Earth Day Blog Hop

Hi there!  I am so excited to be doing a blog hop with some of my #kinderfriends today.  We are bringing you lots of ideas and some freebies to help you with Earth Day in your classroom.  I am giving away a craftivity you can do with your kindergarten or first grade sweeties.

It started as a simple art activity for our April number writing calendars this year.  The kids cut out the earth and glued it to the purple paper.  They then painted VERY carefully.  You could also have them paint first and let them dry before you cut and glue to the background paper.

I wanted to give you the earth and the little "Everyday is Earth Day" sign which I'm sure could be useful for other things too...
But it needed something else....

So, I added a writing prompt.  I use it as a culminating activity for my Earth Day unit.  It gives  students an opportunity to tell what they learned by writing about new earth friendly habits they are going to try.  The kiddos' writing is always so sweet on this topic.

It would go under the art like the calendar above.  This is what it looks like all put together.  You can see my promise, too.  I am really trying on the shorter showers...

You can go grab the pages for this craftivity right here: Earth Day "my promise" FREEBIE

This is a part of my Everyday is Earth Day unit.  It's a resource to help you teach about conserving natural resources so that our little learners GET IT!  It has loads of activities and writing prompts to teach these important science concepts any time of year.  Here is a little preview:

It also has great sorting activities with color photos to help your students learn about natural resources and how to conserve them.  My kids learned so much from these!

There will be a link on each blog to take you to the next #kinderfriends  Earth Day post.  There are lots of great ideas and FREEBIES.  Have fun!

Go check out my friend Brittany over at  A Kindergarten Love Story.

Thanks for hopping by!
Happy Earth Day!
Happy teaching!

It's a Spring FREEBIE!

Hello there and happy first day of spring!  I am doing lots of fun things with a spring theme in the classroom this week and I just wanted to share this fun math fact number bond activity my kiddos will be doing on Friday.

You will need some plastic eggs and candies to do it.  I am using the m&m candies as you can see in my photo above.  You could use any little candies that fit in the eggs.  When you fill the eggs with candy, you will need to put only two colors in each egg.  That way you will have two parts for the number bond.  The example above is 3 green and 4 purple make 7 altogether.  You can see pictures of the candies in the egg and the matching number bond next to it on the recording sheet.

I don't let my students eat the candies while they are working, but maybe you do...  mine usually have a little basket they have made to put them in to go home.

This is a fun activity and it is great practice for math facts and number bonds.  Yay!

If you are looking for more ideas for spring in the classroom, you can find books and art here: Baby Birds!  You can find fun learning activities and games here: Spring is here!l  You can find some adorable egg art here: Melt art Fun!  There are lots of ideas on my spring Pinterest board here: Spectacular Spring

Here is a picture of the recording sheet for this number bond activity:

You can go grab it in my Teachers Pay Teachers store here: FREEBIE! Spring egg number bonds

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Happy spring!
Happy teaching!

It's a Leap Day Sale!

Hi there,
Just wanted to let you know that I am having a SALE!  Leap year only comes around once in a while, so why not have a sale?  Everything in my Teachers Pay Teachers store will be 20% off Sunday Feb. 28th and Monday the 29th.  Yay!  Hope you go grab some good deals.

Thanks for looking!
Happy teaching!