Doodle Bugs Teaching {first grade rocks!}: Valentine's Day

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February 9, 2013

Valentine Crafts!

If you saw my Five for Friday post yesterday.. you saw 2 of my Valentine crafts I did last week with my first graders. Those and one more are bundled together in a little mini craft unit listed in my store.

Doodle Bugs Teaching; Valentine Crafts

All the patterns are included. The patterns are computer generated and not hand-drawn. Each craft is SUPER easy and can be done in a short time period! Just in time for Valentine’s Day!

You get the letters for students to spell February.

Cupcake patterns to make these yummmmy treats!

And owl patterns to make these super cute owls! They are a hoot!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Click below to purchase…

Doodle Bugs: Valentine Crafts

February 15, 2012

{Wordless Wednesday}

February 7, 2012

Froggy’s First Kiss Mini Unit

This was a spur of the moment mini unit.. I pulled this book yesterday to read today.. and last night I made a few activities activities to use to go along with the book.. then it turned into a few more.

My first graders had a great time doing two of the activities today. We will do two more tomorrow and they will take one activity home for homework. A great unit! I just listed it in my Teachers Pay Teachers store..

Froggy’s First Kiss Mini Unit

Here is everything that is included:

ABC order cards- 8 words from the story. Students put the cards in order then record them on the recording sheet.

Story Questions… questions ask about author, illustrator, title, and characters!

Asking & Telling Sentences Review Paper

We have been working a lot on reviewing periods and question marks so this will be homework tomorrow night for my students.

Sequence of events

There are 7 events that students will cut out and glue in order to retell the story.

Unscramble the words to make sentences. A recording sheet is available in the unit.

Here is the link again:

Froggy’s First Kiss Mini Unit

Have a great night! I am off to cut out more laminating.

Does it ever end??

xoxo, kacey

February 6, 2012

Love Is In The Air

February is in full swing.. we have moved on past those cute little groundhogs.. and are right, smack in the middle of

♥ hearts ♥ love ♥ valentines ♥ …

and lots of red, pink and purple!

Here is a quick little activity we did this afternoon…

Cut out and glue the letters in order to spell February.

Download for free: Spell the Word February

I copied the paper on Valentine colors then let my students pick which ever color letters they wanted.

I did have a few kids that made a pattern.. but mostly there was no reasoning behind the color choices.

You could easily do it on white paper and have them color the letters. The letters fit perfect on a sentence strip.

Download for free: Spell the Word February

Graphics by KPM Doodles

We spent a few minutes this afternoon cutting hearts.. and making a litlte Valentine caterpillar.

Here is the sweet little finished product! Simple as can be.. but they turned out cute.

My little ones made these precious Valentine bees in art last week. Everyone is not finished.. so I still have some to hang up. But, they are precious!

This is a bad picture- because of the glare. But, our morning board is full of love too!

We played this cute little Valentine sight word game today in small groups. It was a little too easy but they loved it anyway!

And, the best part.. it was free!

Have a great night! If you have a fun Valentine project or idea- please share!!!

xoxo, kacey

January 18, 2012

Valentine Number Match and Giveaway!

I have a sweet little Valentine match listed in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store..

Valentine Number Match Cards

You match the number – number word – and number of cupcakes.

This only goes from 0-12.. so its for the little ones!

I am giving one set away.. not just the file. But, I am going to mail a set of these cards to the winner. They are already laminated and cut.. they are ready to use!

Just leave a comment to enter!

You must be a follower of my blog to win.

{If you wish to blog, tweet or facebook this giveaway you can .. for additional entries. Please make sure and leave a separate comment for each entry.}

I will pick a lucky winner on Sunday and ship them out on Monday!

You can buy these cards for $2.00 in my store.

Valentine Number Match Cards

xoxo, Kacey

January 16, 2012

Valentine Centers & Pocket Chart Activities

I have FINALLY finished my Valentine unit and I am really excited about how it turned out. I hope you will check it out and see if it is something your students could use.

Buy The Valentine Unit

Download the FREE recording sheets.

Here is what is included…

Lots and lots of pink, purple and red.. and cupcakes and hearts! Such cute stuff!

First up.. money!

Count the money on each card and write how much.

There are 12 cards total.

Word Sort

Sort the word cards into 3 piles.. colors, numbers, and shapes.

There are “header” cards listed in the packet too.. but, somehow they did not get into the pictures!

There are 30 word cards in all {10 shapes, 10 colors, and 10 numbers}.

Place Value

This is a great activity that is a more higher-thinking activity but something my first graders NEED!

Follow the directions on the card to make a 3 digit number.

You can match the answer OR don’t use the answer cards and have your students make and write the answer on a recording sheet.

There are 15 place value cards.

Ordering Numbers

Use those same answer cards from the place value activity to order from least to the greatest.

Math Fact Match

Match 3 math facts with the same answer.

There are 21 math fact cards and 7 answer cards. These use subtraction and addition math facts.

You could also use the math fact cards as flash cards. Or number them and have students write the answer on a recording sheet.

Counting by 2’s with odd numbers

1, 3, 5, 7, 9… 99

These cards go up to 99.

These cards will be worth buying the whole unit. I can see they will be used over and over in my pocket chart center.

Cut and Glue the letters in order to spell VALENTINE

Follow the directions to color the letters. Great ordinal word practice!

The letters fit perfect on a sentence strip when you glue!

Here is another glimpse of everything after I printed it and cut and lamintated it. If you are interested you can find this in my teachers pay teachers store for $5.00.. and the recording sheets are free.

Buy The Valentine Unit

Download the FREE recording sheets.