Groundhog Math Center Work Stations & a Cute Groundhog Counting Puzzle Freebie!

I found the cutest groundhog graphics and just had to create some math work stations.

My new listings are on sale for the first 48 hours - even my bundles!

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I usually list my bundles 50% off and if you purchase

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Here is my Groundhog Freebie
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Groundhog Counting Puzzle Freebie

I also made quite a few math work station centers.  
My Groundhog Bundle includes 5 math work stations, plus a cute free bonus -

  Groundhog Bingo Fun!

Here are the 5 Groundhog Math Centers included in the bundle:

Find the Missing Number 0-16

Find the Missing Number 15-31

Counting Puzzles

Ten Frame Playdough Mats

Number Bingo

I saw some really cute Chinese New Year Clip Art, so tomorrow I'm creating a cute Chinese New Year Bingo Game!

Pam

Top 10 It's All About Ice Cream Fabulous Kindergarten & Preschool Printable FREEBIES

Today It's All About Ice Cream!

Here are my top 10 FREEBIES

Ice Cream Preschool Pack

Ice Cream Names

Ice Cream Alphabet Matching

 Baggie Ice Cream

Ice Cream Number Match

4 Ice Cream Worksheets

Build An Ice Cream Cone

Ice Cream Vowel Match Ups

Childcareland Ice Cream Scissor Skills & Pre Writing Sheet

and last but not least

Ice Cream Emergent Readers

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Top 10 It's All About Monkeys Printable FREEBIES for Parents & Teachers

I LOVE all of the FREE resources available for parents & teachers.

Every day, I will pick my favorite FREEBIES and post them on my 

Pinterest Board

Today, it's ALL ABOUT MONKEYS!

Here are my TOP 10:

Monkey and Behavior Chart

Creative Clips has a super cute Monkey Kit:

How bout a cute Monkey Song?

or maybe you would like to practice subtraction with

Subtracting Monkey

Monkey Bunting

Sock Monkey Clipart

Monkey Moolah

Chunky Monkey Flip Flaps

Monkey Matching

Monkey in the Middle

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Enjoy!

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Literacy Bag

I've been busy reopening my Ebay Shop and adding new items. I recently added There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed...Literacy Bag. These books are always a hit with children and I made story cards and props to go with 9 books. Here is a picture of my hand painted canvas bag - I wasn't sure if I would be able to paint the Old Lady, but I'm happy with how it turned out:

The literacy bag includes a CD with all of the activities. My kids love "feeding" the old lady. I made objects from each of the books to go with my Old Lady. The Old Lady is really cute and the graphic is from Original Country Clipart by Lisa. Here's a picture of my Old Lady:

Awhile back I stumbled on a great deal on Amazon. They priced some great Child's Play Storysacks at a steal. I bought 10 of them before they raised the price back to $65. I've got a few left and you can buy them for $25 in my Ebay shop if you get it with the opening bid. The set comes with a really cute stuffed old lady and bean filled objects to feed her from the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly book - the book and everything pictured is included too! Here is a picture:

I'd love to hear your teaching ideas for the Old Lady Books - feel free to comment away!
Pam

Manic Monday Giveaway: Apple Literacy Bag!!!!

You will receive:
Apples Literacy Bag

Hand Painted Canvas Bag

with CD containing over a dozen activities:

Sample of Activities:

Apple Tree Counting Mats 1 - 10

Five Little Apples - interactive book

How to Eat a Apple Sequence Cards

From Seed to Apple Sequence Cards

Apple Sorting Mat - Beginning Sounds

Blacklines for letter A recognition

Recipes

Crafts

and more!

How to Enter:

First, you need to follow my blog

Your comments will earn you entries!

Every comment will earn you one entry - you may comment on any or all of my posts during May 4 - 16

Visit any of my shops (links are on the left sidebar) and comment on a favorite item - 2 entries

Add my Etsy shop to your favorites - 2 entries

Blog about my giveaway and leave a comment with link - 3 entries

Send a email to your friends telling them about my giveaway and copy me - 3 entries

Giveaway will run from today - May 4th - May 16th

Winner announced on Sunday, May 17th

Have fun!
Pam

Lois Ehlert Activities for Planting a Rainbow & Growing Vegetable Soup

Here are some great resources for Lois Ehlert's Planting a Rainbow:

I found this Groovy Rainbow Cupcake from Flickr: breeleed

I made a yellow cake mix (white also works, too) and then divided the batter into four bowls. Using Wilton icing colors, I dyed each bowl of batter with my favorite color. Just spoon each color into a lined cupcake tin and you're all set!

Makes and Takes has a great activity: planting a rainbow

Angelfire has some bloomin' good plant activities!

Virtual Vine has a neat rainbow unit

Growing Vegetable Soup Activities:

First School's Vegetable Basket Craft

Let's Read at Home

Family Literacy Guided Lesson

Cute video from Gardentime: Kids Seed Planting Projects

Enjoy!
Pam

Planting & Gardening: My Favorite Books - Planting a Rainbow, Growing Vegetable Soup & The Tiny Seed Plus Activities

Here are some of my favorite Planting and Gardening Activities:

My Favorite Books to Read:

The Tiny Seed By Eric Carle
Planting a Rainbow By Lois Ehlert
Growing Vegetable Soup By Lois Ehlert

If you haven't discovered Lois Ehlert, be sure and check her books out - she's awesome!

Tomorrow, I will list my favorite websites with fabulous activities to go along with these great books!

Cute Crafts:

Coffee Filter Flowers by Family Corner

Make a beautiful flower bouquet. These flowers are quick, easy, inexpensive and fun for all ages. Use your imagination to come up with your own varieties! For each flower you will need:
2 basket style drip coffee filters
Food coloring (2 colors)
Wooden skewer
Green construction paper
Clear tape
White glue
Green paint or marker


Scrunchy Blossoms By Kids Craft Weekly


Our scrunchy blossoms turned out so nicely that we have decided to keep them in a vase on the kitchen table. These blossoms are easy to make – younger kids with good fine motor skills should be able to manage quite easily. You will need• pink or white crepe paper• scissors• twigs• kids pvc glue and paintbrush1. Cut crepe paper into small pieces – we cut ours into roughly one inch squares.2. Scrunch a piece of crepe paper into a small tight ball. Dip it in glue and stick it to your twig. Keep going until your stick is in full bloom.






Build a Terrarium By Kids Gardening

Be sure and visit this great website:

My First Garden

a guide to the world of fun and clever gardening
Have Fun Planting!
Pam

Manic Monday Giveaway!!!!!

Manic Monday Giveaway
Sponsored by my friend, Shawna Huggins

Shawna has a wonderful Etsy shop: The Student Corner

Shawna's Info:

Hi, my name is Shawna Huggins. I am a professional tutor . That means that I get to work with students of all ages (9 - 21) on academic subjects ranging from punctuation to physics, astronomy to ancient history, and geometry to game making, all in one day. I work out of my home and the students come to me because all my toys are here.

Currently, three of my students are participating in the Etsy store experience. We use Etsy to practice creative writing (product descriptions) and math (gee, what does net and gross mean, and what do you mean pay pal takes a percentage - what is percentage anyway?). It is amazing how quickly students learn decimals, multiplication, division, and percent when they have to use it to figure out how much of the sale they get to take home.

We are so happy to be participating in the Monday Madness Giveaway. All of the art in this store was made by Nalani, Age 13, Keelianna, Age 9, and Kyle, Age 13.
I live in Medford, Oregon with my husband, dog, and cat. We have a grown daughter living in Portland, Oregon. We laugh a lot and enjoy life.

Giveaway Info:

You may enter: April 20th - April 26th

Winners will be announced Sunday, April 27th

How to Enter:

Follow my blog - 1 entry

Visit Shawna's shop: The Student Corner and leave a comment about your favorite item - 1 entry

Visit my artfire shop: Hands On Learning Fun and leave a comment about your favorite item - 1 entry

Post about my giveaway on your blog and leave comment with link - 3 entries!

Send a email to your friends about the giveaway with a link to my blog and copy me: handsonlearningfun@live.com - 3 entries!

I love comments!!!! Comment throughout the week about my posts and receive 1 entry per day

You will receive 2 photo cards by Keelianna, age 9



Summer Time photo Card by Keelianna, Age 9

I love summer and sunflowers.

Hi, My name is Keelianna. I'm almost 9. I love to paint. When I was four I used to doodle. I still do. My doodles look much better now. So now you know me. Bye.This is a photo of Keelianna's original painting. It is glued to a 6.5 x 5 inch folded ivory card and comes with an envelope.Keelianna enjoys painting, reading, writing stories, and learning new things every day.

Happy Time photo card by Keelianna, Age 9.

I made this painting when I was very happy. It is a heart with wings and a halo.

Hi, My name is Keelianna. I'm almost 9. I love to paint. when I was four I used to doodle. I still do. My doodles look much better now. So now you know me. Bye.This is a photo of Keelianna's original painting. It is glued to a 6.5 x 5 folded ivory card and comes with an envelope. Keelianna enjoys painting, reading, writing stories, and learning how to borrow in subtraction.

Have a great week!
Pam

Manic Monday Giveaway Winner!!!!!!!

We have a winner!

Melissa Tingle

You have won Teena's awesome giveaway!

Please email me with your mailing address at handsonlearningfun@live.com

I used random.org to choose our winner:

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 49

and Melissa won!

Check back tomorrow for my new giveaway - you're going to love it!

Special thanks to Teena of Teena's Teacher Tidbits for providing such a wonderful giveaway.
Enjoy your Sunday,

Pam

Earth Day Printable Math Activities

Earth Day is right around the corner!

Check out my new Earth Day Math Printable Activity Packet with over 20 pages of fun hands on activities!

You will receive via email in PDF Format:

Really cute math counters from Scrappin Doodles that can be used with all of these activities:

Let's Count - 10 math boards numbered 1 - 10 - place the correct number of objects on each board

Math Counting Boards - 2 boards with numbers 1- 10 number word recognition

Math Counting Boards - Counting objects up to 10

Earth Day Patterns - AB, ABC, AABB patterns included

Graphing Activity - graph the objects then answer the questions

Graphing Question Sheet - answer each question using the number markers

Enjoy!
Pam

Friday Freebie: Spring Bingo

Hi all!
Today I'm sending all of my followers a really cute Spring Bingo Game featuring awesome graphics from Scrappin Doodles Creative clip art, web sets, printables, and more!

For the love of computer crafting. Be sure and check out her great website.

I love bingo and even more importantly KIDS LOVE bingo!

So enjoy this great holiday weekend and have fun playing my Spring Bingo.

If you are a follower and do not receive your bingo game, please email me at handsonlearningfun@live.com and I will add your email to my mailing list. Please let me know what name you are following under.

Thanks,

Pam

Hands On Learning Fun Commotion in the Ocean Literacy Bag

Commotion in the Ocean Literacy Bag

This is a great thematic unit based on Andreae Giles book:

Commotion in the Ocean

I also have a great Rumble in the Jungle Literacy Bag, which will be listed later today.

I'm offering this set in 3 different formats:

PDF Format: For those of you who don't mind printing, cutting and assembling

Literacy Bag with Sink Float Objects and a CD containing all activities in PDF Format

Literacy Bag with activities printed, cut and laminated - ready to go!

Like to bid?: Complete Literacy Bag and Literacy Bag with CD

Activities Included:

Story Cards
Counting by 10's
Five Little Sea Animals Poetry Activity
Sink or Float? Science Center
3 Math Worksheets with ocean counters
What's For Dinner? Activity
Land or Sea? Classification activity
Activity Sheet listing ways to use the above activities as well as cooking, music, suggested reading, art, and math activities.

Enjoy your weekend!
Pam