Mother's Day Gift Idea!

Hi!

Today was a semi-long day because we had our school play at 6 PM and all the teachers stayed for it. I helped with the play and I was proud of the kids - they really worked hard and it all came together!

I was hanging out with the Pre-K kids the other day when I saw their Mother's Day gifts and I wanted to share them with you!

She had the kids take a flower stamp and stamp a bunch of flowers on a little bag. This girl and a few others did a pattern, but they could stamp wherever they wanted to. Afterward, she traced the outside of the flowers with a Sharpie or fabric marker (I can't remember which...) and then they glued buttons onto the middle! So cute.

I love them! So colorful!

The other day, our recess supervisor asked me how much more teaching I had to do. I am desperately trying to get as much reading and math instruction in as I can, so really I think I'll only have one full day (besides Field Day) without our normal schedule.

How much teaching do you do in the last days of school?

It's Almost Party Time!

Only half of a day left until break time!!!!!!!!!!!!

These past few days haven't been horrific, so I am grateful for that! All I have left is the Christmas party tomorrow, yeah!

Here are a few other Christmas-y things we have been doing. :)

Inspired by this pin...

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We made some junk mail snowflakes!

Ours look a little more like junk mail with holes in it BUT they loved it and it didn't take a lot of prep!

We also made Christmas gifts for our families! After perusing 154 blogs and looking all over Pinterest, I went with a gift idea that my first grade teacher did when I was in first grade! I would show you the kids' finished ornaments, but their pictures are on them. So I'll just show you mine!

We just painted popsicle sticks with either red or green tempera paint, and then I hot glued the popsicle sticks into this sled shape! There are two sticks hidden in this picture that would support the sled if you were to lay it down on a table. But it is meant to be an ornament. I am super happy with how they turned out! I just have to tie on the ribbons when I get to school in the AM.

I'm not sure if I showed you the sweet tiny Christmas tree that I found in my closet last week.

In their free time, the kids make paper snowflake ornaments for the tree and we just shove them onto the branches, haha!

And lastly, over the weekend, I found First Grade Garden and this CRAZY cute writing activity! Amanda provides the rough draft PDF as a freebie!!

And here's how they look on the bulletin board!

Soooooo cute!!!

Wish me luck for the partay tomorrow! All of the stations are set and ready to go, my presents for the kids are wrapped, and I am pumped!