It's Going to be the BEST YEAR of 2014!

It seems as if all I do is tell you about giveaways... but I have to share about the MEGA FREEBIES that is going on from The Teaching Tribune team. They are AWESOME!!

So if you click on the above picture I have started you on the first stop of the fabulous FREEBIES of 2014 blog hop. Make sure you add a tab or open a new window and click on The Teaching Tribune picture so you can go enter all the fabulous giveaways. And while you are collecting all the wonderful freebies make sure you FOLLOW each blog because you are going to need that info for the huge rafflecopter, 3 in all!!

Yup you read right. Freebies and giveaways galore. Hurry though as this awesome blog hop doesn't last long.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have a great 2014!

Back to school...phooey! No, no we won't go!

"Back to School"... it is that time for some teachers already but not for me yet. But the time is fast approaching. And while it is coming up faster than a speeding train I have found some relief in sight. Giveaways! If you haven't figured it out now, I love giveaways! I love sharing them with you so you have a chance to win. Make sure you check out my Keep in Mind post from yesterday as it has a lot of ongoing giveaways that are still going on this week. Make sure to grab the links for: The Polished Teacher, First Grade a la Carte, The Teaching Tribune (LAST DAY), Jungle Learners, etc. 

 

Giveaway for The Quietest Classroom Pencil Sharpener! 

Who loves linky parties? How about blog hops? Were you able to catch the Hawaii Blog Hop yesterday? I sort of missed it... but it was still available when I stopped working (trying to organize my files, remember?) at 12am so I took a chance and grabbed some freebies (I made sure to thank them too!) Here are a few more "hops" with my favorites included. Plus, a sale on a few wishlist items.

  

My friend Karmen from Karmen's Kinders is planning a giveaway. But she needs your help. She is currently taking giveaway donations for her upcoming giveaway bash! Stop on in (click her button) to donate for a fantabulous time!:)

You can find Kindergarten Lifestyle on wordpress... she now has a ".com" coming after her name. Neat!

And look what I found... Enjoy! It seems to fit the occasion and me. I snagged it from Growing Kinders.

Enter... enter... Chicken Dinner! {Giveaways!}

Happy Monday! As I try to get a jump start on giveaway finds for you... Every morning when I wake up, there are tons more that I have missed... I say Follow all the blogs you ever run across on Bloglovin' and you will be set. Because sometimes those blogs has links to other blogs also having a giveaway. And before you know it you have spent your whole morning entering giveaways (guilty!). I was on Facebook this morning (another place you should LIKE teacher blogs) and found that Schoolgirl Style is having Melanie's Favorite Places Contest, stop on over at her FB page so you will know what each day's contest will hold. Today's prize is to my favorite store:

 All you have to do is what it says in the upper left hand corner! It's that easy. Also First Grade a la Carte is having a Back to School Bash through the end of this week.

 Remember to LIKE her on Facebook because she announced the first Back to School Bash item there before it has been announced on her blog. Now there are only THREE more days of giveaways at The Teaching Tribune. Have you had any luck winning the great prizes? Make sure you are following the blogs and even stop in to learn some great organization tips.

Sometimes I need to be reminded to have my students highlight their name before turning something in. While reading I was thinking about how I can use my math manipulatives shelf to have my kids turn in their work daily instead. Did you see the post from Simply Kinder?
**Case in point about going to one blog for something and coming out with something else. While you are visiting Simply Kinder to find out how she organized her cubbies, make sure to stop by and enter her giveaway:

Primary Graffiti is having a HUGE giveaway sponsored by OfficeMax. You can win some great prizes. Make sure to stop by her blog and learn about the different ways OfficeMax helps teachers. I especially love there Teacher Appreciation Days (check their website to find out about your days).

Have you seen this giveaway?

 Fun Back to School packs could be yours! Giveaway ends TONIGHT!!!! Hurry on over for your chance to win! Don't forget to check out Clutter-Free Classroom for her Flash Freebies! I mean hit REFRESH constantly as she sends out her posts at random times, even up to the last minute (last week at 11:28pm). I have gotten some great freebies from her so far... check on her blog because she did list a few FOREVER FREEBIES.

The Teacher's Cauldron is having a Birthday Giveaway and Sale. Happy Birthday Jen R.! And to celebrate her friend from the ETSY shop H.e.m. Originals is offering one of her bags to the winner. Giveaway ends in less than TWO days!!

 

Today is the last day left of Lampost in a 1st Grade STEM Classroom is still having her 200 Follower giveaway. Stop on over because she still has the giveaway up for the Quietest Pencil Sharpener!

Here is a linky party among all the giveaways:

 Link up your math games! I am posting this find here... but it's also linked up over on my Freebie Finds tab too.

 I am always looking for cute fonts to try out. Plus also check out the rest of the post for some teaching tricks. Need more freebies? Stop at the Indiana Blog Hop.

Another giveaway where everyone is a winner! I like this:) This giveaway is from Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

 You and your friends are trying to help get the entries reached in the Rafflecopter... however once it is reached the giveaway ends... so make sure you enter in your email address before sharing it among your friends so you make sure to get the prize pack. Just be on the look out for Day 2!!

Teaching with a Mountain View is having a Double the Fun giveaway until August 1st. Make sure to go visit daily though so you can grab some freebies too.

Jungle Learners is having her own giveaway. She was one of my gracious friends who donated a product during my 2nd Blogiversary Giveaway. She is having 12 different winners from July 28th-July 31st. Enter Day 1 and Day 2's giveaways!

Go on and enter to win some great prizes... remember you are trying to enter to win for you and your future (or current for those in school already!!) class!:)

Blooming in First is having a Blogging Blogiversary Celebration Giveaway with some AWESOME prizes... from some great bloggers.

Stop on in at Shifting Teacher K-2 for her 100 followers giveaway. I am participating in this one for Winner's Choice. But there are up to 23 prizes you could win just by ENTERING!!

And don't forget about The Polished Teacher's HUGE Alphapalooza!! We are only on the Letter C!!

Make sure to go back and enter in the other Letter A and Letter B as they are still going on!

Hunter's Tales from Teaching 400 Follower Giveaway:

 

EduKate and Inspire is having a HUGE 500 Follower Giveaway. We are currently on Day #5. Also don't forget about the Teach n Tex HUGE 3 for 3 Giveaway! Giveaway ends TONIGHT!!

Phew! I'm done... even though I know I am missing giveaways because I haven't even checked Bloglovin' this morning... these are my finds from YESTERDAY! I guess I am playing catch-up again. Enjoy!

Freebielicious Giveaway Hop and KOTB Blogiversary

 I came back from the VA Blogger Meet-up sneezing like crazy... thus I now have a cold. How did that happen? It seems as if my body always says "oh, you're finally relaxed, it's a great time to have a cold!" So I a playing catch up on Bloglovin', I missed Clutter-Free Classroom's Flash Freebie yesterday AND my chance to enter in The Teaching Tribune giveaway. But never fear, today is Friday so I get a new chance. *Hopefully, I will post again to participate in Favorite Pins Friday.

  But stop on over at Freebielicious to find out the details to the giveaway hop if you haven't STARTED yet. There are a TON of giveaways to enter with many easy entries.

 Make sure you have entered into my 2nd Blogiversary Giveaway. I will pick all winners on Saturday! Will it be you or someone else (because you didn't enter)? Plus don't forget about my VA Blogger Meetup/Blogiversary Giveaway (click here for info).
a Rafflecopter giveaway

P.S. I had a GREAT time at the VA Blogger Meet-up by the way. It is so awesome to go meet other bloggers face to face and talk together. Plus I didn't feel bad that I was not able to attend the  Vegas meetup and getting an Erin Condren gift certificate because our masters of ceremonies had a surprise up their sleeve... And it is the best gift you could have given me as I've been dying to take on the experience and stop watching the short YouTube clips that just TEAAAASEE ME!

        Thanks SO MUCH HEIDI!! I cannot wait to pop in my gift and watch and learn myself first. Morning meeting time with the kinders this year is going to be AWESOME!!!

  Yup, when Karen from Mrs. Stamp's Kindergarten told all of us at the table that we would all get our chance to pick a gift from Heidi from Heidisongs.com I was ECSTATIC! I am a follower of Heidisongs but I haven't made the plunge of owning the CDs or DVDs. Well, I was the 3rd person to pick and I got my first Heidisongs DVD. Woohoo!

  I LOVE meetups! Thanks Karen and Heidi for making sure everyone had a great time. Have a great day. Enjoy!:)

Giveaways Galore Yippee!

 How are you enjoying yourself today? Have anything planned for today or for the rest of the week? Enjoy it as July is determined to keep going right into August! Ugh, the summer is going by too fast! I just wanted to keep you updated on giveaways that I found. Don't forget to enter my 2nd Blogiversary Giveaway which ends on Friday.

While looking through Bloglovin' I noticed that one of the blogs I follow, Ms. Preppy has come back from her hiatus with stories to tell. But I was reading some of the comments and clicked on blog links that I don't follow. Well I found a few new blogs, one for me and one for my colleague Karmen's Kinders. But anywho, I found Down the Learning Road which is a fellow kindergarten blogger. However, she is having a giveaway for some neat teacher stuff...wait for it... keep waiting... almost there... did you peek ahead?
A TPT gift certificate and a Thirty-One Organizing Utility Tote! Swing by, say hello and join in her giveaway.

***Don't Forget my Freebie Finds tab... I've been adding tons of freebies as I write this post.***

Did you see the new collab blog out in Blogland? It's called The Teacher Tribune. And 20 bloggers have banned together to host a blog hop and a daily giveaway. The blog hop is for some cool freebies for K-5 grade levels. There is even a fun QR code hunt to make this hop more interesting. But don't worry if you are working from a PC and can't get the QR app, they have you covered too. Hop on over to the 1st stop and get the details.

 A Sunny Day in First Grade is having a giveaway for her Summer Fonts Pack! Don't delay, easy entries. Just scroll down to the end of her post and click on the Rafflecopter link to get started. Or read her post and learn how to make an Elmer from a milk jug.

 Do you like to reduce, reuse, recycle? Well this might be the linky for you... share projects or things you have made that you have reused. Remember storage (pringles can for games), water bottle bubble wands, etc. Make sure to link up at Teaching Ever After. Or just stop in and become her new follower.:)

 Talking about recycling, join Primary Inspired for her giveaway of Roaring Springs Products. I've never heard of this company but I am intrigued as there are notebooks out there made from sugarcane!! What a way to recycle. Stop on in and enter her giveaway, it ends in 5 days!


 Super Sparkly in Second shared a Flash Freebie that ends on Wednesday July 24th. Cute Money Hairs posters!

  And while there, I found a cute blog: La Senorita Creativa. She's a high school Spanish teacher, stop by and show her some love.:)

 Diving Into Learning is having a giveaway on Facebook. Just click on that blue helicopter to get started.

 Learning with Mrs. Leeby is having a HUGE 600 Fabulous Followers giveaway! Stop on over and enter to win some Amazing/yummy prizes!!

 Here's something that all Homeschool teachers (and others alike) have been waiting for.

   Make sure to stop in over at The Not Back to School Party Facebook page on July 28th from 6-8pm EST for discussions on all things homeschool, tips, freebies and giveaways up to $1000. Add that date into your alert system and make sure you aren't left out of the party.

 Feel like joining another linky party? As a teacher we always find out things for ourselves that we wish someone would have told us before we started. Well enter in this linky party hosted by Miss Kindergarten (look out for her Try It Free Tuesday too while at her blog).

Keeping it Krazy with Mrs. Berns in Kinder is having her One Year Blogiversary Giveaway. Stop by and show her some love. You can enter to win some great prizes... but hurry over because it ends soon!

 Hanging Out in First is having a Pin It to Win It giveaway. Head on over to her Facebook page and make sure you pin 2 of her products you want to win... and you get to pin it twice!

 Stop on by Mrs. Bainbridge's Class Facebook page and grab her latest Fan Freebie.

 Teach n' Tex is also having a giveaway to celebrate her 1st Blogiversary and for 20 years of being a Texan. There looks like some awesome prizes to win. Just stop on over and enter.

 

Kinder Doodles is having a 200 Followers Giveaway! Giveaway ends soon so stop on over and enter to win some awesome prizes.

Amy from 24/7 Teacher is having a giveaway... 5 people to win. You could be the lucky winner! Go on over to enter!

Shifting Teacher K-2 is taking giveaway donations to celebrate her 100 Followers. Donations will be accepted until Friday, so hurry over and share! I decided to offer a Winner's Choice item from my TPT. I love to share!


 Oodles of Teaching Fun wants to have a giveaway but she needs your HELP... stop on over and see what you can do.

 Here's a link to Busy in Kindergarten's blog... she also posted about giveaways but got a few that I didn't see yet.

Phew and if you have made it to the end of this post... Good because you have a chance for a freebie. I've been working on my Halloween stuff... yes I know. But with Halloween you have to start EARLY or its gone before you know it. So the first four people who leave me a comment with your email, I will send you a copy of what I have so far. I just need you to tell me more math activities I can add to it. And if I use your idea I will send you the final product when its complete. Okay, enjoy!