Old Valentine Activity - Newly Updated!!!

Hey!  I have a lot of people request access to one of my Valentine activities and I'm not sure why Google Drive is not letting people download it, sooooooooooo..... I updated it and uploaded it to TpT!  Hopefully this will make it easier to get access to it!  Enjoy!

Click HERE to get your copy!

Back from the Dead...

Our house has been trying to recuperate after the flu hit us towards the end of last week.  My hubby was hit the hardest :( but we are finally starting to feel normal again.  Trying to take care of an active 6 year old, and filling and shiping Porter's Polka Dot's clipboard orders that had to get out has made it hard to really "rest" but things are definitely getting better!  

Here are some pics from the last part of the week - including our finished Valentine Sort Book from Deanna Jump!

    

Here is the Grab and Count Activity that I posted last week.  They had a great time.  I originally thought I would use small conversation hearts, but quickly learned that the bigger ones were going to work better.  Even with the big ones, I still had some students grab more than 20... :)  We made it work... I made them use 3 or 4 of the ten frames and we practiced counting bigger numbers.  :)

Here are some more  of the activities from Kim Adsit's Friend's Unit

 

   

Hope everyone is staying well!! :)

Valentine Sort

This afternoon I finally let my kiddos get into their Valentine Boxes.  I know - I'm totally mean right???  We just ran out of time yesterday (imagine that) and I really wanted to do the Valentine Sort that Deanna Jump had in her Valentine Unit so I didn't let them take their boxes home!  They were actually ok with it because they knew we were going to make a book.  :)

Sorting Valentine's with 5 and 6 year old was quite an experience but it was fun for them to actually take the time and really look at their cards.  I was so busy trying to help everyone that I did not get a chance to snap any pictures.  I did capture a few special moments of them opening their boxes!  I will post pics of the finished book soon!! :)

    

  

Can't wait to see their books when they are completed!!!

Valentine's Day Fun!

 

I always forget but quickly remember how tired I am after Valentine's Day!!  Phew!  What a fun day we had, but I am wiped out!  I think the kids had a great time and our fun isn't even over yet!!  I did not send their Valentine's home today because we are going to to sort them and complete the Scrapbook Deanna Jump has in her Valentine's Unit!  Fun!!

Here are some of the things we did today!

The February Family Project is for them to decorate a box for the Valentine's Exchange.  This project is fantabulous  because I love seeing the creativity of each of the families!  They turned out adorable as always!!  Here are some more!

We did a Valentine Rotation this morning again while my co-teacher was with us.  One group sorted and graphed candy hearts, one group estimated and one group made Valentine's and passes out their Valentine cards.

After lunch we completed the "How many letters do you have on your conversation heart?" graph.  I found this idea on Chalk Talk: A Kindergarten Blog.

Tomorrow morning for morning work they are going to complete this page about our graph.  They are so much better at analyzing our data and recording it!!

You can find this <HERE> :)

And last but not least we ended our day with a little celebration!  Cupcakes, cookies and juice are a perfect way to end a wonderful day!! :)

Happy Vatentine's Day!!

 

Grab and Count

I was in need of another small group activity to help review teen numbers for this week so I reworked this neat activity and made it valentine themed.  The original idea came from Green Gable Kindergarten but I made it work for our needs!!  I hope you will be able to use it too!!

You can grab it HERE :)

Happy Counting!!

Valentine Literacy Games

So here is attempt number 2 at posting something on Teachers Pay Teachers!  It has some games that I like to play during small group time and eventually let them play on their own.  It has been up there for a while but I just keep forgetting to let y'all know!! :)

Just for my blog readers...

Here is one of the games that is included in the pack.

Broken Hearts

You can find the entire pack HERE.  :)

Enjoy!!

 

Attack of the Target Dollar Section - Valentines

I should know better then to even go near that part of the store but my buggy just seems to drive itself to that side of the store!!! :) Look at all the goodies I found!!  I love when I find all the good stuff before it is all picked through.  As I went through the bins I quickly tried to think of all the things I could do with each treasure I found...I came up with some but I would love to hear any fantabulous ideas anyone else might have!

2 came in a pack - thinking some sort of partner game??  

Definitely some patterning going to go on here... :) or counting too! :)

I was thinking something with math - I bought enough so I could have 20 - 

I think I may laminate these and either write letters or number/number words on the hearts so the kids could match beginning sound / number - or maybe laminate and cut them apart to make a matching game?

O.K   - this wasn't in the dollar section but I couldn't pass it up - they were only $5!

Maybe storage for an activity?

Who could pass these up??  I had to control myself and only get 4...I sooo wanted to buy all 10!  :)

I think I may get creative and create some games/activities to use with my new toys!