Graduating Class of 20__ Craftivity

If you're looking for a cute end-of-the-year bulletin board, this craftivity might be perfect!  It's never too late to think about graduating.  After all, isn't that the whole point of all this school business? 

Your students can make these cute graduating kids for themselves and fill out their "diploma".  There are 7 different hairstyles that students can use as a tracing guide or you can have them just make their own hair.

You can hang up one of these signs as part of your bulletin board.  There are pages for the years 2021 - 2029 and a handy chart to help you figure out which year your students will graduate.  

If you want your students to add a writing piece, I've included 6 different writing pages that would also look super cute on the bulletin board. 

My students will be making their graduating selves this coming week!  I can't wait to see how they turn out.  You can find this in my TpT store by clicking {here}.

Showing Some Teacher Appreciation with a Freebie!

As you guys may know, Teacher Appreciation Day is May 7th and coming up quickly.  And boy do us teachers need to be appreciated!  We work HARD.  I hope everyone's school, parents, students, and PTA does something to make you feel appreciated.

But I know sometimes not all teachers are appreciated like they should be.  I will admit that as a special education teacher, it sometimes was hard to see the general education teachers at my school get a lot of appreciation from their students and parents.  Since I provided pull-out services, it sometimes felt like my students or parents didn't appreciate the work I put into their child's education.  I know, I know..it's not supposed to be about getting pats on the backs by others.  But we're all human and sometimes it just feels good to know others appreciate you.

So I thought about what I could do to help show some appreciation to teachers and staff that might just need a little extra love and I created this FREEBIE for you to use with your students.  Since I teach special ed, I'll be having my students make a card for their gen ed teachers this week.

I've included several different pages, so you can change it up based on the teacher or staff member.  There are generic school pages that would be perfect for a principal, counselor, other teacher, or anyone else at your school.  I've also included some theme pages that would be good for librarians, school nurses, PE teachers, music teachers, art teachers, or lunchroom staff.

If you don't have much time, you can print one of these pages off, have your whole class sign, and add your name to the top.  Easy peasy!

I've also included some cards that you can have your students fill out individually.  There are 4 different insides you can print based off your students' abilities.  Just pick the best one for your students.  You'll need to print the front cover page and inside page and then copy them double sided.  I did have to play around with the copier at work to get them to print right.  I had to put the 2nd page in the feeder upside down.  I don't know if that is what all copiers require but it worked for mine.

I hope these can help show some love to people in your school!

Five for Friday - April 26

I'm finally back with my favorite post of the week, Five for Friday by Doodle Bugs Teaching!

I missed the past 2 weeks, because we moved onto base housing!  Sometimes base housing can be not that great, but ours is really nice and brand spanking new!  Here's my new kitchen.

Which is only 1,000 times better than the very small kitchen in the very expensive, very small house we were temporarily renting before.  

We're still not all unpacked, but honestly, that's going to have to wait till summer.  Until now, we're just enjoying this fabulous view when we drive out of our neighborhood (did I mention you can see the ocean from all of the bedrooms?).

And I have to take a moment to brag, my sweet Kylie was Citizen of the Month.  So proud of her!

We've started working on word families and I'm using materials from this Ready 2 Read Unit by The Moffatt Girls.  I love her stuff!  So many great activities.  We started with just the -at family.  

That was going pretty well UNTIL I introduced the -an family this week!  Oh my!  We're gonna needs lots and lots of practice working on reading these skills.  I decided my students need practice just listening to the words and deciding if it's an -at or -an family word.  Right now, I'm working on this mini-unit to help them out.  I hope to have it done this weekend, because they need to get busy with the extra practice ASAP!

Hope everyone has a good weekend!  I'm mostly ready to sleep.  Sooooo wore out this week.