Camping Early Learning Packs

I learned something very valuable today.  I have shops in both Teachers Pay Teachers and Teacher's Notebook stores.  Other than a little different formatting and a small percentage of commission that is taken, I thought they were pretty much the same.  Big difference in the size of files they accept!  I have been working on my camping pack for awhile now and whenever I would get a new idea of something I wanted to use in class, I would add it to the pack.  Well, apparently it got so large for the TpT store I had to break it up into two packs.  Therefore, at my TpT store I have a "S'more Early Learning Language and Literacy Camping Pack" and a "S'more Early Learning Math Camping Pack".  

You can check out my TpT Early Learning Language and Literacy Pack HERE

You can check out my TpT Early Learning Math Pack HERE

However, my Teacher's Notebook shop allowed me to download the whole file so both the language, literacy, math, and craftivities are in one place.  It is a little cheaper to buy the pack that has everything........just so you know.  :)

Click HERE to see this at my Teacher's Notebook shop.
Here are a few things offered in my camping pack.

In addition, I have one more camping freebie to offer.  This is a language activity that doesn't necessarily have to be done with a camping theme.  I ended up creating it in the middle of our activities, so I gave it some camping clipart.  :)  Little learners sort activities/games by whether they are done inside or outside.  Of course there are a few that could go either way.  Maybe that would be a good time to pull out the hoola hoops and do a venn diagram!

 

 

Click HERE to download.

Thanks for reading (and I love comments)!  Have a great day.  :)

Five for Friday!

Yay!  I think I will get it together to be able to participate in my second Five for Friday linky. Here is my week in review.  

1) There is going to be a new baby soon in the family.  :)  My guy is going to be a grandpa for the first time!  We hosted a baby reveal party for the lucky parents to be.  The first vote was correct. It's a girl! 

2) I was able to spent time with my babies.  My son just turned 21.  It seems like it was just yesterday he was a newborn in my arms.  New mamas, be sure to treasure every moment with your little ones.  It is true what they say......in just a blink of an eye they are grown and gone.

3) We had track and field day at school this week.  Our little sweeties had a blast. Events included: three legged races, ball roll, musical chairs, steal the bacon, obstacle course, egg race, and ice cream station!

In the morning we attached arms instead of legs for the three legged race.  In the afternoon we did it the traditional way.  It was amazing to watch them figure out how to work together.

The winner of musical chairs in the first round. 

The ball roll.  There were two teams competing against each other.

The egg race.

4)  One of my sweeties is moving away.  This was his last day with us.  We will miss him. :(

One last class picture before he leaves.

5)  We are finishing our camping theme.  We have had so much fun with our activities.

A hodgepodge of our art activities from the week.

Pretending to camp.  This was very popular during centers.

Originally I had planned to put these pages together to make a class book, but since school is almost out for the summer we decided to put display them on the bulletin board.

Thanks for reading!  Have a great day.  :)

A Camping We Will Go!

We started our camping theme last week.  Here are some of the fun things we have been doing.  During circle time our little learners "went fishing" with shapes. They chose a shape card by picking it up with a magnet attached to a stick fishing pole.  They matched the shape fish picture with the same shape fishing pole picture.

During learning time, our sweeties hid in a sleeping bag pretending to sleep while a "bear" visited the campsite and stole a camping related object.  The little learners had to tell us what was missing.  

We also took turns getting in a small pop up tent with the light off in our room.  Ellison shapes cut from black construction paper were held up to the tent.  We used a flashlight to shine on the cut out.  Each learner had to guess from the shadow what the object was.  There were lots of giggles.  Everyone has been loving the fun.

Today we made the cutest little campers in sleeping bags.  The patterns will be included in the camping pack I am currently working on.  

Thanks for reading!  Have a great day.  :)

Manic Monday Freebie

Just in case you missed my last camping freebie, I am offering it again today.  I have not posted it anywhere else except on my blog.  It will be apart of my larger camping unit I will have for sale, once I am finished with testing it out.  :)

Click HERE to download

Thanks for reading!  Have a great day.  :)

Cinco de Mayo Pics!

Last week we learned about Cinco de Mayo, as well as an introduction of basic concepts in Spanish.  Our little learners were amazing with how quickly they picked up new vocabulary.

How cute are these "Ninos de Sarape" glyphs?  I LOVE THEM!  I especially love how they take on the personalities of their creators! 

Our little ones had so much fun with our piñata and eating chips and salsa.  It was a great way to end our week.

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Camp Freebie!

This week we will begin one of my favorite themes~camping!  There are so many fun activities to do with this theme. Hopefully, (knock on wood) the weather in our neck of the woods will warm up and we will be able to go outside for some fun!  I am currently putting together a Camp Pack of learning activities.  Check back to see when it is completed.  :)  In the meantime, enjoy this camp freebie.

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Thanks for reading!  Have a great day.  :)

5 For Friday!

Yay, I think I may finally have gotten it together to participate in my first 5 for Friday linky!  I  have been wanting to do this for awhile, but it seemed like Friday came and went before I could get something together.

1. We had our annual Family Fun Night with an art auction.  Every classroom made an art project to be put up for silent auction.  It is amazing to see all the creative masterpieces.  Here are both morning and afternoon classes with our art project.  

Everyone was responsible for at least one letter of the alphabet.  They traced the letter with crayon then painted their square with liquid watercolor.  We backed it with scrapbook paper then framed it.  Everyone was so excited and proud of their work.  I think it turned out pretty darn cute!  Here is a picture of two of my sweet girls enjoying pizza that evening.

2. My daughter is coming home this weekend!  Yippee!  I haven't seen her since Christmas break.  Her visit will be short, but very sweet.  This picture was taken when I helped move her to Arizona after she graduated from college last May.  I miss her terribly.

3.  I will soon be getting a new (to me) car at the end of the month.  One of my co-workers is selling me her car.  I leased a car that I need to turn back end at the end of the month.  I was trying to decide what to get next when this fell into my lap.  I love it!

4.  I signed up for classes this summer.  I will be working on taking additional hours past my Master's.  Many classes will be on technology in the classroom.  I hope this old dog can learn some new tricks!

5.  My besties at work.  These ladies help me make it through the most difficult of days.  We laugh so hard our abs hurt.  

                                            Thanks for reading!  Have a great day.  :)