.

We also worked on more CVC words with a Valentine's twist.

 I put my cuties in pairs.  Each pair received a bag with 10 heart shaped boxes from the Dollar Tree (of course).  Each box was numbered 1-10 and inside had a CVC picture.

 

 They opened them up and recorded the word on a recording sheet.

Click the pic below to grab it from my website.

We also created Valentine's glyphs.

Click here to get this glyph from my website.

On Valentine's day, we enjoyed searching for our missing candy that the Sweetheart Snatcher stole.

We found them in the tissue box!

We also enjoyed delivering Valentine's cards dressed as post office workers.  

(I received these from a Donors Choose grant.  You can see my completed projects here.)

We also played Valentine's bingo.

You can grab it here from my website.

For our yummies, we made parfaits.

Also, if you want to share the love, please consider donating to my Donors Choose project and use the match code HEART to have your donation matched.  We only need$61, which is actually only $31 with the match code.  Click below to donate.

I have to get ready now for my presentation on Monday.  I am teaching my campus on our PD day.  Yikes!  Have a happy weekend!

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!

Here are a few pics from our day today!  

We created Cat in the Hat glyphs.  

You can print the glyph from this post.

The Cat in the Hat came to read to us! - I think my cuties figured out who it was.  :)

We had lots more good fun that was funny, but I did not get any other photos.  Sigh...

I did get a pic of my newest Donors Choose goodies that arrived after school today.  Looky, looky...

I heart Donors Choose!

Donors Choose

I am so excited!  Today these packages came in the mail for me.

They were my latest two Donors Choose projects!  Look at the fun that was inside of them.

AlphaTubs and Digraphs and Blends Tubs

 

Emergent Readers and Word Wands

Now I need to sort all of the books into my leveled library.  Here is a picture of my leveled library.

I placed a dot sticker on each of the different sections of the divided tubs that I purchased from Calloway House.   Then I placed the books in the sections of the tubs by level (A-6).  Last I placed the same color sticker on the spine of each book so students can return the books to their correct leveled section.

Even though it will be a lot of work, I am so excited to get these new books ready for our leveled library for my Kinder cuties to use!