The Shamrock Shake

 

We are reading, writing, and wearing the green this week!

Make sure your students are wearing the green this St. Patrick's Day with

"The Shamrock Shake Headbands".

Here's another way I used some of the fantastic products from 

Creative Teaching Press.

We made headbands with the Shamrocks Boarder.  

Here's What To Do:

Measure each student's head with a shamrock boarder strip and cut the strip to size.  

Staple this boarder strip at the top and the bottom to shape the headband.

Attach the Shamrock 6" Designer Cut-Outs to pieces of pipe cleaners and tape the pipe cleaners to the inside of the headband.

It was that simple. I hope you give it a try!

Everyone will be wearing their very own Shamrock Shake Headband by the time morning work is finished.

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If you don't have these fantastic Creative Teaching products at a store near you, grab some sentence strips and green construction paper.  Trace and cut out shamrocks and assemble the headbands in the same fashion!  

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During your morning meeting time, turn on the St. Patrick's Day music and dance your own version of The Shamrock Shake!

I'll be back tomorrow with a fun, sneaky, leprechaun project!

Happy Shamrock Shaking!

Thank You, Creative Teaching Press!

In February, I received an email from Creative Teaching Press inviting readers to share their Valentine's Day craft activities.  

I don't know about you, but I am usually full of ideas, but short on time!  Since that thought is usually the norm, I simply glance at those emails and think "Oh, that would be really great."  "I wish I had the time to send a few photos."  

Well, since I absolutely LOVE the products from Creative Teaching Press, I found five minutes and replied with two photos.  A few days later I received an email that my entry had been chosen as a winner!

Look at the fun products I received from the great people at 

Creative Teaching Press!

It was "Christmas Day" (only in March) when the Creative Teaching Box arrived at my front door!

I am excited to share the fun my pre-k students are having this week using these products.

The Shamrock 10" Jumbo Designer Cut-Outs were the inspiration for my favorite project of the week. 

 Here's What To Do:

Turn the Jumbo Shamrock upside down to make the body, add a semi-circle for the face, trace and cut out the hat, and glue the pieces together.  

Glue orange construction paper strips to the face and roll the ends of the strips to make a beard.

Accordion fold green construction paper strips and glue these strips to the jumbo shamrock to add the arms and the legs.

Add some boots, hands, and a buckle on the hat and you're almost done!

For the final touches, use a black marker to draw the face and add some "lucky" shamrock two-color calendar cut-outs to the Leprechaun's hat and hand.

I have many more fun ideas to share!  I'll post more pictures soon!

Happy Teaching and Learning!

St. Patrick's Day Fun From The Archives

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun

Here are a few former posts just in time for 

St. Patrick's Day!

Make These Cute Leprechauns!

Click here for the archived post.

 

  Review and practice -ing and -ed word endings.

Click here for the archived post.

 Grab a hat and practice sight words.

  Click here for the archived post.

  Use the letters in the word "leprechauns".

How many words can you spell?

Click here for the archived post.

So little time, so much fun!

Happy March!

Bump With The Cat

Bump With The Cat

Scrappin Doodles

Download the addition and subtraction bump games here.

Grab The Dice and You Have Morning Work!

For My Pre-K Friends

 Download the Roll and Cover Number Recognition board here.

Happy Reading!

 

Grab Your Game Boards!

 

 

Small Group Instruction Made Easy

Review and Practice 

Ready for Fun Friday!

Just add your own math flashcards, word cards, and/or review questions.

Meet the Needs of Your Students

Happy Teaching!

V is for Vase and Valentine's Day

 V is for Vase 

and 

Valentine's Day Fun

 Coffee Filter Art

Start with a coffee filter and washable markers. 

(Cover the table with newsprint and/or paper towels to make clean up quick and simple.)

 

Use the washable markers to draw and color on the coffee filter.  

Use an eyedropper to drip water onto the coffee filter.  

Since coffee filters are porous, the ink will spread and blend with the colors next to it.

 (If you do not have an eyedropper, use a water bottle and lightly spray the filter.) 

  

Allow the colorful filters to dry.

 

While the coffee filters dry, assemble the vase.  We used a cut-out letter v for the vase, added the green flower stems and leaves, and the (blended coffee filter) flowers.

Add heart stickers throughout the design for extra Valentine's Day fun! 

 Extra heart stickers make great books too!

My Heart Counting Book

 

Here's a counting book made by my preschoolers.

It was quick and easy to make these cute napkin covered books.

  I used a holiday napkin, stapled blank paper inside, and added the counting phrases.   

The Pre-Ker's added the stickers and practiced their counting skills.

 K-2 students could easily write math word problems and use heart stickers to illustrate their math thinking!

Happy Teaching!

The Biggest Kiss

 

 The Biggest Kiss by Joanna Walsh and Judi Abbot

What a fun read for Valentine's Week!

Find the penguin on each double page spread!

You'll have to read the book more than once just because it is fun!

Be sure to add your own kisses to the letter K!
My Preschoolers Loved This Book and Letter Project.

Better yet, smear on some lipstick and 

kiss the letter K!

 For K-2 Kiddos, have fun with narrative writing!

 
(click on the image above the download the pdf.)

Have a sweet week!