A Sale and A Giveaway! {now closed}

We have finished our first week of school! It was pretty crazy trying to get all the kiddos out of the house, but I loved being able to peek in on each one throughout the day!

This year I added on some afternoon classes at our homeschool academy, so we have two full days there and we are adding in more structure to our days at home because Alex is in kindergarten. Its sometimes hard to wrap my head around all the different things I need to cover, so I am so thankful to have Teachers pay Teachers around to look for resources for kindergarten AND third grade literature, writing and history! TpT is such a great resource for the classroom, homeschool, enrichment, almost anything you can think of. I love looking through the freebie options, but there are lots of great paid resources as well!

I was so excited to find out TpT was having a BONUS, one day sale, so I could purchase all of those resources I didn't realize I needed before! :) Even more exciting is that TpT gave me a $10 gift card to give away!! 

Pretty AMAZING right! It is easy to enter and there are lots of ways to get bonus entries! A winner will be chosen tonight and a e-gift card sent to you so you can have fun shopping at the sale tomorrow. Be sure to enter before 10:00pm eastern time tonight! You can use the gift card in any store, and it never expires so use it during the sale or save it for another time! Also if you fill in the last entry and tell me your favorite resource in my store, I will send it to you if you are the winner! 

*Giveaway is now closed!*

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Click on the picture to head over to TpT to see all the great resources!

4th of July Sale!

My TPT store is on sale this weekend to add to your July 4th celebrations!

Check out some of these products to help get your year started off on the right foot!

Click on the pictures for more details!

Classroom job signs

Agenda circles! These coordinate perfectly with the classroom jobs! :)

teacher planners

Around the World Factbooks

Decoding Strategy pack!

Reading Comprehension posters

Writing Resources

Go HERE to see all my Back to School Products!

And be sure to download some of the freebies as well! ;)

Five For Friday: Busy days!

LOTS has happened this week. I'm still in shock that we are down to 3 weeks left! It feels long and short at the same time.  We are slowly getting through assessments, while still trying to enjoy our last unit, How We Organize Ourselves at the same time! :)

{one}

I love having a kid in school. It's so much fun to put together little teacher presents. But I don't like being so las minute about it... anyways Tuesday afternoon I realized that I didn't have gifts yet, but our team was doing a parent night, which was going to keep me out late... Not good planning! But, a quick trip to Lowes and a couple minutes at the computer using some fabulous KG fonts was all I needed for these cute basil gifts! I love useful plants and not only did these smell so good, but they are perfect to sit in the kitchen for fresh basil whenever you need it. Maybe I will get another one for myself too. ;)

{two}

The last two days we have spent a good 2+ hours outside before bedtime. It has cut bedtime down to 20 minutes! I love watching them play and love that bedtime is much more manageable! :) The beautiful greenery in our backyard is quite wonderful too.

{three}

I finished up my FAVORITE teacher planner this week. I think I have figured out which one to print for next year! There are lots of fun tribal themed backgrounds in this one. You can check out the preview here. Or look at the Nautical or Colorful versions too! They are all on sale this weekend and the calendars will be updated yearly, just download the updates!

{four}

My team had a parent night this week to give parents some ideas and resources for how to keep their kids engaged in learning over the summer. I shared some of what we talked about here, as well as some things I will be sending home this summer!

{five}

There are going to be some changes happening on the blog this summer! Read more about them here!

This weekend is well deserved! 14 days left for me! :)

I love joining the Five For Friday linky that Kacey does at Doodle Bugs Teaching! It's always a fun way to reflect over the week. :)

Happy Weekend!

Five for Friday: {hello} May

What!?! It's already MAY? 

I'm in disbelief. April flew by. Now the end of school is really in sight. 

Here's how I spent the last week of April!

{one}

Alex gave me this dandelion as we were headed to the car for church. To put in my hair. Because he loved me. Got to love the sweet gift of dandelions. Whether they are from your own kids or your school kids...who also (accidentally) call me mom on a regular basis! ;) 

I love all my sweet kiddos!

{two}

Our plants are growing! We planted them in pots on Monday. It's so interesting to see how differently they all have been growing in the bag and paper towel. Don't you love the "noticings" (or lack of) that this child wrote... even after I encouraged them to add lots of details... we try.  At least she added some good detail to her picture. ;)

{three}

Plant love always bleeds over to my house too. We are a little late in starting our seeds, but I am determined to get them to grow better this year! We have a lot of tomato plants going and some basil. Those are my two staples and as long as we have those I am good! Alex was super excited to plant some sunflowers and watermelon. :)

{four}

Does anyone get a little frazzled feeling in April. The end of the year can be a struggle. {Here} are some ideas to finish well. What are yours?

{five}

It feels a little scary that I just planned out the rest of the year! We have one more unit of inquiry to finish and I don't want it to get lost in the end of year assessment madness. Our district provides us with pacing guides, report card rubrics, but we work hard to mesh everything with our units too so it all gets covered. Some units flow better than others, but at least now I have a better feeling about the end of the year and it will make weekly plans a lot easier! I still need to figure out the best way to mesh our planners and all the ELA standards together. So many great tools, I just need to make them work for me a little better.

Oh. And mark you calendars! Teacher Pay Teacher's annual teacher appreciation sale is May 5th through 6th! You can save up to 28% at my store! Its the perfect time to pick up some great products to help you finish out the year! Be sure to check it out! My cart is already filling up! :)

Linking up with Five for Friday! 

Have a great weekend!

It's Your LUCKY Day!

Be sure to head over my TPT store today and tomorrow for 20% off all the products in my store!

Click on any of the pictures to go directly to my store! :)

This packet it full of all the resources you need to help your kids start using their reading strategies to decode unknown words! Includes a parent letter too!

Are your kids decoding well, but needing to work on comprehension? These posters and response sheets are just the thing (Don't forget to check out my free bookmarks too!)

These Vowel team and R-Controlled Vowel word building cards are a huge hit in my room! 

Both included recording sheets too!

 

This time of year, it can be really tricky to keep kids motivated to make good choices. 

But they love getting notes to show their parents and parents love the positive communication too!

These notes are perfect to send home to reward the great choices kids are making!

Those are just a couple fun activities that might help you as you work extra hard to keep kids motivated and engaged this spring!

Be sure to head over to my store to check out more resources!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Twas the Week before Christmas Break

Twas the week before Christmas Break

and what a week it was!

Every child was squirming...

and my poet ability ends there... ;)

I don't know about you all, but its been a week!

{and it is not over yet}

To celebrate that there are only 6 school days before break,

{or maybe less for you!}

All of my Winter/Christmas Stations will be 20% off through Sunday night
to make life easier for you!

Keep your kids engaged while practicing their reading and math skills:

Common and Proper Nouns

Long Vowels

Capitalization and Punctuation

Visualizing

Make a Ten to Add

Measuring

Basic Addition 

The Winter Long Vowel Sort and Fix the Sentence Stations are available exclusively in the 

Is It Christmas Break Yet? set!

{which includes all of the centers shown above}

{click on the picture to check it out!}

This weekend you can get 7 stations for just $4!

Make planning easy next week! 

Your kids can have fun while still practicing lots of reading and math skills!

Christmas and Winter Stations!

Did you make a list and check it twice?

Buy your choices and something else nice?

Now leave some feedback and use your TPT credits for one last purchase! :)

It can be so hard to keep kids engaged before break! 

This pack will help you stay on track with learning goals while allowing the 

kids to enjoy the holiday season!

I've already started using some of the math games with my kids and they LOVE them!

There are 6 games plus a bonus freebie!

It's 20% off tonight and don't forget to add the promo code: TPTCYBER

for extra savings!

Click HERE to get a copy!

Less than three weeks! 

We can do it!

Get Ready for Cyber Monday!

Be sure to check out Teacher Pay Teacher's huge sale on Monday and Tuesday!

Everything in my store will be marked down 20% and then if you use the promo code

TPTCYBER you will an even bigger discount! 

Don't forget to leave feedback on your previous purchases so you can use your TPT credit to add in some more discounts! :) 

(That is one of my favorite parts of TPT!!)

Here are some products that you might be interested in...

Reading Strategies Posters, Bookmarks and More!

Perfect for Beginning Readers!

Once they develop their decoding skills help them work on their comprehension with these posters and recording sheets from:

Wrangling in our Reading Skills!

Do your kids need practice with inferring or Drawing Conclusions?

This is a perfect workshop station for that!

Drawing Conclusions: A Workshop Center

An engaging station to practice Visualizing!

Picture This!

Practice Measuring with nonstandard units!

Measuring Snowmen

Make a Ten to Add can be a hard strategy for kids to grasp 

but this little station will be perfect to help kids practice!

Making Ten to Add

 My kids love playing games from this packet! 

All you need are some copies and dice! 

I've making some more games for this packet, so will update it as the year goes on!

Dice Game for the Whole Year!

There are lots of great freebies to check out too!

Be sure to check out all the stores at TPT and stock up during the cyber sale!

Don't forget to leave feedback to earn those TPT credits!

Click on the picture to go to TPT and get your cart ready for the sale tomorrow!

Five For Friday: Happy Black Friday

Monday and Tuesday seem like ages ago! I love having a break. 

I really needed the rest and change of pace! 

I'm linking up today with Doodle Bugs Teaching Five for Friday!

1. Monday we really dived into our new IB unit so I had the kids draw a picture of someone they thought showed greatness. There was a mixture of parents, teachers, presidents and leaders. It was really sweet!

2. On Tuesday we gathered all of the first graders into the hallway and had dessert together. It was so sweet to get them out and watch them enjoy eating and talking. We ended the time singing our Learner Profile song that one of the teachers and classes wrote and it was precious!

3. I am sure thankful for these two boys! We had a great thanksgiving with family over and of course their favorite part was the pie! :)

4. Now that you are done with Black Friday shopping it is time to get ready for Cyber Monday! My store will be on sale and add the promo code: TPTCYBER for extra savings! 

5. I've been working on some winter stations over break. 

Head over to my store to check them out! 

Hope you are all having a great break! Be sure to go back to 

Doodle Bugs Teaching Five for Friday to see what other people are up to! :)