Stop The Summer Slide With Freebies!!

Now that it's July I thought maybe some of your may need some activities to prepare your children for next year (or you teachers can store up for next year hehe)

So here are some freebies!

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This simple design book report will be a hit in your classroom. Students will love sharing the books they have read at home in a quick and easy format. Review author, illustrator, illustrations, and simple one sentence reflections on one assessment tool! Students love to collect their finished products throughout the year to create a book report journal!

If you download please rate and leave a comment :)

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This activity packet includes 4 pages of trace, stamp, write activities for numbers. This packet is perfect for math workstations/centers, group/individual work, or interventions. Students will love this adorable multifaceted packet and they will be proud to show it off!

If you download please rate and leave a comment :)

If you haven't already make sure to enter before June 7th at midnight EST

14 More Followers... Any Takers?!

I just have to thank Michelle @ The 3am Teacher for the adorable graphics!

So it's finally upon us... the biggest giveaway yet! It's like an expected baby... when will it come? tomorrow? maybe even today? (ut oh that would make me break a blogger law of 2 posts in a day) or will it be a week overdue?

ok ok enough of that lol I'm just so excited I could scream. I promise you that you won't regret being part of it :)

and thanks to all of the amazing women that contributed!!!

How Do I Start DonorsChoose?

Can I start off by saying thank you!? With all of your voting {if you have no idea what I'm talking about click here} we are down to 42!! We have 19 days left before this project expires and I'd be thrilled to get funded by OO.com!

After hearing from so many of you I realized that there are far fewer teacher bloggers on donorschoose.org than I thought!! If you are a public school teacher and you are not on donorschoose you need to get started now!! So for that very reason I'm going to show you how easy it is!!

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If you would like to tell your friends and coworkers about donorschoose feel free to use or pin this button :)

Would I catch your attention if I said I have obtained over $20,000 worth of supplies and materials in my classroom in the last 2.5 years of donorschoose!?

If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or just plain ol comments let me know!!

Bees, Planes, and Back to Work I Go: an Update Post!

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Check out my last post for more info!
Hello everyone!! Oh how I've missed you and I know you're just dying to know what I've been up to! Well I know this is going to be a long boring post an exciting story of my last week or so. As you know I was out in the backwoods of southernish Ohio, in a little town named Elkhorn. We were there for a week in the crazy heat loving on kids that truly need it!

As my sister was being trained (this was my ninth year so I'm a little past that) I helped rearrange some of the amazing things that we do with the kids. Each day is special: Christmas, Easter, Birthday, and just FUN, FUN, FUN, but somehow in the mix I did this:

and this:

the first for both! My husband and I have been married for 2 years and I lost my first stone :( oh well, it's replaceable and insured... as for my foot... OUCH!!!! I've never been stung (yes yes I know I made it 27 years, 4 months, 1 week, and you get the picture) and this one sure made up for it!

After a wonderful week at camp (boy do I miss my girlies!) My husband surprised me with plane tickets to get to the family reunion! Thank God because this doesn't look like fun....

My poor sister fell asleep in the back of my husband's mustang (somehow) on our way home... 2 hours versus 10 is quite a miracle!

So long story short... we rushed home after camp, jumped in the shower so that we didn't smell like camp, and hopped onto a plane headed for Atlanta.

At least it was comfortable for me? and yes that is a copy of SkyMall in my lap lol. Who doesn't open it on a flight?!

The views were gorgeous! We landed in Atlanta at around 9pm and headed for the family reunion!

The weekend was hot, but beautiful and I spent most of my time here:

Thank God for the pool! I'm not used to the heat and I think I would have passed out if it weren't for it. It was wonderful meeting some of my husband's extended family and it was nice just to get away.

I like having a little sun in my life :)

especially before I headed back home to the Summer Readiness Program for incoming kindergarteners... Well that's it for now... Hope you're not sleeping by now hehe

We Are at 89!!!

We made it up to 73 and now we've slid back to 87... this competition is rough!

75....

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Can I get you to visit this link? http://www.oo.com/safkids/detail/projectid/757894 All you have to do is vote AND like (worth 10 votes) my students' project for new technology! They only have 20 days before this project expires and if we get to #1 they will fund it for my kiddos :)
and I wouldn't mind if you shared this little button on your blog or fb... the more votes (you can vote once a day) and especially likes (since they are worth 10 votes) helps bring this project to my students' hands!

Thank you to everyone that has helped an those that have posted this for me :)

Turn the Music Up Linky Party!

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Can I get you to visit this link? http://www.oo.com/safkids/detail/projectid/757894 All you have to do is vote AND like (worth 10 votes) my students' project for new technology! They only have 20 days before this project expires and if we get to #1 they will fund it for my kiddos :)
and I wouldn't mind if you shared this little button on your blog or fb... the more votes (you can vote once a day) and especially likes (since they are worth 10 votes) helps bring this project to my students' hands!
Ok on to the linky....Hello everyone!!! I'm in a crazy hectic mode right now! We are finally settled back in and the house looks like a tornado ran through it. Not to mention I'm teaching the summer readiness program this week for those incoming kinder kiddos that won't be mine this coming year *sigh*

ANYWHOOOOOOOOOOOO....
I'm joining the lovely Amanda at Teaching Maddeness for her first linky!!




 1.) Harry Kindergarten


I love Harry Kindergarten!! All of his songs are available on YouTube and are wonderful for Promethean/Smart boards!! If you've never heard of him you need to check out his YouTube channel!!

2.) Dr Jean


Dr. Jean is amazing at putting ALL content to a tune! My students have learned everything from letters and sounds to the water cycle with her songs!! I love watching my students take a test or recall information and sing the tune to themselves! I was lucky enough to receive all of her CDs through DonorsChoose!

3.) Ron Brown's Intelli-tunes!
Sample: http://www.intelli-tunes.com/media/files/audio/number-eating-alligator.mp3

I was blessed to win a giveaway at Kelley Dolling's Teacher Idea Factory and won these amazing cd's!! My kids absolutely love them :)

And for me!? Anything country :)
And did you know... iheartradio always is giving away a free song to download straight to your itunes?! I keep this link http://www.iheartradio.com/cc-common/promotions/itunes/ as my homepage because the song changes ever month or so :)
Not to mention People.com gives a playlist away for free at this link https://styleentertainment.timeinc.net/people/countryplaylist/ and again this is another homepage :) nothing is better than free :)

Totally excited to see what else this linky has in store!!
Hopefully you'll join up!

Bake It!

Ladies (and gents) I have to admit I'm not a huge chocolate fan, but I can't deny a great brownie!! So I have the best pinterest pin I've ever tried!

Kelly shared this wonderful recipe for us! It's really hard to make but it's worth it! Are you ready??

Hard right?

You follow the directions on the box except you only use these two ingredients!!

I tried it.... and they were delicious! Mine did not come out as pretty as hers so I will share her pic.

If you havent visited her blog yet please do... it's adorable!

One more "recipe" I love.

Lemon cucumber water!! MMM MMM so refreshing!

Grow It!

Let me start off by saying I don't have much of a green thumb.... but that being said we actually didn't do that bad. We started early this year due to the warm weather in March. Each student did their thing by filling their cup with soil at a center, picking their seeds, and planting!

We set their cups in the sun and spritzed them daily!

No joke! 3 days later this is what we saw!! I couldn't believe my eyes!! Marigolds work wonders in the classroom!

We tracked them on our hand dandy plant books and met all their needs in our classroom for a few weeks. We then transplated them with help outside!!

Unfortunately, due to the drought they died :( no matter how much water we gave they died :(

so next year we are going to create these adorable guys!

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