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Currently, giveaways and a FREEBIE!

This weekend has been great.  I completed two 5K's and my legs are a little sore, but overall I feel awesome!.  It's time to keep my running shoes on and not give up.  Saturday's 5K was for the Girls on the Run program which is a great program we have at our schools that help train 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade girls for a 5K.  I got to run with one of my former Kindergarten students who is now in 4th grade, Ahhh!  I am starting to feel a little old.   

I enjoyed running so much yesterday that I decided to wake up early today to do it all over again with a great teacher buddy of mine.  After today's run, I will be resting the remainder of the day.  And maybe creating more freebies for the future.  

Well, now onto ...December Currently!  I am linking up with Farley over at Oh Boy Fourth Grade for this month's edition.  I know I am a little late to the party but better late than never!  I completed my December currently yesterday afternoon, so no I am not eating popcorn for breakfast.

A good friend of mine is having a 12 days of Christmas giveaway!  You have to stop on over to Learning is Something to Treasure to enter your chances of winning.  Lisa has some great items she is giving away.  There is still plenty of time, enjoy!

And now what you all have been waiting for...A Holiday Write the Room FREEBIE!  I created this for my class.  My students love writing the room this year.  It is one of their favorite activities   I decided to make it a little bit more fun and theme it around the upcoming holidays.  Santa's Elves are being mischievous again, they took all the holiday presents and are hiding around the classroom.  Santa doesn't know where to find them... Students will enjoy searching around the room for Santa's little helpers.  This is a perfect literacy center activity for building sight word recognition and writing skills.  Simply cut out the twelve sight word elves and stick them up in various places around the classroom.  (I created two different sets.) Students use the master page on  clipboards as they walk around the room to search for the elves and their presents.  As they find each numbered elf, they write the sight word on their paper.  Students have fun learning their words and searching for them! 

Click the image to go directly to my TpT store to download this file for free! 

Enjoy!

Until next time Friends!

Cyber Monday Sales!

I am so excited for the upcoming Holiday season.  I am in the shopping for great sales kind of mood.  I am a frequent Black Friday shopper and I have to say, I love the rush of it all.  I got to experience this Black Friday with some of my great friends   We started at 6:30 Thanksgiving evening and continued till 6:30 in the am.  It was exhausting, fun, and exciting.  The best part of it all is, I have most of my holiday shopping done.  I just have a few items in my amazon wish list to purchase on Cyber Monday.   Speaking of the great Cyber Monday, I am throwing a sale on my TpT store.  I have some great common core activities posted.  If you like anything you see please follow me,  I hope to continue adding to my store.  I am working on completing more common core math assessments to utilize in the Kindergarten classroom.  You can click on the image below to go right to the sale!

Until next time friends!

Thanksgiving Unit finally finished! FREE to the first 5 bloggers!

It's been awhile, I guess you can guess life had been pretty busy for me.  I just celebrated my 31st birthday with some great friends.  Even though I am another year older it was one of the best birthdays ever!  I have my wonderful husband and friends to thank for that.  

This weekend I finally finished my Thanksgiving literacy and math unit.  I have to say, for my first themed unit I am pretty proud of this one.  I would love to hear your feedback on this unit, therefore I am offering this unit to the first 5 bloggers who post about what they are thankful for.  (It can be school related or personal).  Don't forget to leave an email address in your comment so I can quickly send you the file.  

Here is picture of some of the activities you will find in this unit.  If you are not one of the first 5 bloggers to comment you can click on the image below and it will take you to my TpT page where you can download this file for only $3.50.  

Now onto a fun linky.  Since some of you will be sharing somethings you are thankful for, I thought it only be fair for me to do the same.  I am linking up with Storie from Stories and writing about my top 10 things I am thankful for.  

Don't forget to join in on the fun.  This is a linky with a prize.  Storie is giving away a $10 TpT gift card   All you have to do is join the linky party and you are automatically entered to win.  

So here it goes...

Now, think about the top 10 things you are most thankful for and hop on over to Stories page to link up.  The linky will be open all through November! 

Giveaway Shout Out!

 No time to blog today because I am working on something special to share with you all soon.  I have been busy all day creating a fun common core aligned thanksgiving unit.  Keeping my fingers crossed I can actually finish this in time to share with everyone so that you can use it in your classroom.
Just dropping by to give ya'll a quick giveaway notification!  Corinna Over at O"Fish"ally a first grader is having a huge 100 follower giveaway.   Click on the image below to go check it out!  

Blog on friends! 

I have been booed!

Wow, I get to blog on a weekday!  This rarely happens these days with my busy schedule .   Good news is our first quarter is coming to an end very shortly.  Let's just say I have assessments and grades up to my neck and I almost feel like I am drowning in papers.  Anyway that is not what I really came on here to talk about, what I really want to tell you all is that I have been BOOED by my good friend Lisa over at Learning is Something to Treasure!

So here are the rules:

1. If you've been booed, copy and paste the above pic and these "rules" into your post.

2. Give a shout out to the blogger who booed you and link back to their site!

3. Share 3-5 October activities, books, products (yours or someone else), or Freebie(s) that you love!

4. Share the Boo love with 5 bloggers- make sure you check this link to make sure you don't boo someone again: I've Been Booed

Here are some of my favorite October activities, books, products:

1. Halloween Candy Sort by beginning sounds.  This was created by a teacher friend.  It's fun, yummy and a great learning tool!

2.  I also love the bat craft in this "Going Batty Craftivity" by A Cupcake for the Teacher!

 

3. Here is another great October activity of mine:).  Julie from Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten created this "Pumpkinlicious" Activity which is full of math activities and more! Click on the image below to go to her TpT store.

4. One of my favorite books is :

5.Finally, a great FREEBIE from Jennifer over at Kindertrips.  I love the organizers and writing papers that go along with some great fall themes.  She even has organizers/writing papers for the 5 senses, great for our science unit!   Click on the image below to go directly to her TpT store.

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Have fun friends! 

October catch up!!

Ok, so I have been MIA lately and it is now time to play catch up.  Although I have not been posting lately, I have had a few moments to look around to see what everyone else is up to.  I have been trying to make the time to join some great linky parties so here it goes.  The first linky I am joining is the Freebie Flashback hosted by my good friend Lisa over at Learning is Something to Treasure.  I know I am a little (a lot) late to the party but this is her first linky party and it is a good one.  So many great Freebies!!!!

Today I am sharing with you a few FREEBIES from my Freebie page located on my blog.  Click HERE to check out my blog page.  My Writer's Eye posters are a big hit and I love referring to my Writer's Eye bulletin board this year.  I have a few different versions so make sure you check out my entire store to see which is best for you. My students are really starting to grasp the skills they need to become great writers at such an early age. 

 I also have signs for good readers (Another FREEBIE)! 

  

Another late to the party, but this is one of my favorites!  I am linking up with Farley from Oh' Boy 4th Grade for her OCTOBER CURRENTLY! 

Hope you find the time to join in on the fun, even if you are late to the parties like ME!