Five For Friday {Linky Party...May 31st}

 

I cannot believe it....It's my first Five for Friday with Doodle Bugs Teaching and I am super excited to link up and share some of my Friday Favorites!

 

Here are my five:

 

{ONE}

 

Working on plans for our beach vacation in Late July/Early August...searching for the perfect condo has been consuming TOO much of my time! 

 

 {TWO}

 

The weather outside is looking stormy!!!  I do LOVE me some storms but not when they are coupled with the threat of tornadoes, yet again.  Praying for a safe night across the Ozarks!

 

 {THREE}

 

So my bestie, Erica McKimmey, and I are walking it up almost everyday.  We are so {OBSESSED} with our new theme: {TRANSFORMATION}... and we are determined to make strides to get SKINNY over summer break!  Here's a cheer for getting into shape...and a BIG BOO for having to diet over the summer!  Yuck! 

 

{FOUR}

 

My obsession, right now, is new clipart...I am keeping Scrappin' Doodles in business, to say the least.  I am loading up on beach themed clip art, probably because I am dreaming about my above vacation and because the ideas are flowing for my new Beach Themed Pack full of Summer Resources!  Now I need to kick it into high gear and get to work!!!

 

{FIVE}

 

My newest Teacher's Pay Teachers/Teacher's Notebook addition:

Father's Day {A Mini Craft Unit}

I directly relates to my Mother's Day Unit and after many requests to make a Father's Day Unit...I finally finished it off last night!  I am thrilled to share it with you all.

You can get it on Teacher's Pay Teacher's {HERE} and Teacher's Notebook {HERE}!!

 

That sheds a little bit of life on my Friday and now I am off for a little family game time!!!

 

:) Melanie

 

Growing a Garden of Learners

We are working hard this week.  My best teaching friend, Erica McKimmey and I have started team teaching our Science Mini Units!  We each spend a week teaching our own students and then we switch kids and teach the same unit again to each others students!  It is definitely one of our favorite parts of the last six weeks of school!  It is a great change for us and our little antsy learners!  This week is plants for me and weather for Erica!  Take a peek at my Mini Learning Unit on the Life Cycle of Plants!  It's super cute and an easy add on to my already growing unit!

It's just a click away!  You can get it at my TpT Store! 

We've also been working hard in my newest literacy station pack Grow, Garden, Grow!

Check out my little sweeties hard at work and don't forget to drop by my TpT to grab your station set!  It is a GARDEN of FUN!

Sorting 'oi' and 'oy' words.

Homophone Memory!

Plant Life Cycle!

Sentence Building!

Springtime Riddles!

Spring is in the air....FINALLY!!!

After what has felt like the longest winter ever...it is finally starting to feel like spring out there and is finally motivating me to get some stuff completed!  I took a few weeks off and now I am back to business and the creative juices have been flowing.  This week my student's have been working hard with my newest station:

 Grow, Flower, Grow

{A Math and Literacy Based Unit of Study}

 

 You can get it at my TpT store now! 

Pictures of my kiddos using this new station set coming soon!

 

 I also did some cleaning up and finishing up some things... I uploaded my Dental Health Mini Unit too.  It is a little late but, oh so adorable!  My kiddos loved using this one last month!

 

Get Dental Do's and Don'ts Here

I promise to be on here more....no more breaks for me!  We are officially on the countdown to summer!  Yay!



 

President's Weekend SALE, Presidential FREEBIE and The Winner Is...

Image courtesy of Melonheadz

Happy President's Day from Melanie Mowery at The Teaching Queen!!! 

This weekend I will be hosting a 15% off Sale at my TpT Store for you just in time for President's Day!  Congratulations to Kirra Lehmann...she is the winner of my newest pack! Yay!

 

A Presidential Mini Unit of Learning

Stop back by this week to see what fun my class of firsties will be having with this fun pack!

Enjoy this President's Day Freebie as my gift to you!

 

 

Get this FREEBIE {Here}

 

Enjoy the rest of your 3-Day Weekend!!!

Happy Chinese New Year and Share the Love {Valentine Giveaway}

Image by Scrappin' Doodles

Today we celebrated Chinese New Year in our class and we did a lot of studying about the history of Chinese New Year!!!  We started the day with a Chinese New Year word search for morning work.  The kids loved all the New Year's Words...

After lunch we read some fun books about Chinese New Year and made our Dragon Headbands.

                    

The headbands turned out so cute! Check them out:

We had a great day learning all about the Chinese Traditions and the start of their new year!

You can view my whole mini unit at my TpT Store...

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Happy-Chinese-New-Year-A-Mini-Learning-Unit

Don't forget to stop by and check out this 'SWEET' Giveaway!

I am linked up with Stephanie McMahon from First Grade Fingerprints to bring you a chance to win some 'LOVELY' Teaching Units!  Check it out and get yourself entered to win!!!

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Check out our 'LOVELY' previews:

It's all about 'LOVE"

Well...It's Monday again and we are back at the grind in first grade!!!  Today we started my new Be Mine, Valentine Literacy Centers and they are a huge hit with my kiddos!  I was definitely feeling the love today!  Take a look at what all they are doing!

This litte guy is making his Puppy Love Crafitivity!!!

Sounds of 'ed' sorting!

Candy Heart Probability!

Sweet Treats Memory!

Valentine Compound Sentences!

Valentine Contraction Mini Book!

This super sweet little one is working in my Library Station so he has on "reading glasses" or cheap sunglasses with the lenses popped out!  I think I got 12 pair for $1.00 at Dollar Tree!

You can get my 'SWEET' new pack here!

It's on SALE until Valentine's Day!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Be-Mine-Valentine-A-Sweet-Math-and-Literacy-Based-Unit

Don't forget you can download my Valentine Mystery Picture {FREEBIE} at my TpT Store too!  I hope you enjoy!  Don't forget to leave me some feedback so I can grow and learn from you! 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentine-Mystery-Picture-Freebie

Become a follower of my blog and my store to get recent updates on what's new in my classroom!

Be Mine, Valentine and SALE!!!

It has been a busy weekend...and I have been doing lots, except what I probably need to get done!  My new Be Mine, Valentine Pack is finally finished!  This weekend I have started many tasks and have barely finished anything, although I did work on rebuilding my blog...I want it to be more user friendly and inviting and more like ME... and pink is my color of choice!  I love pink!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Be-Mine-Valentine-A-Sweet-Math-and-Literacy-Based-Unit

Don't forget to stop by my TpT store for more sales!  Everything in my store is 28% off today!!!  Thanks for all the support and remember to become a follower and see all my new goodies!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Melanie-Mowery

Hooray for Groundhog's Day!!!

Well today super busy...we worked so hard making predictions about that little special groundhog Phil! This morning we listened to some fun Groundhog songs we found on YouTube. Then we read some good books and did our writing craftivity!  The kiddos wrote about what they thought the groundhog would do when he came out of his burrow! 

Check it out below!

You can download this fun craftivity in my Hooray, It's Groundhog's Day {Mini Learning Unit} at my TpT Store.  Just click on the link below!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hooray-Its-Groundhogs-Day-A-Mini-Learning-Unit

Later, we spent some time making our predictions on the Mimio.  The vote stayed close the entire time.  As the students made their prediction on whether, Yes Phil will see his shadow or No Phil will not see his shadow, the class made tally marks on their Groundhog's Day Graph.  Check it out below!

They did an amazing job tallying as each student went up to make their prediction! 

What hard working first graders I have!

 

Here are the books we loved to read today!  Happy Groundhog's Day...

                  

Don't forget if you would like to download by Hooray, It's Groundhog's Day {A Mini Learning Unit}

Click the link below:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hooray-Its-Groundhogs-Day-A-Mini-Learning-Unit

Have a great night!