Dollar Tree Haul- Valentine's and More

These are so super bright!!

Compatible with LEGO blocks.

 They had one display of spring things out and after watching 

The Purple Alphabet Shop With Me,

I had to pick these up before they were gone.

 I plan to use the clips with a counting game, that calls for clothes pins.

The bunnies and ducks, I thought would be great for some 

felt stories.

Writing Materials and Such

I will probably will use the Narwhal, sloth, unicorn, and lama as pointers.

The mini gel pens and the Frozen pencils for our writing center.

The pencils in the right corner are those scented pencils.

The tube is...are.... mini erasers!!

How adorable are the bacon, waffles and egg sticky notes??

I am thinking some math game?

Like dots, numeral, and word maybe?

Stamps, stickers and finger boards, because 

they are cute and there is a frog lol

Have any ideas for them?

I always miss these at Halloween time, and I think

I missed the big cauldron for St. Patty's stew,

will have to go back ;) 

Read and Write the room :)

Heart cube trays for a math game or letters game.

Sequin pillows and keychains for the calm down area.

Squishy toys for the calm down basket.

These were by the gnome candyland fairy area.

I thought it would be awesome in the blocks area.

Will let you know if it's messy or not.

I have been eyeing the Valentine cups from Starbucks,

but I am fearing the price...

so I am settling for these.

At my house we do the 14 days of love. 

The mason cup is for my 7 year old.

 Here are some other 14 Days of Love gifts,

plus gold coins is for our Chinese New Years sensory bin.

Paint easel, glitter slime, noise slime, and Transformers band-aids.

Made It Monday

I literally don't have a clue as to why these are so popular!?!?!

Frog Shake Up

I suggest cardstock or laminated covers.

It keeps the pieces inside the carton.

I used address labels cut in fourths.

Garage sale dots work too!

It isn't high-tech at all.  ANYONE can do this quickly!!!

Above are just two side by side photos of the same game.

Below is a single photo of the game.

Today we read the word, spelled the word, said the word again, and said a sentence.

To "play"

Program your egg carton with your skill.  Use a small manipulative such as corn, eraser, pom pom. So you don't have a zillion cartons, you could use garage sale dots instead of writing on the inside of the carton.

So put in your manip. and close carton.  Shake. Open carton. Where ever your manip. lands in, is the question.

I have shakers, well two different varieties of shakers.  One kind are filled with something and in a container.  The other is made from egg cartons.  When I first started making these, I made them out of necessity- the only egg cartons I had, had openings in the top and the pom poms kept flying out!!!

I use them for so many things:

*Shapes review or identify.
*Identify numbers
*Identify letters
*Words
*Identify money or write amounts and students must make that amount using coins or dry erase boards
*Review word families- land in one spot, write or say a word from that word family
*Name something a particular color
*Place value- add 2 or 3 manips. child reads or records number (biggest or smallest)

*Really anything you need to review.

The list is infinite!!!!

It is a game that you only have to teach once and you are set for the year... THE WHOLE YEAR!!!!!

My students love to see the "new" games and pieces we are using...

HELLO TARGET MINI EASERS!!!!


Here they all are: (Well those that are made lol )


St. Patty's Shake Up-mini shamrock eraser

Bunny Shake Up- carrot eraser

Valentine's Shake Up heart eraser

Flower Shake Up flower

October

Spooky Shake Up spider toy/ ring

Spider Bright- spider eraser 


November

Turkey Shake Up- brown pom-pom (I was thinking a feather, but there isn't enough weight to shake it)


Bear Shake Up counting bear
Fire bear Shake Up red pom-pom

Winter

Cocoa Shake Up- use with Polar Express small marshmallow
Penguin Shake Up penguin eraser
Snowflake Shake Up- snowflake- I cut apart snowflake garland
Snowman Shake Up snowman eraser
Gingerbread Shake Up gingerbread eraser 


Summer


Watermelon Shake Up- real watermelon seed
Ice Cream Shake Up mini ice cream cone eraser
Lemon Shake Up- citrus eraser
Fishing Shake Up- fish eraser
Eraser Shake Up- mini pencil eraser



Themes I have used: (I will have these available soon too)

apple- uses apple seeds

band aid- toy band aid

bone-mini dog bone

CC123-brown pom pom

crayon- crayon shaped button

Dental/Teeth (dental facts along with healthy/unhealthy foods) tooth (not real)

elephant- peanut

ice cream- mini eraser

movie- I use a shiny button to resemble a DVD

ocean-levels, animals sea life toy

pirate- tiny black ball (cannonball)

pizza-teeny tiny piece of pizza (was a Barbie toy)

A fabulous place to get small trinkets is a cake decorating shop!

Please take a photo of your class using one and I will send you another one for free :)

March Work

I know that "everyone" celebrated the Good Doctor's birthday last week, but I celebrate him all month long.  Last year, the class and I dressed up each day for March!

Here is one of two Red Stripe Shakers that is available to my students:

Here is another version of it. Red Stripe Hat 

I used different graphics, well because I love the Dr!!!

Here is a Winter themed shaker.  The graphics are from Lettering Delights.

One of the math choices that I have: 

I will glue the cover to the outside of an envelope and all of the other pieces will go inside.

We have had some "love" themed roll and cover games and now we will move on to St. Patrick's day and yes still winter roll and cover games.

I know it is tiny, but in the upper hand corner,

I drew a person or two and dice.

Some of my children would just randomly grab a dice holder,

well some of the dice holders have 1, 2, or 3 dice!

So if they can play by themselves, there is only one person and 

two people if they can play with a partner. 

Then I drew the number of dice they needed.

There are calendar numbers, but I just want them to put the numbers in correct order.

Since we are expecting yet another snow storm we will also use 

this Winter Shaker