Lesson in Appreciation

I got to be part of an awesome lesson in appreciation.  One of my former students has to think about someone she is appreciative each month.  She, with the help of her mother, sends some token to the person she chooses.  This month she picked me!  I haven't had this child in many years.  They got me the sweetest card...

and brought cupcakes for my whole class!

I loved that I got to teach my class about why we got cupcakes!  

This is an idea that I am now going to use with my own daughter.  I might even try it within our school next year.  There are a lot of people we can thank!

Cute Variation

We've all seen the adorable initials made out of crayons for teacher gifts.  Well, one parent at my school turned that idea into this for our nurse!  It's it too cute!  I love this version!

Now I'm thinking about how to tweak this for other people too!

Blogger Meetup!

So I am completely breaking the rules by posting twice but I keep forgetting to add this!  We are planning a blogger meetup this Saturday!  Let me know if you around the Kansas City area and want to join us!!

Morning Work

Even though it is spring break, we know teachers are always thinking about the plans for when school starts back up.  One of my downfalls is morning work.  I always have the best intentions but usually just end up finding a random sheet that usually relates to something we have been learning.  However I have found an amazing resource to save this start of my day.

 

Danielle Kroger over at Kroger's Kindergarten has these awesome Morning Work packs!  They include ELA and Math Standards to practice every day!  

I truly adore these packs!  They are simple for the kids to understand after a few uses.  They are completely focused on the things that my students need to be practicing.  These help my students start the day ready to learn!

So run over to her TpT store and grab one to try out!  I promise you will be back for more!

New Teacher Discount Group

In case you haven't heard about it, there is a website similar to Groupon coming for educators in April.  It is called Educents.  It sounds great!  Click one of the pictures to get signed up and get a $15 gift card for signing up for FREE!

*Disclaimer - I do receive $1 credit for everyone who signs up using the links above!

Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds

Are your students having trouble identifying sounds in different locations?  I have found a great product to help practice this skill.  Kristen over at  Kristen's Kindergarten has this Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds pack over at her TpT store.

This pack contains picture cards and recording sheets to identify sounds in different locations.  The pictures she used are easy to name.  The best part...the picture cards are both in color and bw!!  LOVE that option!!

The beginning and ending sounds look like this.  Simple enough for my kinders to do independently during learning tub times!

The middle sounds have the vowel cards to work on sorting too!

The best part....a lot of us are having a sale over at Tpt for March Madness!  Be sure to check out her store and mine too!

Tub Insanity! (freebie)

I don't know about you but I am in tub overload!  I have my Daily 5 type tubs, reading group tubs, math workstation tubs, and learning stations tubs!  I'll admit it.  I love doing them.  They really engage the students but I always have a hard time remembering which tables have done which tubs.  sometimes we do more than one rotation of them so it throws off written schedules.  So I whipped up some labels to stick on my math workstation tubs and my learning station tubs to help me out.  I am going to laminate them and once a table group has done that tub I can check it off with a sharpie.  (In case you didn't know it, static guard takes sharpie off of laminate and most plastics!)  Click the picture to go grab them if you can use them!