Dragons Love Tacos Centers

If we know one thing to be true in this world...it is Dragons love tacos.  I love reading this humorous book to my kids every May.  

I love even more when I can combine books we have read in class with centers.  This Dragon & Taco Center  can be used in a sensory bin or as a matching center.   

I am obsessed with finding as many ways as possible to get a sensory bin in my literacy centers.  For this one I put Easter Grass into my sensory bin (the lettuce) and some tomatoes from our play food.  I then added my dragon and taco center.  The students match the letter to the picture that begins with that letter.  

This product includes dragon with taco that have uppercase letters, tacos with lower case letters and tacos with pictures from A-Z to identify beginning sounds. It comes in a color and black and white option. 

Here is another option.  Matching Uppercase Letters to Lower Case Letters.

You can check out this center and my other dragon and taco themed activities here in my TPT store.

Birthday Gift card Giveaway

 In honor of my birthday this Tuesday I am giving away a $10 Teacher Pay Teachers gift card.  Entering is easy.  Just comment below with what's your favorite thing to teach in the spring. I will randomly pick a winner at 12 pm (CT) on April 6th which happens to be the first day of the Teacher Pay Teachers site wide spring sale.  My store is 20% off and you can get up to 25% off site wide with the promo code FORYOU21.  

My favorite thing to teach is a Mo Willems Author Study and my favorite book is Edwina the Dinosaur who Didn't Know She was Extinct.  My kids always love it and giggle as I read it aloud. I've created a book companion of 5 activities that go along with the book.  You can check it out here in my store.

Congratulations to Michelle for winning the $10 gift card.

Science Experiment: Lava Lamp

I love an easy science experiment that includes supplies I already have and get a great reaction from my students.  Here is one of them.

Materials Needed:

A jar or clear cup

Oil

Water

food coloring

alka seltzer tablet

Instructions:

1.  Fill a container 1/2 to 3/4 full with oil.  I used vegetable oil but you can also use baby oil if you want the oil to be clear.

2.  Fill the rest of the container with water.

3.  Add 3-5 drops of food coloring to the jar.  Observe how the food coloring stops at the bottom of the oil but doesn't mix with it and then drops to the water where it mixes with the water and changes the color.

4.  Break up the alka seltzer into 1/4 or 1/2 pieces and drop into the jar.  Observe.  When the bubbling stops add another alka seltzer tablet.  Repeat as much as you want.

The science behind it:

Oil and water don't mix.  The oil will stay on top of the water.  The Alka-Seltzer tablet reacts with the water to make carbon dioxide gas.  These bubbles attach to the colored water and cause them to float to the top.  When the bubbles pop they float back to the bottom.  

Valentine Centers

I wanted to share 2 Valentine Themed centers that I use in my classroom.  The first is a sensory bin sight word hunt.  I created some hearts in powerpoint and wrote our latest 10 sight words on them.  I then hid them in a bin of flower petals that I purchased from the dollar store.

The second activity was an addition to my writing center.  This simple activity comes from Teaching Little Learners and you can find it here for free.  This activity allowed my students to draw 3 things they love and then label it.