The Mitten

So I (Amber) have had this mitten pattern for years. We always cut two and glue or staple them together and put the characters aside. And honestlybit was driving me nuts! They always got torn, or put too much glue for their animals to fit, and I just really didn't like the project.

So this year I changed it up. I decided a paper bag would be the perfect way to have an opening for sequencing the story. I just cut about half of the bag off so that it would be the same size as the mitten tracer I already had. Just turn the bag on it's side and it's perfect!

Then I gave each of the students a set of animals to color and we were ready for retell!

Erin's class printed the mittens on white card stock and colored them! Below is a fun follow up activity and you can find the mitten and animals there too! Just click the picture to download it!

What fun things to do you like to do with Jan Brett's story?

Winter Writing

Today was supposed to be our first day back from winter break, but the weather had other plans. Have we ever told y'all that Oklahoma shuts down with 1" of snow? However it was -2 when I woke up this morning! BRRRRR

This is Amber's little guy helping his daddy shovel the driveway.

It was definitely nice to have the day to uh write lesson plans and get ourselves prepared for the week. We printed Mrs. Will's January Save My Ink to get us started back from break.

Next week we'll be using our Polar Pack. You can see it HERE!

But we are a little excited to see our K sweeties (even though we'll miss our babies) and we are ready to get them writing again!

So we created a few {8 to be exact} fun pages for them to use. Hope you can use them too. Just click the picture to download. 

And one more of the cute snow shovel-er!

Happy back to school week!

Polar Pack Unit

In honor of it looking very wintry outside we have finished our winter centers unit!

This unit is 100 pages of everything cold! Just click the picture to see it in our store!

And in honor of the snow falling outside and our new unit we have a little freebie for you!

Click the picture to download!

*Notebook Freebie*

Can you believe August is here and before we know it there will be little ones in that messy classroom? I mean yours might not be messy, but MINE is!

For those of you who haven't heard the Kinder Sisters will be teaching across the hall from each other!! How fun is that?! We're so excited and we've been creating like crazy to get the year started right. But there is still lots of work to be done in the new room!

SO how do you like to stay organized? Notebooks, buckets, file folders? What helps you the most?

I love to have notebooks so I can easily keep files nice and neat and know exactly where to find documents all most of the time. So we created this little freebie to help us and YOU stay organized!

And in return for the little freebie we'd love if you would follow our blog! We're just getting started, but there is lots more fun to come! Promise ;)

Just click the picture of your choice to get to the freebie! Enjoy!

And best wishes on a new year!