Groundhogs, 100th day and a Giveaway

What a busy past few days---February has started off with a bang. And there's sooo much more to do but I'm not sure I'm going to get it all done. Between graduate school, staff meetings, professional development, church, lesson plans, and sleep, I'm a busy gal, tired too.

Here are a few activities that we've been doing the past couple of days. First of all--Groundhogs. We had a blast learning about these little guys. (Especially since when I asked the kiddos what a groundhog was---one of them said "it's that animal that runs at you when it sees red!"...um no not quite)

So we had to dispel some myths obviously. We watched quite a few videos and read some Weekly Readers that I've had for years. But they are great for pictures, especially the big teacher size. I kept them all and laminated them. Anyway---we also went on national geographic---found nothing, went on Gllobio--found nothing (but Globio is awesome btw for many many other animals, countries, technology, etc!!), so finally just Google'd 
groundhogs and was able to find a few little things. The best one was where we could listen to a groundhog. Pretty neat to hear them whistle.

We also created out bubble maps and our tree maps. And made Groundhog headbands..but I forgot that picture. 


We celebrated the 100th day on Monday. I saw Mrs. Miner's idea on her blog Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business about her students making capes for the 100th day. So I used her freebie she posted for the parents and had my students make capes. Wow---it was interesting. LOL

Here are a few pictures. 

The one on the right was made out of Smarties candy. They colored 100 of them black. Pretty cool. 

But this one beats all....

They added pockets onto the cape and made up 100 various questions to put on the cape. They really thought this out....and put a lot of work into it.

One of my favorite capes had 100 stars on it...but for some reason I didn't get a picture of it. 

:(

We've also began working on President's Day activities. We are using Mrs. Miner's Directed Drawings for President's Day. I'll post some of those pictures soon.

Don't forget about my 100 follower giveaway!

It ends on Sunday!! Be sure to enter and win lots of great packs from some awesome bloggers!!!

It's another Manic Monday!!

Hope everyone is enjoying their day off today (if you are off!) to celebrate Dr. MLK's birthday. I know I am...very relaxing, blog hopping, posting new stuff, and eventually lesson planning.

I'm linking up over at Classroom Freebies for their most awesome Manic Mondays! I really enjoy giving away free stuff and I always like visiting new blogs. 
I hope you head over there and check out some other blogs as well. Great way to blog hop!



Here is my little freebie. It's Valentine Poem tags that you can add to your gift to your students OR have them add it to their gift to their parents. Click on the picture to take you to Google Docs.

It also comes with no hearts on the colored copy as well as two posters displaying the same poem in B&W and colored. Hope you like it!

Now I also have another freebie that isn't a part of Manic Monday but I wanted to tell you about it anyway. It's over at my TPT store and it's for Groundhog's day. 

It includes:

a bubble map about groundhogs

tree map

Graphing header for Will the Groundhog See His Shadow? 

Yes/No cards for graph

blank cards for students to write their predictions or their names for the graph

and a sheet of writing paper for students to write about what happened when the groundhog appeared!

Click on the picture to take you to my TPT store.