Spooktacular Halloween Savings!

I have been absent for quite a while and have a goal to get back in the swing of posting here and on teachers pay teachers! I have worked on creating Halloween literacy centers to go with the math centers I created…GASP…last year! I also bundled them together because who doesn't love to get a deal! I have them all on sale until tomorrow night! Grab them up before they go back to full price!

Bundled Math & Literacy Centers

Halloween Literacy Centers

Halloween Math Centers

Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday night!

I am learning too!

Hi All,

I had a crazy summer and things are still moving! I am about to start my 3rd full week with my class and I am in love with my group! They are all so different and I love it! I have been telling them the past few weeks that I am learning just like they are because I am new to the school! My district has a curriculum for every subject which is AMAZING! Now, I just have to dedicate time to learn all of these new curriculums!

One of the programs our district uses is Fundations! I think it is a wonderful program from what I have seen so far and how ready my kiddos came in from kinder! Those of you that know the program know it is not super cutesy! I had tons of stuff from last year, phonics posters, alphabet line and such that I am now unable to use! So, I decided to make my own cutesy materials to go along with the program! The first thing I made is an alphabet line! It can go in any room, but ties along with this program!

Check it out here in my TpT Store!

Have a wonderful week!

Sale! Time to go Shopping!

What girl doesn't enjoy shopping?! What teacher doesn't love a TeacherspayTeachers Sale!?!

This is such a great time to grab up those items that have been sitting around in your wish list! Happy Shopping!

Time to make A LOT of change!

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I feel like all I have been doing this summer is change! Saying goodbye to my first school was difficult! I had to move cities and that is okay! I am now closer to family and that makes my heart happy! Then on May 31st I married the man of my dreams! Wahoo! I loved everything about my wedding! EVERYTHING! Now, blogger has to change. If it is not one thing it is another in my life right now! A family member added that all I needed to do was have a baby and I would have the most change in one summer. I gave them the evil eye! Although I love babies, my husband and I agree we need some time together before we think about expanding our family! So head on over to Bloglovin' if you want to keep updated with all the changes in my life! I am so excited about where everything is headed!

"Learning like old school!"

Whiteboards, pens, pencils, paper OH MY...no technology =[

So, yesterday morning my kiddos come into class and we start calendar on the smart board and BAM it turns off. Yup, it just shuts off on its own, I tried everything to get it back on and then just thought maybe it overheated. Fast forward to math time about 2 hours later, I try and turn the smart board on...NO LUCK! Call the wonderful tech man and he starts doing his thing. Fast forward to the end of this story I had no smart board yesterday and no smart board today until about 1:30! All day my kiddos kept saying, "we are learning like old school!" Lets just say I was one stressed out teacher! I do everything and I mean EVERYTHING on the smart board! I love creating lessons and using youtube and Me oh My I could go on and on! Tomorrow is a new day and I will be one happy lady walking in to my classroom and having technology!

Speaking of smart board technology if you have not heard of SMART Exchange you need to check it out! It has great resources and smart board ready lessons to use! I adjust some to meet the needs of my students, but it is really great to not have to start from square one!

We just started fractions and I loved using this idea from F is for First Grade! You take cookies and tell students we will be sharing them! Then have students choose if they would want 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8 and write their name under their choice! Then actually cut the cookies and give them their "share." It was HILARIOUS! My kiddos were so mad at me! They kept saying that I tricked them! (I am a nice teacher and after they completed their math fraction sort they got their own cookie 1/1 fractional piece, YES my firsties made the connection of 1/1, NOT ME)! If you would like to get the details check out the original blog post by clicking the picture!

Hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday night! Let me know some of your favorite fraction activities for primary grades!

April Currently!

Hi all! I hope you had a great Easter weekend, I know I did! There are so many things going on in my life right now and I have a feeling it isn't going to get any easier! These next two months are going to fly by and it will be the end of May! OMG!

I thought I would link up with Farley for her monthly currently!

Stop on over to her blog to join in the fun!

Birthday Giveaway!

Hi all! Kathy over at First Grade a la Carte is celebrating her birthday this week with a week of giveaways! I have donated my most popular item Ladybug ending sounds! Head on over for a chance to win it plus many things from many other fabulous bloggers!

Have a wonderful Thursday night!

Snowball Math!

I know many of you have probably seen Cara Carroll's post on her greater than less than snowball fight. I loved the idea and I adapted it to my kiddos needs!

I took many half sheets of white paper and wrote numbers from 1-99 on them, crumbled them up and put them in a bucket. I told my kiddos that I know we live in AZ and never get to have a snowball fight so we are going to make our own! I had the kiddos sit around the outside edge of my rug and then tossed all the "snowballs" into the middle. I of course told them the rules and CROSSED MY FINGERS that they would follow them! I let them all have the snowball fight for about 30 seconds. I would yell a magic word, sparkle, freeze, stop...you name it. Then I would say GRAB TWO! The students grabbed the two closest snowballs went back to their seats and wrote out their greater than or less than sentence. The kiddos loved it and so did I!

Hope you all had a great Monday! 

My First CURRENTLY!

I have seen this before on many others blogs and I decided to join the party!

Oh and don't forget! The TpT Superbowl sale is still going on! Head on over to my store to pick up some items! I know I have been shopping like crazy already! 

Be sure to head on over to Farley's blog to share your currently!

Great Indoor Recess Site and a Sale!

So, I feel like I have been MIA for way too long! Wedding planning, being sick, starting 3rd quarter! WOW! Time to take a breath! 

During the past couple of weeks we have had a couple "rainy days," which here is AZ is wonderful, but the kiddos get super excited and I need a way to contain that energy! My cooperating teacher, uses this website so I emailed her real quick to remind me, set up an account and WALLAH, FUN INDOOR RECESS!

Adventure to Fitness! 

All you do is go to the teachers tab, scroll down a bit and there is a "Are you a Teacher?" box and register with your District email!!! You will have full access to all of the videos! 

Some of my class's favorites are the Mr. Marc videos! The thing I love is that a lot of times they can correlate with what I am teaching! We just learned about Arctic and there is an Arctic Freeze video! The kids love it, I love it, and they get to burn some energy when we are stuck inside! Wahoo! I hope you can use this! I sure know it has helped me!

Oh, I cannot forget, the TpT Superbowl sale! Of course I will be participating! Don't forget to enter SUPER to get up to 28% off!

Thank you to Primary Polka Dots for the cute graphic!

I hope to be back soon with some more craziness fun from the past few weeks!

Holiday Gifts! Simple and Reasonable!

I cannot believe the school year is halfway through! WOW, how times flies! Well, I have been thinking about a little holiday gift for my firsties and found these babies at the dollar tree! 

They are travel mugs that have a double layer thing going on! So I made a template, added some hot cocoa and a marshmallow stick and VIOLA! Happy Holidays to my kiddos!

If you would like the template I created it will be up on TpT soon! 

Silence for Sandy Hook Elementary

Cyber Monday Sale starting NOW!

I am sure that many of you have already been shopping and snagged some great deals at the stores for the holidays, I know I have! Now, it's time to shop teacher style! My store will be on sale, 20% off, starting now until Tuesday night at midnight! Go grab up some of my best selling items! Don't forget to enter CMT12 to get up to an additional 10% off from TpT!

(Graphic courtesy of The School Supply Addict!)

Happy shopping to all, and to all a Goodnight!

Word Work ideas and a Great Find!

It has been a crazy two weeks! I had my very first picture day! Had one of those "I want to go home and never come back here" days. My school had a fall festival on Friday! Today, I had my first formal evaluation. And, today one of my cuties gave me the cutest little gifts!

Every Friday we wear out school shirts! Every Friday one of my cuties comes in with the cutest red and white (our school colors) bows on her head! Every Friday I tell her to be careful because I just might want to take one and wear it! So this is what I received this morning when she walked into the room! I cannot wait until Friday! I may be an "adult," but I am still a total child at heart!

Anyone else out there have troubles coming up with fun activities for word work each week? I sure do! This week it took me a while to come up with enough ideas, but this week my kiddos are so excited! I found three old keyboards in the cabinets in my room so Type your Words came to be! I was at the dollar tree this weekend and found those bingo dot markers, TOTAL HIT! My teammate had these wonderful construction paper crayons! 

They show up so bright and colorful on black construction paper! Those are the kiddos favorites this week! I also did the activity Trash or Treasure for nonsense words! Hop on over to Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten to check that out!

I have also been needing to start read to someone! I have been trying to figure out partners and reminding kiddos who reads when and all that! At the dollar tree this weekend I found these beauties! Are they not the most adorable things ever? 

These definitely saved me time from printing and cutting! All I did was laminate and cut! I hope the kiddos love them as much as I do!

I cannot wait for Halloween! I am at a small school so K-1 is doing a group costume! Here is a sneak peak at what I will be wearing on Wednesday! Some old white vans...turned PINK and SPARKLY!

I hope you all have a great Halloween, come back to check out our awesome K-1 costume! 

We have winners! & a Monday Made it!

Oh my! I am so excited to finally be announcing winners of my week of giveaways!

The Fall Bats - Delighted & Casie S.
The Pet Vet - Rachel M & Yvonnee G.
Pig's Pit Crew - Sum D. & Jen L.
The Cop's Dog - Lori R. & Sum D.
Bumbling Bugs - Lori R. & Ellen Y.

My goal is to email you all by tomorrow or earlier! Congrats and thank you for your continued support!

In other news, I created a Super Pack of all of my short vowel games! It will be on sale until tomorrow at midnight! Click here to snatch it up before this deal is gone! Total savings 50%!

And a Monday Made it! I have had the crates since this summer, My honey cut the wood like 2 months ago, and they are finally completed and in the classroom! My jungle themed crate seats!

The "blue" crates are actually teal, but thank you iPhone for making the color a little funky! =] I hope you all have a wonderful Monday night! 

Week of Giveaways! Short Vowel U!

It is the very last item up for grabs! This is my personal favorite....Bumbling Bugs! Click here to check it out in my TpT store!

You have a little over 1 day to enter all of the rafflecopter giveaways! The Fall Bats, The Pet Vet, Pig's Pit Crew, The Cop's Dog, and Bumbling Bugs! Make sure to scroll down to enter!

I also create a super pack where I combined all of the activities into one pack for a cheaper price then if you were to buy each activity separately! You can check that out by clicking here!

Please enter this rafflecopter to have the chance to win Bumbling Bugs! REMEMBER I do check and make sure you actually complete the task I am asking!

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Week of Giveaways! Short Vowel O!

I am having a blast creating a new resources! Doing this week of giveaways has really helped me get things done! So today I have made The Cop's Dog! You can check it out by clicking here!

Enter the rafflecopter below! I will be giving away 2 copies of this on Monday! DO NOT FORGET to scroll down and enter to win The Fall Bats, The Pet Vet, and Pig's Pit Crew! I will also be giving away 2 of each of these on Monday as well!

Good luck and have a wonderful Friday! Be sure to check back tomorrow to see my last creation!

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Giveaway Week! Short Vowel I!

I am back again with another activity! Today's vowel is short i and so I introduce to you Pig's Pit Crew!  You can check it out by clicking here!

I will be giving away 2 of these beauties on Monday along with my other mini units The Fall Bats and The Pet Vet! Be sure to scroll down to enter those and be sure to come back tomorrow to see what I come up with next! 

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Giveaway Week! Short Vowel E!

Hi all! I hope you are having a great day! I thought I was going to be super productive and go into school today for a few hours...FAIL! Just so happens electrical people were there today and just happened to turn off the power for about an hour or more while I was there. Totally working in the dark, but I made the best of it!

Back to my week of giveaways!

Today I have for you a pack on short e! The Pet Vet! It is very similar to the short a pack just with a few changes! It still has the two games, a recording sheet, and three printables! Check it out in my TpT here!

I will be giving away 2 of these come Monday! Enter the rafflecopter below for a chance to win! Don't forget to scroll down and enter to win The Fall Bats! 

I also had a giveaway the other day for my Which Witch Homophones. The winners are...Ellen, Teacher Kirra, and Lori R. I will be sending you all an email soon so keep an eye out!

I hope you are all having a great week! Be back tomorrow for another short vowel!

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Short Vowel A and a week of giveaways!

It feels like months since I have created a resource! Since I am on fall break I figured this would be the perfect time to start! Most of my kiddos are beginning to master the short vowels, but practicing is always important! So, I started with short a cvc words. Here is what I came up with!

In this pack there are two games, a card game and a board game. There is a recording sheet that can be used with both games. There are also three printables to help work on short a word families and rhyming. Click here to check out the product in my TpT store.

(Image with graphics from Graphics From the Pond and Scrappin Doodles!)

I will be giving away two copies of this on Sunday night! Check back tomorrow to see what I have come up with next and continue with the week of giveaways! Enter to win The Fall Bats with rafflecopter below! 

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