A Mother's Day freebie!

Happy Mother's Day! In honor of these people:

and all of you mothers out there, I am giving away my Puddles of Fun unit for free today! It's like 48 pages, so go get it! And Happy Mother's Day!
Thanks for reading!
ann

Summer bucket list linky party

Hey! I'm joining the Summer Bucket List Linky Party!
This summer I will:
1. Paint my family room door.
2. Paint my daughter's bedroom (do you see a pattern here?)
3. GO TO HAWAII!!!!!!!!!  WOOHOO   (my brother just moved there, so that's why we're actually going, but my brother is AWESOME, so it's a win-win!)
4. Too many school things to mention.

So here's the link to join up:

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Thanks for reading!
ann

Book activity freebie, and Mother's Day!

Is anyone having a hard time getting stuff uploaded to TPT? I am.  I have another freebie, and I can't get mine for today or yesterday. So I'll try again! Here's a link to my Kinder book activity. We make a book at the end of the year for the Kinders coming into my first grade room. It's hilarious.

Here's our book float for the parade. It was really fun. It's a little tought to see the sign and some of the details, but you get the "Charlotte's Web" gist, I think.

.  Here's our Mother's day gift. We did a spin on the "If You Give a Mom a Muffin". We wrote our own story as a class. The kids did a great job. The Mom was late for work because they went to Starbucks, and yadda yadda It ended with the Mom coming to pick up the kids at school and getting a Mother's Day gift, which was a muffin. Which is why we made actual muffins for them. It was really good and they had very little help from me. Then we made the real muffins and a notebook with muffin scrapbooking paper.
 Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms!
Thanks for reading
ann

Charlotte's Web Week

Thank you to everyone who joined our blog hop! I'm working to respond to all of you and join all your stores and blogs, so be patient with me and I'll make sure I get to them all.

We have national book week this week. Our book is "Charlotte's Web" and we spent the week doing activities revolving around Charlotte's Web. Here's our Pronoun Place and Breakfast By the Barn.

The kids wrote pronouns on the animals and glued them onto the barn. Not brilliant, I know, but I like to practice cutting and gluing, even though they are pretty much second graders.

This is out breakfast by the barn. We celebrated book week by eating, obviously. One of our breakfast items was cinnamon rolls, and tomorrow we will do our synonym activities! We were supposed to do them today, but ran out of time as we got ready for tomorrow's parade.
In the background is our float that you can't really see. (:  You can see the webs on the barn that we later put "terrific", "some pig", and "radiant" onto. The barn that the girls are holding with the words we later turned around for the Pronoun Place barn. We really had fun with that breakfast!

Tomorrow is the book float parade, and ours is pretty cute. I'm trying to download a pronoun game freebie, but I'm having problems, so tomorrow I'll show you our float and give you the freebie. Check back tomorrow!
Thanks for reading!
ann

Blog Hoppin Party for newbies like me!

Hi everyone!
Ok, I'm starting a linky party. But I just can't bring myself to call it a "linky party".  How about a blog hopping party? I'm creative-thinkinged out right now. It's May 8th, and my creativity is spent. So "Blog Hopping Party" it is.  I'm inviting anyone with less than 100 followers either on your blog (if you have one) or TPT (if you don't have a blog) to join up with us and get your blog hoppin'  on.

I'm new to this, so I think to join you just become a follower, leave a comment, and leave your blog button (I personally still haven't figured out how to make one. ):  ) or a link to your blog or store.  I know there are etiquette rules in the  blogging world, and if this breaks any of them, we can just say we're newbies and didn't know any better. It wouldn't be lying. At least for me. Then all of us who join the party will check out the other blogs and become members. Does that sound right? I just realized this sounds a little bit "if-you-send-me-a-recipe/children's book/whatever- I'll send-one-to-the-top-address", but I hope you realize it's not that. It's just those of us who don't have followers trying to meet the others that are in the same boat. And we want to find your stuff on TPT if you have it! We love the pros! We love "The First Grade Parade" and Babbling Abby! We love Amy Lemons! They're awesome! But we want to meet other teachers who are new to this whole experience, and are equally awesome.

So join us! I can't wait to meet you!
ann

Backwards day and a pig freebie

Ok, what is it, 15 days? 14 and 1/2, but who's counting? Wow. This week has been long. I remember a college professor of mine telling my friend (his daughter) that I was squirrely in class. What comes around goes around. It's my time to pay the Piper for that. Shazam!are these kids squirrely.

How do you spell squirrely?

But today was our "special day" of the week. Each week we have one special day to make these weeks more palatable. Today was backwards day. We did everything backwards. The kids even went in the bathroom and turned their shirts around. It was fun, but not as much fun as bag day. That's pretty cool. Check out my bag day post for that idea.

So we read "Poppleton Everyday" last week and did some pig activities. I have a new unit coming out to tpt soon, but here is some of it for free. It's 8 pages of a poem and some prediction activities. I also have some grammar classifying in the larger version of the unit, and some spelling/vocab activities. I want to do some time activities this weekend and post it by Sunday in time for the sale.

Yes, my store will all be an additional 20% off over and above their 20% off.

I've needed some time lately to be a better Mom. Do you have those periods of time? My kids are at school a LOT, and we all have needed less of that. More time at home to play Farkle. And go to the library. It's been good for all of us. But I have to admit, I think it's adding to my own squirrelyness and wanting to be done. I love my job, but it's time. For summer, I mean.
Thanks for reading. Have a great Friday. One day closer.
ann