In case you thought I have forgotten how to blog, you might be right! ;) This year has been a whirlwind and I've been super busy at school and at home. Now that things are slowing down a little, I thought I'd post a freebie. Enjoy! I hope to be back soon to post our Fall Book Fair pictures. You can use this as a printable for younger students and digital for older students. 

I think all of this snow and chilly weather is making me anxious for spring to arrive! I have sunshine, green grass, flowers, and all kinds of wonderful thoughts of being outside! What about you? Are you ready for some Spring time weather?

***Update...Due to a seller bundling my items and offering them for sale via another web site, I am no longer offering this item for free. I'm sorry! I hope you understand.***

I had a request for a Frankenstein Hundreds Chart, so here you go! Just click on the picture below to purchase this chart in my TpT store for only $1.

I also added a Halloween Base Ten and Ten Frame Number Match up for numbers 1-10. You can get it through my TpT store for only $1!  Just  click on the picture below.

This weekend, one of my best teacher friends and I are in charge of our local Community Teacher Association's funnel cake booth to help support scholarships for high school seniors. I think all the preparations and the anticipated change in temps for Saturday have me feeling like fall! I love fall and can't wait to start decorating!

In the mean time, I created a little freebie for you that will hopefully come in handy if you are headed to the pumpkin patch soon!  Have you ever been on a hayride? is a class graph and analysis printable to help get your students excited about fall! Just click on one of the pictures below to grab your free copy! Enjoy!

***Update...Due to a seller bundling my items and offering them for sale via another web site, I am no longer offering these items for free. I'm sorry! I hope you understand.***

Several readers have requested summer, beach or ocean hundreds chart pictures and I think I finally came up with one. I hope you like my Sailboat Hundreds Chart! Click on the picture below to purchase a copy through my TpT store for only $1!

I've been busy creating today and trying to put off reading all the great living room posts at Kelly's Korner Show Us Your Life Home Tour series. :) Does anyone else love seeing a glimpse into how other people decorate? I think I'm obsessed with getting new ideas on how to decorate and then not doing any of them. Ha! ;)

So, in an effort to be productive, I made an Alphabet Hundred Chart Activities: A to Z set for TpT. Instead of revealing a picture on each new page like my other hundred chart activities, a new letter will be revealed! These would be perfect for whole class, small group or centers/stations. I hope you like them! Click on the picture below to take a peek.

Alphabet Hundred Chart Activities: A to Z

I would love to give this set away to the first three people who comment about how you could use these in your classroom. Be sure to leave your email address! Thank you to those who commented! Enjoy your new activities!

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***Update...Due to a seller bundling my items and offering them for sale via another web site, I am no longer offering these items for free. I'm sorry! I hope you understand.***

Last night, I created several hundreds charts (frog, penguin and Santa Suit) for you to use with your pond life/life cycles and penguin theme units. I hope you will be able to use one or both. Just click on the pictures below to grab them from my TpT store for only $1 each! .

Earlier this year, I had seen the rhyme Five Little Cookies and I loved it! It has quite a few different versions, but I liked the simplest one the best. I knew it was something I could adapt for different themes. We are getting ready to work on subtraction this week and I needed something that would fit Easter and subtraction. I hope you like the freebie. Just click on one of the pictures below to download them.




I also created an emergent reader to go with the rhyme. You can purchase it through my TpT store for $1.50.  I would love to send it to the first three people who comment and include an email address. :)

Are you getting tired of these yet? I still have readers emailing me asking me to make more, so as long as there are suggestions, I will make what I can to share. I have had several suggestions that I've tried working on with no luck. Sometimes the boxes are a little too boxy to make a picture look right and an image that should look cute will look all wonky. :) I am completely open to more suggestions though. These are so much fun to make! 

 ***Update...Due to a seller bundling my items and offering them for sale via another web site, I am no longer offering these items for free. I'm sorry! I hope you understand.***

I had so much fun creating the upcoming holiday and celebration hundreds chart activities that I decided to make some more hundreds chart items for spring and a few for previous holidays. Click on each picture to purchase these charts from my TpT store.

To view the previous hundreds chart post: Click here

I finally had the chance to sit down a create a freebie for the squirrel mini treat envelopes I talked about in this post.  I realize that not everyone may have a Dollar General nearby to be able to get these exact envelopes, so I created something similar for you to print and fold. It won't take a lot of ink for the envelope, either. You can always print it out in grayscale and copy it onto construction paper, too. I hope you like it! There are 25 pages in all.




Click on any of the pictures below to download Nuts About Numbers from my Teachers Notebook Shop.

I just posted a mini Math and Literacy Unit for There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow at both my TpT and TN stores.  The unit is based on the book There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro and illustrated by Jared Lee.

Click here to see the unit in my Teachers Notebook shop or Teachers Pay Teachers store.

•  Shared Reading
• Magnetic Board Retelling Pieces
• Pocket Chart Sequencing and Vocabulary Cards
• Syllable Sort & Self-Check
• Spinner & Graph
• Snowman Roll & Color
• Pattern Pieces

• Graphics: http://www.scrappindoodles.com/
• Paper: Essentially Scrapn Frame: Print Candee
• License Numbers 35230 and TN42906
• Fonts: Elephants in Cherry Trees, Doodle Tipsy & Print Clearly

I hope you like it!

I can't help myself! I know it isn't even Thanksgiving yet, but Denyse at Scrappin' Doodles is making so many cute graphics that I have to get busy using all of them before Christmas sneaks up on me! The Christian radio station I listen to is playing Christmas music right now, but only on the weekends and I've been LOVING it! I've been in the mood to put my tree up for awhile now. I'll wait until Thanksgiving though. :)

Tonight, I created a Christmas Candy Math Flip Book that covers the numbers 1-20. You can bind it to use it as a flip book or cut apart the pages to create a matching game. I hope you like it!

Just thought I would share some printables for numbers 0-30. I was looking for something that incorporated a little more than just writing numbers and showing one type of value. I know they are very basic, but I am going to use them with some of my HeidiSongs printables like the number songs, number cards,  as well as, our number poems for each number in order to create a packet for each number. Plus, my students can use information from our anchor charts to fill in some of the worksheets. This will help them be a little more accountable when the chart is being created. Numbers 1-10 are all the same format. The numbers 11-30 have a few different elements to help with base ten, greater than/less than, counting from a given number, etc. 

I thought the sea animals at Dollar Tree were so cute I knew I could use them for something, so I created a few printables to go along with them. If you don’t purchase the sea animals, but still want to use the free printables, I created a page of printable manipulatives that you can use.

How else would you use these?







My package also came with one dolphin, but I didn’t use it because the paint was all messed up.

Today, I had to go back into town to get brush killer and a pump to try to kill the insane amount of poison ivy we have climbing several of the barbed wire fences around our yard. I am highly allergic and have had it three times this spring/summer already. I’m so tired of scratching that I was ready to spend whatever it took to have it all gone!
So, I took advantage of the trip to run by a different Dollar Tree this afternoon. I'm most excited about the ice cream bowls! :) My thought was to make these into another math work station. I would add number cards and have students spoon ice cream (pom poms) into their ice cream bowls. I would also include some recording sheets with ten frames and paint markers. I will try to make that later as a freebie in case any of you get these, too.
Dollar Tree: $9

• 2 sets of ice cream bowls (3/set—1 each of pink, green and blue)
• 2 sets of pom poms (80 pcs/set)
• 1 Cars foam number puzzle
• 1 Disney Princesses foam number puzzle
• 2 sets of divided plastic dishes (2/pack)
• 1 pkg. of flamingo drink stirrers (10/pack)

I bought the divided plates for addition and subtraction. The drink stirrers go with the palm trees I got last night for use as individual pointers during Guided Reading, The Daily 5—Read to Self/Someone, etc. The foam number puzzles will be for putting numbers in order and then I’m already working on a recording sheet for 10-20.

Now, where do I put all of this until school starts?

I was inspired to go shopping by Fran at Kindergarten Crayons. I saw the lovely alphabet and number stamps she bought at Target and decided I needed to make a trip to town. Unfortunately, they were all out of the stamps.
I still hope to find some of the stamps she found, but since we live an hour from the nearest Target, I can’t spend $25 in gas to keep looking for dollar stamps. If anyone finds any extra at your store and you’re willing to buy them for me, I will pay you for them and pay for shipping. I would love to have at least two sets of each, but I will take whatever you can get. Pretty please!
Target: FREE (Two of the items I purchased from a transaction before gave me a $5 gift card, so I got all of these for free.) Otherwise, they would have all been $1 each.

• sports name tags for our 1st day of school nametag lanyards (Our PBIS Schoolwide Theme is Sports)
• monkey card (I needed a $1 filler.)
• alphabet puzzle cards
• animal action cards
• desk nameplates

I LOVED these animal action picture cards. We use HeidiSongs Elicit a Physical Response movements all the time for patterning, calendar time, counting, saying letter names and sounds, etc. I have the sheets in a sheet protector attached to our white board so I can access them quickly. The cards are two-sided and seem pretty durable. There are 40 animal actions.
I thought these cards would be perfect for transitioning from our seats to the carpet, lining up, etc. For example, hop like  kangaroo back to your seats or flutter like a butterfly to the carpet.

Dollar Tree: $10

• number magnets (2)
• jewelry links (2)
• shapes sticker charts
• numbers chart
• tiki ice cube trays (3)
• palm tree drink stirrers (10/pack)

Ideas:

• number magnets for a math work station, along with a small metal for comparing numbers, matching numbers, etc.
• jewelry links can be used for patterning, sorting by attributes, graphing, measurement, weight, etc.
• numbers chart-cut apart and mix up for students to put in order or for one-to-one correspondence using manipulatives
• The tiki ice cube trays will be used as ten frames with number cards and manipulatives for students to create a given number. These would be fun for making Play Doh manipulatives, too.
• Palm tree stirrers will be used as pointers during small group reading instruction.

Mardel: $10
Both sets below were on clearance for 50% off. Yay!

• Cat in the Hat bulletin board set - $5
• Carson Dellosa Tropical Palm Tree bulletin board set – $5

Ideas: pictures with students for Dr. Seuss celebration and measurement

Chicka Chicka tree to replace the real one I use to have that took up so much room.

What are some of your frugal finds this summer?