Up, Up, and Away!

Oh my, where to begin!  This summer got off to a lazy start and by lazy I mean I kicked it for one whole week before I put myself into overdrive.  I've created 14 activities that I CAN'T WAIT to try with my class next year/in just a couple of weeks!  I've uploaded them to my TpT store, all for under $2.50!  More about those in later posts.  I also just uploaded pictures of all the things I want to share with you, however, I'm sure you don't want to spend the next hour starting a novel comparable to a George R. R. Martin book so I will try to contain myself!

Today we'll talk a little about superheros!  Our school theme next year.  If you're looking for some superhero inspiration feel free to check out my superhero theme board on Pinterest.  I've gotten basically all of my idea's from there, where did I ever find inspiration before I stumbled onto that web site!?

Here are a few pictures of my pinspirations...

Blow pop superhero's!

I maybe got a little ahead of myself and made shoe wings to give my students for Christmas...ridiculous, but cute!

Wonder Woman socks (with CAPES!) and Shoe Wings!

I wonder how wearing this outfit on the first day  would affect my class size :)

I got the blow pop cape and goggles template @ zakkalife!

The Wonder Woman caped socks are from Wacky Planet!

Silver Shoe Wings are from Shwings!  I made a template using my Shwings and traced them on stiff felt to make shoe wings for my whole class.

Finally, I found this awesome Superhero Identity Packet at Family Fun!  I'm going to use it on the first day as an ice breaker for students to work on together while I sort their supplies and take their first day pictures.  Since they will be working somewhat independently I needed to simplify it.  I used some of the Family Fun packet in mine and provided a little more space for pictures.  I'm going to post mine below if you'd like to use it, however if you have older students who are capable of more writing definitely use the Family Fun packet, it's totally adorable and light-years better than mine!

Click here to get your Superhero Identity packet!

I hope you all enjoy your last few weeks of vacation!

Math Fishing Games

At the end of this past school year I spent a couple weeks pulling out all the math games we'd played all year and let students have a lot of "choice time."  I wrote myself a little note that said "Find/make more games for place value, fractions, addition, and subtraction."  I happened across it this past week and went ahead and created those games.

Click on the picture to check out this unit!

 All four games are available in a 35 page packet on my TPT page!  There are recording pages and sorting mats for various activities as well as directions for 2 different ways to use the addition game.  

Stay posted for more literacy fishing games.  Right now I'm working on antonyms, synonyms, homophones, contractions, and compound words!  I will also be working on a fishing and sorting game for long and short vowels as well as for word families.

On a more exciting note, Target and the Dollar Tree have started putting out their back to school and teaching materials!  Who doesn't love the dollar spot?!  I've been stockpiling Pinterest ideas all summer to try next school year!

What new ideas (from Pinterest or your own creative mind) are you planning on trying out this year???