Out With The Old, In With The New + a FREEBIE!

The End of One Year...

... with these cute graduation certificates.  Click the image for the download.

You get a pre-school, pre-kindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten certificate AND you also get a blank one so you can fill in anything you want!

Your kindergarten students will love singing this graduation song to the tune of "It's A Small World"
and the pages make a great big book! Click the image for the download.

Students can add small school photos of their friends to their bus.
Click the image for your FREE template.

Just paint the top of the egg cartons, download and print the FREE bus template, and pass out the tiny school photos you get each year. A fun project to decorate the room for your graduation.

For Father's Day: Students write the first name of their dad, grandpa, or any other significant person in their lives.
You make 10-20 copies to create a stack of notes. Wrap with cellophane & twine. Always a hit!
Click the image for the download.

And The Beginning of Another:

This is my most popular product!Attach a cotton ball and it's ready for your parents on the 1st day of school.
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You still have a day to grab my "All About Numbers 1-5" at a 50% discount: CLICK HERE

Click the image above to set all of the templates, ideas, and activities for #s 1-5.

You can grad the 1st day note along with all of these products in this discounted bundle.
Click the image to grab this bundle.

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flash freebie just for you!

Well hello there! It's been a couple of weeks into the summer for me here in Juneau, Alaska and I have to say...school is NOT on my mind! We just got back from a camping trip and after spending a ton of money on rain gear and the forecast being rain...it was sunny and beautiful! Which means I didn't spend any time writing a post for today...can I make it up to you though? How about a freebie for all of you Teaching Blog Roundup followers?!

Father's Day is this coming Sunday, and whether you're still teaching (don't worry, I'll  probably be working in August when you're still on break), or maybe you have a few kids of your own that you're looking for something crafty to do with them, you might be able to use this Donuts with Dads craftivity! It will only be FREE for a limited time before it goes back to a priced item, so go grab it now and pretty please, leave me some feedback :)

And another FREEBIE you might want to grab while you're there...

Have a fantastic June!!!

Father's Day Ideas

Last month I shared a Mother's Day gift idea.  Sadly, Father's Day is often forgotten in the classroom due to it taking place in June, usually after the school year has already ended (at least in my case).  Here, schools are already out for the year, but I know that some of you still have a few days left.  If so, here is a sweet and easy gift idea for Father's Day.

Every year I have my students make a book for their father/grandfather/uncle/etc. They write about things they do with their dad, why they love their dad so much, etc.

(This is how the Mother's Day books turn out!)

If you're interested in making these with your students, I've put together a packet with instructions, graphic organizers, writing plan sheets, and a fun fill-in-the-blank.  Templates for dads, grandpas, and uncles are included (as well as moms, grandmas, and aunts...and a blank template too!)

 You can check it out here!

I'll see ya' next month!

Summer Projects & A Father's Day Freebie!

I apologize for being a little late with my post, but I'm happy to be back this month on Teaching Blog Roundup!  I struggled a little to come up with a post this time.  Here, school is out for the summer, and to be honest, school isn't really at the forefront of my thinking at the moment.  Then, for those of you still in school, you're about finished.  I just really wasn't sure of any topic that might be helpful at this time.  After some thinking though, I thought I would share some projects I have previously worked on during the summer.  Summer is my time to catch up on my classroom and try out all of those ideas I never had time for during the school year.  I hope some of these ideas might be helpful to you!

 First up is computer folder organization!  Once I caught onto the teacher blogging world and TpT, I had an insane amount of teacher files on my computer. And they were all in the SAME folder!  YIKES!  I knew I had to organize them before they quickly became impossible to find.  To solve this, I simply made a "Teacher Resources" folder and divided it up into subjects such as math, reading, parent/teacher communication, holidays, science, etc.  Then, each of those folders was divided up into objectives, topics, etc.  Now, I can quickly find a file, and I also know what I have and don't have. 

 

This project is very time consuming but totally worth it.  Instead of having all of my print outs in a filing cabinet or storage box, I created "Resource Binders".  Each print out is in a plastic sheet (so I can quickly flip through them), and I organized them into subject binders.  On the outside of each binder I labelled what is inside.  I also organized the inside of each binder with divider tabs and labels.  Read more here.

Finally, these Dolch Sight Word Bottle Caps are a blast to both make and use!  Just save bottle caps, print out the labels, and attach with Mod Podge.  Read more about them here and pick up some freebies while you're at it!

Before I go, you might remember my Mother's Day Book Writing Activity packet from last month.  Well, I had a request to make one for Father's Day.  You can pick it up here!

I'll be back on July 9th!  See you then! :-)