Huge Giveaway from Daisy Designs

Amanda from Daisy Designs is having a huge giveaway for the launch of her blog design re-launch.  The giveaway is going on for the next week, ending on August 30th, so there is still plenty of time to enter to win lots of free goodies.

In addition to ALL of the prize packs below, each winner of this giveaway (which is 3 winners!) will be receiving a HUGE prize for Amanda, her Pirates and Polka Dots Classroom Decor bundle which is a new product valued at $25.  Her entire store is also on sale during the giveaway so be sure to check out some of her other products.

I have included one of my Best Sellers and most wish listed items for the giveaway that can be used at most grade levels, my Independent Morning Work Spelling Activities.  The pack is intended for a list of 10 words and includes the following activities:

3x each
abc order
ladders
rainbow
smelly spelling
word search
syllables
consonant vs. vowel
sentences
criss cross
scrabble
Bingo
illustrate it
colorful spelling
roll n write

Be sure to enter each of the Rafflecopters below to WIN!

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To get more information about individual products that each blogger donated to the giveaway, click on the links below.

Good luck! May the odds be ever in your favor!

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#SpringTeacherBloggerMeetup2015

I'm late to the game, but I figured better late than never, right?!  A couple of weeks ago I kicked off my Spring Break by driving about 3 1/2 hours south to French Lick for my 1st blogger meet up at the French Lick Resort and Casino.  Let me just tell you that it did not disappoint.  

I'm pretty sure I was in shock and awe the whole weekend. I got to meet and see so many amazing people and bloggers like Deanna Jump, Deedee Wills, and Christina DeCarbo, who almost seem like celebrities, who may I say seem like two of the nicest ladies who can talk to just about anybody.  I was able to contain my freak fan flag from flying and not be that crazed fan, but it took lots of effort. I'm not gonna lie. 

The room that we were in was so beautifully decorated by none other than Schoolgirl Style. I just love her stuff. And I seriously could have taken all of the decor back to my classroom, or house for that matter, to decorate.  We had lunch, entered giveaways, had some Q&A, breakout sessions, and began the giveaways!  It was truly an experience. Totally out of my comfort zone with SO many people that I did NOT know at all, but I'm so glad that I did it. Baby steps, right?

On top of learning so many great things over the weekend, I also was able to get some serious SWAG! I'm you all saw all of the AH-MA-ZING goodies that we were showered with on our blogs and Instragram accounts last week.  All of the tools and goodies were so awesome in and of themselves, but I'll be honest. Holly was Oprah.  No, I'm serious.  We are sitting there so overwhelmed with our awesome goodies and she proceeds to give us one more surprise. EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. GOT. AN. ERIN. CONDREN. PLANNER!  Yes. You read that right. Every last one of this. I'm pretty sure the room erupted in squeals, screams, oooohhs, ahhhhsss, etc. immediately.  Our jaws hit the floor. And before I realized what was coming out of my mouth I was pointing towards Holly screaming that she is Oprah! It was totally one of these moments.

Except Erin Condren planners instead of snow days.  You get the idea.

Here are some of the other awesome goodies that we received from all of the gracious companies that participate in our fun weekend.

A Teacher Planner from  Erin Condren  
A bag from Vera Bradley
Markers, stickers, and pens from Scentos!
PJ Party, Lanyard and other Goodies from Go Noodle!
PJ Party and other Prizes from Teachers Pay Teachers
Decor from Creative Teaching Press

That evening, we had a PJ Party sponsored by the SUPER AMAZING Teachers Pay Teachers and Go Noodle!  SO MUCH FUN!    

I'm sure there are many of you out there who would love to have gone, but couldn't.  And while we can't go back in time and have you join us, you can still win all of the SWAG and awesome goodies donated by all of the wonderful, generous companies that were involved in our fun weekend.  Enter below!

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Huge Birthday Giveaway

Let's face it. We're teachers. We love a good deal.  We love a good sale.  We love to shop.  We love free stuff.  Well yesterday was Laura at Love to Teach's birthday.  She is throwing a huge birthday celebration and giveaway over at her blog until Friday night.  And I mean HUGE!

To start off she's giving away a $30 TPT gift card along with some pre-selected packs and some winner's choice selections from 19 bloggers!!   My Suncatchers {The Bundle} is one of the products that you can win as part of her large pack of TPT giveaway items.  There are tons of great products from those 19 bloggers.

But that's not it. She's also giving away away a $75 gift card to Target AND another $75 gift card to Amazon!!! HOLY. SMOKES. BATMAN! Who wouldn't want to win this giveaway?! I know I do.

You can earn up to 50 entries between now and Friday so be sure to click here to head over to her blog.

I've been in a groove lately and have been able to get quite a few "creations" for TPT checked off of my To Do list.  Here are some new products that have been added to my store lately that I haven't had a chance to blog about yet. I'm hoping to do so posts on each one here soon.  

First up, Autograph Bookmarks.  I created these to hold my firsties more accountable for their independent and buddy reading time during Daily 5.   I have them write the book titles that they've read on the front or I just have them record who they've been reading to during Read to Someone time on both sides.  There 5 different color versions and those versions are also in black and white.  I have one template of lines if you want to make the bookmarks two-sided to last longer.  

I just finished this baby last night.  I LOVE this pack! I love the displays that you can create with the variety of printables in it, but more importantly I love the meaning behind it all. Gives me chills just thinking about it.  I know it's a little late to do this pack this year, but it's still 48 hours new so it's still 50% off for the next day.  Get ready for next year for only $2.00.

There are honor bricks that you can send home with your kiddos about a week before Veteran's Day.  They can fill these out with their families at home for the veterans that they know.  You can send home a general "brick" or a specific brick for each branch of service, with or without a picture. Once the kids bring them back in you can hang them in the hallway as a display or mount on butcher paper to make a large poster.  There are picture cards to graph how many veterans from each branch that your class knows, as well as posters and information sheets for each branch.  If you want to give some fun facts about each branch of service there is a poster and fun fact sheet to share with the kids. Finally, the kids can color their own American Flag, USA, and Thank You sheets that again can be mounted to butcher paper and/or staggered on the wall to make a "quilt-like" display.

These Rainbow Cart Labels have made it so much easier for my firsties to find their Daily 5 choices.  

I have also added a monthly spelling pretest and test packet for 10 spelling words.  I copy the pretest on the back of the test to save on paper and just keep them in a special place until week take the test the following week.

Finally, I think it's safe to say that we all love Mo Willems and that ornery little pigeon.  I made a little craftivity pack for my firsties to make the pigeon, a "Don't Let the Pigeon ____" class book, as well as a labeling and graphing activity.

Sorry for the overload, but it's been awhile since I actually sat down and dedicated some time to a blog post.  Until next time...