Snow Day!!! and a FREEBIE!

Today was yet another WONDERFUL snow day!  My kindergartener is finally understanding the joy of snow days as well!  We spent the morning putting Lego's together.  I have decided that Lego's and I have a mutual love/hate relationship! 

Tomorrow, it will be back to school!  I must admit, I'm a little excited about seeing my "kiddos" again!  This is the end of the grading period and am excited to see how much they have progressed!  I use a DATA WALL in my room and have seen growth in those areas but it isn't the same as working with them one on one.

I will try to post more about my DATA WALL in a future post.  

Today, I wanted to share a FREEBIE with you.  My class is learning about number bonds and fact families in their Math time right now.  The FREEBIE are some activities I plan to do with them this week.  So, I just grouped them together and put them in my TpT store as a FREEBIE for you!  Click on the image below to take you to the FREEBIE.  (I just love that word!)

Snow Day Fun!

Like many of you, today was a snow day!  I enjoy these days as I just get to be a mom!  My two little boys are full of energy and keep things active at home.  They are ages 5 and 3 (soon to be).  Today, I decided it was a good day to try some Snow Ice Cream!  Below is the recipe and some pictures of our adventure.  It was really tasty and fun to make!

Snow Ice Cream:

1 cup milk

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

*Mix together in a bowl

Add:  4 cups fresh clean snow

We added strawberries for more flavor!

This is the finished product!  I think our next variety will be using chocolate milk and adding peanuts and minimarshmallows for a Rocky Road ice cream from show!

The boys also had fun making a Purdy puppet.  This is a penguin paper bag puppet that I put together to compliment a series of mini books I created and have for sale on my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Below are some pictures of the bag puppets.  They really turned out cute!

I have created 3 stories about Purdy the Penguin so far with more stories coming!  They are Happy New Year, Purdy!, Purdy's Valentine, and Purdy Goes to the Winter Games.  All of these sets contain a bag puppet pattern, mini book/story to print and color, comprehension pages at two levels, grammar/phonics practice, color word page, and game.

 Click here to check out my TpT store and find samples from these sets.