Two for Tuesday Link Up

I'm linking up with The Teaching Tribune today for "Two for Tuesday!"

I have two products on sale for 1/2 off today only! Don't miss out on your chance to grab these products for a steal today!


First up is my Happy Birthday Pack:

It is filled with so many fun activities to help your students day be extra fun

Two different birthday banners to choose from or mix them together:

Colorful Happy Birthday notes from your teacher:

Everything you need to make a "Birthday Book" for each student:

Birthday certificates:

Everything you need to make a Happy Birthday Take Home Bag:

           

And last, but not least a class birthday graph and cheer poster:

The second item on sale today is my "24 Editable Polka Dot Banners"

You can change the font to anything on your computer and use it for so many different things in your classroom: alphabet, numbers, birthday months, teacher name for your desk, welcome banner, etc.

There are 2 on each page and include all the varieties pictured below:

Just click on any of the pictures to go to my store and check it out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Our School Art Auction

My school hosts an annual art auction where each classroom must provide at least one donation to be auctioned off. It must be a class effort and go along with the theme of the year.

This year our theme was "A World of Color"

I started searching and looking around to get ideas for my class. I turned to Pinterest and these were the inspirations for our two class projects:

A parent of an older child in our school helps clean our school each day. We've become friends over this school year and talk each day when she comes into my classroom. She is an artist and was ecstatic when I asked her to take charge and help my class create our projects!

I was able to get all of the needed supplies donated from parents, which was amazing!

First we did the Las Vegas skyline. The mom helping us took the canvas home and painted the sky then came in and helped us with the buildings. Here are some pictures:

After all the buildings were covered with newspaper, my volunteer took everything home and brought back the finished product:

It turned out so well!
She added the perfect finishing touches on it and it ended up selling for $100!


The kids had a lot of fun with the second project! The mom came and gave my class a lesson on finger painting. We gave each scholar two small pieces of foam poster board. They were then able to finger paint them however they wanted. 

After they all dried I brought them home, traced ocean animals onto them and my husband was sweet enough to help me cut them all out! 

I then passed them all onto my volunteer, along with all of the donated supplies. She took them home, put everything together and this is how it turned out!

I LOVE IT! It turned out SO cute!

This was also purchased at the auction for $100!

Does your school ever host an art auction? What art projects does your class do for it?

Valentine Exchange

I'm sure a lot of you have seen this hilarious picture on Facebook over the last couple of weeks. I couldn't resist posting it today!

 
I'm a little late posting about Valentine's Day, but better late than never right!?

My class was fortunate enough to participate in a Kindergarten Valentine Exchange! We had a group of 26 classes total, including us, from all over America and one from Canada. Each class made enough Valentines to share with each class. We also made a letter about our school/state and then mailed them to each other!

It was a lot of fun receiving so much mail and my students really enjoyed learning about different states and seeing their unique Valentines!

Here are some pictures of the Valentines that we created as a class:

We used the erasers of pencils to stamp onto different colored stamp pads, then make patterns, designs or just random dots all over our hearts. Afterwards we wrote "Happy Valentine's Day" on each one, cut them out and we were good to go!

They all had so much fun decorating and writing on their Valentines and were excited to put them in envelopes to be mailed to all our new friends.

I forgot to take pictures of our final cards before mailing them, but they all turned out really cute!


After reading the letters from our new friends, we added them to our bulletin board in the hall. It was a lot of fun to see where everyone lived and how we all live in different climates, have different weather and favorite things to do. One thing that we had in common with a lot of classes was our love of P.E. and recess!

 Our exchange was so much fun! The coordinator of the exchange put a lot of time and effort into organizing all of the groups for it and I'd just like to give her a HUGE thank you!! :)

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day with your classes!