Black Friday Shopping In Your PJs!

Happy Thanksgiving a day early everyone! In honor of this weekend being Thanksgiving followed by Black Friday, I am putting my entire TpT store on sale for 20% off. This sale will last from tomorrow, Nov. 23 to Nov. 25. If you have been looking for some deals on some things in your wishlist, now is the time to stock up. I love being able to shop online in my pajamas so hopefully you will too! Click on my logo below to head to my store:

Long Time...No Post!

I know it has been a while since I have made a blog post but there has been so much going on in my personal life. My daughter, M fell about 3 weeks ago and was badly injured. She required major surgery and I wasn't able to think about anything but her. We are very blessed and she is making a great recovery thanks to a great deal of prayers and some wonderful doctors! Needless to say our family has so much to be thankful for this year.
I am just so grateful that Miss M is still with us for this Thanksgiving. She is definitely an amazing little girl!

Turkey Talk

Well I only have 2 days of school this week and then we are off for Thanksgiving break. I am so excited to have 5 days off with my sweet M. She is growing so quickly and I can't believe she is already 6 months old! She now has 2 teeth and is chewing on everything in sight. My afternoons are now busier than ever spending time with her so I don't have as much time for blogging anymore but I do still enjoy it when I get the chance.



Just swinging! Miss M loves to be outside!

In school news, my kinders have been working on letter sounds, phoneme blending, counting to 100 by ones and tens, 2D and 3D shapes, and comparing objects by their length, weight, etc. I have a low group this year and these skills are giving them more trouble than my kinders normally have. I am hoping their little lightbulbs will start popping on after the break!

Friday Freebie: Thanksgiving Counting Sheet

Happy Friday friends! I feel terrible for being such a bad blogger lately so I am sharing a fun freebie with you this Friday while I am heading to my graduate class.

I created this counting sheet to use as morning work with my kinders but you could also use it as homework or a math review. 

You can download this activity sheet on TpT. Please leave me some feedback if you download. Thanks so much!

Now if I can get through the 2 days next week, we will have 5 days off for Thanksgiving! Can't wait!! 

Favorite Thanksgiving Books linky party

Chrissy over at First Grade Found Me has a great linky party happening right now about our favorite Thanksgiving books. I love teaching about Thanksgiving to my kinders so I had to link up. 

Here are my favorite Thanksgiving books in no particular order:

This is a cute book and one of my newest purchases.

I love this book series by Bethany Roberts. The pages rhyme and are simple to read so these are always hits in my classroom.

This is a great alphabet book about Thanksgiving. It gives some great information.

This is a funny book that my kinders always love!

New on TpT & TN: Thanksgiving Unit

I have been working hard to get my Thanksgiving Unit ready for to post in my TpT store and TN shop. I know I am a little early for the holiday but I thought you all might like to be able to plan early. This unit is packed full of activities that can be used in literacy and math stations as well as in small groups or whole group settings. Each activity is aligned with a math or language arts Common Core standard. 

Language arts activities:
-Matching uppercase to lowercase letters
-Matching beginning sounds to letters
-Trace, write, & glue sight words activity sheet
-Thanksgiving beginning sounds activity sheet
-Classifying objects activity sheet

Math activities:
-Matching sets to numbers game
-Sequencing numbers 1 to 10 activity sheet
-Sequencing turkeys by size activity sheet
-Thanksgiving counting activity sheet
-Sorting shapes activity sheet

 TpT store                             TN shop

Since this is my newest unit, I am having a quick giveaway for a free unit. Just enter the Rafflecopter giveaway below. I will draw for a winner on Thursday afternoon. 

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I am so thankful!

I have been thinking this week about how thankful I am for all the blessings in my life. I have a wonderful husband and a great life for which I am grateful each and every day. I am thankful for my parents who raised me to be the person I am today. I am thankful for my extended family and in-laws who mean so much to me. I have a great group of coworkers on my kindergarten team who are always willing to help out when I need advice. I have such a sweet class of 22 kinderkids this year and the list could continue to go on... so I am posing this question: What are you thankful for?

I am linking up with What a Teacher Wants for their linky party. Hope you will visit!

Favorite Thanksgiving Books

Teaching Blog Addict and Learning with Mrs. Parker are having linky parties about our favorite books for teaching about Thanksgiving. I love teaching about Thanksgiving so of course I have quite a few favorite books. My top 4 would be: The Great Turkey Race, The Amazing Turkey Rescue, Thanksgiving is For Giving Thanks, and Thanks for Thanksgiving. The first two books are so much fun and the kids always want them to be read over and over. I hope you will try a few of these in your classroom as well.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am looking forward to teaching about Thanksgiving over the next couple of weeks. Here are some of the games I am using in my classroom. I hope you can use them too!

Matching numerals and sets

I created this math game to help my kinderkids practice matching numerals and quantities. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

Uppercase & lowercase letter match

This is a game for my intervention group to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

Thanksgiving rhyming match game

This game is a matching game using rhyming pictures. I plan to use it as a memory/concentration style game within my small groups. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

 If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!