Favorite Pins Friday? Yep!

I don't even think there is a Favorite Pins Friday linky- but I have some favorites, so guess what?! I am going to talk about them - and it is Friday- so...  Here we go! :)

My first and FAVORITE  pin is from Sarah (A Sunny Day in First Grade).  I was the LUCKY winner of her Elmer the Elephant packet from her TPT store.  I love introducing my class to Elmer each year, and this will make it SO much more fun. The activities she included in the packet are wonderful. Thank you SO much, Sarah! <3

Next, I found these Retelling Sticks as a FREE download  at Keeping it Captivating's TPT store. They will be so useful!

I loved this letter idea from Meaningful Mama.  This would even be fun to do as a send-home family project, with everyone making a different letter.

This idea was from Structured Play and will be really great for the beginning of the year!

These wonderful beginning year ideas are from Kindergarten Kindergarten.  I love her blog.  How simple, yet fabulous is this anchor chart?!

In her post she talks about purposely leaving the caps off the markers and glue, to show the children what can happen to them- and how important it is to take care of our school tools.  This is SO important to take the  T I M E to teach in the beginning of the year.  Sometimes it gets so busy those first few days, that I forget to teach these basics really well.  This is going to be one of my first Writer's Workshop lessons! She has so many other great ideas. Thank you, Kathryn!

Cara, at The First Grade Parade has a really good post about these confusing little characters, b and d.  There are lots of ideas to help the children remember their bifferences differences.

 

She had an adorable little camping theme going on over at her blog, too.  Isn't this campfire crown just so darling?!

Last "schooly" pin is this cutie from To The Lesson . SO easy, independent, and clever. I think I am going to make fish on a poster board as a sort of mat for this activity- but the separate fish are really cute, too, and take up less room.  You could even use plastic fish with numbers on it- or two colors of stones and have fish with addition problems on them.  SO many options!



Now for some ... 

I have had a ball playing around with My Fridge Food! Well- not literally... but if you haven't seen this site, it's lots of fun to try.  You just check what items you have on hand, click,  and TA DA! Recipes appear that you can make with your ingredients.  (Look at that BACON CUP down there- is that even a real thing?!?!) Go ahead- Play with your food!

These were just sweet ones I kind of loved.

This was just so sweet/sad to me.  Aww- I just want to  hug those little fruits.

And I will leave you with these stools.  How do you NOT love these?! 

I hope you are all smiling- because no matter how many times I look at this, I still do!

Happy Friday!

Favorite Pins Friday! July 19th

First of all, I have to share my happy blogging moment! :)  Sarah from FCS and Then Some featured me on her blog for Treasure Hunt Thursday. :)

I am so honored.  Thank you so much, Sarah.  OH and the other thrill was that she actually had Justin Robinett in class! He and Michael Henry are incredible singers. I just love them. They do cover songs better than the originals, by the way.   Oh, Sarah, you MADE MY DAY!!! :)

Also, don't forget my 100 Follower Giveaway!  Stop over and play!


 I am linking up Cara at The First Grade Parade for Favorite Pins Friday.  I'd love you to follow me on Pinterest!

I want to start off with this  Sub Tub from A Teacher's Treasure.  What a great idea! Her post explains what she includes.

 

This pin is from I (heart) Crafty Things.    I loved it! She printed out black and white photos and let the children color them to go along with the book A Bad Case of the Stripes.  It looks like she let them use chalk.

 

 

Here are a few fun math pins.

I loved this activity from Beth Moore's blog From the Hive.

This pin is from Teach Beside Me . What a simple center to make- yet so many ways to use it- counting, sorting, patterning... 

 

This poem is for older grades- but I liked it.

 

My VERY favorite Kid Snippets Video is Math Class.  Kid Snippets are adults acting out what  children say.  If you like this- what am I saying- OF COURSE you will like this because it is all of us who have EVER taught math- saying, "AND ONE MORE... "  So- my other favorites on Youtube that I think  you will like  are Kid Snippets Basketball Class and Healthy Food.  Oh my gosh, my husband and I spent a whole night just laughing at these. 

 

And finally- the ones that made me laugh! 

 

(I loved watching Bob Ross!)

 

 

 

Finally- my "Hey girl"-  This one was actually SCARY cause I do have a secret stash of Dove chocolates that I keep "in case I want to give some away" to my teacher friends during the day who may need a little chocolate to brighten up their day.  UNFORTUNATELY- they are not "secret" from me, and Ryan, they are running reallllly low... get over here!  

Have a great weekend!

 

Favorite Pins Friday- July 12

I am linking up with The First Grade Parade for Favorite Pins Friday!  Thank you, Cara, for hosting!

First of all ...

 

OK- Now we are ready!  :) 

 

This was a neat idea for home or school from Crafting and Quilting.

 

I used this Random Name Generator last year and the kids LOVED it. We didn't use it all the time- but for some special things it was so much fun- and very easy to set up.  The original link was from  I Teach Dual Language.



 

 I loved this as an anchor chart idea for colors from First Grade and Fresh.

 

 

The first two full weeks of school, I have color days in my classroom.  Each day the children wear a certain color.  I take pictures for our Class Color Book (and our Crazy Class Color Book). We color that color page in our Brown Bear, Brown Bear books, and we do activities with that color.  It is just a fun review of colors and great way to ease into Kindergarten.   On GREEN day, we read Go Away, Big Green Monster. The children LOVE it to pieces! 

 

 

I found some wonderful monster activities that could go along with this book.

 

First of all, it is a WONDERFUL time to introduce Monster Fun! Teaching Monster Manners and Expectations from Growing Kinders. It is a great FREEBIE - with lots of fun conversations starters about good manners and school expectations.

 

 

These cute monster magnets were from Coast Inspired Creations. 

 

 

 The children can create a monster with this idea from House of Baby Piranha.

 

 OR- blowpaint a monster with this idea from Raising Sparks.

Last year, I bought a roll of stick on eyeballs to use instead of the googly eyes sometimes.  They just stay on better for some crafts, when the glue doesn't seem to stick to things with googly eyes.  I like the roll of eyeballs.  (OK- in what other profession would you EVER hear anyone say that ?!)

Here are some happy favorite pictures-

 

 

 



I will leave you with this today, cause Ryan just "gets" us.... 

 



 

 

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Happy Pinning!  Carolyn