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?

December Currently

I can't believe December is here. It seems like this time of year just flies by. I want to soak it all in. My children are 5 and 3 and this year is the best year yet. They are such believers in Santa and his elves. Our elf in its shelf arrived in the mail today. I told my kiddos that it arrived from the North Pole our package had red circles indicating it was from Target  the North Pole. All night my son has been picking up after himself and on his best behavior because he knows Elphaba (named after the witch on wicked I thought it was a cute elf name) is watching. 

It's time for Farley's Currently. I love reading what other bloggers write. Also it's a fun way to find other blogs to follow. 

I usually don't talk about personal issues but I thought I would mention this one thing:  A family friend's son was in a pretty bad burn accident. Him and several boys were walking home from school. One of the boys found some gas cans and had a lighter. Well a lighter and gas don't mix. 5 boys were injured. Her son was the worst off. He is only seven and he was a bystander. He is still in critical condition. So if you are a person that believes in prayers please pray for him. If you would like to check out their blog the address is leviandkali.blogspot.com  Hug your little ones tightly. You just never know what life is going to bring. 

Christmas Countdown

Don't you just love the Christmas season? I've been busily getting all my Christmas cards out this year. I have never sent them out this early. However I know if I don't do it now, then I'll forget all about them. I actually made my Christmas cards this year. Now that I know how to make products. I figured I can make Christmas cards too. So I gave it a try and I think they turned out pretty cute! My kids are already asking when is Santa coming? So Christmas countdowns have been on my mind a lot. I always buy my kids those chocolate Christmas countdowns. They love getting to eat a little chocolate each day.        For school, I used to make a Christmas countdown in my class with the green and red strips and the kids pulled off a strip everyday. Well I changed it up this year. I made two different countdowns. The first one is a 1st Grade Sight word countdown. Each day they have to read the sight word they take off. My First Graders are really struggling with sight words so I hope this helps! 

    The second countdown is a math fact countdown. It includes: doubles, adding, subtraction,and times tables. That way you can fit it to your students needs. It really works for any grade level. Click on the pictures if you want to check them out. I recently dyed my hair and I hate it! The first person to guess the new color of my hair, you can choose between these two packets. Have a blessed weekend! 
    One last thing! I will be having a sale on all of my products on Cyber Monday and Tuesday. Everything in my store will be 20% off. You can also enter the code cmt12 at checkout to get an additional savings!

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The Best Apple Pie

 First Grade and Fabulous is having a Holiday recipe exchange.This is not teacher related but with the holidays fast approaching. I thought I would share my favorite apple pie recipe with you. Every Thanksgiving I make this apple pie. It seriously is the BEST!! I got this recipe from my mother-in-law. My husband craves this pie. In fact last year I took it to Thanksgiving. He snuck my pie out of the main area and hid it in the laundry room. Hoping no one would notice it was gone. That way he could take it home and eat it all himself. :) I found this tutorial on You Tube. It's the same recipe but at the end instead of crumbling the topping I mash it all together and spread it over the top. Either way it tastes the same. 
 

What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish? 

Making My Classroom a Community

Every year we try to make our classroom feel like a community. We take an individual picture and blow it up to a 8X10 and ask the kids what they're best at. We then display their picture above the words be your best. The students love seeing their picture posted. It also helps with learning others names and they're able to read what the other kids are good at. Their pictures always turn out so cute.

This is my last years picture. You have to add your picture too right? I don't know about you but several of my sweeties call me teacher. This helps them  learn my name too. How do you make your classroom a community?

Thanksgiving Thank You to our Followers 100.00

Thanksgiving Gift Cards Give-Away- $100.00 in Gift Cards

Thanksgiving is a great time to show appreciation to everyone in our lives that support us. Sooooo... four of my blogger friends and I decided to sponsor a "Thanksgiving Thank You- Gift Card Give Away"  

We will each be sending the winner a $20.00 gift card.  After all, who couldn't use an extra $100.00 in gift cards for the holidays?

All you need to do is follow our blogs (2 entries per blog following), follow us in TpT (2 entries per TpT following,) and if you can blog about our give-away- 10 entries!  It's possible to earn  a total of 30 entries. Here is what the winner will receive:

Teresa at Fun in K-1 will be giving away a $20.00 Gift Card to Target. 

Cindy at Granny Goes to School will be giving away a $20.00 Gift Card to Old Navy.




I'll be giving away a $20.00 Gift Card to MAC Cosmetics. My all time favorite makeup.

Megan at Mrs. Wheeler's First Grade is giving away a $20.00 Gift Card to The Limited.

Ash at Pixy Stix and Teacher Tricks is giving away a $20.00 Gift Card to Target

 

So go over to grannygoestoschool.blogspot.com and enter quick. I would love for one of you to win. This is a giveaway you won't want to miss. 

Sight Word Game Turkey Time

I'm linking up with teacher to the core she is doing a linky party on sight word games. She has so many amazing ideas and isn't this graphic to die for?        

 I too have made some Thanksgiving sight word games. Just in time for the month of November. Check them out. I do it everyday during guided reading and my students LOVE them. It's the first thing they ask me when they come to the table. They want to know if we are going to play turkey time. There is a Kindergarten, First Grade, and a Second grade one if you want to check them out!