Candy Heart Activities

One of my favorite products, Talk to Me Sweetheart has a new look and some new activities that I am super excited about!  You will still find all of the same candy heart learning activities but with a new updated look!  Below are just a few activities included!

10 Frame Mats

Students use candy hearts to fill in the ten frame cards to match the number shown on each card.

 Addition Cards

Candy hearts are used as a math manipulative to help students solve each addition sentence.  They record their answers on the response sheet included.

Building Shapes 

This one is new and it is one of my FAVES!  Students use candy hearts to build 2-D shapes on the shape cards. 

Color Sorting Mats

Sort out candy hearts by color on these sorting mats.  Mats include white and blue option.

Spelling Mats

These spelling mats are a great way to provide students with a fun way to practice sight words or spelling words.  Students use candy hearts to spell out words on the mats. 

You can click on any of the pics to take you to the product on TPT.  

Whew! What a Week: 100th Day, Penguin Writing, and Love

We celebrated the 100th day of school this week and got a glimpse into the future.  I hope I look as good as these sweeties when I'm 100 years old.  Are they not so cute? 

We counted out 100 items for snack by counting 10 of each snack item on the counting mat before putting it in the baggies.

Everyone brought in a collection of 100 items. They counted them out on the sorting mats by counting out 10 of the item in each circle and then counting each circle by 10s to 100.  I made my counting mats after seeing Erica Bohrer's here. 

Look at the counting mat with 1 in each circle.  She is a math smartie and I love to watch how she solves problems and get her to share her methods because they're almost always different but she always gets it and is a great example for showing that there's more than one way to solve a problem.

I snapped a couple of pics of students working on some things from Donna Glynn's 100th Day pack.

And I'd like to give credit where credit is due but I have seen so many versions of the 100th day portrait that I'm not sure who to give credit to. 



This week we finally finished up our penguin unit.  I thought I had pics of our penguin craftivity but can't find them anywhere.  I did find some pics of their penguin writings I had snapped the other day and have to show you a few.

"Penguins can swim far away."

This sweetie is beginning to get those conventions down. 

The lighting is terrible in these pics so I'm enlarging this one.  "Penguins can swim and slide on their bellies."  Look at that invented spelling and his illustration.  Love the blue icebergs with the penguin sliding down!

I love the voice this sweetie has!  "I love penguins.  Penguins are perfect.  Their mom throws up in baby penguins mouth."  And we all know no animal is more perfect than one that throws up in its baby's mouth.  LOL!

Don't forget about the big sale today at TPT!  You can save 28% by using the code SUPER at checkout to get an additional 10% off.  I just posted a new unit.  Love is in the Air! {Math and Literacy Activities}.

  Here are just a couple of the activities included that I have ready to use next week.

If you made it all the way down here, leave me a sweet something to read for a chance to win a copy of my Love is in the Air! unit.  I'll randomly choose 1 person who comments.  It'll probably be tomorrow because we have a gymnastics meet this afternoon/evening/won't be home until midnight for my oldest daughter so I probably won't be back on today.

Winter Fun

Despite the 70 ish degree weather we've had the past few days here in the south, my sweeties at school have been having lots of fun learning about winter.

We made these cute snowmen crafts and then used adjectives to fill in the blanks and describe our snowmen.  I love how different each one looks despite everyone being given the same materials (with the exception of the colors of the earmuffs and scarves).  I started by making a large version of the snowman.  We then labeled the different parts on the big snowman and talked about how we can use labels from pictures to help us spell words we may not know when we write.  I wrote a story about my snowman and we made lists of different adjectives we could use to describe our snowmen.  Then each student filled in their own "Do You 'Snow' Who I Am?" writing page. 

Here are a few of our winter themed centers we've been working on during our morning literacy centers.

Flow Map for There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow!

At this center I wrote our popcorn words for the week on ping pong balls and they scooped out a "snowball" and wrote the word on the recording sheet.

At this center they turn a card over, read the word on the hat, find the word on the recording sheet and color it in thhe corresponding color.



Long O/Short O Vowel Sound Sort

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Last Week's Literacy Centers

We had so much fun reading There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie last week.  The kiddos love The Old Lady books and this one was no different.  With the exception of the few kids who may have thought that perhaps it was going to be me that may die while I was reading the book.  Something nasty hit last week and left me without my voice and looking like I probably was on death's door so it's no wonder a few were a little teary as I croaked out the words to the story and sounded like somebody really was dying.  Seriously, I think they were REALLY worried the old lady was going to explode and die.  Their little eyes were as big as saucers.  I hope I haven't traumatized their sweet little selves.  Since she lived we were able to have lots of fun with her during literacy centers. 

                                                    Sequencing the Story with a Flow Map

Students worked on sequencing the story.  They cut out the pictures and glued them in order on the flow map. 

Save the Sight Words

Students had to help save the sight words from being eaten by the old lady by writing them in the correct places as fast as they could.

Alphabet Soup

In this center students worked on beginning sounds.  They turned over a card, named the picture and the sound they heard at the beginning, and colored in the pot with that letter on the recording sheet.

Where's the Old Lady?

This was a whole group game we played.  I hid the old lady card behind one of the pies.  The students took turns coming up and reading the sight words.  If they read the word correctly, they got to look behind the pie for the old lady.  They loved this and it made them want to learn those words! 



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