Sunday Super Sale

If you're looking for some fresh ideas or new products to use with your class, be sure to visit TpT's Sunday Super Sale this weekend!  You can get up to 28% off of everything. I can't wait! I've already filled up my wishlist with things I want to get.

Here are a couple of items I'm planning to buy...

 

And one of my own that I'm hoping to sell...

What items do you have your eye on?

February Fun Linky

I really like teaching during the month of February because there are a lot of fun seasonal activities you can incorporate into the curriculum. On February 1, we have an in-school field trip to learn about Native American life. I'll tell more about that later when I have some pictures to share. Of course there's Valentine's Day and Groundhog Day and the Superbowl that add some excitement to your lessons. If you have something fun you like to do with your class in February, link up at the bottom of this post!

Here are a few things I like to do...

This is a fun math activity to introduce the idea of area and perimeter. We don't really teach area in second grade, but I like them to understand what it is because it will be a skill in third grade. This activity using candy hearts (or any other small candy) is a good introduction using non-standard units.

 

Here's another math activity using candy hearts. Students arrange them in an array. This is where I introduce the idea of multiplication. I have them write down how many hearts are in each row. Then, they do repeated addition to find the total. I have them hide their answers and let them take turns telling me how many rows and how many columns they have. They are always amazed that I can immediately tell them how many hearts they have. It's gets them excited to learn multiplication.

I also do Valentine heart graphing, addition, and estimation activities, Valentine's Day letter writing, abc order, and a fun word search. All of those activities can be found in my Valentine's Day Mini Pack:

Link up your Valentine's Day activities below:

1.	Chocolate Challenge - Your and You're	29.	Valentine Patterning booklets	57.	Valentine Coin Counting Practice Sheet
2.	Box of Chocolates - Dolch Review Game	30.	I Love You a Bushel and a Peck	58.	FREE Valentine Heart Lined Paper
3.	Wild About Valentine's Day by Curriculum Castle	31.	100 Chart Smarts	59.	Love Quotes One-Liners
4.	Groundhog Day by Curriculum Castle	32.	Valentine's Day Heart Bingo - 30 Cards	60.	Valentine's Day Word Work Freebie
5.	Valentines Day MEGA Pack for ALL Subjects	33.	Coin Counting Bingo for Valentine's Day!	61.	Valentine's Day Chocolate Addition Boxes
6.	Valentine Bingo and More	34.	Mend My Broken Heart: Addition Puzzles	62.	Hearts and Chocolates Word Family Sort
7.	Valentine's Would You Rather by Word to the Wise	35.	Valentine Candy Graphing & Writing	63.	Candy Heart Math Center for CCSS K and 1
8.	Have a AHeart, Give a Heart! Group Game	36.	Valentine Number Bingo	64.	Valentine's Day Clip Arts
9.	The Sweet Shop: 2 & 3 digit add/sub	37.	Valentine's Day Countdown	65.	Patriotic President's Day Centers
10.	Robots Love Skip Counting By 10's	38.	Decorate The Valentine	66.	Valentine's DAy Idioms
11.	Valentine's Day Treats Addition Practice	39.	20 Valentine Word Problems Center activities	67.	Valentine Handwriting Paper
12.	Kathy Romano	40.	10 Little Valentine Hearts Math Puzzles	68.	Valentine Card Foldable
13.	Valentine's Day Activities / Printables mini pack Language Arts	41.	Valentine Letter Bingo	69.	http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentine-Mail-Call-for-Contractions
14.	Valentine's Day Candy Activities-Upper Elementary	42.	Freebie! Valentine writing Paper	70.	Anna
15.	Valentine's Word Problems Solve and Snip	43.	Bucket Filling Kit! Friends, community, kindness	71.	Valentine's Day Frenzy
16.	Valentines Clipart	44.	Valetine's Day Math Games, Puzzles and More!	72.	Valentine Mystery Critters digital picture book
17.	Happy Valentine's Day Mouse!	45.	Valentine's Day Math Games Freebie	73.	iHOLD You In My Heart {Literacy and Math}
18.	Hearts & Monsters Prepositions	46.	Very Valentine Pack	74.	Non-Fiction Mini-Books: Valentine's Day
19.	Love, Splat mini-unit	47.	Valentine's Day Dictionary Guide Words Sheet	75.	Valentine's Day Fun Pack by Brenda Martin
20.	Valentine Word Work	48.	Valentine's Day Mystery Text Messages - Division	76.	Valentine Activity Coloring Pages K - 3
21.	Valentine's Money Matching & Word Problems	49.	Cupid's Cookie Contractions	77.	Autism Educators -Penguin Hearts Math
22.	Miss Martin's Classroom	50.	Candy Heart Homonyms	78.	Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch - Cause and Effect
23.	A Time to Rhyme for Valentines!	51.	Valentine's Day Fact Families	79.	Writing Thank You Notes
24.	Valentine's Day Numbers and Colors	52.	A Very Merry Valentine's Day	80.	Middle Grades Maven
25.	Build-a-CVC Valentine Center	53.	V- Day Fun Art	81.	Nichole Leib - Who's On First?
26.	Be My Valen"swine" Math and Literacy Pack	54.	Valentine's Day Bookmarks by HappyEdugator	82.	Shari Beck
27.	Valentine's Centers {10 Literacy Centers}	55.	Valentine Activity Fun Pack	83.	Math 3rd, 4th CCSS/TEKS Cootie Catcher
28.	Valentine Calendar Cards	56.	Valentine's Math and Literacy Fun!	84.	Valentine's Math Centers~CCSS

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Super Teacher Giveaways!

Well it's back to work on Monday and I have to say, I don't really want to go. I have thoroughly enjoyed two weeks of sleeping in. I don't think I'll have any trouble retiring when the time comes (but that's a loooooong way off). So, as I was looking around for some school inspiration, I found this fantastic giveaway by Hilary at Rockin' Teacher Materials. She's giving away an entire flash drive full of resources! She doing a giveaway for every grade level, K through 5th. So hurry on over and enter. I won a blog giveaway just last month and what fun it is to get free stuff!



And while we're at it (I'm just in a winning kind of mood), I just discovered that Teacher's Notebook is giving away a tablet (your choice of mini I-Pad, Kindle Fire, or Nook). You can enter every single day. How awesome is that? 



Good Luck!!