Monthly mini books + a March freebie!

For this week's Manic Monday freebie, a preview of my newest TpT product: a set of emergent  reader mini-books for each month of the year.

I also wanted to share about a brand-NEW educational site that I just found out about!

Educents is a daily deal site like Groupon or Living Social, but for students, educators, and parents. It will offer discounted software, online courses, curriculum, and other educational materials. The best part is that if you click on the picture above, you can register on their site for a FREE $15 gift card to use when their site goes live in April! I've already signed up for mine!

And an update for my St. Patrick's Day craftivity freebie from last week's Manic Monday! A picture of the finished product:

If you missed it, simply click on the picture.

ABC Mini-Books & a Freebie!

For Manic Monday this week, I have a cute St. Patrick's Day craftivity to share. 

I had in mind what I wanted do with my kiddos, but couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so I made my own and decided to share with all of you! Just click on the picture below to get it from my TpT store!

And I am SO excited to post about my newest TpT product, because it's been in the works for the past month. This is definitely the biggest project I've ever taken on (500+ pages!). Click on the picture below to go straight to it. Find the new SPANISH version here.

Mini emergent books - which are quickly becoming my favorite thing to create - are included for each letter of the alphabet. This project definitely fed into my clip art craze, as I had a good reason to buy even more! In fact, PayPal thought I was purchasing too much clip art online because it temporarily suspended my account, thinking it had been hacked! haha. Ah, the addictions of a teacher. :)

A quickie preview:

This pairs perfectly with my FREE My Book of ABCs I posted last week! 

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess!

For Read Across America/Dr. Seuss's birthday celebration, we had quite a fun day in my class!

We wore our pajamas, got to bring blankets and stuffed friends, and spent the last 30 minutes of the day reading in the gym with other classes.

One of our favorite parts of the day was making this cute Dr. Seuss craft from A Cupcake For the Teacher:

A Cat in the Hat birthday cake! I created a little writing worksheet to go along with it and added some glitter to the candles (which one of the kiddos called witch fingers, haha!). Boy, were they excited about a little glitter! I'm sure our janitor was very happy cleaning up our room that night, but it sure made our room look cheery! 

Finished product!

For math, we worked on a fun Cat in the Hat math worksheet, which was a freebie from Fun in K/1. Check it out on her site here: 

http://www.funink1.com/2013/02/march-is-coming.html