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.

What's the missing letter center

So learning how to put things in alphabetical order is such an important and yet boring skill.  So to help my students practice abc order and fluency in a fun way I created this product.

Missing Letter Center

This fun activity allows students to fill in the missing alphabet letter with an expo marker and comes in an upper case and lower case set.

This product can be found here at my TPT store.

Mini Eraser Addict

Hello my name is April and I have a problem.  I am a mini eraser addict.  I already can't leave Target without buying 7 more things than were on my list and now I can't leave Target without checking out their Dollar Spot and searching for the mini erasers.  I even have my mom who lives in Wisconsin checking her Target for different erasers and I had my dad who went down to Florida go to Target to pick up the Pineapple mini erasers I saw people posting on Instagram.
   This last time I went to 4 different Targets before I found the adorable bunny and egg erasers.  So I created this How many more to 10 Math Center which is aligned to the common core standard:  CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.4
For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

So check out this activity in my TPT store.

Snowball Sight Words

I've been trying to find new ways to get my kids to practice reading their sight words.  I've also been wanting to add a sensory table into my room but don't have the money to buy one or the energy to keep up with it this year.  So in an effort to check off both things, I've combined the two.

In December I filled a small bin with tinsel and hid sight words written on ornament clip art.  My kids loved it.  So this month I did the same thing with cotton balls and sight words written on snowball clip art that my husband designed for me.

The kids took turns hunting for the snowball sight words and writing them down on the organizer.  They were having so much fun I don't think they even realized they were learning which is my favorite kind of activity.

I wish I had another idea of a combined sensory table for February but at the moment I don't.  So if you have an idea leave a comment below and maybe you'll see a sight word creation for February in my TpT store in the near future.

You can download my Snowball Sight Word creation from my TpT store.

New Math Centers

So one of the struggles I have as a first year kindergarten teacher is finding materials.  My big struggle is in math.  I wish I had math stations for my kids to rotate through so that I could work in small groups with my kids but that is just not a reality this year.  Instead I have fast finisher activities for my kids that quickly get concepts to do so that I can work with my kiddos who need a little more attention.  However, the plan is that next year I'll have enough centers that I can do small group math instruction.

So over winter break I came up with 12 winter center activities and I am pretty excited about them.

You can find them here at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.

Winter Math Centers

I'm so excited to get back to my classroom, print and laminate them and get my kids using them.  Now to come up with spring ones. 💭