Valentine Trail Mix

I was doing some blog reading and I came to Primary Inspired on my list. It was all about "Pinspired Plans--Valentine's Day." One of the neat things she mentioned was a Valentine Trail mix. I though this was super neat. I was looking for something for us to do that was pretty easy, fun/yummy, and well.....those were pretty much my criteria.

Here is the picture she posted that caught my eye. (It's a picture for yet another blog)

click here to check out this cool food blogger

I really want to make this in my room this week, and it's going to be short-notice for the parents, so I typed up this little ditty to send home tomorrow. If you plan on using it I left the space blank for when you want your items back. Even though Valentine's Day is Thursday we'll be celebrating Friday.

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New Craft & Reading Series Adoption ?s

First of all, I came up with a new creativity for my kiddos! I still plan on doing my Twitter-inspired craft but I'll do that next week. We were talking about friendships this week and how first grader celebrate Valentine's Day. (See also: We are too young for boyfriends and girlfriends!)

I decided to create this cutie:

I asked them "What if we could sprinkle magic sprinkles and could sprinkle them on our class?"

Here are a few of their writings. Most of them were soooo creative!

You'll get the template, a few writing prompts, a friendship map (can have are) and a sign for your bulletin board.  (*Sprinkles not included:) )

I used scrapbook paper for the cupcake holder, it is not included. You'll get a blank template to use/color/or trace. 

Click here to check it out

Okay...cuteness aside.

We are adopting a new reading series. I'm jazzed. I started in my district the first year they had the last one but I didn't do anything concerning the adoption of the series. I'm also so ready to get some new stories. I truly cannot read some of them again! (AHHH!)

I was wanting your opinions (if you use any of these series). Here are the main contenders:

 

Journeys by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Thoughts?

Currently for February

I love these!!!

Listening-Shaggy...yes that Shaggy...lol
I just found a program (for Macs) to get music from old ipods...I thought 200+ songs were stuck on my old Nano!!

Loving--My New Macbook!!
I made the plunge last Saturday. Best Buy was having a sale and I've been saving...and I needed one. It took me mere minutes to create my Currently this time and in the past I'd probably still be waiting to load something. Traditionally I was a PC person so I'm experiencing a learning curve but so far so good.

Thinking--Brrr!
I'm in Indiana. We had a 2hr delay today. You're probably thinking "Oh they must've gotten snow." Nope...this is our second 2hr delay for low temps. Oh my goodness! I also live in an apt and walked to the leasing office this afternoon. Bad idea. I thought my legs were going to snap off. I actually thought to myself "If I were Rose (from Titanic) I would've bogarted the floating furniture, too."

Wanting--To be Beachfront
Enough said.

Needing--I have been so bad at keeping on top of my Math Journals. I'm way ahead in our actual math text than I am on creating these. So, if I get it finished before Sunday I'm going to do something special *Stay Tuned!*

Pet Peeves--Lying
This really encompasses a lot for me. (In the classroom and life)
Don't lie to me...especially over stupid things. When I find out things will be far worse off.
Don't cheat. I saw you looking at their paper and you're telling me you didn't copy?! Cheating is dishonesty. (I have a few "Cheater Pants" this year...can you tell?)


Here are a few February things I do have finished:

• A Tweet Valentine's Craftivity

• Free Number Bonds (for math centers, extra addition, subtraction, missing addend practice)

• Tooth Fairy Unit (this is pre-blogging! I'll have to find a preview, lol

Source: teacherspayteachers.com via bcosby on Pinterest

Linking up with Farley for the monthy Currently

Number Bonds of Love

Where did January go? In a matter of days I'll be awaiting Farley's Currently...that means it'll be February!!! Oh my word. Well, this month has kinda flown by and I totally spaced getting together my February/Valentine centers...so I cheated. Okay okay...I didn't cheat I stimulated the economy by purchasing centers from The Queen of the First Grade Jungle . I printed them today and laminated them  and I'll be sending them home with some kiddos who have darling parents that volunteer to help with cutting, gluing, laminating, and other horrible jobs only a saint would volunteer to do.

I think I'll like them :) Well, there was one more thing I wanted to add to them. My kiddos did a great job with numbers bonds in my Snowy Day Centers but I wanted more practice with numbers to 20. 

Here is what I came up with tonight and I wanted share the number bond love!

{Click here to get your freebie}

A Tweet Valentine's Craftivity

I've been tweeting for years now and a few months ago I came up with a Twitter account for my blog. You can find me @MissCosbyIn106. If you're on Twitter and follow my blog leave a comment with your name so I can follow you!

Well, that got me thinking about how cute that little bird is and how fun the word 'tweet' is. Here's what I've come up with for Valentine's Day for my kiddos to make.

after the @ symbol have the students write their names

 You'll get

• 3 pages of student Valentines
• 3 pages of teacher Valentines
• Template to create tweet bird

When you download the sample you'll not only get a picture of the finished product but 1 sample student & teacher Valentine.

Click here to check it out on TpT