Cute Fonts and Clip Arts

Are any of ya'll as obsessed with cute fonts as I am?? I love how much a cute font can jazz up whatever you are creating and I really love whenever someone I know finds a new cute one and shares. Some of my favorites are from Kevin and Amanda and the best part about the K&A ones is that they are free!! I am probably the last blogger on earth to stumble across the adorable fonts and clip arts on Etsy but just in case I am not, I wanted to share my new favorite with all of you! My newest font/clip art obsession is from KPMDoodles on Etsy. I love her large selection of images and fonts and how reasonably priced they are! So I have been playing around with my new fonts and created a little freebie for you! I have been wanting to buy some number word signs on TPT and figured I would just make my own. Here they are :)

First Few Days of School

We are officially on our 5th day of school and things are starting to settle in nicely. We have been able to start on some "real lessons" this week and I am excited to share one of them with you (I say "real lessons" because while there is more meat to them than last week, it is still only the 5th day of kindergarten!). We have finished our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom name trees. These were super easy for the kids to do, the most challenging part being the accordion folding. Luckily my kiddos are all very hard workers who are independent and want to do the work themselves. For this lesson the students had to write their names on the first line, and then count the letters in their name and write the numeral on the second line. This ties together both our Chicka Chicka study and our study of our names. I guess it technically counts as handwriting practice and math since we practiced recognizing and forming our numerals too. So this one little lesson accomplished a lot!! Here are a few of our finished trees:

You can definitely notice the beginning of the year kindergarten handwriting!! I cannot take credit for this idea because, like so many other things I do, it came from Pinterest. Speaking of Pinterest, I have one more picture below from my grade partner. Ya'll she created the most adorable tree for her bulletin board that she saw on Pinterest and I just can't let it go without being seen! 

This idea is especially genius because we will be studying apples soon, and then as we head into fall she can switch out the green leaves for fall colored ones. It is hard to see from the picture but she used scrapbook paper to die cut her letters on, which is something we both LOVE to do. It just adds that little extra touch to make it a teensy bit cuter! 

I hope you're all having a great week!!