Getting My Penguins In a Row

Dear Teacher Friends,

We are finally over the sickness hump and everyone in the house is starting to feel better. I think I have spent the last 3 holiday breaks being sick....ugh to bad timing!

Well anyway.....

Have you heard the saying "getting your ducks in a row"? Well I've been getting my penguins in a row. January is the month we study penguins and I already have a lot of activities but over the last few weeks I have been gathering and making more. Below are just a few of the things I have pinned on my 'Penguin Pinterest Board'. I love the paper tube penguins. I'm pretty sure I have enough empty tubes from the holiday to cut up and make them. I'm also making a set of centers using the new penguin clip art. I will post a picture here as soon as I have it done.

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I wish we had time to make all of them....they are all so cute! We are going to do the paper tearing penguin as it will provide fine motor and visual discrimination practice. I also think we will make these, just because they are so cute.

Egg Carton Penguins

We also do a fun penguin glyph. I will share pictures and directions for those after I go back to work next week. They are really cute and make a great bulletin board. 

The January Homework Packet for Kindergarten needs a bit more tweaking but it will be posted soon, hopefully tomorrow. It's assessment and report card month for me so the packet reviews many of the skills the children will be assessed on. 

Now it's your turn....

Do you have an awesome penguin activity that Kinders would love? Please link up below so we can collect lots of great ideas!! Please remember to link to your post and not your blog so that everyone can read about your great penguin activities. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break! 

Happy New Year!!

I Need a Resolution...and New Clip Art

Hello Teacher Friends!!
Do you ever lose time when you are on the internet? I log on to the internet and follow a short list of to do's.
This short list includes reading my favorite blogs. And that is where I get stalled. There are so many great blogs to read, so many ideas to try. I lose all track of time and then poof.... I never get to a new post. So, although I am not a great believer in making New Year Resolution's I really must try! I need to create balance between creating clip art and activities, reading blogs and messaging with my cyber teacher friends, and posting here.... MUST...CREATE.... BALANCE!

I will try.

In the meantime I have been busy drawing two new clip art sets. The first is a big set of snowmen.

All of the above pictures are bundled into one set. I included all of the blackline masters as well. You can find it here Oodles of Doodles Snowman Set. 

The other set is another penguin set. This time a baby penguin wearing scarves in different patterns and colors. It's a cutie!

Here is the link if you want to take a peek: Baby Penguin Clip Art

Thanks so much for following my blog. As a little thank you I have added five of the new penguins to my Google Doc file titles "Freebies".

You can find them by following this link... Baby Penguins Freebies

If you use these in anything you create please include my button and a link to my web page.

 Thanks Again for following me!!

Penguin Number Words 1 - 6

This is a quick little game I just made to practice number words 1 - 6. The kiddo's will roll a die, count, and color that numeral heart. Each of my students have binders with words they are learning so I will add the 2nd page to that in order for them to work independently. Penguin Heart Number Words

Artic Fun.... try this again, got it this time

Artic Fun Master Copy

Penguin Sight Words.....maybe, if I did it right!

Penguin Sight Words