Easy Parent Gift! {Glitter Included!}

Wow! This month is flying by (and so is this year!) I can hardly believe we are nearing the end of school! My class made a super easy gift for their Mom's - but it would be great for Dad's too!

Supplies you will need:

*paint

*glitter {a must in Kindergarten!}

*glitter pom poms

*a paper plate
*a 2 liter bottle (full of your favorite drink - we used Dr. Pepper!)
*white construction paper (one sheet for each child)
*green construction paper  (two 3 x 9" piece for each child)

After you pour the paint on the paper plate, take the 2 liter bottle (the prettiest flowers are if the bottle is brand new and full) and dip the bottom in paint.

Next, pick it up out of the paint and put it on the paper.
Voila! A beautiful flower!
Now, before it dries, sprinkle some glitter on the paint - Pretty!

Let dry several hours.

Now give your students one piece of green construction paper.

Have them trim a stem for each flower (we had two, so they cut off two stems). Have them glue it under the flower.

Next, have them cut out leaves out of the green paper.

Now, you can have them use the leftover green paper and trim it up and use as grass (I had them cut small slits at the top to look like grass) or you can give them a new piece of green construction paper to glue down for the grass.  

Next, you will want to hot glue on the glitter pom pom

If you used a large piece of construction paper and folded in half, they make great cards!

I love that every picture was unique to the child!

I hope you can use this idea in your home or classroom!

Leave me a note letting me know how you plan to use this idea {or tuck it away for next year!}

Mother's Day Tea {freebie included!}

I hope everyone had an amazing Mother's Day!

I had so much fun playing games and the Wii with my two awesome kids! They made me cards and took me to lunch!
I love my sweeties! I feel so blessed to be their Mom!

I always have a Mother's Day Tea to celebrate Mom's! My class had their Mother's Day Tea on Friday! It was so much fun!

First, let me show you pictures from {Mother's Day Tea 2012}:

We made Mother's Day Coupons from childcareland.com

My Mom and Me book from Lil Country Kindergarten

I used A Cupcake for the Teacher craft to make our place mat

Mother's Day Purses from Miss Kindergarten

These are our Mother's Day Cards

We used HeidiSongs directions to draw our Mom

Here are pictures from this year {Mother's Day Tea 2013}:

I used Pink Bulletin Board paper and tied a bow using Pink Tulle for our chair covers

I used a white paper bag and stapled a cute drawing

of their Mom to make their gift bags

{click here to get the freebie from Simply Kinder}

We use HeidiSongs directions to draw our Mom

and I made this freebie for them to write about their Mom

{click here to get this freebie - you can tuck it away for next year}

My class sang the song I Love Mommy

{to the tune of Are You Sleeping}

This year's Mother's Day cards

I sent home a few cookies for my Kinder's to have

a party of their own at home with their Mom!

The labels are from Kinder Craze!

One of our local stores gave away these cute Brighton boxes,

so I die cut hearts and had my sweeties write

Hugs and Kisses and I filled with a few Kisses!

The labels are from Kinder Craze's Mother's Day Tea Party Pack

I love that it's editable!

Here is their plate of goodies!

These are Miss Kindergarten's Mother's Day Purses!

Aren't they adorable!

I didn't have time to use ribbon on them, so I put Velcro dots on the handles to keep them closed.

We glittered them!

We LOVE glitter!

These cute signs are from Kinder Craze's pack!

I hope you got some great ideas!

Feel free to pin and save for next year!

Make sure you follow me ~

I have a great craft coming up on my next post!

Love for My Students and Mother's Day!

I can't believe this year is nearing the end!

I love my class! They are the sweetest! They hug me and tell me they love me all day! They gush compliments "I love your hair!" or "I love your shirt!" - they are the sweetest!

And they love each other! They help each other all the time! And they love to hug each other!

Well, one of my sweeties brought me this today:

You can't see, but tucked into the cup was some smarties! :)

This was the best Teacher Appreciation gift! Pretty flowers from her yard and a sweet note! I love it!!! :)

Tomorrow is our Mother's Day Tea! I am so excited! My kinders have been working so hard on so many cute items for their Mom!

I will share more on my next post... but here is a peek at one of their cute items from Miss Kindergarten:

Glitter makes everything so much prettier!

My classroom is all decorated!

I used the cute Mother's Day Tea pack from Kinder-Craze!

I will be back to show you more!

Happy Friday! :)

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Last year I made my son's Kinder teacher a cute M&M jar and I had to make my son's First Grade teacher one too!

She is amazing!

He loves her so much!

{he isn't crazy about first grade work - but he LOVES his teacher!}

His teacher is a Mom and she treats all her students like they were hers - so sweet and caring!

Teachers work sooo hard to make sure their students learn everything, while making sure their needs are met!

Teaching is such a hard job - so I wanted to make sure she felt appreciated this week!

If you want the labels for the jar you can visit my TpT store and pick them up here and read more about them here (I blogged about them last year with all the how-to information!)

and don't forget!

Tomorrow and Wednesday

Sale time!!!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to you!

I hope you enjoy this week

{and remember TpT is having a great sale!}

On Tuesday May 7th and Wednesday May 8th you can save up to 28% using code TAD13 don't forget to use the code at check out -

I would hate for you to not get the full discount!

Click the picture below to head to my store!

This cute button is from

My Newest Literacy Station, a Sale and a freebie!

My sweet Kinder students have really been busy, busy, busy learning how to sound out words. Some of my students have it down and others are having a little struggle with this concept.
We have been having "spelling" tests to help them {They love it when I tell them they are taking a first grade spelling test! They feel so big! It is so cute to see their smiles!} 

To help them with this concept,  I made this little CVC "Spelling Test" freebie that I thought I'd share with you. The hard hat is for the vowel. We use ZooPhonics in my classroom and we learn that the vowel is a hard worker, so the hard hat! This helps them remember to put the vowel in the middle. {If you like this, please leave me a little note letting me know how you plan to use it with your students!}




Here is a picture of one of my students in the station:

My students did so awesome! They adore this station!

They even like to play it during free choice time!

I have a list of CVC words and one of them pretends to be the teacher.

Here is a picture of the cool dry erase pockets I use!

I love all the colors!

I got mine from MyBinding.com 

{click Here if you want to check them out for your classroom}

They are so colorful and well worth the money!

If they get a little dirty, I just clean them up with a little Expo Cleaner and they are like new!

And they are super durable - My Kinders are really rough on them and they are really holding up!

I love them!!!

The cute markers and erasers are from Target's Dollar Spot last summer!

And Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to you! I hope you enjoy this week {and remember TpT is having a great sale!}
On Tuesday May 7th and Wednesday May 8th you can save up to 28% using code TAD13 don't forget to use the code at check out -
I would hate for you to not get the full discount!
Click the picture below to head to my store!

This cute button is from

** Disclosure:  I received the awesome dry erase packets from MyBinding.com for free to review on my blog. All opinions are purely my own! I really do love them!

I Love Mrs. Wishy Washy!

I recently won a Mrs. Wishy Washy big book from Hameray Publishing Group!

Maggie's Kinder Corner  was giving it away and my name was chosen! I was sooo excited!

Well, it came in the mail this week and my class loves it! 

This is one of my sweeties

{her mom gave me permission to take her picture reading the book - don't you love her socks?} 

Want to win a Mrs. Wishy Washy book? I found a few blogs giving one away!

Kathleen from Growing Kinders is giving one away - but hurry - you only have until April 26th!

Michelle from Fabulous in First is giving one away - but it expires in 3 days!  Click here to enter

Earth Day!

April 22nd - Earth Day!  What a great day to get your class excited about taking care of our natural resources!  Even though this was officially our Science for the day, I tried to include it in some of our other areas today!

We talked about what was recycling and where we have to go to recycle in our town (we don't have curb side service - we have to take it to a container in town where a larger company comes and picks it up). We also talked about what you can recycle.

Then we talked about items that could be reused. I gave my class the challenge of reusing some items in their home to make crafts or projects. {I hope they bring some in to share with our class!}

We also discussed reducing the amount of water and electricity we use everyday {even in the classroom} - what we could do to help save our planet!

We also went to Starfall.com and clicked on their Earth Day picture (bottom right) and read the story and played the game on our SmartBoard. They loved it!

We then read this book, Dinosaurs to the Rescue! and talked about what we could do to help save our natural resources (like cutting off lights, turning off the water, and so on).

Next, we made this craft that I saw on The First Grade Parade! It was so cute, I knew I wanted to make it with my class! (and they did such a good job!)

What a fun day it was!  I hope you enjoyed your Earth Day! Did you have some fun activities planned? Leave me a note! I would love to hear what fabulous activities you had planned for today!

What We Have Been Up To {and a Freebie!}

We have had such a great week! Yes, my students have been super active {Spring Fever!} and I have been super busy with my own family, but overall it was a great week!

We worked on Past, Present and Future this week.  We picked stuff on the calendar that happened last week (and I had them point behind them), today (they pointed to the ground) and next week (and they would point straight ahead). They totally got it! I have such smarties!!

I had them draw themselves in the Past, Present and Future. They were so cute!

Here is a sample:

I love that she is "old"! :) So cute! I just love Kinders!

And here is a freebie for you!




I also received some sweet love this week {From such a sweetie!}

Don't you just love their sweet notes! It makes a bad day turn into such a great day! :)

Well, I am headed to my son's baseball game!

I hope you have a great weekend!