Time for a Super Sale!

There's a sweet SALE going on over at TpT!  Tomorrow is the last day so jump on over and check it out!  All the things in my store are on sale because I appreciate all my teacher friends! 

Pick up some great resources at a discounted price!  

Have fun over at the store and shop it up! 

Time for the March Homework Packet!

It's finished!  And it's finished before March has even started!  I have to laugh a little because sometimes my world is so busy that I just get things done right before I need them.  I know no one else is like that but it does happen to me!  So here is the latest addition to the Homework Packet Line Up!

March Homework on TpT

Here's what you'll find in this packet! 

There are activities for each day with two additional bonus activities for you to use!

*Calendar to show activities at a glance

*Language Arts and Math activities for each day

*Practice with rhyming, syllabication, beginning and ending sounds, opposites

*CVC word practice

*Fill in the missing middle vowel sound

*Practice with common sight words

*Practice with writing word families

*Book response activities, characters, setting and main idea

*Practice with adding -s and -es to create plurals

*Identifying numbers, writing numbers from 0-20

*Skip counting by 10's and 5's

*Counting to 100

*Addition and Subtraction to 5

I hope you find this as helpful as I do and as fun as my kiddies do each month! 

Have a great week!

Cool Valentine Technology Links!

Hey all!  If you're looking for some computer games that are fun and educational for this week and Valentine's Day, check out these suggestions!

How about www.pbskids.org for some great activities? 

   

Curious George - I Love Shapes Game

Here are a couple other suggestions for computer games to use this week at www.nickjr.com!

Dora and the Lost Valentine

This is a website that will read "Arthur's Valentine" by Mark Brown out loud! 

That's pretty fun!

Arthur's Story Online 

Don't forget about one of our favs sites, Starfall!

There are so many great games and activities for the kiddies, it's sometimes hard to redirect them to a different site!

Connection Words Mini-Book

There's a mini book listed on this site called,  "Make A Valentine" that teaches connecting words, such as and, and because.

We use Starfall and PBSkids in our rooms often!

I hope you can find something helpful and useful for the kiddies in your clasroom this week!  

Happy Valentine's Day!

                     

February Homework Activities!

Hi!
I just wanted to share my new February Homework Packet!  I just finished it and it's ready to go on TpT!  It's loaded with daily homework activities for Kindergarten Kiddies!  There's a wide range of activities for the kiddies to work on and most can be done independently at this time of year!

February Homework Packet for Kindergarten Kiddies

Here are some of the activities that I've included.  I hope you find them helpful and useful for your classroom kiddies too.

*Calendar to show activities at a glance

*Language Arts and Math activities for each day

*Practice with rhyming, syllabication, beginning, middle and ending sounds, opposites

*Practice with common sight words

*Practice with writing word families

*Book response activities, characters, setting, retelling

*Practice with adding -s and -es to create plurals

*Identifying numbers, writing numbers from 0-20, skip counting by 10's

*Addition and Subtraction to 5

It's just in time for a great start to your February Homework activities!

Have a great week!

Five For Friday!

Time to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching!  It's always fun to do Linky Parties!

It is so cold outside!  Snow is on the way! I'm so glad to wind down on this Friday with a little fire and a nice cup of coffee.  What a long week!  Saturdays are my "Work Free" days.  "Work Free" for school work, but "Work On" at the house!  I have to have one day where I don't do any school work so that I can catch up on other things! 

Balance! (aka Balancing Act!)

So inside this sweet little cup is one of my favorite coffees. Are you a coffee connoisseur?

I gave up my favorite, favorite, favorite drink.  I loved the DC. Diet Coke. Drink of Choice.

Lately I've been trying out different kinds and flavors of coffee.  It's interesting and fun to go to the smaller coffee shops around Cincy!

How cute is this?

Now all of this relaxing must be accompanied by a good book!  Here's the book that I've just started!  With all the cold and flu germs swirling around the school, I think I just need all the help I can get to stay healthy.  I hope I have time to finish what I've started!  I've read all of  Dr. Furhman's books and this one looks to be a very interesting read! 

Want to know about boosting your immune system by making great nutritional choices?  

Check out this book and let me know what you think.

I found a new and interesting website to help my kiddies with a variety of skills!  

ABCya.com.

There are many reading and math activities as well as other learning games for the kids to play!  I'm still working to explore all the games myself but so far, I've found it to be a delightful website for my kiddies!

This week and for the next few weeks I'll be reorganizing my leveled collection and my classroom book collection.  To say that this is a BIG project is an understatement!  I have so many books.  There are bins of books all over my room and it's time to sort them out again! 

It's going to be a busy week!

Thanks to Doodle Bugs for hosting this Linky Party! 

Have a wonderful week! 

Kimmie

Ready for the 2015!

Well, it's time to head back to school tomorrow.  I have to be honest!  I've really enjoyed the winter break for these two weeks and I'm having a hard time motivating myself to get into the groove!  I think this year I've promised myself to do things a little differently!  For the first time in a long time I'm an empty-nester!  I don't really like that but that's where I am!  It's kind of hard to get used to.  For so long I've had little ones at home and teenagers running in and out but now it's kind of quiet.  Too quiet!  Don't get me wrong, quiet is okay sometimes, it's just different than what I'm used to having at home!
So I've picked up another Spinning class and I've resolved to exercise EVERY SINGLE day.  I think that might also help me to lower my stress level!  Stress?  You probably don't have any stress either. LOL!  It will also help me to lose a few pounds.  That will be nice!

I did make a new homework packet for my classroom kiddies and it's available on TpT.  Here's the cover.  There are reading and writing activities and math activities as well.  Each homework activity is a half page and is the packet is print ready so that it's easy to copy and give out to your kiddies!

January Homework Packet

The other thing I want to do this year is work a little harder to make this blog better!  I have some good ideas for things I want to post and I'm going to do that in 2015!  Thanks for taking the time to visit!  I hope you have a great start to your new year!  

Kimmie

My Funny Little Gingerbread House!

You know that this is the time of year to read about the Gingerbread Man and all the Gingers in his family.  So I thought that it would be fun to make a gingerbread house again this year, with my kiddies and then use it as a behavior incentive!  If the kiddies have a great day in school, they get to put on one piece of candy each day to make the house very beautiful! It's coming together and we have a few more days to decorate!  The kiddies are very motivated to decorate this little house and I'm excited to help them stay on track with good behavior!

Have a great week and enjoy the holidays!