Are You a Winner??

THANK YOU, Thank You, thank you to everyone who entered our giveaway! Ashley and myself had SO much fun putting this together and we hope you had just as much fun participating!

 

Here are the 12 *lucky* winners: drumroll please.....

 

 

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CONGRATS Winners!

 

Ashley or myself will be emailing you shortly with your beloved prize!

 

A B-I-G shoutout for those who donated a product. Without you, this definitely wouldn't have been as successful as it was!

 

A Double Dose of 150 Followers {GIVEAWAY}!!!

 It is finally here! The 150 follower giveaway has arrived! I hope you are as stinkin' excited as I am! As a token of our appreciation to our amazing followers, Ashley from Flying High in First Grade and I are hosting a double dose of 150 followers giveaway.

Check out all of these amazing contributors! Click on all of the following links to follow all of us and then enter the rafflecopter at the bottom. The giveaway will end next Friday, May 31. And if you share about this giveaway in a post or on pinterest, you can earn another entry!

All of the items donated have a "Back to School" theme or are lessons that you can teach at the beginning of the year. There's are even some great classroom management bundles and classroom decor! Since most of us are thinking about next year any ways, why don't we hook y'all up for next year?

Flying High in First Grade

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For the Love of First Grade

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The First Grade Parade

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Teacher Idea Factory

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Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

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Step into Second Grade

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Queen of the First Grade Jungle

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 Smitten with First

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Mrs. Richardson's Class

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First Grade Fairytales

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Just Reed!

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Keeping Up with the Kindergarteners

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There will be 12, yes 12 winners! So you better enter because you have a good chance of winning. Good luck!



Get Acquainted with MY Bloggy Friends!

I'm always up for a F-U-N linky party and I haven't joined in on Flying into First Grade's *Let's Get Acquainted* series in a number of weeks.

 

 

This weeks topic is Meet 2 of My Bloggy Friends. What better way than to get to know other wonderful bloggers who you may have never heard of!

 

First up is Lisa from Growing Firsties.
 

 

I first found Lisa's blog several months ago when she was just starting out. She has since grown her blog like cray-Z! I consider her a great mentor and I often go to her with many questions I have with which she never, EVER hesitates to help me with! It is always great to have someone with such knowledge to go to for help!

 

Second is a newer friend, Ashley from Flying High in First Grade.

 

Her and I insta-clicked and I consider her a great friend even though we have never met {hurry up July}! We are both from Texas (holla!), and have very similar interests. Just like it is great to have a mentor, I believe it is equally important to have someone to take the journey with! If you haven't checked out her blog, please do. She has some great ideas to share and she is super sweet!

I'm honored to say that her and I are both in the same place in our blogging journey and we are hosting a GIVEAWAY together! It starts May 24, so take a look at the participants below...some I'm sure are very familiar! If you don't already follow these amazing ladies, make sure you do so when it comes time for the giveaway, it makes it super EASY to enter!!!

 

Happy following! Don't forget to link up {click on the linky party picture at the beginning of this post}!

 

 

Five for Friday

Tonight I'm thanking the good Lord above that the weekend has arrived. This week was r-o-u-g-h! Tuesday was just about the longest day of my life...I'm telling ya, it was never ending (you know that Lambchops song? I was feeling like it was the day that never ends!). I packed Wednesday for a Thursday/Friday trip for a district training and came back this afternoon to a faculty meeting where our principal told us she is moving school. It's been an emotionally draining week. Needless to say, my firsties and I trucked on through it. Here's a peek at our week:

 

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We went totally buggy this week! My kids are obsessed with the word "schema" and love letting me know what they know. We recorded some schema, watched a BrainPOP then recorded some new learning.

 

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We learned about a new insect each day and recorded facts about them, labeled their parts, and completed a directed drawing. Here are some anchor charts I hung around the room.

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After learning about the parts of an insect's body, they had to build a bug and have a buddy check their work. 

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The day we learned about Caterpillars and Butterflies, we made a cute and fun life cycle activity with noodles to represent each stage of the cycle.

 

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Another milestone has been reached, and why not celebrate!!! Ashely Sanderson from Flying High in First Grade and myself are putting together a 150 follower giveaway. She has become a great bloggy friend and both of our blogs have been growing at the same rate. Take a look at some of the great bloggers who are helping us out with our giveaway. Throughout the week, we will be adding a few more. Make sure you are following the bloggers below for easy entry when the giveaway starts!

 

 

Have a relaxing weekend friends!

 

 

 

 

Teacher Appreciation Sale and a Giveaway!

There's times in our career when we feel like we are often overlooked, unappreciated, taken advantage of, and overworked. But this week, it's all about you pretty little things! I want to take a minute to say how much I appreciate you as a blogger and the time you spend reading, commenting, and furthering my success. I love what and who I have come to know in this blog world and can't say thank you enough!!

As most of you know, TpT is having another humanginormus 2 day sale (can I get a WHOOP)! Of course there's no better way to express my appreciation than to join in on the f-u-n! Starting tomorrow everything in my store will be on sale for 20% off plus another 10% that TpT is throwing in with their code...and somehow it magically comes out to a fabulous 28% off.

Thanks to Ashley Hughes for sharing this cute as a button, button!

Here are a few products that are already in my shopping cart:

 

 

Can't wait for tomorrow!

Click {here} to be taken directly to my TpT store. Don't forget to enter the promo code TAD13 at checkout!

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My friend Melissa over at First Grade Smiles is having a GREAT-B.I.G giveaway. Head on over to her blog or enter below for a chance to win some some of the prizes from 3 of these giveaways!

 

 

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Good luck and Happy Shopping!

 

 

Spring Classroom Cleaning and Giveaway WINNER!

As bad as this sounds, I went up and spent a few hours at school on Saturday. Gasp! Why would I want to do that you ask?? Only because our school has the BEST PTA who furnished every.single.classroom with Smartboards!!! Oh yea, you heard me right. This gal got one over spring break!   So I made my way up there, with the help of my lovely mother, and we "flip-flopped" my library and calendar area.  I was SO pumped I got this new gadget that I {of course} went to TpT over my break and purchased a fabulous interactive calendar. Time for out with the old and in with the new y'all! {Thus my reasoning behind the "spring cleaning".}

 

 Needless to say, the kiddos were very shocked to see the new transformation when they walked in this morning! We LOVE using the Smartboard and can't wait to figure out all of the bells and whistles!  If you have ANY advice for my adventure with the Smartboard, I would love for you to shoot me a comment! I need all the help, tips, and pointers I can get!

 

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Thanks to all of my followers who entered my very first giveaway. It was lots of fun to read your comments and watch the entries grow! The winner of the giveaway goes to....drumroll please....... Kelly Witt from First Grade Fairytales! Congrats Kelli! I will be emailing you shortly : )

 

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Last week I linked up with Latoya for her Let's Get Acquainted linky where I came up with 2 truths and a lie. Here is what I left you with:

1. I started dancing when I was 5 and continued until 18. That's 13 years total!
2. I've been driving for 9 years and have had 4 cars in that time.
3. I'm a second generation teacher. My mom also teaches.

Number 1 and 2 are both truths. My lie was number 3. No one in my family is a teacher, I am in fact the one and only proud teacher!

Thanks for playing along in the linky and giveaway!

A {late} St. Patrick's Day and Giveaway Reminder!

One of my pet peeves is people who are late. Well, today I am totally being a hypocrite! We were out on spring break during St. Patrick's day so we did a celebrating fashionably late last week. Here is our celebration in pictures!

 

We just got finished talking about Texas and all of our symbols, so the kids knew exactly what I meant when we talked about symbols from Ireland. We really focused on the clover or shamrock and its symbolism: luck. They thought of ways they are lucky (I don't believe in luck so I would say...blessed!).

 

We also began our poetry unit before spring break. This week we focused on writing color poems. I had them each write their own, and we completed a rainbow color poem together on Friday.

 

 It was a fairly simple poem to write that followed this pattern: Rainbows are a red as... (and continued through each color).

 We had a very colorful week back! Now it's a foot race to the end!

Don't forget to check out my **100 Follower Giveaway**. 

Entries end tomorrow!

*My 100 Follower Giveaway*

Back in August when I started my blog journey, I never thought it would turn out the way it has. I have met so many great people, gained more fabulous ideas than I imagined, opened a TpT shop, and reached 100 followers!

I wanted to thank each and every one of my followers for sticking with me, reading my posts, commenting to make me feel loved, and providing me with your great ideas also! In your honor, I have put together a giveaway with 3 of my favorite bloggers! I LOVE their products and I know you will too! Check out the AWESOME prizes you have a chance of winning!

Entries will begin Tuesday and be open through Sunday. Be on the lookout next week for a post announcing the winner!

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Good Luck!

Let's Get Acquainted Linky & a Giveaway!

It's always fun to link up for a party...especially one the week of Spring Break. Par-tay! Latoya over at Flying into First Grade had a really great idea to get teachers out in the blogging world better acquainted. Each Sunday, she will have a different topic to join in on. I'm a few days late...I've hit the relaxation mode button a few days ago!

 

Week 1's rules: share 3 things about yourself that you like or like to do using your initials.

 

L: I have recently discovered my new love for lattes.  In the past I have been a frappuccino drinker but I ventured out during Starbucks holiday drink season and tried many, if not all, of their seasonal drinks. Not to mention, that I would die to have a Caramel Brulee Latte daily.

 

 

N: I am SO loving all things neon! Pinks, greens, yellows, you name it. I gravitate towards it wherever I go.

 

G: My husband and I went on a cruise 2 years ago and one of the ports of call was Grand Cayman.  We loved it so much (the short time we were there) that we booked our summer vacay there! It's a gorgeous place that isn't too far off from the norm.

  



 

G#2: GIVEAWAY!! I am only a few followers short of my 100 follower giveaway. I am super excited and have some pretty great bloggers contributing to my prize. As soon as I reach that *magic* number I will be posting all about it!

 

 

Don't forget to link up over at Flying into First Grade and check back for my first giveaway!

 

 





A HUGE Giveaway

As I am edging closer to 100 followers (so exciting), Tonya over at Tonya's Treats for Teachers has totally surpassed my climbing number and has reached 700 followers! I am part of her HUGE giveaway along with 25 other great bloggers. There will be 2 winners chosen from this giveaway.

Head on over to her blog {by clicking on the picture below} to enter her giveaway! Good luck!