Teachers Are Heroes TPT Sale - Feb. 25th

It's time for a TpT site-wide SALE! The date is Wednesday, February 25.

These huge site-wide sales only come 4 times a year, so check out the entire site for everything you will need for awhile!

During the sale everything in my store will be 28% off. (20% from me and TPT will take an additional discount when you enter CODE "HEROES" to equal 28%) LOTS of sellers will have sales in their stores.

Here is a link to my store.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Marcia-Murphy


Have fun shopping!

 

St. Patrick's Day Craft Activities

One month from today it will be St. Patrick's Day!

Here are a couple of suggestions for activities to do with the kids.

First, you could make Shamrock Paper Plate Clocks with the kids to help with teaching or reviewing telling time as a math activity. Second, since rainbows have become symbols of luck and celebration on St. Patrick's Day, a fun science activity is to learn the colors of the rainbow with a great video, a wonderful children's book, and an art or craft activity.

Both of these ideas are in previous posts, so just click on the 2 links below to get directions and more information.

http://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2012/02/make-shamrock-clock-for-st-patricks-day.html

http://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2011/02/roy-g-biv-video-and-song.html

Stay warm and think spring!

 

Heart Penguin Craft Activity

Here is a simple craft activity that's great if you are teaching a unit on penguins or if you are home with the kids on a snow day! Only a few materials are needed.

Materials

• construction paper (black, white, and orange)
• scissors
• google eyes
• paste or glue

Directions

• Cut 5 heart shapes (1 large white, 2 medium black, 3 small orange)
• Cut one of the black hearts in half.
• Assemble the parts and glue or paste. See the picture above.
• Add a set of google eyes!

Next it's time to read a good book about penguins. I'll add a few suggestions at the end of this post.

Stay warm!
It's 18 degrees here in New England and we are in the middle of a storm that is leaving us with 14 to 24 inches of snow! Yikes!