March rewards {freebie}

It's currently time with Farley again!  Okay, okay, maybe I technically broke a rule with the last one but nothing starts with K!!  And you better not tattle on me because you know me better as Little Miss Glamour anyway.  ;)

You read that right, here's your freebie!  I've always switched up my reward system in March because it's 3rd quarter, the weather is {hopefully} starting to get warm & we're leading up to spring break.  All great things but also a recipe for cray behavior.  I diecut shamrocks, write prizes on them & laminate them.  They stay in my sparkly green bucket and kids who make good choices get to choose one at the end of the day.  {If you'd rather only do it once a week or as a random surprise you are welcome to do that too.}

Just download the file, print on green paper and voila!  Done.  Remember, you don't have to print the same amount of each page.  If you want it to be harder to earn a buddy class, just print less of those.  Your kids will never know.  ;)

leprechaun {P.O.V.} writing

I used this adorable Leprechauns are/can/like writing my class last year.  A year later and I still can't figure out who posted it?!  Unless I'm senile enough to have made it myself and not remember?!  {yes.  completely possible.}  But I don't think that's the case.

We put them inside little leprechaun men for display but I wanted to beef it up this year.  So after completing the Tree Map as a class, my kids are going to use those words to write from a leprechaun's point of view tomorrow!  No, POV might not be in the kindergarten Common Core...but it's never a bad idea to push the envelope, right?!  ;)

Click on the picture to go to my TPT store and download it {free}.  There are 3 letter forms to choose from.  I hope you can use at least one of them!

 Happy O'Writing!

{did I really just say that?!}

St. Patrick's Day

Not only was it St. Patrick's day this week, but we also celebrated our Green Day on Thursday!  Funny how that worked out.  ;)  Here are some of my favorite yearly staples:

These beards are so precious I just laugh out loud when I look at my class full of leprechauns.  :)  The hat and beard reproducibles came from Mailbox Magazine a few years ago and we've been using them ever since.  It wasn't until recently that I added the orange tissue paper to the beard but I really think it makes all the difference!  I didn't think the kids would like these, but they actually didn't want to take them off!

Shamrock people!  Yes, these probably look familiar to the heart people we created in February, but they're just so cute, can you blame me?!  I didn't do hands and feet this time so the glyph was much simpler.

Savings tip: After you pull out all of the marshmallows for your Lucky Charms graph, save the cereal and use it in art projects...like these mouths!


These pot of gold books have varied some from year to year, but I always have the kids do some writing about what they'd find at the end of the rainbow.  We've also glued Corn Pops down as gold pieces in the past if you want to continue the cereal theme!

The pots are actually lift-the-flap books:

"I found a rainbow and a leprechaun."

"I was going to catch a leprechaun and I was making silly faces.  He was laughing and I have the gold."

{Pretty sure this was in response to the book Looking for Leprechauns.}

"I think there's going to be a lucky coin."

"I found a pink dress."

We love to graph {especially if it involves a snack} so this was right up our alley!  The graph we've been using doesn't correlate with the recent marshmallows so I'm going to create a new one for next year.

I loved this Tree Map I saw during my Blog Stalking but I can't remember where I got it from!  If you recognize it, please let me know so I can link up to the original site! 

After we completed the organizer, the students chose their own word to write and we put them in these little leprechauns for display!

That afternoon when we were at lunch and recess, a leprechaun came to the classroom!  One of my little smarties said, "Mrs. Young, I think I know why the leprechaun didn't come before now.  He must've known we weren't out of the room yet!"  Smart girl.

Chairs were all flipped over...

There was glitter and confetti on EVERYTHING!

That mean leprechaun even put all of our cards on blue!  But if we had to go to the office for this mess, we were going to tell our principal that we didn't do it!!

We  made traps that morning so we thought maybe we caught him!

But our traps were all knocked over so he must've escaped!  At least we got his gold!  And then found...

his hat!

There was also a messy note on the board from him.  Mrs. Young was mad about the mess so she tried to erase it...but it wouldn't even come off the board!

Finally we saw his footprints so we figured that he must've come in through the window...

Hopefully we'll catch him next year!!