A Very Sweet Valentine's Day

I was in need of some fun, but *very* educational games for my kiddos to play on Valentine's Day. I decided to make a packet of math and literacy centers for Valentine's Day. It's just necessary to do things a little bit different on Valentine's Day. :)

These math and literacy centers are "very sweet" and can be used the whole month of February {and beyond}! They will be perfect for Valentine's day, but I've also included non-Valentine's Day words for the games {for my friends who do not celebrate Valentine's Day}. This 58 page packet includes 3 math and 3 literacy centers in both color and black and white.

There are 3 math centers:
Heart Patterns
Sweet Treat {cupcake graphing} with recording sheet
Don't Break My Heart {time to the hour} with recording sheet

There are 3 literacy centers:
Love Letters {long/short i sort} with recording sheet
Punctuation Sort with recording sheet
I Scream For Ice Cream {digraph sort} with recording sheet

click {here} to check it out!

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I also have this mini-unit that my student love!

Included in this packet are:

Tree Map

Was, Had, Wanted Graphic Organizer

Describe St. Valentine

Describe Valentine's Day

The Legend of St. Valentine Class Book

The Legend of St. Valentine Student Mini-Book

Informational Writing

Heart-Shaped Valentine Fact Booklet

Vocabulary cards 

Vocabulary game

ABC Order 

Word Search

P.S. Did ya'll see my funny story on our Facebook Page?  If not, here it is:

I was teaching a guided reading group today and we were reading a non-fiction book about gorillas. I decided it was a perfect time for me to expose them to the table of contents and the index. 

 I asked, "Does anyone know what in index is used for?"

One of my students raised his hand SO high and said, "Yes, it's what my mom uses to clean the windows!"

Nope, we were talking about an INDEX, not WINDEX! :)

"Currently"

Our super cute 4th grade friend is throwing a fun linky party/giveaway! I love linky parties, especially if there are prizes involved! :)

Here's my {Natalie's} first ever "Currently". 

Join in on the fun over at Oh' Boy Fourth Grade!

One more thing:

If you like giveaways, you should also check out the gals at Fun in First! 

They teach at the school where Rachelle and I both did our teaching practicum in college! 

Yay for Fiddlers Elementary! :)

Great News - Free eBook!

Click HERE to be taken to MediaBistro.com to find out how you can download a free copy. 

Management Monday: Managing your blog

This tip isn't really a classroom management post. It's a little tip to help you {and me}.

How many of you HATE these word verifiers? Yeah, they are checking to make sure robots are not posting on your blog, I get it.....

And by the way, I was not commenting at 3:33pm {during school}. It was 4:33pm. Promise.

I CAN NEVER FIGURE OUT THAT DANG THING!!! On some websites it's ever worse. Have you tried the word verification on Facebook? I have to refresh the word 100 times before I get it! And really, "tream". That's not even a word, I think.


It also takes away precious commenting time on my end.


So, I've devised a little plan to help you change your settings to the most user-friendly commenting settings. You can get more comments and I can give more comments. :)


Here's my tutorial:

Yes, once in a while I'll get a spam comment filter through, but I just delete it. And once in a while I get a mean comment on my blog from an anonymous reader and guess what....I DELETE IT! It's my blog and I'll do what I want to {well it's mine and Natalie's blog}. :)




And there you have it...more user-friendly commenting! Hope you enjoyed! What do you think? Clear as mud?




Um...hello? How did I not know about {this} video tutorial from Kristen at Ladybug's Teacher files BEFORE I made this post. Ahem.