Easy Mother's Day Gifts

Hello there!  It's Megan, from Mrs. Baker's Dozen!  I'm so excited to share this blog post today! Plus link it up with Doodlebugs, woo hoo!!

 

Today my first graders and I went all out and celebrated our mamas with a Mother's Day Bouquet Bash!  It was a celebration of mommies, aunties, and grandmas.  We showered them with some major flower power!

 

With just a few materials and your school's copy machine, you can create all of these sweet gifts!  

 

First is our Bouquet of Love book!  So simple and easy, just print, hole punch, and tie with pretty ribbon or yarn.  The vase of flowers can be printed, colored, and pasted on construction paper.  Or do what I did and cut the vase out of cute scrapbook paper ($3.00 a book at good ol' Walmart) and pasted just the tops of the flowers to make a FLIP FLAP bouquet.  Underneath each flower was part of a secret message, like I Love You.  My firsties decorated the classroom door with a Mother's Day directed drawing by Whimsy Workshop.  Too cute!

Our big gift to our moms was an adorable flower pencil.  Here's what you need to create it:

 

 All of these materials were found at my local Walmart and cost me less than $10! Score!

Your hardest steps are cutting the flowers.  Start with the leaf, which is my green cupcake liner.  Fold in half three times.  When it is a tiny triangle, trim off the top to a pointy leaf shape.

 

Next comes the petals.  Pick out the cupcake liners you want, then fold just them just like the leaf.  I did five here and that was pretty thick.  I would recommend cutting three at a time.  When you get to the last fold (tiny triangle) cut the top into a curve shape (petal).  Unfold and put the flowers in the order you want.  Take the leaf liner and put two tiny dots of hot glue towards the middle.  Layer the flowers on each other, putting the hot glue under each one so they all stick together.

 Finally, wrap some cute washi tape around a pencil (already shapened) and use a pushpin to attach the bloom to the eraser.  Voila!  Cute and easy gift for mom!

 You can find all of these fun activities and more in my Mother's Day Bouquet unit!  Check it out HERE!  

Thanks for stopping by!

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Do You Want to Build a Snowman? Practicing Place Value!

Hi friends! Jessica here from Tech and Teachability! I hope everyone is having a fantastic start to the year. It has been so relaxing for me and I've been able to get a lot of things mapped out and ready for the year. 2016 is going to be amazing!

Have you seen this little gem floating around Social Media? It's so inspiring and I just love to give a shout out to all my fabulous punchies and fellow teachers out there!

Today I just wanted to share a simple little activity I created for my kiddos to kind of sum up our unit on place value and regrouping. Plus it's super adorable!

I needed a review activity for our Numbers to 120 unit and I needed to update the hallway because I am neither confirming nor denying that there may or may not have still had Christmas themed stuff out there. (Maybe, who can tell right?) So I made this! 

With this activity the kids can create a snowman by choosing a two or three snowball snowman, a scarf, and two or three buttons. Each addition has a value of tens or ones. They add them all together and show the total value of their snowman! 

I've included a recording page and a page to hang in the hallway with the snowman. 

Click HERE to grab this! 

I also created a QR code scavenger hunt scoot for early finishers to begin once they finished with this little activity. It was a review of all the topics we learned in the unit. 

I know you just love my photography skills. I'm the next Ansel Adams. 

Recording Page 

This one is more Annie Leibovitz, right? 

I tape the cards all over the room in different areas. 

They scan the codes, read the clue, and then they have to go off and find the answer! And NO the cards aren't in order! 

Please check it out HERE and let me know what you think! 

I hope everyone has a fabulous February!

Happy Teaching!

Jessica

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