Valentine’s Day

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Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope that you had a great day at school with your little learners. I just wanted to stop by to show you some cute ideas. 
Valentine’s Day pencils are always a hit. They are a simple gift idea and very functional as well. Just add a little flag with the words You are the “write” friend for me or  You are on the “write” track, Valentine. or You are the “write” stuff. Any simple little phrase or message will do. Print it and attach it to your pencils.
For storage, there are so many options out there. I remember making mailbox pockets by using two large paper hearts and using glue or staples to hold it together. Now, children love to turn their mailboxes into characters. This is a good family projects so that students can personalize their boxes with something of interest to them. Here is an idea for boys and another one for girls. 

Happy Valentine’s Day! 
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Valentine’s Day Ideas

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Valentine’s day, the day of romance and love. There’s plenty to do, have a romantic evening meal, go on a date, gift bracelets for women or cologne for men… Sometimes it can be hard to include the little ones in the festivities, after all they’re young and don’t quite understand the concepts of love or dating.

I think just because most parents probably hire a babysitter to take care of things on Valentine’s day, doesn’t mean the children should miss out. Whether you’re a teacher or homeschooler looking for some class activities, or even a parent looking to include your child in the day, here are a few Valentine’s activities I thought of.

First, I wanted to create something that would incorporate conversation hearts. I thought of a few things, but then I saw these wooden alphabet beads at Walmart. I knew that I could create several projects with them. So, I came up with the idea of the Valentine’s message. I created 16 cards with conversation heart messages. I included a few ideas on how to use these cards down below for you.

But, the main objective with these wooden beads would be to create a Valentine’s Bracelet that can be exchanged with a friend, given to mom/dad or grandma/grandpa as a gift, or keep as their own. It’s no diamond bracelet or declaration of love, that’s certain. But its a great way to get kids to be creative and get them into the habit of gifting on special occasions. It won’t be long until they grow up and start gifting out of the kindness of their own heart.
So in summary, if you have beads, you can make things like these.
If not, you can make these Valentine’s Messages:
Using these premade templates:
Or these blank hearts which you can use to write your own messages together.
You could even use these in the pocket chart if you have one:

Simple and Sweet for your little ones on Valentine’s Day. Just click on this Valentine’s Day cover to get your freebie 🙂

And just because you are here TODAY, you will also get my new heart borders FREE –Today ONLY 🙂
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Oh, and these are a regular freebie 🙂

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Free RED Printables

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Do you teach color songs? I LOVE how simple and catchy they are. These songs are a good way to learn about colors and color words. It’s always fun to hear students sing-along and spell these words.

Other simple activities that you can incorporate into your lesson are:

1- Sing a color song
2- Play I Spy
3- Play color bingo
4- Create a collage of pictures that are red
5- Make a collection of things that are red
6- Read books such as Clifford the Big Red Dog
7- Sort objects by color
8- Read and write simple sentences about the color red

Here’s a color song about red.

Here are some free printables to help your students learn about the color red.

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Phonics Packets and a Super Sunday Sale

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We all LOVE sales!  TPT is celebrating the Super Bowl with a Super Sunday Sale tomorrow. Remember to enter the promo code SUPER to receive the discount on your purchases.

Here are some items that might be of interest to you 🙂 They will come in handy when preparing your phonics lessons and literacy centers.

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Alphabet Fun- Graphics, Posters & Phonics Packets

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The alphabet is such an important component of Kindergarten. We usually put up an alphabet line which includes the letter with one image to represent the letter sound. When we ask students to name objects that begin with a sound, many have trouble coming up with a word. They start looking around the room for ideas, but do not always find a word. These new alphabet posters are perfect. Each letter features six illustrations. The word labels are also included. The letter Xx has four images. Two images represent the beginning sound and the other two represent the final sound.

Some ideas on how to use are:

1.  Place as an alphabet line above your calendar area.
2.  Add to a binder or flip book to use during your small group sessions.
3.  Use as topic ideas in a writing center for writing paragraphs or making alphabet books.
4.  Students can use them as reference for building words in an ABC center.

I am also making alphabet books to supplement your phonics lessons. Here is the letter Aa packet.

Do you like the alphabet graphics that I used in my posters? If so, you can find them in my brand new
clip art shop on TPT. You can click on Lidia Barbosa Clip Art to take you there 🙂

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Martin Luther King Jr. Printables

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Martin Luther King is a man full of history. He entered the Morehouse College at age 15! Can you imagine that? He was a very smart boy who had great dreams. These dreams drove him to become an important leader who made history in such a huge way. As Martin Luther King Day approaches, I try to think of a way that students will be able to learn about Dr. King’s life.  Sure, we read the biographies that are as age appropriate as possible, but it is still too much information for the younger students.

I created these posters that represent Martin Luther King’s life events. It is an illustrated timeline that may be used to supplement your lesson. I think that it will be very beneficial to use the posters as visuals while you read one of your read alouds. Students can even help you create this timeline as you read by lining up the posters on the chalkboard. The information on each poster is worded for the teacher, but the illustrations will help students remember such information.

A wonderful idea would be to give one poster to each student ( there are 28 posters in the pack). Then, the teacher will line up the students in chronological order according to the posters selected by each. When everyone is in place, the students will use the poster illustrations to “Tell” about that moment in time in the life of MLK. I have included a second packet in this zip file. That one includes printables for graphic organizers and writing activities. If you want to learn more about this bundle, click on the picture to take you there 🙂

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Free Penguin Printables for Reading and Math

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As students return from winter break, we will see that some will need a lot of review of basic skills. First, I created a packet that you can use for introducing penguins. It has your basic Can-Have-Are format. It also includes a small student book that you can use as closure to the theme so that students write what they learned about penguins.

English version
Spanish version
For the review part of it, I made two packets. One is a Read it. Color it. Write it. packet. Students will be able to review sight words, color words, pointing while reading with one-to-one correspondence, return sweep, etc. After they read the sentence. they will color the penguin by using the color mentioned in the sentence. It is not necessary to color the entire penguin in one single color. They can use white and orange where they normally go, but will replace the black parts of the penguin with the color indicated 🙂  Finally, students will write the sentence on their own.
NOTE: I fixed the page for orange in the English packet. It said “I see a orange penguin.”  I changed it to “I see an orange penguin.” So sorry for that little error.
English version
Spanish version
The third free packet focuses on the numbers 1-10. Students will count the penguins, trace and write the numeral, and finally trace and write the number word on each page. They may color the penguins if time allows. They are all free and provided to you in English and Spanish packets. Just download the ones that suit your needs.
English version
Spanish version
Well, that’s it. I hope that you are able to find these free packets useful 🙂

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CVCC Clip Art and Word Work Freebies

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This post includes clip art and free word work activities. I am having so much fun making these unique sets of Clip Art for Teachers. Now, my collection includes short vowels in CVC word patterns, CVCC words clip art, and finally, CVCC word patterns clip art. Yay! I know that you will find these useful when creating lesson plans and activities. They took me a long time, but they turned out very nice. I am so proud of my CVCC AND CCVC sets because I have not seen any others out there. If you like them as much as I do, I would love for you to pin them 🙂 Anyway, I created these in order to make some CVCC word work activities. You will be able to download your free copy, of what I have so far, from the bottom of this post. Students will practice identifying beginning sounds, ending sounds, vowel sounds in CVCC word patterns. These will come in handy when you return back from winter break:)

This bundle includes 40 color images and 40 black and white images.
Total= 80 images.

How about a freebie? Just click the image below to open in a new window. Then, right click to save it to your computer 🙂 Don’t forget to read my terms of use here:)
Click on picture to get the CVCC Word Work Freebies.

Enjoy!
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Silence for Sandy Hook Elementary

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Magic Reindeer Food Freebie

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How about adding a little more magic to this Christmas season? I love making Magic Reindeer Food. It is very simple to make and the kids have a lot of fun adding reindeer food and sprinkles to the yard in anticipation for the arrival of Santa and his reindeer. 
You will need:
1. Any type of oats.
2. Glitter in your favorite color.
3. Ribbon.
4. Sandwich bags.
5. Scissors to cut the labels out.
6. Stapler or Tape.
7. Hole puncher.
8. Measuring cup if you have one.
9. Magic Reindeer Label.
How to make it:
1. Give a sandwich bag to each student.
2. Use a measuring cup to add a cup of oats.
3. Choose your favorite color of glitter. Add a dash, or more to the bag.
4. Staple or tape the “Magic Reindeer Food” label to the front of the bag.
5. Hole punch the top or side of the label.
6. Add a small piece of ribbon to finish it off.
That’s it! We already put our “Magic Reindeer Food” under the Christmas tree at home.
The kids will sprinkle it in our front yard on Christmas Eve before they go to bed.
All we will have to do is wait for Santa and those reindeer to arrive.
The reindeer will enjoy eating some oats while Santa eats some cookies by the Christmas tree 🙂
Merry Christmas!
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