I wanted to take a minute to thank the following super duper sweet bloggers who awarded me with the Versatile Blogger Award. I’m so thankful to have such a great group of bloggy supporters and friends. Thanks for making my week! Without you to read my posts, this wouldn’t be nearly as fun! I am still thrilled each time I get a comment, a new follower or even an email from another teacher! An award is just like the cherry on top of the already yummy icing on the cake in my book! Anyone feel like a group hug? Ha!

1. Thank the person who presented the award to you and link back to them.
Thank you so much to these ladies!  Go check them out at the links below. If you aren’t already following them, I would jump at the chance if I were you! Looking at this list just makes me smile!


     

2. Tell seven things about yourself.

• I don’t want to totally bore you with this again, but check out this post where I posted 7 things about myself for a previous award.

3. Pass this on to 15 newly discovered blogs and let them know they've received the award.
Sorry, I couldn’t stop at 15! I thought it would be hard, but I’ve found so many new-to-me bloggers lately. I’m so excited to pass it on! I know each of these ladies would love your support, too! If anyone would like to take on a little project creating a button for one of the links below without one,  let me know. It would be a great little surprise to them! I’m going to try to do a couple of them myself. Shh, don’t tell!

I picked up a few Valentine’s goodies from Dollar Tree and Dollar General the last several days. I plan to do a post with each of the items in use, as soon as I finish the printables to go with them. I thought I’d take a few before pictures though in case you want to pick up some of these items before they are all sold out.

Dollar General

Be Mine Treat Bags (4 count) $1

I’m Going Nuts for You! Mini Treat Envelope Bags (12 count) $1

Chocolate Covered Love Heart $1

Rose Petals (150 count) $1

Felt & Gingham Novelty Heart Bag $1

Dollar Tree

Heart Shaped Boxes (10 count) $1 x 2

Square Silver Tray $1

Round Bowls (4 pack) $1

Heart Table Scatter (60 count) $1

Picks (7 count) $1

Heart Stickers (72 count) $1

Here’s what I’ll be doing with the following two items:

The heart picks will be used as individual pointers during small group. I started using mini pointers for my RtI groups and they loved it! It just adds a little fun and I think it has really helped with one-to-one correspondence with letters and words. 

My calendar helper and I will be using the chocolate covered heart as a pointer during calendar time. We are currently using a snowflake. Now that I mention it, pointing to anything with a chocolate covered heart just makes me happy! Happy teacher, happy students!  

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!

It's not too early to start planning for February is it? Especially since I've already been adding stuff for March. :) The sad thing is, I don't even have my lesson plans done for January. Is there something wrong with this picture? Ha!

I wanted to share a simple freebie with you that I created tonight. Click on the pictures below to head over to my Teachers Notebook shop to download the file for free. I hope you like it!