I Spy | Storybook Parade Costume | DIY

I work at an AMAZING school, where the love of reading is definitely celebrated! Every year we have a Storybook Parade where students dress up as storybook characters! I love seeing all the wonderful creative costumes our students and their families come up with. This year, there was a student dressed as The Giving Tree, several animals (Yay for the Non Fiction books), and my favorite, lots of Dr. Seuss characters. Last year, I dressed up as Minerva Louise and wore a hen hat on my head. This year's costume was so much fun to put together!!! I went looking through my craft supplies and made a trip to my local dollar store to find all the items. After assessing what items I had, I created this cute poem to go with the items to find. To make sure I could reuse this shirt, I velcroed the bigger items and the paper items. Everything else, I hot glued on. Not pictured is a hat I wore with items stuck to it. 

Hope you enjoyed this post!

Lots of Love,

Katie

My Pumpkin's Teeth | Freebie Printable

How cute are these pumpkins on Pinterest!

Left photo source unknown        Right photo source: First Grade Blue Skies

My classroom art docent and I were brainstorming ideas for an art project for October and saw these super adorable pumpkins. After deciding on this project, I thought how can we add some math to it and came up with the Pumpkin's Teeth Math Problem. My students created a math word problem to go with how many teeth their pumpkin had. They really enjoyed this project! Here are two examples!

Click the image below to get the free printable.

Lots of Love,

Katie

Ideas for Your Classroom Door

I love door decorations...more like obsessed with door decorations!!! I can spend hours on Pinterest looking at different teacher's door decorations. These were just some of the door decorations I did last year. I'll be posting my most recent doors decorations soon, so keep an eye out for them! Wow, I said door decorations a lot in this post lol. 

Lots of Love,

Katie 

Nouns & Verbs Activity {Creating Sentences}

For the past couple weeks, we have been focusing on nouns and verbs. We started off with learning about nouns and then moved onto verbs. This activity brought both nouns and verbs together in a fun way! My students had a blast during this activity and loved meeting with their peers. There are 16 noun cards and 16 verb cards. The cards have various words for different reading levels. You give half your class noun cards and half your class verb cards. If you have a class like I do of 25, I gave my 13 group the noun cards and the 12 group, verb cards. I had my students interact using the Kagan Structure: Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up! Students with the noun cards were the ones to stand up and the students with the verb cards were the ones to put up their hand. Students got to find a new partner and create a sentence using their noun and verb card. They recorded their sentence on the worksheet provided.

After this lesson, I thought this could make a great centers activity as well. Students can draw from a noun card stack and a verb card stack. Then, they would make a sentence using the noun and verb and record it on the worksheet. 

The best part about this activity is that it's FREE to you! Click the picture below to download!

Lots of Love,

Katie

Writing Wall

I absolutely love how my writing wall came out this year. Remember those chalkboard clips I was making in my previous posts, don't they look so cute up on the wall. The banner was from the party section at Target and the lettering is your usual bulletin board lettering you can order at any school supply store. There is going to be a lot more writing this year!

Lots of love,

Katie

Classroom Theme: Superhero (Year 13-14)

I know it's a year late, but I thought better late than never. My classroom theme last year was Superhero and I had the hardest time finding decorations for it. I ended up creating a lot of my decor which was so much fun! This year, I saw a whole bunch of superhero decor for the classroom so I guess I'll have to do this classroom theme again ;).  I really enjoyed decorating my classroom and turning it into a Superhero Headquarter. At the time, I didn't take pictures of all my decor so I apologize now for the lack of pictures. My classroom definitely evolved throughout the school year. Because it was my first year teaching, some of my ideas worked and some didn't. I love looking at teacher's classrooms and getting ideas for my own. 

Thank you for taking a peek into my classroom!

Lots of love,

Katie

All About Me Banner

The school year is about to begin and I've been getting my classroom ready for all my little First Graders. I noticed on Pinterest these super cute All About Me banners and thought this is a must for the first day of school. It is a cute way to get to know your students and it makes for a very cute room decor after. There are a bunch of cute ones you can find on Pinterest, but I decided to make my own so I could pick the categories. Download them for free on my TPT site! Have a wonderful school year!

Lots of Love,

Katie