Guess who has to wake up by alarm tomorrow for the first time this week? That's me! ;)

We ended up having four snow days off from school. For new readers, I live in a rural area and actually live on a gravel road and they don't typically get plowed until everything else is somewhat clear. The buses are only driving snow routes, but I am excited for the students to get to go back tomorrow to have their Christmas concerts the next two days. My kiddos and I are fine staying home forever, but I know a lot of my parent friends on Facebook are READY for their kids to go back. ;) I enjoy all of the unexpected time off with my family that I can get. My babies aren't going to be babies forever!

Yesterday, I had the chance to bundle all of my Christmas hundreds charts hidden picture activities into one product. I know a lot of you find this much easier. You can find it by clicking on the picture below. The bundle includes 13 charts and is on sale for $8.75. 

I'm having so much fun being snowed in that I might be guilty of refreshing the school closings web page of our local news station no more than 8 million times in the last hour to see if my school has been added to the list. Yes, I receive texts from the Principal, Facebook messages, emails and a phone call, but knowing right away is such an amazing feeling! ;) Ha! Does anyone else share in this excitement?

Okay, maybe I should lay off the Coca-Cola a little! :)

This morning, I created an emergent reader and a few freebies to go along with it. Be sure to check them out! Click on the pictures to take you to my TpT store to purchase the reader or download the freebies! Just so you know, the freebies are included in the reader file if you purchase it.

This is the first year that we have planned not to take our Kindergarten students to the zoo. Every year it seems like we battle with the weather and it's so unpredictable that it was easier to go with an indoor field trip this year and not have to worry about rescheduling. I'm really looking forward to our new destination (a science and discovery center), but I will definitely miss the zoo. However, we were lucky enough to still get to teach a unit on zoo animals!

I have a created a few resources to go along with ELA and Math that still incorporate zoo animals into Shared Reading and Math Work Stations. Be sure to check them out in the next few days while they are on sale! Click on the pictures below to take you to my TpT store. They would also go great with my zoo animal hundreds charts like the lion and monkey!

Reg. price - $2.00...on sale for $1.70*

Reg. price $1.50...on sale for $1.28*

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. :)