Secret Admirer Blog Hop!

When you find a seller that you like on TPT, it is always a great thing!  As I have become more familiar with the blogging world, I have found many, many fantastic sellers who make spectacular products.  Stephany from Primary Possibilities is one of them!

One of my favorite things about Stephany is that she is an Indiana teacher.  We do the same state-mandated assessments, so it is wonderful to get resources for those assessments.  The first product I purchased from her was her mClass Math Intervention Pack.  I have been using it for my math RTI, and whoa...It is great!  If you are a primary teacher in the state of Indiana, I highly recommend getting it!

The product I have chosen for the Secret Admirer Blog Hop is Stephany's Silent Sneaky e unit.  I knew that my class would be studying sneaky e in phonics and spelling this week, so I knew I wanted to give it a try.  

This pack is full of fantastic small and whole group activities to learn all about sneaky e.  This has been a crazy week, so I didn't get as many pictures as I wish I had, but I did catch a few minutes in small group to show how I used a few of the activities.

For seat work Tuesday morning, my kiddos worked in a reader called "The Kite".  The kids circled all of the sneaky e words and colored the pictures.  It was a perfect, simple way to start the day!

In small group, my kids have been working on nonsense word fluency.  Stephany has created the perfect game for nonsense words with a sneaky e!  My kids loved it!

Another small group played picture/word match.  It was fun to watch them sound out the words.  It was simple, and the kids loved it!

One thing I wish I had gotten a picture of that I didn't was the sneaky e wand.  Included in this pack is a template for a sneaky e wand, and I had the kids add the word to the end of the words and read them at circle time.  The kids loved it so much I forgot to take a picture!

Here is an awesome sample of this product for you to try with your students:

If you teach sneaky e at any point in the school year, you should seriously check out this wonderful resource.  You won't be sorry!

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Five for Friday!

TGIF

This cuteness happened Thursday night.  My boy is a kindergartener, and Momma is feeling a little sad.  I'm glad he'll be on my schedule for the next 13 years, but my baby isn't a baby anymore. :(

Our school's Walk-a-Thon was today.  The kids had a B.L.A.S.T.  Our little country school raised around $13,000.  We had over 100 volunteers show up today.  It was amazing.  Here are some pictures of all of the fun.

We learned all about ocean animals this week!  We blogged about our favorite ocean animal on Thursday.  This is what I got from my sweet little learners:

They are amazing.  I want these last nine days to drag by.  No joke.

I gave away an awesome ocean unit from Caitlin Clabby and my ocean animals research pack earlier this week.  Here is our winner:

Thanks to everyone who entered!

This picture says it all.  This sweetie was my calendar helper one day this week, and she completely ran it herself.  I love when they become independent.  Have I mentioned I want the next nine school days to drag by???

I am neck-deep in assessments right now.  I finished Star testing this week, portfolio assessments are done, and now I just need to finish up our ESGI testing.  I love how you can tell she is saying who. :)

Ocean Week and a Fantastic Giveaway!

Am I the only one who still has three weeks left of school?  Although we still have quite a bit of time, we are starting to think SUMMER!  We are full-on into our ocean unit.  I am always on the lookout for fantastic math and literacy activities to go along with our theme units.  It kind of brings it all together, you know?  Luckily, I had the honor of editing this fantastic product from Caitlin at Kindergarten Smiles.  

Click the link to see this at TPT.

I'm telling you, it's just perfect!  My kids worked on these stations today, and they love it just as much as I do.  Here are some pictures of the kids in action:

Literacy Station Time!  All of these stations are part of Caitlin's pack, and the QR code in the top middle picture can be found in my Ocean Research Project pack!

All of these math stations can be found in Caitlin's pack.  The math app this week is Teach Me Math.

Look at that.  Total engagement.  The kids love it!  What more can you ask for in the final days of school?  

My kids will also be completing ocean projects this week.  To help with the research portion of it, my kids will be using my Ocean Animals Research Project pack along with the fantastic items in Caitlin's pack.  

  

You can win both of these gems by entering below!

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Five for Friday!

It's that time again, folks!

Y'all...  This week has been something else.  Wednesday night, my sweet little guy climbed into bed with us, just to throw up all over our bed.  Since then, it's been pretty much puke buckets, hand sanitizer, and NAPS.  It's not fun.  Not fun at all.  

Little Sis got sickly with this junk yesterday, and she's already back to normal.

I'm thankful it's making it's way through our house quickly.  

As you may have read about here, my class completed a PBL project last month where we designed and created a small park in our town.  Well, my friend, Alex, unveiled the sign that will hang there this week!  I'm so excited that my 22 precious kindergarteners will have this sign to recognize their hard work.

To celebrate Mother's Day, we treated our moms to a spa day!  Granted, it was five year olds giving mani-pedis, but still...It was 100% precious.  

I made the cutest schedule cards from Little Warriors, and broke each group into stations.  The kids painted nails, gave massages and facials, styled hair,  and spent special time with their mommas.  

Here are just a few pictures from our special afternoon.  I am uploading the rest of them to my Facebook page tomorrow!

The kids gave their moms "facials!"

Here is the hair styling station...  nice extension!

Foot soak at the pedicure station...I just love this shot!

I took all of these pictures with my new Nikon!  I'm just a little bit in love.

Last week, some teacher friends and I got together for a night out on the town.  We were celebrating my sweet friend, Jena's, birthday.  It was a wonderfully fun time of good food, good conversation, getting lost, and of course, a Target trip.  

You should really check out Jena's blog!  She's our music teacher, and she is THE BEST.

This happened this week.

No, they weren't graduating...  Just graduation pictures. :)

It makes me sad I only have 19 days left as their teacher.  So much left to learn... So little time.