21 Day Count Down!

Is it Monday already? Ugh... if you ask me the weekend goes by WAY TO FAST! But I love my kiddos and I'm excited to get back to work. I just don't like waking up before the sun decides to shine. So I'm sorry that I haven't posted in ALMOST a week. My computer is going crazy. One minute it is working the next minute, it's not. It's frustrating!!

This weekend has been the best though! What did I do, you ask? Nothing! Which usually drives me insane, but after the past couple of weekends of being super-duper busy I just needed some rest. I DID try and go up to the school. I even made it there on Sunday! But to my surprise, my door was locked! Which usually would be no big deal right? EXCEPT for the fact that when I changed rooms in August I never got the correct door key to my room. So I didn't get in or get anything accomplished! Thankfully I had my lesson plans done before I came home on Friday (Yay! Go me!) but I still haven't made my copies. So as soon as I get to school this morning, that is #1 on my to-do list. I'm thinking I'll just make enough for today and then finish up this afternoon. Monday morning copy lines are crazy at my school. I try to avoid it if at all possible.

I keep telling myself only 21 more days of school. (I think thats correct anyways!) I am kinda excited about that... kinda nervous I won't get EVERYTHING I want to get done, done... and kinda sad that I'm losing another group of kiddos. That is always a bitter-sweet thing for me. I'm so excited for them because they made it through kindergarten and now love school... but then I realize they won't be in my class and with me moving this year I'll never see them again. Plus one of the lucky girls in my class is moving to Italy for 2 years. Can you imagine that? Ahh... so jealous! I kinda want to tell her mom to pack me up in a suitcase and take me with them... but somehow I don't think that would work too well.

But in celebration of the end of the school year approaching, I made you a Roll, Say, Keep! freebie! It turned out really cute... and I almost thought about selling it... but I figured it could be my end of the year gift to you! (Not that I won't be producing more freebies! I already have one simple one in the works for you for tomorrow!)

So this "gift" includes 2 game boards and  3 sets of cards (sight words, color words, and number words to 25). I hope that you can use it!

Barnyard Freebie

Okay... okay. So I know I promised you a recap of Saturday's blog meet up! But I can't find the little device that hooks up to my computer that reads my SD card. So I promise I will look even harder tonight to find it! (I didn't get home from my mom's until 8:30 last night, so I was gone ALL weekend long!)

But I do have some very exciting news to share with you! I was contacted Saturday night by Charity Preston the founder of the Classroom Freebies blog and Classroom Freebies Too blog, as well as a few others I believe! Well they accepted my application and want me to be a part of their blog Classroom Freebies Too! Ya'll I'm so humbled by this opportunity. I'm such a small blog and to be a part of something so big is awesome!

So this Friday we are going to a farm. So our classroom is going to be FARM Central this week! I've got all sorts of math centers and literacy centers that focus on skills we have been working on in our class but that have the background theme of farm life. Its so cute! I hope it will get the kiddos excited about our field trip this Friday! Some of them are not so excited because we took a field trip this fall to the farm. So everyday I hear the phrase "a farm? AGAIN!?" I tell them that its a different farm and there will be lots of new things. So I'm sure they will have a blast when we actually go on Friday!

Okay so because I am looking forward to going to the farm this Friday I have made a Barnyard Subtraction Freebie just for you! This is a 4 page pack that lets your kiddos practice their subtraction fluency skills by identifying and writing subtraction sentences.

It uses the common core standards:
    K.OA.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (i.e. claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
    K.OA.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.

Just click on the picture to head over to my TPT site and grab this freebie!

I hope that you will find it useful! If you grab it I would love some comments! (Or you can rate it on TPT!)

K.OA.1. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings¹, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

K.OA.5. Fluently add and subtract within 5.