It's Super Bowl Sunday, so Let's GLOW! + a FREEBIE!

 EVERYONE GETS A FREEBIE!

I'm giving EVERYONE a Super Super Bowl/Valentine Freebie today and ESGI is giving you one tomorrow Feb. 12!

Why? Because super teachers deserve something super exciting on Super Bowl Sunday and because ESGI wants to help make you GLOW!

ESGI made me glow in my classroom by helping me to target the specific skills each child needed. 

How?

~I used the "flashcards" as "skill cards" and I put each child's skill cards into zipper bags to create RTI kits to take home or to use in class with an adult or a cross-age tutor. 

Here is a sample of the skill cards that reflect the incorrect skills for this child. We cut them apart, put them into zipper sandwich bags, & we chose 1 skill card to work on with an adult or tutor. 

Here is today's Freebie:

Let's Subitize with Valentine Hearts! I made these with fonts and graphic from DJ Inkers. You can find them HERE.

Click the image to grab the FREEBIE

Click the image above to grab this cute FREEBIE.

Click the image above to grab this Valentine FREEBIE.

Remember to come back tomorrow 

to grab the ESGI freebie which is...

An extra 30 days added to your 30-day trial, 

so if you sign up for a FREE trial 

with the code KFUN 

you will get 

a 30  MAKE THAT A 60 DAY FREE TRIAL 

& 1 lucky registrant will win an iPad 

& 5 will receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card!

You must sign up between 2/12 & 3/15 

and you must use the code KFUN

HERE. 

(Or use the QR code below.

Either way, you will be entered to win.)

Use the QR code above.

February FREEBIES Are So Much FUN!

Bring FUN Into Your Classroom For FREE!

 Here are a few FUN activities that teach skills while students are having so much FUN:

Set Up A Math Activity or Two: 

Here is a FUN subtraction book where the students fill in the names of their friends, trace the numbers, and discover the fun of subtraction! (Click any of the images to grab your FREEBIES!)

Here is ONE MORE FREE math activity:

Set Up A Writing Activity:

Teach descriptive adjectives with this cute pocket book. Make a pocket out of 12"X18" construction paper by folding it to a 12"X12" square. Staple the pocket at the sides. Students glue the half-page poem to the front of the pocket and make a heart that represents the adjective (big, little, thin, wide, etc.) ending with the last one which is PERFECT! 

This one isn't free, but it's only $2.99! Grab it by CLICKING HERE.

Set Up A Candy Shop:

Grab your FREE candy cube & cylinder templates by CLICKING HERE. 

My Valentine to YOU is A Valentine's Day Give-Away & a FREEBIE!

It's Time For A Give-Away!!!

My favorite graphics!Click the image and search for "Early Years" on DJ Inker's site.

Take a look at what you can win !

"Early Years" from DJ Inkers!
It comes in 2 versions: CD or Download.

Click the image.

I LOVE DJ Inkers Graphics and Fonts

 and I have made so many of my products with them.

DJ Inkers is giving away an entire set of their 

"Early Years" graphics and fonts 

to one of my lucky readers!

There are over 900 clip art images
including nursery rhymes & characters, kids at play, 
ABCs, 123s, shapes, colored crayons, and dress-up kids! 
And you get all of the graphics in both color and black & white. 

Click the image.

You also get 3 fabulous fonts!

Click the image above. 

Can't wait?
CLICK HERE 

to grab the 

"Early Years" set
or

Enter my give-away 

to win this awesome set

below!

I even made this little FREEBIE using 

graphics from DJ Inkers Early Years.

It's perfect to use as a center during February!

click the image above

click the image above. 

This center activity 
comes with 10 cute hearts 

that will help your students 

subitize and match sets of dots 
with their matching numerals.
They also get a chance to trace numerals 
printed with a dotted font.

CLICK HERE 

to grab this FREEBIE.

I also used graphics from 
DJ Inkers "Early Years" 
to make a cute 
Valentine's Day Subtraction Book 
that is perfect for your students complete 
at your Valentine's Day celebration!

Here is a sample of just some of the pages: 

Click the image above to grab this entire set.

You can grab my newest 
Valentine Take-Home Book
by 
CLICKING HERE!

This "Early Years" set 
has become my new favorite set
from DJ Inkers!

Don't miss the DJ Inkers Valentine SALE 
which is going on right now!
CLICK HERE to see their 
Valentine's Day Sale.

Here is your chance 

to enter the contest for 

a Free"Early Years" set 

with 900 graphics and 3 fonts 

all from DJ Inker's! 
Enter before Feb. 4.

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a Rafflecopter giveaway

My Rafflecoptor will begin at the stroke of midnight on Jan 28 and the winner will be announced here and on
 KFUNdamental's Facebook page 
on Feb. 4.

Good luck!  :)

The winner was 
Angela Rooney!
Congratulations, Angela, and thank you all for entering!
(Angela, I emailed you.)

STOP!!! Save Those Little Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Boxes!

What can you do with those heart-shaped boxes?

Set up a pretend candy store right in your classroom!

Click the image to grab a FREE set of candy templates. 

Get your 6th-grade buddies to help make cube and cylinder candies with my FREE templates. The FREE set comes complete with photos of the tops of real candies so all you have to do is cut and glue!

Click the image to grab this FREE candy template set.

Make some out of light brown construction paper and some out of dark brown construction paper so you have light and dark chocolate cubes and cylinders!  What a FUN way to get that academic vocabulary in use! Right?

Let your students help "build" the candy shop by creating a AB patterns out of black and white paper squares. Use these to line the shelves. If you are using a small desk as your store, just place a piece of construction paper covered with the black and white patterns on the desk.  Add some doilies with brown candy cups glued on them and place the paper candy pieces in the cups. 

Click the image to grab your FREE candy template set.

And did you know that See's Candy stores will give you little brown candy cups? They will also give you little white bags with the See's Candy logo on them!  

I added a picture of Mary Sees and a photo of the first See's Candy shop to provide a social studies link to times past. 

So what do you do with the heart-shaped boxes?  My students decided that the cube candies were 1 cent each and the cylinder candies were 2 cents each. Students filled the heart-shaped boxes with paper candies and the "clerk" used a calculator, a toy cash register, or paper and pencil to add up the cost of the candies. 

After the "shopper" buys candies, he/she becomes the clerk and the first job is to re-stock the shelves with the candies they just bought. 

Visit my TpT store to find more "shopping" activities where students create simple projects and get to "buy" the embellishments. Directions and shopping receipts can be found BY CLICKING HERE.

5 Last Minute Valentine Ideas For Your Family (Wait until you see #5!!!)

Quick, you can do these.  There is still time!

1.  I'm so doing this one in the morning!

Click the image for the link with directions.http://poppiesatplay.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-about-it-thursday_11.html

I'm cheating and using refrigerated cinnamon rolls from Trader Joe's.  Shhhhh!  Don't tell!  :)

2.  Staying together, that's what it's all about:

I just LOVE paperclips.  You can even do these with plain old silver clips.  Click image for directions. http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2009/02/heart-shaped-paper-clips.html

3.  What's better than candy?

You won't have to go off of your diet for this treat!  Click the image for directions. http://lifeasmom.com/2011/02/creative-fun-valentine-to-give-its-better-than-a-box-of-chocolates.html

4.  Educational Valentine FUN for the kids:

Click the image for the digital download.

5.  A Valentine for the adults:

I have no words!

I hope you liked my "Last Minute Valentine's Day Ideas".  

Leave a comment with your last minute ideas. 

Valentine Subtraction

A FUN Way to Teach Subtraction:

This cute book is perfect to teach subtraction.  It demonstrates the concept of "one less" each time one Valentine is removed.  Your TK & K students will love coloring and filling in the blanks on this cute, seasonal book:  

Click the image to grab the download.

Click an image to grab the download.