A little more crochet...

I've been enjoying the Winter Olympics while doing a little crocheting...I am so into using those awesome crochet charts now!!!!! I pinned this project a few weeks ago; totally love the rainbow colors. I made one in bright blue, using size 3 thread. This is a very easy pattern to follow! I had a hard time getting a good photo...but you get the idea. I took a couple of pictures without the flash, so they look a little dark, but the pattern shows up well.

Here's the same doily done in yellow thread (size 10) with a size 7 hook...smaller for a different look.

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Valentine's Day in Review

Hello! I thought I'd share a few valentine ideas with you...seems I'm always posting later rather than early, but that's the way it goes! We did these water color resist hearts (paper is 6x12)...based on this pinterest idea.

Here is our classroom door for February: God's love fills our hearts. The children used water and glue to cover the white hearts with tissue paper squares.

One last fun activity...I found the original blackline for this on Heidi Songs blog here a couple of years ago. I always had the children use water colors to reveal the sight words, but this year they used markers....loved it! So much easier and less clean up! I am definitely going to go the marker/white crayon route again  to practice sight words!

(I put one sight word in each heart, instead of one letter, as in the original post.)

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Look and see!

This week we will add the words "look" and "see" to the word wall. I made this activity...based on so many of those "butter it" ideas on Pinterest.

I added the counting component...the children have to count how many times they "buttered" each word and write the number. I used clip art from  Month by Month Clip Art published by Scholastic. I ordered it with bonus points last year and love it!

Quick Letter Sound Idea

Here is how I used these Dollar Tree cut outs....I put letter stickers on the paintbrush and ran the paint cans through my printer. The children match the beginning sounds. Quick and easy! Once they are laminated, you don't have to worry about the stickers coming off, either! Bonus!

I've had a few questions about printing on these cut outs. I did an earlier post here if you are interested!
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Snowflake Art

Here's a little snowflake project we did last week...

I know it's hard to read in the picture, but the poem underneath says: Thank you, God, for winter fun and snowflakes from above. Thank you, God, for sending us your blessings and your love. Amen

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Magnet Center

Hello! I 'revamped' our magnet center this month.

I printed a few simple prayers that contain some of our sight words. I made magnets out of the missing words for the children to fill in. (They can use the black and white copy to find the missing word.)

I also am using this awesome freebie to review beginning sounds and practice cvc and color words.

And here is the little bucket holding the newest letters I got at the Dollar Tree last week.

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Roll a Snowman...felt style!

Happy Winter! We are still in the deep freeze here and since we have to endure winter anyway, we might as well make it fun, right? I saw this Roll a Snowman game made out of felt on Pinterest. I LOVED that it was made out of felt instead of paper...our kids get so much laminated paper, I thought the felt might be fun for a change. I came up with my own version that looks like this:

I made a set of 4 snowmen, along with enough accessories for each one to have a  hat, 2 wiggly eyes, a nose, *smile*, scarf, and 3 buttons. All of the pieces are kept in a plastic shoe box for easy storage and clean up. (You could also adapt it and use 2 dice, but you would need more pieces, like arms and boots.)

I scanned all of the pieces if you'd like a *faux* felt game! You need to print 4 (right click save the image to your computer first) of the first one, so you have enough bodies, noses, and eyes.

(print 4 copies of this one)

(print 1)

(print 1)

I made a trip to the Dollar Tree over the weekend and found these fun things to use in my classroom:

I haven't opened the magnetic letters yet to check them out, but you can never have too many of those, right?? The pink and red hearts will make good counters or game pieces. I also bought the red plastic shoe box, just cuz I like'd it! I am sure I'll find a use for it. They had a variety of colors. Apparently, January is a good time to get storage items there. = )

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