Spring Cleaning SALE!

It's time to clean out your wish lists and buy what you need to finish the school year.

I'm joining the Spring Cleaning SALE over on TpT!

My entire shop is 15% off for FOUR whole days!

Now is the time to get some of my top selling packets on sale!

Happy SHOPPING!

Drums Alive and FREEBIE St Patrick's Day Read the Room

Have you ever heard of DRUMS ALIVE?

I hadn't until this year.

Our PE teacher attended a workshop last fall and then wrote a grant to get all the equipment. Then she started doing it with the kids this year.

We had a teacher Inservice and learned all about it this week. 

And low and behold I found out my grandkids are doing it at their school. This video was taken at their school last year.

It was SO fun!! We got to do some of it as teachers. It's a great way to exercise but I LOVE the math and music.

I taught place value this week so I tried it out. You can do it on the balls or just let them clap and pat their legs. I gave them a number like 75. Then I'd say ready, set, go. They would pat their legs 7 times for the tens, then clap their hands 5 times for the ones. It was so fun. You could really tell the ones who knew their place value and the ones who didn't.
If you're interested in the program just Google Drums Alive or Academic Beats. There are tons of YouTube videos too because it is world wide.

I also have a FREEBIE for you. I'm a little late. It's for St. Patrick's Day which is Monday. It's a read and write the room.

Click HERE for a FREE download.

ENJOY!

3 Million Strong SALE!!!

It's time for another SALE!!

They don't happen often on TpT but when they do they are BIG!

It's only for 2 days starting tomorrow so get ready to stock up and clean out your wish list.

Everything in my store will be 20% off plus an additional 10% from TpT if you enter the promo code: TPT3.

I hope you'll check out some of my favorites that I'm using right now in my classroom.

I couldn't teach without these great packets. 

They are classroom tested and teacher approved!

Here are some of my newest packets that I absolutely LOVE!

 Happy shopping everyone!!

New Packet and another GREAT App!

I've been SOOOOO caught up in the Olympics that I kind-of forgot about my blog.

 I'm LOVIN all the excitement of 'goin for the GOLD'!!! 

Anyhow, I found a cool app for the iPad a few weeks ago that my kiddos LOVE. I think it has become their favorite. 

And what I like is it's by my alma mater- BYU!

It has fun, up-beat music and great activities for 6 short vowel, word families. Plus it's FREE. Just search Hideout by BYU in the App Store to find it. 

I'm just hoping they will continue to keep adding more word families.

I downloaded a new packet to my shops. It's a fun little SCOOT activity for missing addends. Easy prep too! I needed a little something to get my firsties up and moving.

Check it out by clicking on my sidebar shop buttons.

Well, I'm off to watch more of the Olympics. 

I sure LOVE the DVR! Hate commercials!

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My kiddos absolutely LOVE this book by Herve Tullet.

Have you read it? It's an interactive book that has the reader pushing dots, shaking the book, and blowing just to name a few of the things you're asked to do. Magical things appear on the next page as you do as you're told. I think I need to order another one because they are wearing this one out!

My firsties LOVED it so much they wanted to write their own. I've got to say, I think they turned out pretty amazing. I couldn't take pictures of them all but here is one I'll share.

You've got to LOVE any book that gets kids reading and writing!

Happy Sunday everyone! Thanks for stopping by.

Super Bowl SALE!!

There is a HUGE SUPER BOWL SALE going on over on Teacher Notebook this weekend.

Everything in my shop is 20% off. PLUS Teacher Notebook is adding another extra 10% off at check-out for a total of 30% off.

I hope you'll check it out for BIG savings!

GO BRONCOS!!

A Hodge Podge of FREEBIES

Hey everyone, I hope you're all having a great Thursday.

I'm happy to announce my GIVEAWAY winners!

Congrats to Crystal and Marybeth!

Thanks to EVERYONE who commented!

I've been making some practice sheet here and there for different things and haven't got around to posting them. So I thought I'd post them now. This is very random and I hope you can use them either now or next year.

I used these to introduce 'How to Writing'. They are also a great sequencing review. Click HERE to download.

We've been working on counting to 120. So here are a few practice sheets. There are 4 'Fill Ins' and 4 'Start and Stop'. 

Click HERE to download. 

 This is a little game I re-made. Now it goes to 120. My kiddos LOVE playing it. 

Click HERE to download.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you've found something you can use in your classroom.

Come back tomorrow for news of my upcoming SUPERBOWL SALE!