No pun intended, but we love celebrating Valentine's Day in our classroom. Here are a few of our favorite ways to celebrate Love Day with the Littles... We throw a Red Party every Valentine's Day in our classroom. From red foods to wearing red, we embrace the color of love all day long. As you can see, we try to keep it somewhat healthy with bagels, strawberry cream cheese, and red fruits. The kids are so excited and don't even notice the donuts are missing. We sneak in a little reading and ... VIEW POST
Valentine’s Day in the Classroom
100th Day of School
Hip, Hip, Hooray...It's FINALLY the 100th Day of School! Which we all know is "teacher code" for "More than halfway to summer!" Here are a few of our favorite first grade ways to celebrate the 100th day. Everyone needs a party hat, so we created these 100th Day of School crowns for our class kings and queens. We leave one of our Hip Hip Hooray, It's the 100th Day desk mats at each of their places to greet them at the start of our 100th day. They love coloring them to kick off the 100th day of ... VIEW POST
Kindness Activity for Kids Compli-Mats
Teaching our primary students about compliments is highly important in our classroom. Of course it's always easier to point out what we don't like...But, we have found we have to purposefully teach our first graders how to see the good in one another by pointing out what they do like. So, we came up with an idea to teach our kids how to pay compliments to their classmates. Introducing...Compli-Mats! Get it? Compliments written on a 12x18 piece of construction paper, about the size of a place ... VIEW POST
5 for Friday!
T.G.I.F. And, you know what that means? It's time to link up with our friend Kacey over at Doodle Bugs! It was a beautiful week with a glimmer of Spring! And, you know what that means? Spring Fever. We don't blame them... We've got it too. Spring Break is only 6 days, 14 hours, 5 minutes and 6.7 seconds...wait...6.2 seconds away. But, who's counting? Here's Our 5 To alleviate all symptoms of teacher fatigue Spring Fever, our class has been prescribed a heavy dose of ... VIEW POST
Wonderful Weather
Our Southern California weather is a funny thing... You might already be laughing and asking yourself, "Weather? You have weather?!?" Contrary to popular belief, it does drizzle rain in Southern California. And snow. And earthquake. Don't worry. We know earthquakes aren't weather. But, you've got to give us Californians something. We've been orphaned by Mother Nature...we don't have much. And, we have to admit, we do get slightly jealous of all these so called, "Snow Days" ... VIEW POST
100th Day Hag!
Look what blogging does to you! Tammy's dear family had her convinced it was GREAT! Well, maybe she convinced herself and they just nodded in agreement like they're supposed to, but still they said YES! Christy loved it too. Well, it was her day off after all...So who wouldn't love it?!? I wasn't so sure...I mean this is how it all started... This was all I could find at the party store the night before. See that little note slipped in the front package? Not only did it save me 50% off ... VIEW POST
