I saw this title on something I was reading and I thought, “Hey, this would be great to do on my blog!”  I’m so excited to do my first giveaway!  I’m going to give one lucky person the number one wishlisted item in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  My ABC hole puncher pack!  It’s letters Aa to Zz.  It builds fine motor skills while working on letter recognition.  But most of all…it’s FUN!  The kiddos absolutely love this activity because they get to use the “punchers”!

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My little cuties had their graduation ceremony and I just had to share the adorable hats that I made for them and a few other things that we did.  🙂

Well, it’s summer time, so I get to have some fun with my little ones at home.  I have a daughter who is 4 and my son is 2.  We’ve been doing some homeschooling this week, which my daughter LOVES!  I’ll have to remember to take more pics, but here’s some of the Doc McStuffins sensory bin that we had fun exploring this week. 

For the past two weeks, we’ve been having fun studying Outerspace!  Learning about space and the planets has been one of the kiddos favorite units this year.  We had some freeze-dried astronaut ice cream, acted as astronauts in our dramatic play center, did space crafts, etc…all making learning fun!  Here are some pictures from our learning activities:

I folded the paper into 10 sections and wrote the numbers on each section, then gave the kiddos shiny star stickers and they had to count each number and add the correct amount of stars.  It is great for fine motor practice and counting.  Peeling those stickers off of the page and sticking them on is hard work for little hands!  They liked it because they got to use star stickers!  🙂

 How cute are the moons that we made!  I cut a white circle out of thick construction paper and had the students use glue to make craters and moon rocks.  We then let the glue dry and the next day they took a grey crayon and colored over the glue.  My kiddos were shocked when I actually told them to scribble.  lol!  The glue is easier to color and comes out nicer if they scribble it.  🙂

 Here is a pic of our name rockets.  Students had to write one letter of their name on each strip of paper, then build it to say their name and glue it on the black paper. They added a triangle on top, 10 shiny sticker stars and then they had to count down to blastoff with me to add the glitter glue flames.

Here’s a part of our dramatic play center for our space unit  It’s a NASA space control center.  I had the kiddos paint the box with silver paint, then I added all of the fun stuff!  I used tap lights for the buttons, fancy colored tape and printouts from NASA.

I have so many more activities and ideas in my brand new space unit that is available in my store.  Here’s a preview pic of some of the things that are included in the 137 page pack!

This unit was so much fun!  My little cowboys and cowgirls loved it!  I used my Letter of the week Wild West Cc is for Cowboy unit, which is one of the many units that I have created.  You can get your own copy by clicking here.  Here are some pics and descriptions of our Cc is for Cowboy and Cowgirl unit and the fun we had!

The Zoo has been one of my favorite themes so far.  The littles loved it too!  I couldn’t wait to share the fun and learning we’ve been doing in our classroom!

This is our Construction/Blocks center.  This week they had to use the blocks to build a zoo for the animals.  They LOVED building zoos.  They had these large blocks to use, they also had small soft blocks and legos.  Most of the kiddos chose these big blocks as their first choice.

Here are the binoculars I made for my students to wear so that they could be Zookeepers for our zoo unit.  They were super easy to make.  I took two toilet paper rolls and taped them together with the cool zebra print duck tape that I found.  There was exactly enough tape to make 17 sets of binoculars, which is perfect because I have 17 students!  After taping them together, I punched holes on both sides and tied a piece of yarn to the binoculars.

Next, I made them Zookeeper vests.  This picture is what the vest looks like after I cut it.  In order to wear it, I flipped it inside out (next pic) and attached a Zookeeper badge onto it with each student’s name.  I don’t have step-by-step pics, but here’s what you do.  I asked my local grocery store for the large paper grocery bags.  First, I cut the line up the middle (from the opening).  Then I split it into a V shape.  I then cut the sides off to make arm hole openings.  Then you have to open it up and make a “head hole” and finish the arm holes.  I know without pics, it’s hard to imagine, but once you do the first one you’ll see exactly what I mean.  The first one wasn’t easy…I’ll be honest, but then the rest were much easier!  Feel free to ask me questions!

 Here’s an upside down pic of our ABC center for the week.  I don’t know why it’s upside down…no matter what I did, it kept uploading that way.  SORRY!  Anyway, I included a bunch of zoo animals and pre-primer sight words for the kiddos to spell on cookie sheets (from the $1 store).  This is one of the items that I’m in the process of uploading to TpT.  Stay tuned!

This is a Zoo Count & Clip activity that I did with my students this week.  I do different themed count & clips every week.  The kiddos love the different themes and don’t even realize that it’s the same super important skill that they’re working on!  Got to love that!  Click the image to get your copy on TpT.

Last, but not least…here is the Zz is for Zebra little reader that I did with my class this week.  The pack comes in color and in black/white and has lots of skills for the littles.  They will count, identify colors, read repeated text (they love that they can “read” these books!)  Click the image to get your copy on TpT.

 

That’s all for tonight.  I hope you get some great Zz and zoo ideas to use with your littles!

 

 

Forgot to share this adorable ladybug had that we made to go with our ladybug unit.  I also wanted to share these Ladybug Count & Clip task cards that I made and used with my students. 

Sorry so late!  My goal (starting now!) is to blog at least once a week.  I want to share what I am doing with my kiddos so that I will hopefully inspire others.  I hope you all enjoy!  🙂