Giveaway and Freebie

Big Event fundraiser is having an awesome giveaway. They're giving away a $250 dollar gift card to Target. Go and Enter

 http://bigeventfundraising.com/big-event-fundraising-giveaway

Also if you're looking for a last minute thing to do with your class. Check out this freebie. I made it up this weekend and were going to do it tomorrow in class.

I'm going to have my little Firsties read it a total of 10 times by themselves and then they have to play with a friend 10 times. There is also a graphing freebie so grab that too.

Egg-cellent Center( freebie)

Have you been to Walmart lately? I found the coolest egg set ever. On each egg are two letters. One on each side of the egg and they're different letters. I can tell I'm a teacher because I get excited when I find eggs with letters on them.

 This little bunny replaces any letter in the alphabet.

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 I decided next week for one of my centers I'm going to have my kids make words with the eggs. I quick whipped up this sheet to go with it. If you would like to download it click on the image below. My students can do Easter activities after Easter right? Plus next week if there are any left they might be 50% off and what teacher doesn't love a deal. Oh and they include jelly beans in each one. Pretty sad that I was more excited for the letters.

Last week I posted my two truths and a lie. I had such nice responses. Thank you! So here are my truths and a lie.
* I did have a baby at 25 weeks.My son was born at 1lb 14 oz. It was the scariest thing I have ever been through. We lived in the NICU for 3 1/2 months. I have never felt closer to God in my life. He was there for me during one of the most difficult times in my life. I can say now that my little guy will be starting kindergarten in the spring and he is doing so well. You would never believe he was a preemie.
* I did step on a sewing needle in High school and I did have to have it surgically removed. My darn mom is so crafty and she left one on the floor . My foot hit it just right for it to insert in my foot. Such a bizarre situation but It did happen.
* Lastly I have never had the chicken pox so I didn't have to be hospitalized with them.

I'm going to link up again in Latotya, this time it's the Noun game: 

Favorite Persons: Hands down my own kids of course. My husband too :) I can't limit it to one. 

 My little one is so excited for Easter she is counting down the days.

Favorite Place: Hawaii, My husband and I went there and just LOVED it. It was so relaxing and the best weather ever. 

Favorite Thing: Probably jewelry. I'm a fanatic for different types. You will never see me without an accessory. 

Favorite Animal: A dog even though I don't have one. My in-laws HATE animals and they will not eat or visit people that have them So I decided if I ever wanted them to come around I better not have one. Even though I would love to have a dog. 

Go link up if you haven't yet.

It's My Lucky Day

I'm linking up with Cindy at Granny Goes to school. She came up with a great idea to giveaway some awesome St. Patrick's Day freebies. Who can pass that up?? Seriously? There are some amazing bloggers, giving away freebies. So be sure to follow the complete circle. Cindy is giving away a 20.00 Target gift card. You can enter for each blog you follow.   

I'm giving away my Lucky Leprechaun Shape Swindler activity to you for FREE!! I made this product specifically for this linky party, I hope you enjoy it. Just click on the picture and it will take you to my store.

 Go check out Nicole from Rowdy in Room 300 for your next freebie!

I know I will, I'm excited to get some freebies for St. Patrick's Day. 

Editable Valentine's Day Card

Are you scurring to come up with something to give your students for Valentine's Day? Or if you're like me you're looking for something for your child to take that is different than the usual Valentine's Day Cards at Target. Well If you're still looking here's an idea.

 I hope my students like these.

  Click on the first picture above to grab yourself one too.

 I also made one if you're not a teacher and want to have your child use them as their Valentine's day card.

 My kids are so excited for Valentine's day. My daughter keeps calling her classmates, mates. She wanted to buy all of the kids in her preschool a stuffed animal. Well on a teachers salary I just can't afford that. So the Sprite idea will have to do. This is the card I'm giving all my family members this year. I love that I know how to create cards now. It saves me a lot of mulah.

 Thank goodness for Powerpoint!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

I've joined Teresa's linky party over at Fun in K/1, DoodleBugs Five for Friday, and Mrs. Lilypad's Little's Valentine Linky Party! Go check them out and link up!



Cheapest Teacher Gift EVER!!! 12/12

My two little kiddos are both in preschool. I have to make 4 teacher gifts because both of my children have two teachers. I was trying to come up with something that was cheap but also cute. I as a teacher have always wanted one of these Crayola pictures but still haven't received one. I'm hoping this will be the year. Fingers crossed :) I was checking out Pinterest and there are tons of the cute Crayola letters. However I stumbled across the cutest card ever to go with it.  I found the card idea at www.ishouldbemoppingthefloor.com I love the name of her site. I feel the same way. I should be mopping the floor instead of writing this post. But this is more fun right?

 These were so cheap basically I bought a cheap frame from All A Dollar, some Crayola crayons, and Tacky glue.. got to love Tacky glue.

 So I made an editable card if you would like to use it as well. The only problem is that your child's name has to have an A in it for the card to work. Luckily both of my kids do. I hope yours do too! If you would like to grab a copy click on the picture below. This is the second time I've made an editable product. So if it doesn't work let me know!! Thanks!!! I used Pea Dacia for the font.

Now for the 12 in 12: I'm linking up with Miss Kindergarten and the Teeny Tiny Teacher.

12. Favorite Movie you watched: I know what your thinking lame. But when you have two kids under the age of 5 these are the only type of movies I get to see anymore and actually it was really cute.

11. Favorite TV Series:  Downton Abbey, I can't wait for it to start in January. I'm so hooked.

10. Favorite Restaurant: Kneaders, It's a local place and I love it. They have soups and salads and killer desserts. I eat there almost weekly. I'm afraid they might start calling me by name.

 

9. Scariest thing you have tried: Selling items on TPT. I know so scary but seriously every time I see that I have feedback I get scared. I don't deal well with criticism and I'm always so scared that the feedback is going to be bad. Seriously SCARY!!

 

8. Favorite gift you received: I know this is going to sound super cheesy but my children. I know I sound like one huge cheese ball but seriously. I believe they're a gift and I'm so grateful I get to be their mommy! I use the word I know A LOT!! Sorry this picture is super blurry!

 

7.Favorite thing you've pinned: I live by this quote, It is seriously one of my favorite and I found it on Pinterest. I think this quote works perfectly with children and their mistakes.

 

6. Favorite blog post: http://www.hive2nd.blogspot.com/2011/01/chants.html My very first post just because I had no idea what I was starting and I'm amazed at how great the blogging world is.

 

5. Favorite Accomplishment: Graduating from College. My parents didn't graduate from college and I was the first in my family. The funny thing is things have changed a lot since then both my parents went back and have now, including my younger brother. I like to think I helped them, I think they realized they could do it too.

 

4. Favorite picture: I'm a picture FANATIC I take pictures almost every day so my favorite picture today is a picture I took yesterday.

 

3. Favorite Memory: My all time favorite memory is skydiving with my husband. I was scared to death and I didn't think I could do it. In fact I even asked if maybe I could stay in the plane while everyone else jumped out. Well that wasn't going to happen. I was glad I made the jump but once is enough for me.

 

2. Goal for 2013: BE ON TIME!! I'm really bad at this and I REALLY REALLY NEED to work on this!

 

1. One little word: Sleep, I really need some right now considering tomorrow I have to get up at 6 and I'm doing this instead. Super Kudos if you read all of this! Thanks and link up too.

 

Place Value {freebie} Christmas Love

I'm excited to be linking up with 4th Grade Frolics on her Monday Made it. I've never linked up with her before. But I love seeing all the fun things everyone is making:
 
Let's start with the freebies first: I love place value if you can 't tell. Almost all my free products in my TPT store are place value. So I once again made another place value freebie. If you would like to get it, click on the picture below. This time I made a chart showing how many ones are in a ten and how many tens are in a hundred. I made it two different ways because in my math series it has the hundreds chart going up and down instead of to the side. So that way you can choose which one you want to use. My students really struggle with this concept so I hope this helps your students out too.

On the next part of my Monday Made It is my Christmas Decor: Here are some of the spots around our house that I just love: first off is the bulbs hanging from our kitchen lights. I love how they shine when the lights are on at night.

I can never get enough of the Grinch. In fact I call my husband the Grinch. He hates Christmas. He told me the other day that he doesn't understand why anyone decorates for Christmas when all they have to do is take it down in three weeks. SUCH A GRINCH!!

I made this Christmas countdown. I found all that I needed at Hobby Lobby and JoAnne's Fabric. I love crafting!

I can't believe how much I love this little guy. We named him Elphaba and he has brought so much Christmas cheer. My kids jump out of bed everyday to tell me where he is hiding. One morning my son couldn't find him and he started to cry because he said he didn't get to say goodbye to him. Luckily we found him hanging out in the lights.
Are you excited for Christmas like I am?

Adverbs and Giveaway WINNERS!!

I have been working like CRAZY on this adverb unit. It's finally finished it's on sale right now for 2.00 however tomorrow it will go up to it's original price of 3.75. This unit is a great way of teaching adverbs if you would like to check it out click HERE

 Also this paper is included in my unit as well. If you would like a copy of it click HERE: It's a freebie!

 Now time for the giveaway. THANK YOU SO MUCH to all who put it. I didn't want there to just be one winner because there were so many great prizes and I wanted more than one person to win. I chose 10 winners each person will win one of the products. So the order they are in on my giveaway is the item you won. I will be emailing all of you tomorrow. I need to go to bed or I would do it tonight. 

 Have a great night!

Spooky Adjectives (Freebie)

I'm trying to get into the Halloween spirit. I made a mini spooky adjective unit. I'm in the process of trying to get my kids outfits ready for Halloween. This year my son wants to be Frankenstein. He was so excited when he saw this clip art in this mini unit, because it has a Frankenstein. My aunt made this darling hat for him. I will post pictures when it's closer to Halloween.  If you would like to download it click here: I would love any feedback.  Also don't forget to put in for the 200 follower giveaway. It's almost about to close. I'm excited to find out who won! I also appreciate everyone that blogged about it. It really helped to get the word out. The blogging world is AMAZING!!