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Friday Freebies!
Yay for Friday! This is kind of a big one for me (more about that on Monday), so i’m going to go ahead and celebrate the end of the year with all of you, even though it’s not really the end of my year. This pack was too cute not to share, and I’m amazed that it’s free! This is an End of the Year Label Pack from the Inspired Owl’s Corner. It has treat bag labels for two different kinds of bags, printable bookmarks, Hershey bar labels, and note cards so that you can write each of your students a farewell note. Really, everything that you need to put…
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Graduation!
Our preschool graduation ceremony is tomorrow, and I think we are finally ready (well, except for the decorating part, but that will happen in the morning). I’m a little worried that this one will be emotional for me, I’ve had most of these kiddos since they were two years old, and I’ve known almost all of them since they were infants. This group of parents is pretty special to me too, they believed in me and encouraged me throughout the process of opening my own school. I wanted to make sure that the entire graduation was really special, so I created a few products to make things a little easier…
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Finding Balance
I really needed this long weekend. I mean I REALLY needed it. This weekend I was able to take the time to find myself again. Though I didn’t go on a trip or do anything exceptionally spectacular, I did get to do some of my favorite things. I wandered the fabric store, spent tons of time with my family, read a book, ate lots of ice cream, laid out in the sun, roasted marshmallows with my favorite people, and slept in! It has been far too long since I’ve made time for these things that mean so much to me. Over the last six months I have completely given myself…
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Friday Freebies
Yay for Friday! This is a big yay because it’s a three day weekend! If your students are anything like mine, the weather and promise of summer are making them a little antsy (again, yay for a three day weekend). Many of my teacher friends get through this chaos by reminding themselves that there are only a couple of weeks left until summer break, they can make it through a couple more weeks. That doesn’t work for me, I work at a year round child care center, I have my kiddos all summer long. I try to make sure that the summer is packed full of fun stuff and special…
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My Summer Bucket List
Since the unofficial start of summer is this weekend, I figured it was time to sit down and share my absolute must-do’s for the summer, along with a few things that I want to try for the first time. 1. Spend the day at the lake. We live about an hour from Lake Erie, so this goes on my list every year. I would love to be there more often, I’m a total beach girl! 2. Fairs and festivals. I grew up in 4H, and my husband and I are 4H advisors, so if there’s a fair you can usually find us there. I love the atmosphere, and getting…
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End of the year skills post #2
Yesterday I introduced you to one of my favorite products for helping my kiddos jump into reading – something that they are very excited about right now! Today I want to share one of my newest products, that my students are loving. These are my CVC Word Family Ring Books. They are very similar to the paint chips, but each word family is on it’s own ring, helping to manage the chaos of all those letter cards. These are also color coded, to help make sure that the correct beginning letters stay with the intended word family. I do this to make sure that students can be successful – they…
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End of the year skills
The end of the school year in my classroom often means that many of my students are ready for activities that challenge them and introduce higher level skills. This is my favorite time of the year because they finally begin to understand why we have been doing all of this letter work for the last two or three years, the idea that letter sounds can blend together and create words, words that they can read all by themselves, is incredible to them. I love to see the sense of pride on their faces when they are able to read simple words after blending all of the individual sounds, so I…
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In my bag
Have you ever seen those blog posts or magazine articles where women show you what’s in their purse? I was digging through my school bag yesterday, looking for something – I can’t even remember what I was looking for – and I started laughing. There is so much stuff in my bag! So I thought I’d do my own take on it, here’s what’s in my school bag. I’ll start with the things that are actually supposed to be in my bag: My laptop – I take my laptop to school with me everyday. We don’t get a ton of planning time, and we only have one computer at school,…
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Friday Freebies
Happy Friday! I’ve got a great freebie for you here. This is a diploma (but it could also be used as an end of the year certificate), designed to go with the rest of my End of the Year Graduation Bundle. The bundle is full of great things – invitations for your event, language and math games that you can use with your students before the event, or put out during a graduation reception, and awards for each student in your class. This diploma matches the color scheme of all of the products in the bundle. It can be used for any grade level, so enjoy! Download the Diploma here.
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Preparing for Preschool Graduation
It’s that time of the year, we have less than three weeks until our preschool graduation ceremony. I’ve been trying to get some special projects done, and we’re getting close. One thing that I’m really excited about this year are the memory books that my students have been working on. Not only are these going to be amazing keepsakes, but they are also helping to prepare them for the kind of work that they will do once they get to kindergarten. Right now my kiddos are answering the questions with drawings and words to the best of their abilities. When they finish I will add portfolio pages that I’ve been…
