Dollar store finds!!!

I found these at the dollar store for the kids to act out five speckled frogs and five little bumble bees! I love the dollar store! !! These are great for acting out word problems!

First Instagram Experience

Well, I finally figured out how to take a screenshot on my new phone!

Here are a few of my instagrams today! I love it!!!!

What if you had animal teeth?

We began our activity for opinion writing today. We had to choose what animal teeth we would want to have. The choices were based on the book, What if you had Animal Teeth? They kids then made themselves with their teeth choice and wrote why it would be great to have those teeth. Tomorrow we will read the book! They were very excited and can not wait to read it!

I found this activity while blog hopping so thank you to the creator!!!

You can see more pictures on instagram.

Here are some pictures:

Instagram Experience, hopefully a successful one!!

I am going to attempt to link other teacher blogs and do instagram Tuesday!! This is a new experience for me so hopefully it works out well and I am successful!!!

Click below to see other teachers who are instagramming!!!

Bugs, Bugs and More Bugs

We have live ladybugs and a praying mantis egg ready to hatch in our classroom. The kids are so excited!

Just a little side note,  if you do get live lady bugs make sure they are dormant before attempting to put them in their dome.  I followed the instructions and placed them in the fridge for 30 minutes.  But when I went to put them in the dome,  they began to fly all over the classroom.  We had 30 ladybugs flying everywhere and who comes in as my kids and I are trying to catch the ladybugs?  My administrator to do a walk through.  That was an experience for her!

The praying mantis egg is amazing.  We are anxiously watching it.  There are 75 to 200 in that egg! !! That will be an awesome sight.  I will keep you posted! !!

Here are some pictures of the egg and the ladybugs:

Statue of Liberty

Here are a few of my kids with the crown and torch. I found these on Amazon.com. Amazon is a teachers best friend.

Storybook Ball!!

On a personal note, My daughter and I attended the Storybook Ball with a friend and their son on Saturday Night at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia. This was amazing! Adults and kids were to dress up as their favorite characters. I went as Snow White and my daughter went as Brave!

Here is a picture of us:

While there, the kids got to explore the museum, eat lots of great food, ride the carousel, take horse and carriage rides, dance to a band called The Plants (They were awesome!) and grab a gift bag.

There were characters everywhere! Curious George, Peter Rabbit and of course, Princesses!

Here is a picture of my daughter with a couple of princesses:

Finally, they had a Statue of Liberty section! I could not leave without getting pictures for my kids!!! Here are pictures of Emmy as the Statue of Liberty and a picture of the torch made out of a modge podge of items!! It was breath taking!!!