Five for Friday {Linky Party.. May 17th}

 

 

Five random things about this past week.

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Well, obviously #1 in my life right now is that I am officially on SUMMER BREAK! Yesterday was my last day.

 

 

 

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We enjoyed a luau breakfast party at a local church and a trip to a  park before parents picked up and summer break began!

 

 

 

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I gave my kids a little goodbye gift.

 

 

I found these little boxes of gum crayons at Dollar Tree a few weeks ago. I printed & laminated a class picture and tied them up with ribbon.

 

 

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I spent my first day of summer vacation working on stationery orders. I love the extra time I have in the summer to work on my business. It frees up my nights and weekends and gives me free time that I miss so much during the school year.  Here are a few things I worked on this morning.

 

 

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I know I have posted about Ebates several times before.. but seriously why are you NOT using it?!??!

 

My husband was in the car with me when I went to the bank earlier this week and he asked what this check was about.. he didn’t buy that it was FREE money!Four times a year- I get a check simply by visiting Ebates before I shop online.

 

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Happy Weekend!!!!!!!!!!

 

Kindergarten Summer Work

Every year in May, I am lucky and get to spend a morning with my next year’s class.

This year, I wanted to send home a folder of summer practice work. It is full of reading and math practices.

I have this pack listed in my store if you are interested. It is great practice for kindergarten peeps heading into first grade!

 

xoxo, kacey

Five for Five {Linky Party.. May 10}

Don’t hate me but I have… FOUR days of school left!

The light is shining bright and I can see the end of the tunnel. I honestly feel like I am in survival mode right now.

I made these little photo magnets to give to our special class teachers {music, pe, art, etc..}. It was a perfect little teacher appreciation/end of the year gift. I just printed a class picture and put them on white tiles and put a magnet on the back. We did a Mother’s Day version below.

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Here is a look at our Mother’s Day gifts..

I bought these initial letters at Hobby Lobby and painted them pink. I took a picture of each child with the letters.

We Mod-Podged the pictures onto small tiles.

After they dried, we put peel & stick magnets on the back.

Then we did a little step-by-step gift wrapping.

{not so easy for first graders! HA!}

They took them home and I hope parents will enjoy them.

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We worked on another spring time directed drawing activity this past week.

    

And.. you always have some really great ones. And….. you have some that make you wonder??!?! That is the beauty of a directed drawing activity.

    

You can find these caterpillars and five other step-step drawing directions in my Spring Directed Drawings Pack.

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I have been working on putting some of my Months of the Year ideas and activities together for a unit. One of things we did this week was to spell the months of the year. This is one of the projects on my summer to-do list. I am excited to get started working on it soon!

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This morning I got to spend a few hours with my future first graders for next year. It is always fun to get a little practice time with them before they come to me next year. I had them do a little independent work while I read and did some number recognition work with each one.

I also sent them home with my “Getting Ready for First Grade” summer pack.

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Teacher Appreciation Sales

 

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I am also having a sale on my Doodle Bugs Paper site. Click the banner above to check it out.

 

Happy Teacher Appreciation Day!

Spring Time Directed Drawings

 

If you have been reading my blog lately.. you know I am a big believer in directed drawings.

They teach great skills like following directions, listening, and directional words {above, below, etc..} and shapes. I do directed drawings with my first graders all year.

I have just finished a Springtime Directed Drawing Pack- it features a ladybug, caterpillar, flowers, butterfly, bumble bee, and a frog.

You can find this pack in my store by clicking the button above.

Five for Friday {Linky Party.. May 3rd}

Happy! Happy! Happy!

It is Friday!

Link up your blog post below after you post your Five for Friday.

All you have to do is blog about five random things from this week.

 

    

It is May.. How?

And the 13 days of school pic was actually taken on Monday. We are down to 9 day now! WOW! I am certain it will fly by super fast!

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Next Friday I get to meet my students for next year. I have been working on a summer practice pack for them to take home and do over the summer break.  I have it listed in my store if you would like to take a look.. just click on the cover below.

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Yesterday we had our elementary art show.. and it is always so nice. It is wonderful to see our talented kids work on display. Our art teacher is amazing!

 

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I have been instagraming {is that a word?} this week. It all started when What the Teacher Wants and Apples and ABC’s threw out a little teacher instagram challenge.

Then Clutterfree Teacher threw out another…

So, I jumped on the instagram train. I actually have had a personal account for a few years but I never did anything with it and I sure never used #hashtags {I was so lost!} But, after a quick lesson from a friend and also when I realized I could have two accounts I was ready to go!

Follow me on Instagram.. Doodle Bugs Teaching

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I am enjoying a personal day off from school today.. I got up early and have been working on some DBP orders and hopefully will have some time this afternoon to work on a few school projects. It is cold and raining and I just might take a little nap.. bring on SUMMER!

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