Harbor Freight Teacher Finds!

My son wanted to go to Harbor Freight last night to look for some things for his dirt bike. 
I have gotten paint brushes for school there before, and could use some more, so I was happy to take him!  

I found paint brushes!  I found small, skinny brushes, (think water color brushes), that come in a 20 pack for only $1.99!  Check them out {HERE}.

I also bought some medium sized brushes that come in a 36 pack for $2.49!  Check them out {HERE}.

I am most excited about the 3-D dino puzzles I found for $1.99 each!  These are wooden puzzles that make a standing dinosaur when completed....for $2!!  I bought the triceratops, pterodactyl, stegosaurus and brontosaurus!  They didn't have a T-Rex in stock, but I found it {HERE} on their website.  

I added the puzzles to my steam bins this morning, but was a little worried they'd be too hard.

Well, one kiddo completed the pterodactyl like it was nothing!  The puzzles are actually larger than I was expecting too!  Definitely a win/win all around!

The Lorax & Earth Day!

I know I'm a day late for Earth Day but I didn't have school yesterday! :)

I generally read "The Lorax" during our Earth Day unit and the kiddos love it!  

At the end of the unit, I like to have the kiddso make a photo frame with a few truffula trees!  

You can find this activity in my TPT store {HERE}!

The trees above have colored cotton balls as truffula tufts.  Most years, I have the kids use tissue paper squares, wrapped around pencil erasers with a drop of glue.  

The pictures in the frames change from year to year.  Some years it's a picture of the kiddos with Lorax mustaches.  Some years it's the "Unless" quote from the story.  

Either way, the kids love making these!

It's DINO time!

Spring means DINO time in first grade!  We put on a Living Dinosaur Museum for the kiddos' families and friends in May.  One of the projects displayed are Dino Fossils!

The kiddos are given an outline of a dinosaur on black paper.  My teammate made these outlines for another project, but they work great for these.  I made "skulls" to fit each dinosaur that are copied onto white paper.  Each kiddo is given a picture of their dinosaur's skeleton to use as a guide, as well as a LOT of q-tips!  

The end results are always adorable!

Everything in our classroom gets dino-fied this time of year!

The kids chuckle at this every time they walk by it!

PEEP round-up!

 I have been obsessed with all things PEEPS this Spring!  I couldn't pass up {THIS} super festive bulletin board idea from Coffee Fueled Classroom.   I copied the Peeps onto AstroBrights card stock and done!

Then I saw {THIS} science project and couldn't pass it up!!  Not only was it super interesting to see what happened, but the kids absolutely loved checking in on the Peeps each day!!

The icing on the cake was this adorable Peeps tee!  I got a ton of compliments on it from other teachers and the kiddos thought it was pretty cool too!  You can find similar shirts {HERE} and {HERE}.    

Have a wonderful Easter!! :)