Zoo-mething About Zoo Animals {Common Core Aligned Math and Literacy Centers}

Now that's a long title!
Like many of us, summer is the time to work on those projects that you didn't finish throughout the school year! My list is suuuuper long but I'm crossing things out one at a time.
Here is my little baby that really made me dig into those common core standards:

Ahhh! I started this pack when we went on our zoo field trip in APRIL!!! I never finished them and just got some inspiration during summer school. So I worked on there before school, during lunch, and after school for a bit. After a long week... they are finally finished!

Take a look at what you can find inside:

Here are the direction pages for all of the centers!

Wooh! That's a lot of information! No wonder it took me so long! 

I love these direction pages because I use these as the labels to my centers. I just cut off the bottom "teacher" part and tape it to my bag that has the recoding sheets and the cards! Easy easy!

You can find it on TpT {HERE} or on TN {HERE}

It is currently on sale for only $4.50 (regular price: $7.00) for the rest of the day! I will change it back to its regular price tomorrow before my summer school class!

Wooh! I am so happy to be done with that and start on another project! I think I will start on my classroom jobs! :)

Have a super Sunday!

I still have to post about my other Target finds... until next time!

I Survived The Zoo!!

Hello lovelies!
So I survived the field trip!
I can't find my camera cord or else I would post a class pic! I will post ASAP! We all looked so cute rockin' purple tie-dye shirts! Ooooh! I found a picture of the shirts as they were drying! They looked good!!

 Yes, I had 30+ shirts drying in my teeny tiny patio in my apartment!!!

 Close up of 2 of the shirts! I <3 them!

I also had to do my nails for the occasion plus I was super really nervous Tuesday night and I couldn't SLEEP!! This is a tape manicure! Never heard of it? GOOGLE IT RIGHT NOW! It is soo easy and super cute! I will do different colors next time and post some pics!! :)
Back to the shirts!!!
Yes, I dyed shirts for my whole class, my 7 chaperones and I!!! I used this awesome FREE pack by Laura Candler!!!

Click the image to go get this awesome freebie! Scroll down until you see it!
They are so easy to make and they turned out so so so cute! I got plenty of compliments from everyone!
I had asked my whole team if they wanted to do it {ALL 8 OF US} but only me and my neighbor did! I am sooo glad we did because it was so easy to identify my class at the huge zoo! :) I love them and I will make them every year! We will have another field trip in a couple of weeks and I can't wait to wear them again! I will post the directions of how I made them soon along with some class pictures at the zoo!
The weather was awesome! I am so glad we went yesterday because it was all rainy today in AZ! Perfect timing!
Here is a pic of a Kindergarten class on their way to lunch! I was on prep and heard a ton of screams! Then, I see a class of kinders heading to lunch. They were too cute because they still stayed in line!

Yes, that's my view from my classroom door! I love my classroom and its location. Do you see that parking lot with all of the cars??? Yeah, that's the teacher parking lot. I have to walk that far EVERY day! Another reason I love my classroom location is because the walk isn't THAT bad! Last year, my classroom was the furthest from the parking lot! Wooh! What a workout!
Wooh! I will leave you behind with a picture of me and my BESTEST friend in the WHOLE world! I seriously love her so much! I don't know where I would be without her!! :)

Sorry it's blurry but that's us! She is wearing the black dress... Oh So Pretty!

Back to teaching stuff... check out some of these super awesome possum giveaways:

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I seriously LOVE her stuff! I just bought some awesome paper!!! :)

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is having an awesome 200 follower giveaway! Alrighty! Have a fabulous night! TGIt'salmostF!!! :)

20 more days of school for me... exactly one month!!! WHAAAAT?? Can't believe it!!!

My Zoo Book FREEBIE!

Hello lovely ladies!!! :)
I have been gone so long... can't believe it! I just haven't had the time {OR ENERGY} to sit down and write a post... or I should say finish writing a post! But, you better believe that I am always checking on my Google Reader on my iPhone... I think I have read almost every blog post! I read that thing in the car {when the Hubs is driving}, waiting in line for ANYTHING, and when I am bored or can't sleep!! :)
I want to say thanks for everyone else's post and wonderful activities! Ya'll are such an inspiration!!!
Well, enough of that! Here is a little freebie that I whipped up last week for my kiddos! We will be going to the zoo on Wednesday!!! This is my first official field trip in my teaching career so it's a little BIG deal!

This is the front cover! I am going to have my kiddos draw a picture of themselves right before we go on the field trip. School starts at 8, we will have breakfast until 8:30, and they will have plenty of time to add details and chat with their buddies when the bus leaves around 9!

The following are pictures of the pages in the zoo book!!

Click on any of the pictures to download for FREE over at TpT or click {HERE} to get it FREE over on TN!!! :) Please get it on TN... TpT isn't working for me! I will try again tomorrow!! OK, TpT is working for me again! Click {HERE} to download on TpT for FREE!

Have a fabulous day/night! I am hoping to post more often! I have a long, long, long list of things I want to blog about!

Good night, lovely ladies!!