Flash Freebie!

We are having our first flash freebie! Our new "Surf Shack Summer Math" for first grade will be free for a short time this evening.

Details to come on our Facebook page!

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Trout Release

Last week we released our trout at a local lake. It was such a cool experience to raise them from eggs and observe the different life cycle changes that they go through. The kids were a little sad to say goodbye at first, but by the end of the field trip, everyone was in good spirits. This was such a cool learning experience. Our class will definitely be doing it again next year!

Fun in the Garden

We have been spending a lot of time in our school garden lately. Our vegetables are growing fast, and there is so much beauty everywhere you look!

The other day we did a "garden color" activity. Students brought clipboards, pencils, and graphic organizers out into the garden. Then they tried to record things that they saw for each color on their paper through writing and drawing.

I also created an anchor chart to help my kiddos out, because writing is still tricky for some of my first graders. The assignments turned out great and everyone had so much fun being outside. Even if your class only has a small planter box, this activity is totally doable. This is one of the activities from our new garden product that you can check out HERE if you are interested. Have a great time out there in the dirt!

Summer Product Linky Party

Add your end of the year and summer products below!

1.	Memory Book Grades 5-12	19.	Printable Scrapbook	37.	Goodbye Students
2.	Mystery Picture Graphs - Summer Pack!	20.	End of year reflection	38.	Kindergarten Diplomas
3.	Summer School Getting to Know You	21.	Summer Math Games Puzzles and Brain Teasers	39.	Terr-ific T-shirt
4.	"No Tears" Summer Reading and Writing Fun	22.	School Days {Class Memory Book and Craftivity}	40.	Freebie! Starfish Bookmarks
5.	Summer fun journal	23.	Farewell, Fifth Grade Reflections Activities	41.	Webby's Second Grade
6.	End of Year Activities!	24.	A Burst of First	42.	1st Grade Memories
7.	That's A Wrap	25.	5th Grade Memory Book	43.	2nd Grade Class Memories Book
8.	Camp End of the Year - A Week of Learning Fun!	26.	Memory Book!	44.	3rd Grade Class Memories
9.	We Rocked This Year - End of the Year Unit	27.	End of year review of geometry concepts	45.	4th Grade Class Memories
10.	Surfing Into Summer	28.	Craft Book: Aquatic Creatures	46.	5th Grade Class Memories
11.	End of Year Memory Collector Scavenger Hunt	29.	ABC Year in Review	47.	End-of-the-Year Candy Bar Awards
12.	(FREE) End of the Year Math Scoot	30.	End-of-Year Graduate Reward Tags	48.	3-Digit Addition with Regrouping Task Cards
13.	4th of July Rocket Craft	31.	FREE End of Year Postcard Activity any grade	49.	Fruity Fractions Review Game
14.	Scoopin' for Sums of 5, 10, 15 and 20 (FREE)	32.	End of Year Best Book Poster and Speech Project	50.	“Sweeeeet” Place Value Match-Up {*FREEBIE*}
15.	Memory Book- Chevron Themed (3-6)	33.	Everybody's A Winner Awards	51.	Drive-In Movie Project & Activities
16.	48 End of Year Award Certificates	34.	Gold, Silver, Bronze Achievement Awards	52.	Write Stories and Short Poems
17.	I Conquered Kindergarten! Memory Booklet	35.	Year Round Awards Certificates	53.	Think Tank Questions by Scipi
18.	Little Piggy's EOY Awards & Pennant	36.	Year End Achievement Awards	54.	Second Grade Stories

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Clip Art Freebie!

We just created our first clip art! It is a set of hand drawn shells, and they are really fun for creating summer and beach resources.  They are available in color and black and white, in both PNG and JPEG files.  

You can download the clip art HERE

The whole clip art thing is brand new to us.  I have always liked to draw, but I am still learning about using different software and saving files.  Since we are still clip art newbies, we are giving these first ones away for FREE!!!

Feel free to use them, and hopefully the next round of art will be even better :)  -Joe

Butterfly books

We are learning about butterfly life cycles right now. These are la books / busy books that we have been making. They have life cycle info, diagrams of different species, and fun facts. The kids really like how they have cool features that you might find in pop out books, like wheels, flaps, accordion books, and more.

Rocking Reward Bookmarks

We are giving away these cool bookmarks to our Facebook followers.  They are fun, colorful, and make great prizes or incentives.  Kids really like the alien, too! Follow this link HERE to like us on Facebook and download your bookmarks.

This is freebie is one of the bookmarks from our "Rocking Reward Bookmarks" item on TPT. The complete set has 24 different colorful bookmarks with fun graphics and slogans that promote reading.  These are great to give to kids on their birthdays, or as an end of the year gift.  They are also fun incentive items to motivate students to complete summer reading lists.

Central America Flashback: Edgar the Monkey

Just stumbled across some fun old pictures.  When we taught in Costa Rica a few years ago, we had many opportunities to travel around Central America.  These are pics from a trip that we took to the islands of Bocas del Toro in Panama.

The islands of Boca are absolutely stunning.  However, the best part for us was definitely getting to hang out with Edgar the white face capuchin monkey. He fell off his mom's back when he was a baby and a local boy found him in the jungle with a broken arm.  The bed and breakfast that we stayed at was nursing him back to health.

Edgar would play and play and play! Then he would get so tired that he would fall asleep. He was a really cuddly little guy :) We even got to "monkey sit" for a couple nights and let him sleep in our bed with us!

Edgar also really liked toys. He would play with keys, sunglasses, your nose, or just about anything else he could find. His favorite toys were probably straws. He would unwrap them with his little monkey fingers, and then put them in his mouth and bite them.

Edgar was going to enter a rehabilitation program to help him transition back into the wild.  White faced monkeys are super cute, but they are not pets.  However, we are sure glad that we got to hang out with this little one!

Cinco de Mayo Fun

Last week we made papel picado for Cinco de Mayo. It was hard for some of the first graders to fold and cut the tissue paper, but the final products looked great when they were done.

Our class has been learning about Mexico and Cinco de Mayo for the last week or so. Many students don't know that Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexico's victory over France in Puebla. This is a great resource to help with teaching about Cinco de Mayo! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cinco-de-Mayo-Journal-Jar-Writing-Fun-May-ELA-Cultural-Writing-Activity

Teacher Appreciation Link Up

TPT is having their annual Teacher Appreciation sale from May 7 - 8. Products will be discounted up to 28% off! We are having our first link up to promote the big sale. Just add your product below. Also, please help us out by following our blog or linking back to it on yours. Thanks and happy Teacher Appreciation Day!

Add your free or paid product for the TPT Teacher Appreciation Sale. The sale is from May 7 - 8, and products will be up to 28% off!

Please help us out by commenting, following our blog, and linking back. Happy Teacher Appreciation Day! 

1. Reading Response Journal	2. Perimeter War	3. Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
4. Pirates and Parrots Add the Room	5. HappyEdugator	6. Mizell Multiage. Buy 2, Get 1 FREE
7. End of the Year Fun Packet	8. Fish Bowl Word Families	9. Children Clipart
10. Welcome to the Regrouping Neighborhood! Addition With Regrouping (Power Point)	11. Summer Numbers Clip Art Pack	12. Just Keep Swimming Math Centers
13. The Whipping Boy book study	14. Cat Puzzles for Young Solvers	15. Super Story Recipe Lesson
16. Creative Educational Concepts	17. Poetry & Figurative Language Unit of Study	18. Science Stuff - Amy Brown
19. Mystery Picture Coordinate Graphs	20. Kindergarten May Math Journal	21. End of Year Math Activities for Middle School
22. End of Year Best Book Project: Poster & Speech	23. Breakfast for the Brain!!!	24. Nutrition Pack
25. Titanic Activities	26. Color Sight Words - Special and Regular Education	27. 50 Creative Story Assignments
28. Arthur book units bundle	29. End-of-Year Send-off (gr. 5-8)	30. Mary Rogers
31. Matter Unit	32. All History Review Bundles on Sale!	33. Ink n Little Things
34. Volume & Surface Are	35. Opposites Pelmanism	36. Fry 1st hundred BUNDLE
37. Subtraction with Regrouping using QR Codes	38. Gettysburg Address Unit	39. Addition Board Games with Bees Bugs and Friends
40.	41. 8 More Weeks of Sight Word Practice	42. Addition with Regrouping Pack
43. ornaami	44. Elapsed Time Lines - Common Core Math Tool	45. Tiffany Teaches
46. End of the Year Award Certificates	47. Create Number Sense Anchor Charts	48. The Enlightened Elephant
49. Figurative Language Literacy Skills Pack	50. Multiplication Madness I Have...Who Has card set	51. 250 frames - value pack
52. Kingdom Taxonomic Card Sort Manipulative	53. 1st Grade is WienerFUL!	54. America's Neighbors
55. Find Elapsed Time Like a Superhero	56. Charlotte's Clips	57. End of the year Owl Craftivity
58. Fractions Galor Task Cards	59. Poetry Possibilities for Spring	60. Wonder by RJ Palacio Novel Unit
61. End of Year Memory Book and Activities K-1 Unit	62. Common Core Daily Warm Ups 5th Grade	63. The Reinspired Teacher
64. Michaela Peterson (K-3)	65. Second Grade Smiles	66. Aspire to Inspire
67. Beautiful Butterfly Punctution Practice	68. Pronoun Pool Party!	69. From the Pond
70. Spring Time Syllabication	71. MsJordanReads	72. 125+ pages Guided Reading Resources
73. Welcome Secondary Parents Onboard!	74. Lots of K and 1st Common Core & Creative Resources	75. Christina DeCarbo (Sugar and Spice)
76. First Grade Fun Mrs. Dunn	77. A Roller Coaster Day - End of the Year FuN!	78. Learning Treasures
79. Gecko	80. Measurement and Data Assessment Packet - Grade 4	81. Science for Kids
82. Kristin Lee on TpT	83. Summer Printable Pack	84. Nichole Leib
85. Dr. Erica Warren' s Good Sensory Learning	86. Animal Classes Cross-Curricular (gr 1-2)	87. Michael Friermood
88. Antonyms Summer Fun	89. I Want to be a Super Teacher	90. Algebra Slope Maze
91. simone ryals	92. Best Mom in the World Craftivity and Gift Book	93. Mom, You're The Best!

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