Valentine Favs & Freebies

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you are spending the day with the ones you love, though I hope that's everyday. :) Me and my little cutie are spending the day relaxing while Daddy is off at work. Even though the hubs is working today I am happy he is off for the next 3 days. 

Who else out there LOVES Pinterest?! Oh, me. Me. I do. I do. 

I have gathered up some of my favourite Valentine crafts, activities and freebies.

I am SO glad I found you, April over at Chalk Talk. I am a huge fan of what I call "math art" and so are my students. At the end of each year I take each student's math art and bind them to create a math art book. At the end of each year the students really enjoy looking back at all their math art they created. These "math art" activities April created in her classroom are pretty awesome. April has TONS of amazing Valentine activities so don't miss out. 

If you are looking for Language Arts centers or activities you should check out Little Minds at Work. Look at how great some of these activities are.

Mrs Ricca's Kindergarten class made this cute Bee Valentine craft. Isn't it bee-utiful?

I know Splat the Cat is favourite book in most classes. School is a Happy Place has a purr-ty (I couldn't resist) Splat the Cat V-day craft and a... tah-dah.... Valentine Splat the Cat Freebie.

Now we end with everyone's favourite.... The FREE stuff!

Who doesn't love freebies, especially free Valentine readers. I found this cute Valentine reader from Little Miss Kindergarten. 

Grab this Valentine Shape Graph sheet here, 

I always use the week of Valentine's Day to focus on friendship and what makes a good friend. Here is a Valentine Friendship Writing freebie. 

Oh yeah... Don't forget to check out these if you need Valentine ideas for the classroom next year.

from Babble.com

from Life with the Crust Cut Off

from The Benson Street

Enjoy 20% off my TeachersPayTeachers Store today until Tuesday in celebration of Valentine's Day and President's Day!

xoxo

Back on the Grind & Flash FREEBIE

I hope y'all had a great holiday break and a happy New Year. I know everyone is back on the grind this week. I would say "ha ha" as I am enjoying time at home with my princess but it's -1 Fahrenheit here. Talk about FREEZING cold!!! Brrrr....

 

I actually found time (which never happens) to create a little flash freebie for y'all. Hopefully these Valentine Writing Maps can be used in the classroom.

 

Click on the image to grab your FREEBIE. Hurry you have 15 minutes!!!

 

 

 

 

BIG news

Yep, that's right... I have BIG news!

First I have to quickly share our February writing & in class project before February ends.

We read Love, Splat by Rob Scotton before our Valentine writing and craft. I can tell you this though, it was so hard to get in the Valentine themed fun this year here in Canada since it was during the winter Olympics. The winter Olympics clearly are more loved here than Valentine's Day which I am so not used to. I don't know if I just never paid much attention to the winter Olympics before or if it's because I'm from the southern part of the States. We literally only did Valentine activities for like 2 days. It is definitely obvious in their February writing since I could only get my kiddos to write one sentence if I was lucky. They were just so not into Valentine's Day themed activities with all the commotion of the Olympics. However, our little Splat the Cat heads turned out cute!

 

One of the really cool things about the love of the winter Olympics here is that our school has a school-wide winter Olympics (which happened to fall on our V-day party). My class represented Slovakia so when we entered the gym we held up our Slovakian flag & everyone cheered. The "torch" was then lit (pretend) after all the classes entered and was carried around the gym. The neatest thing that I thought was that at the end a little girl in my class (who's parents are from Russia & therefore can speak/write in Russian) was handed the torch & in Russian she says "Let the games begin!". It was super neat & I was one proud teacher!!!

 

This month we are focusing on "I am Unique" so we had this lady come in for an in-class project to talk to us about how we are all unique and the different ways that we are unique. Each student got to make this in-class project craft of themselves & things that make them unique. It was a lot of fun and the students really enjoyed it.

 

Now for my BIG news!!!

Yep, that's right... That lil chubs in this photo is in my belly. Me & the hubs are expecting a little bebe boy or girl in September. The due date is Sept. 2nd which just happens to be the first week of teachers going back to school. We are SUPER excited!!! Now I just need to get my teaching contract offered to me again in May. Things are so different here and I still don't get the whole way they do contracts here but I'm on some sort of continuing part-time contract which has to be offered to me again in like May or June in order for me to be able to work again next year. So I am keeping my fingers crossed!

PS. I'll take any advice for a teaching mommy-to-be. :)

 

Happy Tuesday y'all!

Fill Your Heart with FREEBIES

Wow! What a busy weekend. Is this a busy weekend for you? There is just so much going on but during these busy times I just love grabbing some freebies and entering for a fabulous giveaway.

 

You can grab your Valentine freebies here!

Valentine Addition & Subtraction Word Problems

 

Heart Ten Frames & Sentences

 

 

After you grab your freebies you can head over to Sara over at Polka Dot Kinders to keep filling your heart with FREEBIES!

 

 

 

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Valentine Sale & Freebie

Happy Happy Valentine's Day to all you wonderful bloggers and bloggy friends out there!!!

How is y'alls Valentine Day going so far? Mine is going great! My hubs sent me the sweetest text while at work of 10 reasons he loves me and it was super sweet!!! I snuck off to the store last night and grabbed him a few small gifts which I left on the counter for him to find when he gets home from work :) I swear every time we agree not to buy for each other I just can't help myself.

 

Well any reason to put my Teachers Notebook Shop items and TPT Store items on sale sounds good to me. For Valentine's Day you can grab my TN Shop items for 20% off and you can grab my TPT Store items for 10% off. TODAY ONLY!

 

 

Also, I finished my Math Morning Work/Review 1 which you can also find in my TN Shop or TPT Store. Like free things and want this Math Morning Work/Review 1 for free?

Be the 1st to comment to this post by leaving your email. First person to comment gets it for free :) That's my Valentine gift to you!

 

 

Sad you missed this freebie and wasn't the 1st to leave a comment? You have a 2nd chance if you are the 1st to comment on my Lovely Literacy & More Facebook page under my Morning Work/Review 1 post & leave your email and you will get the Morning Work/Review 1 for free.

 

V-day Class Decor

Need decorations for your Valentine's Day party for your classroom? Ger it here!

Mardi Gras & Hearts

So the Christmas holidays are over. Is anyone else ready for Mardi Gras? If only they celebrated Mardi Gras up here in Canada... hmmm... I can dream can't I? Well I have began to start some Mardi Gras items in my TPT Store and one item of hearts for Valentine's Day. Mardi Gras is just so much more fun though!

Grab this Mardi Gras Addition & Subtraction Sort 0-10.

Grab this Mardi Gras Sentence Arrangement.

 Grab this Mardi Gras Ten Frame 1-20 with Sentence.

Grab this Heart Ten Frame 1-20 with Sentences.

I'm ending with my favorite Mardi Gras memory...