Creative LAST days of break, Freebies and a Giveaway!

As I try to enjoy the last few days (hours) of my break, I wanted to share some new things with you.

One: 

I am having a sale at my TPT store. Kind of like a last hurrah before break is officially over on Monday. My whole store is 20% off minus my winter stuff which they have their own special pricing... which leads me into number two.

Two: 

I have been on a creating spree. My good friend and fellow blogger Karmen from Tales from a Naturalista Teacha has been creating up a storm. She let me edit one of her products and after that night I just felt like creating... I haven't really created this much since my summer break. Do you know there are some AWESOME clipart artist out in blog land? Well my bestie CA's (Clipart Anonymnous) are Creative Clips and Ashley Hughes. I really have been using them for like ever, but just this go around I used them A LOT! If you don't know who I am talking about, feel free to check out their amazing work.

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Follow their blogs too as sometimes you can catch a freebie. Plus Creative Clips is doing something each month where you can pay $10 for monthly graphics but you can get new sets each week of that month.

 

(P.S. The April Set is on sale for $8 as she has already put in TWO weekly sets)

Anywho, on to my creations. Please continue reading until you get to the bottom of this post as you won't be disappointed.

It's on sale for $1.50. And if you download the PREVIEW you can snag a freebie!

The next items are discounted in my store for $1. 

And don't forget to click the PREVIEW button as you might stumble upon a freebie!

Here's a FREEBIE just because! Keep reading though!

And since I LOVE Giveaways I thought about doing a giveaway here. Just enter the Rafflecopter for your chance to win one of my new products! Yup, you can choose from any of my new creations that are listed above if you win!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I'm feeling ahead of the game! TPT Cyber SALE

Yesterday, I got a jump start on my lesson planning for the month of December. Of course I know I have the option of changing things as they come along but it does feel good to be "done". So with a little extra time on my hands I created my new product:

 I decided to participate in the Teachers Pay Teachers Cyber sale and continue my store sale until 12/4. Which means you could get my newest product for up to 28% off.

You can add this product to your wishlist but make sure to grab my newest freebie, Gingerbread Holiday. Which is just like my December Holiday beginning sounds product. So you can "try" it before you buy it.

Well I am off to buy some of the things that I finally moved from my wishlist into my cart! Happy shopping! Enjoy:)

Hooray it's almost on its way... Halloween!

 Before beginning my teaching career I was never really excited about teaching Halloween. And when I started teaching at a Jewish preschool I didn't have to. Now that I teach my very own class of lovely kindergartners, each year I have been getting excited about the upcoming spooky day. Well in my school, unfortunately (but not all sad) we will be celebrating PINK OUT! Which is our version of a day dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness. No mention of Halloween or even dressing up like our favorite book characters, nope, just to wear pink on October 31st.

 So you can imagine many teachers who LOVE Halloween are having a difficult time getting in the spirit of PINK OUT! Day at school. Well, I on the other hand am determined to fit Halloween or the study of all those things surrounding it, into my classroom this week. My class and I touched a bit on bats and used our five senses to explore pumpkins. This week my hope is to do some fun arts and crafts while still teaching those SOLs (or Common Core to the modern world). I have updated my Halloween Pokee Pins for those who have already downloaded, just go re-download for a few extras.

I even created a new product: Jack-o-Lantern Letter Puzzles!

I will send 1 set of puzzles to one of my LUCKY followers. All you need to do is tell me one activity you enjoy doing/teaching your students during the Fall Harvest/Halloween season AND leave your email address. I will pick someone TOMORROW NIGHT (Oct. 28th)! If you share this on Facebook or Pin It, you can leave another comment with email letting me know what you did.:) 

If you are not the lucky winner, never fear! These puzzles are discounted for $1 until October 31st!! After that they will be $2.50! So grab them and use them this week! :) And if you are looking for other Halloween-themed products, check out my Halloween Math. And don't forget Halloween Pokee Pins which my kids absolutely love pokee pins already and they will love to use the Halloween-themed ones too.

Spring is in the Air!

   It has been so long since my last post. I have survived the first week back from spring break. Boy was it a LONG one! The kids did not do too bad with transitioning back into the classroom. Of course I had those one or two who kept saying "I want to go home"... and it wasn't even 9am yet!
   Anyways I have been dabbling a bit on new ideas to put into my TPT store. I would have more if my computer didn't decide that this was the week it wanted to crash and stop working... I guess all those blog ideas and TPT finds really "weighed" it down. So I've been slowly trying to get my computer to love me again.
Grab yourself a freebie, Color by Word Family: Short I... I can't seem to figure out how to get a picture of the title page onto my blog. It seems I am not that blog savvy as I thought. While there check out my TPT SALE for April 15th ONLY (It's my dad's birthday).Leave me a comment while there. Enjoy! And Happy Spring!

Changes...

 I stayed late... I mean late on Friday so I could get my classroom moved around. I needed to change my kids' seats, BADLY. They were getting under each other's skin and every minute was spent saying "he touched me" or "move your stuff off my name", etc. I just knew we needed a change. I made sure to tell the students that when they came in on Monday that they would have new seats and even some friends would have to sit by themselves. I don't think they quite understood what I was really going to do but I think they will soon. I will make sure to post about their reactions.:)

 I also needed to change their station groups. With our reading program my kids are at 3 different stations throughout the morning. And I only had 3 groups with 6 kids in each. Last year it worked okay to have that many but this year, my younger bunch, it does not work out. So I have added a station, word work, and added on another group. I added on word work because I am definitely fascinated by Daily 5 and I wish I could incorporate that into our reading instead of our current reading program. So I've been "stalking" several blogs to get some ideas for my word work station. I am excited to try my kids out on the sentence read-trace-cut-glue that Mrs. Wills created. They are wonderful back-to-school sentences that the students read then cut and try to glue the sentence to match the one they read. My kids did pretty good with this on Friday. It was my first time trying it and I felt that it would be good to have it as my 4th station as I work with my students on cutting out their word sorts for the week. I know I can't put word sorts into the station without showing them what to do, so that is my mission this week.

 After figuring out my station and all its contents, then I tried to tackle the task of forming groups. Making sure those students who couldn't get along with each other were not in a group together. I also decided to tackle the task of figuring out how to get my kids on the computers. Last week, I think my kids used the computers one time and not everyone got to use them. So I stayed up late Friday evening into Saturday (4am) to figure it out. See once I start something I have a hard time putting it down just so I could do those basic things like eat or sleep. My mind gets so focused on getting it done and figured out that I can't concentrate until I have mastered it. But I did it! I figured out how all  my students were coming to me at teaching station, how to leave enough students working together at stations AND how to make sure everyone gets a chance on the computers TWICE a week. Fridays are for free or makeup times. My hope is that as my students are able to get on the computer more that they will know what to do when they get there and especially what to do when they get to the computer lab. And of course since I made this all so super complicated that no one will understand my code, I had to make a schedule for myself just in case I forgot the method to my madness.

 I am glad that I decided to make these changes because this week my kids sort of have a "short" week of stations. I only say a "short" week of stations because 2 days out of this week we will be going on 2 field trips. So my kids will have some experience with this new setup but for a short time period, just to get them used to everything. Well I better get some sleep since I have A LOT to do in the morning before my kids come in..