Teaching Heart Blog

It’s almost here.  What do you plan to do to make it fun, educational, and special?  I have a few ideas for you… First, get our End of the Year Packet and you will be set – click here Next, check out all the free ideas on our End of The Year Page.  Make sure you scroll through all of it or you may miss something. Then, check out the two free printables below in my guest post at The Organized Classroom.  Click here to read the post and download the 2 free printables. Finally, head over to the End of The Year Pin board and explore even more!!!  Happy Teaching!    

 I recently attended a Kindergaten and PreSchool Tea put on by the staff and PTA of Bower Hill Elementary School… There were many creative ideas there that are too cute not to share… The green balls are cake pops! The large red one is a styrofoam ball. There he is hanging high. Made with paper lanterns. The napkins were tied with fake leaves. Hole punched to look like the caterpillar had been munching! Gotta love the art work! So much yummy food for all who attended. I felt honored that they shared my Caterpillar Bug Pack (click here to purchase) and each teacher who was... 

It’s almost mid May!  This year has flown by.  How will you celebrate the End of The Year?  Will you find a special treat to give to your students as an end of the year surprise?  I have some ideas for inexpensive gifts ($1 or less) that you can make.  I also have a free printable that includes all the tags for each of the items.  You can download a FREE pdf file that has one of each of these toppers for the various treats seen by clicking here.   If you would rather a sheet of each tag, you can get that too in our End of The Year Packet – click here to learn more.  Here are... 

Pretty soon the End of the Year will be here!  Give your teacher friends a bottle of wine and use my free tag on your bottle. Just print the file, cut out, and place on a favorite bottle of wine! Click here to download the file. Be sure to check out our End of Year Page for more ideas! Support Teaching Heart and Make Planning Easy With the End of The Year Packet!  

Need some inexpensive Teacher Appreciation gifts you can make up quick???  You have to click here to see many easy ideas, like the ones below… and this and  this and this and so much more here!!!    

 Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!!!  Teachers are some of the biggest bucket fillers.  If you are a parent looking for a great End of the Year gift, I have an idea for you in this post.  You can give the special teacher one of the many Bucket Filler books and attach my tag to your printable and you have a great gift that should fill the bucket of a favorite teacher.  Before I show you that, I have to tell you about the newest book from the bucket filling set…  I am a huge fan of Bucket Filling after finding and reading Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for... 

Need a quick gift for MOM???  Grab a box of muffin mix, some cardstock, my printable, and some ribbon to create this treat!!!  Saw this idea  on Pinterest from Keeping Life Creative.  I love the idea of attaching the poem to a bag of muffin mix to give to mom.  Very cute!!!  I created another printable you could use and attach to a bag of muffin mix.   Click here to print the file seen below.  I printed mine on cardstock and rolled the poem up.  You could even have your students draw a picture of their mom eating a muffin on the back of the poem page.  Look at this Teacher Version…  http://theoldcrowsemptynest.com/2012/05/08/if-you-give-a-teacher-a-muffin/ Check... 

It is Teacher Appreciation Week…  Check out our download store here (newly updated)!!!   You can save 20% off your total order by using discount code teachingheart at check out!  FILL UP YOUR CART and do not miss this chance to save!  Sale ends May 13th!!!  Hurry!   

Did you see the post yesterday for the free printable Mom website template?  If not, click here and check that out.  Here is another free Mother’s Day Printable!   First read, I’ll Always Love You! “Alex’s mom says that she will always love him, no matter what. Alex still isn’t sure. He doesn’t want to get into too much trouble for the broken honey bowl! Even if Alex gets into a pillow fight, paints the baby all different colors, or pours oatmeal over his head, his mom says that she will always love him. Gentle text and sweet illustrations show the unconditional... 

I love this new little FREE Mother’s Day  printable I made.  It’s a twist on the typical Mother’s Day Newspaper I have done in the past.  Instead, let’s pull mom out of the paper and give her a web-page all of her own!  Of course you will need the help of one of her lovely kiddos to fill out the form!  Mom is sure to love this… Click Here to Download World’s Greatest Mom Online!!! Hope you have fun working on this with your students. For EVEN MORE great Mother’s Day Ideas, click here to our theme page! Have a great day!