Manic and Monday Made It, plus yay for dads!

 Hey yall!!! I am so much better than my last post, because guess what???

My dad is a genius. A computer genius, to be exact!

He was able to recover my corrupted file!!! Soooo....look what's finally in my shops!

 

This is a monster, with 120 pages! Yikes! It includes:

*Attendance Board-header, student owls, and transportation options

*Name Plates-there are 4 different color options

*Calendar Buddies-includes days of the week, months of the year, and 'today is,' 'tomorrow is,' and 'yesterday was' header cards

*Number Cards- numbers 1-31 are included

*'Owl'phabet Cards-there are 2 different size options

*Table Numbers-there are six different table tags

*Classroom Jobs-includes 20 classroom jobs

This set has a theme of owls and polka dots, accented in teal, orange, lime green, and brown.
Click here to get it from my TPT store, and here to get it from my TN store :)

Just because I am sooo happy about my daddy being ah-mazing, I will offer it free to the first person that can guess what he did for a living (he's retired now). Leave me a comment below :)

Now, onto my Manic Monday freebie! It is a little companion to accompany this cute set.

 

Click the picture to get your freebie!

If you have a freebie to share, go link up with Classroom Freebies!

 

I am also linking up with Tara for her Monday Made It Linky!

 

My niece and I got super crafty yesterday! I know that everyone has seen the melted crayon artwork around, so we thought we would give it a whirl!

We bought all our supplies:

1. white canvas (16 x 20 was 2 for $9.99 at Michaels)

2. Crayons (we used 2 boxes of 64)

3. Hot glue gun

4. Heat gun

5. Paint and paintbrushes

First, we tore all the paper off the crayons. Tip: soak the crayons in water first!

Then we broke them in half, and hot glued them to the canvas. We propped the canvas against the wall, and covered the floor with newspaper to prevent splatter.

We turned on the heat gun and the wax melted away! It was pretty instantaneous, which I was pleased about. I'm sure you could use a hairdryer as well, although it would take a lot longer!



Voila! All the crayons melted beautifully!

 

This was pretty cool already, but we took it one step further. We turned the canvas upside down, and painted some colorful flowers! I love how they turned out!

This is my niece with her master piece



And this is mine! I used all the colors that will be in my theme for next year.



Cute, right? This will look perfect in my future classroom!

One last thing before I go :) (cheers to you if you made it this far!)

Have you seen the new blog that Tanja has created?



It's called Endless Pinabilities, and it is awesome! It is allllll about being inspired by Pinterest. I am a contributor, so go check it out! You won't be sorry :)

Whew! Thanks for hanging in there...and don't forget to guess what my daddy did for a living!

The 'Berry' Best Year

Hey yall! Just a quick post to tell you about my new craftivity that I have up for sale.

I am *super* excited, because this is my favorite one...er, make that two...yet!

Have you had a 'berry' good year? Then you and your littles definitely need to make one of these sweet things...





This unit includes:

*2 berry craftivities (strawberry and blueberry)
*2 different writing prompts, both in 2 different style fonts
*Writing prompts for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade!
*Tracers and templates to complete the craftivities
*Pictures of the completed craftivities



You like?

Get this in my TPT store here and in my TN store here.

First two to comment get this free :)



We Love the Earth!

Hey yall! Is it just me, or was today completely exhausting? Whew!

We have had lots of love for our little ol' Earth in my classroom.

We started on Friday by reading these books.





We also watched a Brain Pop Jr. video on reducing, reusing, and recycling. We discussed all the ways that we could take care of our earth, and made a graphic organizer of our ideas (forgot to snap a picture of that ).

Then we got to creating :)

We made these really awesome earths, and wrote 3 ways that we could take care of our earth.





My bulletin board was already full of our achoo people, but I just had to get these up! Ignore the stacked chairs in the picture :)

Today, we finished our Earth Day fun by reading this book.



We discussed what pollution is, and how to avoid polluting our earth.

Then we made these stinkin' cute little owls from my Give a Hoot! pack.



I LOVE how they all used the same tracers, but they each turned out a little differently. I especially love how some of them added eyelashes and bow ties :) I much prefer work that is not 'cookie cutter,' as I feel it truly does reflect the students personality. See that last one, how it is all crooked and odd? That sweet girl is most definitely an oddball :)

Gotta go...my hubby is cooking me dinner, and it's starting to smell yummy!