Friday Freebie & Sale!

Linking up again with Five for Friday!

I'm also linking up with Teaching Blog Addict for Freebie Friday (scroll down to #4 for the freebie)!

 My TPT store is having a sale and today is the last day, so go check it out, 20% off everything!

My kiddos earned a celebration (10 smiley days). They are the easiest class when it comes to celebrations! The last one we had was "wear your pj's to school day" this time they chose "bring a stuffed animal to school day." The only thing I didn't think of was to tell my kiddos the stuffed animal should probably fit in your bag...

I know I posted about it earlier this week but I am SO happy to have finished all my calendar sets, including the Mega-Bundle of all months! If you purchase the bundle you save $$ Check it out!

NEW PRODUCTS!
HERE'S THE FREEBIE... With Valentine's Day coming up, check out this Valentine's Day Writing Freebie.
The first link is a direct link to the freebie (Google Docs), the second will take you to the TPT product page.

I also have a new TPT product focusing on Topic, Main Idea and Details. It includes differentiated worksheets, is CCSS aligned (Reading Information) and can be used in 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade. Click below to check it out.

If you haven't already, check out my facebook page, started this week, for this blog & my TPT page!

2 Fantastic Websites for Teachers

I am SO excited about the 2 websites I just found...

How often have you wanted to make a worksheet or anything else to sell on TPT and struggled to find clip art that was free to fit your needs? Yes of course mycutegraphics is wonderful (& free), but of course as any site, it's limited. In google searching I came across openclipart.org

This amazing website is for ANYONE to use and download clip art FOR FREE and there isn't even any "credit" that needs to be given within a product that you sell. Trust me, I looked through terms of use and FAQ's... here's what I found... How Can Clips be Used?

If you haven't checked out mycutegraphics before, this post officially will be giving you 3 great resources ;)

Okay and finally... when I was all done with each month's calendar sets for my TPT Store, I was freaking out at the thought of how long it would take for me to put all the files together in Mac Pages. Then I thought, hmmm there has to be a way to combine PDF files... so if I take off the credits page for all months except December and put all the credits onto December then merge the PDF files it'll be wayyyy less time & work... so a google search ensued and I found this gem...

All you have to do is upload the PDF files you want merged and in seconds you have one big merged PDF file. This is SO useful for TPT sellers who like to offer products both separately and in bundles. Hooray for some precious time saved!

I hope some of these resources can help you out as you either sell on TPT or simply make worksheets for your classroom (which if you do, you should totally open a TPT store and share with the rest of us out there!)

Sale & Mega-bundle

My TPT store sale is on... everything including my new Calendar Set Mega-Bundle are 20% off!

 

 

Calendars & Snow Day

Snow Day today (and probably another one this week) means I'm having a sale... 20% off tomorrow until Friday night, so get on over to my TPT store ASAP!

I finally have all my calendar sets DONE! Hooray! Stay tuned for a mega-pack of calendar sets to save some $$! Should be up by sale starting time tomorrow :)

Click below to check out each month...

Remember the mega-bundle is coming and I promise you'll save some $$ if you wait and buy all the months together!

Well off to do some grad class research... good news is the snow day gave me time to finish my interview paper, wooh!

Friday Friday Friday

I'm linking up with Doodlebugs Five for Friday!

One of my kiddos turned in his tickets for a "bring a stuffed animal to school" coupon, and it was just too darn cute sitting at his seat when they were at special!

New products in my TPT store. Check out these "solve the room" products. My kiddos LOVE "solve the room" days! They are perfect for extra practice which we needed for subtraction with regrouping! I am working on an addition set too!

One of my kiddos wore this HILARIOUS shirt this week, I couldn't help but share.

My kiddos have been working hard to follow rule #1 follow directions quickly

So I've been timing how fast they can do certain routines in our room. They are so excited when I erase their previous record and put up a new record!

 

One of the moms in my room is plain awesome! She sent in 2 board games (one wasn't even open! the other was nearly new), 2 chapter books (also brand new) and an amazing magnet story board (unopened)! I couldn't even believe it!!!

And a little bonus.. another Bogey pic... I've been motivating my kids by showing Bogey snow pics at the end of the day when we have more smilies then frownies!

Snow Day TPT Day!

Well when I woke up to a snow day phone call and this outside...

it seemed like a perfect day to finish a few TPT products I've been working on.

As promised in my last post, I'd have my Frog and Bat/Bird mini-units up soon... well, soon is today!!!

I used the frog mini-unit with my kiddos combined with National Geographic Kids gem (which has a bunch of other great animal books perfect for kiddos in 1st and 2nd grade)

Some of my pairs also read this Frogs and Toads book from Reading A-Z it is written at a second grade level (DRA 24, Guided Reading L)

Click the preview below to go to the product page.

We have not done the comparison piece in my class of bats and birds unit, but we have started this mini-unit by researching bats in partners.

First, I read Gail Gibbon's Bats then I paired my students heterogeneously, to support some of my struggling readers, and they partner read Bats Creatures of Night by Joyce Milton. Both of these books are in our curriculum for the nonfiction unit we are currently working on, which is why our grade level team used them, but there are plenty of other great bat books out there!

I haven't decided which book I want to use for birds, and may even have students go on selected sites such as National Geographic for Kids in order to do the bird research and finally compare birds and bats.

Both the preview and cover pages below will link you to my TPT store.

I've also been working on calendar pocket chart sets. I have January, February and March done and will have each month for the rest of the school year done before each month gets here. My hope is to have a year calendar set bundle ready by June, so be on the lookout! Click below to link to the product page for each available month...

Well, off to do some research for my grad class... the history of men in primary education, should be super interesting since my 2 grade level partners are men! Have a wonderful afternoon and rest of the week!