TPT Sale!

Hey Y'all!!!
I hope everyone had a FABULOUS Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for!!!  I love spending time with the family and eating delicious Southern cooking!!! I love Thanksgiving sooo much that I have deciced to do an "After Thanksgiving Sale" at my Teachers Pay Teachers store!  Everything is 15% off!!!  Enjoy!!!!

Click here to start shopping!!!!

Enjoy!!!

Nicole

Kindergarten Math Common Core Workmats, Centers, and Flashcards!

I don't know about all of y'all (that's how we say it in the south), but common core has really pushed me as a teacher this year! I am LOVING it but that is not to say that EVERYDAY seems like a challenge! I am constantly looking for new ideas, new resources, and pulling from oldies! I love the thinking that I am seeing take place with my 5 year olds every day! Not only can they do the work and solve the problems, but they can EXPLAIN what they are doing using MATHEMATICAL vocabulary! It's amazing! I have plenty of math centers but I have been in search for new math centers. I have searched the internet and finding kindergarten resources has been difficult! So, I decided to make my own centers, workmats, and number sense flashcards! I have put together a 122 page unit that addresses many standards (listed on each activity)! There are great games, center activities, math work mats (for those sweet visual babies that organize everything), and flashcards (can also be used in a game of Memory). I know my students are going to LOVE all of these new activities. You can purchase this AWESOME unit at my TPT store by clicking here.

I hope you find this unit helpful. I would love to hear about some of the fun common core activities that you are doing in your classroom! I would love to give away a unit to the best answer of how Common Core is changing your classroom!!!!

Also, I hope everyone has a fabulous and THANKFUL Thanksgiving!

Nicole

Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!!!

As Thanksgiving quickly approaches, I am always looking into ways to incorporate Thanksgiving into my lessons! Here is a great 100 page unit that available at my TPT store!  

Enjoy y'all!!!!

Nicole

Let's Go....Transportation Thematic Unit

With the Scotts Foresman Reading Street Program, I find myself teaching thematic units during random times throughout the year. It's October and I am reading Dig, Dig, Digging by Margaret Mayo to my class. It is a great book and the students LOVE it, but I usually teach transportation around the spring time. I have been in desperate need of some new transportation lessons and activities so I thought I would just create some! My transportation unit can be purchased at my Teachers Pay Teachers store by clicking here.

This unit has transportation vocabulary cards, reading and math centers, graphs, printables, crafts, Play-doh mats, and coloring pages- PERFECT for a theme unit on transportation!!!!

What are some activities you do when you teach transportation?
Enjoy!
Nicole

Apples, Apples, Everywhere!!!

There is not a unit that I like better than APPLES!!!  Something about it just screams FALL!!!!!  The students love learning all about Johnny Appleseed and having a fabulous apple tasting snack! I always spend my week doing so many fun crafts and special centers! I have compiled all of my fabulous activities, plans, and crafts into a fabulous unit on Teachers Pay Teachers! Here is a preview:

You can purchase my unit by clicking here.

 

Please check back soon....I will be working on a give away with my bestie, Lizzie at http://afirstgradefairytale.blogspot.com !!!!

Enjoy!

Nicole

Homemade Applesauce!

One of my favorite apple projects is making homemade applesauce!  The students absolutely love it and it's soooo easy!!!  Here is how we make applesauce in my classroom!!!

• 8 apples (peeled, cored, and cut into small pieces)
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 cup of water 

Combine all ingredients in the crockpot.

I start cooking the apples first thing in the morning. I cook them on high for around 4-5 hours, it all depends on the apples! Soon, the apples will start looking soft. I have the students use a potato masher to help mash up the apples.

 The students have so much fun mashing the apples!!!!

Let the applesauce cool off and serve!  Not only is it delicious but it leaves your classroom smelling like sweet apple cinnamon all day long!!!!

 

Do you cook in your classroom?  What are some things that you enjoy making?

Enjoy!

Nicole

Happy Fall Y'all!!!!

Happy first official day of fall!!!  I am soooo excited I can't stand it! I love EVERYTHING about the fall...the weather, boots, football, pumpkins, my birthday....It's just the absolute best!!! With fall, also comes my absolute 2 favorite teaching units....APPLES and PUMPKINS!!!!  We just wrapped up our apple unit in class and it was a blast!!!  We ended this week with making applesauce and enjoying a special apple snack with apple muffins, apple cookies, apple chips, apple straws, apple butter, and apple juice...OH MY!  The kids love it!!! I am currently working on a fabulous apple unit to add to my teachers pay teachers store!

I have FINALLY finished my pumpkin unit....94 pages of fabulous pumpkin activities that can be incorporated into reading, language arts, and math! I don't know about all y'all, but I don't have the amount of time that I would like to have to teach complete units.  I find creative ways to incorporate my units into the other subjects. Hopefully, this unit will help!!!  Isn't it the cutest!!!!!!

Check out my teachers pay teachers store here!

ENJOY!!!

Nicole

 

What are some fun things you like to do when, or if, you teach your pumpkin and apple units? I love new ideas!!!!!