February is Dental Health month!  We are celebrating during the last week of February, since the month is packed full of so many other holidays and celebrations.  Our school nurse and a local dentist office will be coming in next week to teach our students about the benefits of proper dental health and how to properly take care of their teeth.  I wanted to share some teacher approved videos, children's books, activities, crafts, and my lesson plans for the week in case you needed some ideas for your dental health unit. I have quite a few dental health books that I love.  I had to narrow it down for the week due to time constraints.  I teach in themes, so everything we do this week will have to do with dental health.  These are the books I will teach explicitly from throughout the unit.  You can find them all on Amazon and a couple through Scholastic.  I got quite a few during the Scholastic $1 sale last year. Here are some videos I compiled to share throughout the week. ...

February is the one of those months that is just packed full of holiday greatness!  I love incorporating all of the fun themes!  Presidents' Day is coming up very soon and I wanted to plan some fun things that I knew my students would love!  I teach kindergarten, but I have modified all of these presidential activities for first and second grades, too.  We are focusing on identifying key ideas and details within the text, so that's what I decided to make the core comprehension skill in this unit.  Add a few cute crafts and my favorite presidential books and we are all set!   So, these are probably my top 5 Presidents' Day books.  I have more that I use, but you can only fit so many in within a week.  This year, I went with these for our upcoming study.  I have ordered some better George Washington books this year.  I have the Kindle version of them, but I think it's important to have the actual books so they aren't pictured.  I love George Washington ...

Have you seen these adorable felt Valentine envelopes in the Target Dollar Spot area?  They are actually only $1 and when I saw them, I knew I had to incorporate them somehow, somewhere!  They have the large ones above, as well as the smaller ones like in the picture below in the holiday section.  I wanted to share a couple ideas with you I had for this cuteness and hear your ideas on how you would use or are using these envelopes. My little ones are so into working for little treats and rewards.  I thought it would be so cute if when they came in in the mornings, Cupid would have left them a little love note with a little treat!  And the Cupid's Love Note idea was born!   I made up some love notes with all different kinds of compliments on them from academics to friendship to great behavior.  I printed them all out and have them stowed away with the envelopes.  I select a few students per day to receive the note so that by Valentine's Day, they each have rece...