I Love Valentine's "Week", a Freebie, and a TpT Giveaway

Valentine's Day Week (It should actually be a season of the year.)

One thing that I love about Valentines Day is that it is a-ok to wear pink with red. As a matter of fact, it actually looks good together! 

As teachers, we tend to see it as a fun friendship day amongst the students and teachers. However, high school girls tend to see it as a nerve-wracking day. Hoping to NOT get a valentine from a boy “out of the blue,” or as the case may be, hoping that "the boyfriend" will actually follow through with something meaningful, yet not extravagant. It is truly a rock and a hard place for many. 

However, as far as young primary students go...it couldn't be more fun! (Except for Christmas, of course.) 

In the past I have used printables, or rather copies, from the oldie-but-goody resource books, for everything including Valentine bag decorations, classwork, and homework. Now that I know how to create things with PPT, I cannot wait to create the next printable that we will use for  ________________  (fill in the blank).

  

Creating things for TpT has certainly been a creative outlet for me. It is actually relaxing to me. Also, it is exciting to see one of my lessons that I have created in the past become an actual product that looks so cute with the graphics and clipart that I am now addicted to. :-) Thanks to Ashley Hughes, Krista Wallden, and Lovin Lit to name a few. Of course sometimes the cute clipart inspires activities galore, which was the case for my latest Valentine activity pack. 

So...here is my latest creation that is Valentines-ish as well as contraction-y and friendly letter-esque. 

FREEBIE

I have posted a freebie sample of the larger pack if you would like to check it out here.

I realize that it is very close to V-Day for all of you early planners, but I had to post the parts that are complete. I posted them once, and then decided to revise and expand the pack. I have other ideas as well, but they may have to wait until next year.

You can find the freebie sample here and the full pack here. They are both in my store on teachers pay teachers, The Think Aloud Cloud.

And now for the TpT giveaway...

The teachers who are a part of the Freebie-licious blog are have a big blog hop giveaway. They are each giving away $10 gift cards to TpT! Now THAT is the perfect Valentine's Day gift!! Would one of you please email my husband about that? If you would like to join in on the fun, click on the button below.

here.

BTW, I learned something new...

Lori from Teaching with Love and Laughter had this challenge on her blog to link to Freebie-licious. I did it! I would NOT have been able to figure that one out even 8 months ago. Good times! (Never mind...I haven't figured it out quite yet. Maybe next time!)

Have a wonderful pink and red day on Friday!!

Carrie

Snowstorm and Super Sale!

A REAL Snowstorm

At the time that my class did the “How To Build a Snowman” writing activity, we had not had ANY snow. So I had them write about how they made or “built” their snowman craft. That craft provided enough of an experience for the kids to totally be focused on what they were writing.

However, several days later we had a REAL SNOWSTORM! Since we live in the south, many of my students were too young to remember a time that it snowed enough to make a snowman out of snow. So, you better believe that I am going to milk that for all it is worth! I will post later next week about how that experience excited my students as they write about the snow and building a REAL snowman!

Super news! 

Today I am celebrating the Superbowl by having a sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. It will also be extended through Monday. If you have anything on your wish list that you would like get, now is the time get it at a 20% discount.

The Think Aloud Cloud

Have a super day!

Carrie