A birthday celebration!

I love learning about fellow bloggers and celebrating their many life 'milestones' via bloggy world.  Today is one of those days!  

Kathy from First Grade a la Carte is having a HUGE and I mean HUGE birthday celebration.  It started yesterday and continues through the week.  She is celebrating by throwing, not only a sale at her TPT store and sharing her own freebies, but she's also hosting a FLASH giveaway EACH DAY!!  Whoop whoop!

You MUST head over to her blog, follow her {she has a MOUNTAIN of amazing ideas}, and join in on her big birthday celebration.

Enter today to earn a chance to win my Flat Stanley unit {among several other amazing products}!! :)

My Flat Stanley unit was just completely revamped and a TON of activities were added.  It's the perfect reader's response packet for a super fun story!

Check it all out:

and don't forget to head to my TPT store today! Last day of my spring sale!! :)

Flat Stanley Update!

I finished my Flat Stanley unit update! Woohoo!!

I completely revamped my old mini unit, changing every single page!  I also added SEVERAL new pages and turned my 30 page unit to 53 pages!  I am still working on adding more but that will be an ongoing thing.  

I am so proud of the newly revised addition. If you've already purchased this unit, please go download the new version.  You can do so by going to your "My Purchases" link at TPT.  Then just press "download."

Here's a peak at some of the revisions:

Click HERE to check it out! :)

Happy Monday!

{P.S. are you as pumped about the Bachelor finale tonight as I am?!}

lately and a freebie :)

We have been some busy little bees lately! It's crazy to think that there are only 36 more days left of school OR 6 more Mondays of school! :)  That is so exciting and nerve racking at the same time.  Still a lot to squeeze in!

We spent two weeks learning about plants and how to grow plants.  Here a few things we did:

 

Then, we got our lima beans and began our four-week seed observation.  Here are our "greenhouses" hanging in our windows!

Our bean seeds are days away from needing to be planted into our soil pots!  It's always a SUPER exciting time when we open up our papertowels to see our sprouted bean seeds! Every day is more exciting as our roots continue to grow!

In math we have been learning about 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes.  We first did the marshmellow and toothpick hands-on activity.  Of course we had a blast AND I forgot my camera! 

For the 2-D activity we created "Shape Creations!" For this we used 2-D die cut shapes.  We then used the shapes to create our own creations and then completed a corresponding recording sheet. 

Here's a few that we created:

And here's the recording sheet for FREE:

Shape Creation

 

The fun plant activities are just two from my Spring Fever unit.  You can find at my TPT Store along with my brand new Flat Stanley Unit!!!!!!! :)  

{heart} some Flat Stanley! 

Today is the start of a very super busy week! Phew! I'm tired thinking about it.  Hope you're week goes just as well!

Flat Stanley and SALE!!!

Happy Good Friday! I'm so excited, I took today off and headed to the beach!

 Now I'm here, sitting on a beach deck and getting this post done! :) Did any of you lovely ladies {and gents} get today off?! 

After a couple weeks of slowly working I got my Flat Stanley unit done and am SO excited! I will be beginning this next week so pictures will come soon! This is a great mini-unit to incorporate when reading the amazing book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.  My kids absolutely LOVE Flat Stanley and all his fun adventures.

Here's a peak at what you will get in this fun mini-unit:

Another wonderful thing about uploading this new mini-unit is I am having a sale!

Click HERE to be directed to my TPT Store!

Thank you all for your continued kind words and helpful minds! I am trying hard to get the hang of this whole 'making units' thing! :) 

Enjoy your weekend and time with family and friends.  I will be spending Easter with my inlaws and nieces and nephews! So excited!!

I {LOVE} this time of year!