Stop-Swap-Roll: A Product Swap and Giveaway

Hello!  It has been a rough year so I'm glad this is my first post back. Thanks to Melissa for getting this all together. 
I was partnered with Lola from Preschool Wonders and chose her Camping Literacy and Math Pack.  It is awesome by the way!!  This pack includes math and literacy games that kept my kiddos engaged and learning. Here's a peek at some of the things this pack has: Right now my kinders are learning numbers from 1-20 so this matching game was perfect!  They loved the pictures.  This is a great book to practice positional words. My kiddos loved it!  I could really see who understood this concept and who didn't.  I haven't used this yet, but it will be a great assessment tool after teaching shadows.  Some of my kiddos are struggling with rhyming words so this is a great activity to use for remediation! Since I have already taught patterns, I used this as an assessment tool to be sure all my students could create a pattern and label it.  There is so much more to this pack!  You have to check it out yourself!   Here is my product that Lola reviewed and is giving away.  So after you fill out the rafflecopter to win the Camping Pack, head over to Jungle Learners to see what others have to share and giveaway! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Help Raise the Parr!!

A few weeks ago one of our local schools unexpectedly lost a master teacher. Renee was a 30-year old first grade teacher, mother and wife. A fundraiser has begun to help raise money for Renee's little girl. Please consider purchasing one of the terrific bundles that have been put together:

Go To the TPT Sale:

Check out the 5 awesome bundles valued at over $180. You can get each bundle for just $10.00, over a 70% savings!

 K-5 Donated By:

The Techie Teacher  Keepin it Kool in Kinderland  Kristy Bear Designs

Mrs. Albanese's Class   A Cupcake for the Teacher   Tales from a Naturalista Teacha

Lindsey Paulson    Miss Kindergarten Love     The Sharpened Pencil

Kindergarten Smiles 

 3-5 Donated by:

 Two Fulbright Hugs  Don't Let The Teacher Stay Up Late

I'm Loving Lit     Alicia Broughton     Mrs. O Knows   

One Extra Degree     Young Teacher Love

K-1 ELA Donated by:

 The Inspired Apple    Keepin it Kool in Kinderland   Learning is for Superstars

 1st Grade Fireworks   Little Miss Kindergarten   Little Warriors

Kindergarten: Holding Hands and Sticking Together  Little Minds at Work

Lindsey Paulson     Smitten With First

1st Grade ELA donated by:

What the Teacher Wants    Made for 1st Grade    For The Love of 1st Grade

Teaching with Love and Laughter    Rambling About Reading

Teacher Idea Factory    1st Grade Fireworks

K-1 Math Donated By:

Learning Ahoy   Teaching In Progress   Chalk Talk 

Lindsey Paulson    Alicia Broughton    Hanging Out in First

KinderGlynn

Back to School Tech Style

Welcome to the Back To School Tech Sweepstakes!

Check out this amazing giveaway sponsored by Mom Powered Media. How amazing would it be to win this awesome computer...but I'm even more excited about the $500 Visa card!!  So keep reading and enter to win at the bottom of the post!  Good luck!

At Mom Powered Media, we believe in higher education and want to help our network readers get there. To help you do just that, we are giving one lucky reader a $500 Visa Gift Card and HP 14″ Chromebook PC. There will also be 20 second place winners to take home Back To School Prize Packages. So what are you waiting for? Let's get BTS ready, tech-style! Special thank you to our supporting co-host bloggers: Monica's Rants, Raves & Reviews, The Jenny Evolution, Memoirs of a Clueless Woman, My Dairy-Free Gluten-Free Life, My Daylights, Barbara's Beat, Saving You Dinero, Shaping Up To Be A Mom, Robyn's View, Coupons and Freebies Mom, A Hen's Nest, Budget Savvy Diva, Mutterings Of A Mindless Mommy, Your Sassy Self and Nest Full of New. Open your sleek, next-generation HP Pavilion 14-Q020NR 14" Chromebook PC to get online, fast. You can access your favorite websites and Google Chrome apps on the 14-inch diagonal HD display in seconds. HP 14″ Chromebook PC features:

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Currently July 2014

Wow!  I can't believe it's July!!  Sorry for being a little MIA!  The end of the school year was crazy busy and I just got back from a 2 week hiatus to the beach! :)  It's our treat at the end of every school year!   So.....it's July.....and here's my currently:

1. Disney Junior is a must have channel in our house!  Doc McStuffins is a neat show!
2. That I do not have to go to work tomorrow.  Being on summer vacation is the best--especially because I get to spend every day with my hubs and daughter!
3.  Again, sorry I haven't blogged recently!  It's  been a little nutty around here with the end of school and then the beach hiatus for 2 weeks! :) 
4.  Which leads me to say that I want to be back at the beach.  Being there for 2 weeks is the best...I really wish we could just live there.
5.  I've cleaned several rooms and need to finish the rest of the house! 
6.  We don't usually do much for the July 4th holiday.  Our main goal is to stay off the road with all of the crazy drivers.  
I hope you enjoyed seeing a little about myself....now it's time to check out what everyone else is doing...head over to Farley's Blog to see...

Back to School Tech-Style Event

Back to School Tech-Style Event

Organized by: Mom Powered Media

Grand Prize: $500 Visa Gift Card + HP 14" Chromebook PC

20 Additional BTS Prize Package Winners

Event dates: 7/15 - 8/15

Giveaway is open to US and Canadian Residents.

SIGN-UP HERE

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If you sign up, please tell them Shifting Teacher K-2 sent you!  I could win a gift card!!

Thanks and good luck!

VA Bloggers Appreciate Y-O-U!! - Blog Hop {FREEBIES}

Welcome to Virginia!

Virginia Bloggers Appreciate Y-O-U!!

Thanks to Andrea from Reading Towards the Stars for this super cute button!

A lovely group of Virginia bloggers would like to show our appreciation of you by extending a bit of southern hospitality.  You can follow along the blog hop to visit 20+ Virginia teacher blogs for terrific teaching tips and fun freebies to help get through the last couple of weeks before summer break.

I have created such a fun summer freebie for you!  This is a great end of the year center to keep your kiddos learning. But would also be fantastic for those of you that will teach summer school over the break.  I know my students love to work together to "figure things out."  And this station activity will let them do just that!  I have provided 5 sentences for you - each with 6 words.  When I introduce this activity, I teach my kinders to look for the word with the uppercase letter to know that goes first and then the word that has a period following it to go at the end.   Then they have to work together to read the additional words - most sight words - and put the sentence in order.

Once they have all 5 sentences in order (I like to do this at the pocket chart station but you could just use a desk area of the floor.), They will write down each sentence on the recording paper of your choice.  I provided 3 different variations depending on the needs of your students.

Our school uses the Wilson Fundations program in K, 1 and 2 so I try to always incorporate those handwriting lines on their recording papers where needed.  This activity is no different!!

So without further ado....go check it out!  It will only be free for this week's hop!  I do plan to post it as a paid product at the end of the week! Be sure to get it free while you can!!!

While you are visiting each blogger, please take a moment to leave a comment on the blog post and some feedback in their store about their freebie.  We do appreciate you - but we also appreciate your feedback!  It helps drive our post and product ideas!

I hope you enjoy hopping around - and don't forget - VA Bloggers Appreciate You!!!

The next stop on the hop is Andrea from Reading Towards the Stars!

Five for Fraterday 5-16-14

So a day late...that's ok!  I'm linking up yo share what we did this week. 

1.  This was the last week of my student teacher actually teaching. I have to start full time on Monday so I was very busy getting this awesome Community Helper unit together from Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten. This was a pack I got on sale during teacher appreciation week and I'm so glad I did. It's packed with awesome games for my kiddos!!

2. My kiddos did a great job sequencing this poem. It had very short lines but was 2 or 3 stanzas long. I was very impressed!

3. They have been learning about diagraphs and this pocket chart activity was great practice. Their handwriting has come so far too!!

4. My kids practiced retelling a story by writing the beginning, middle, and end during guided reading. 

5. I discovered the coolest app for teaching number sense in math!  Here is a screen shot of me just playing with it. It's called Number Frames and it's awesome. Stay tuned to next week...I'm gonna use it with my kiddos for the first time. 

And just a teaser...you'd better come back tomorrow.....

Now go see what everyone else is doing. Happy Saturday!

Wordless Wednesday 5-13-14

Does your workspace ever look like this?

Monday Made It 5-5-14

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

I'm actually linking up for Monday Made It. I'm shocked! 

But look what we made for Mother's Day. They turned out great and my kids love them. 

The kids had such nice things to say about their moms!  I was so proud of them. Here I painted the background and took each kids picture with the whiteboard. The frame is large Popsicle sticks (tongue depressors) hot glued together with foam stickers on top. I hot glued the picture on the back of the sticks. They turned out GREAT!

Next, the kids painted these large washers - yes, from the hardware store. 

And when strung with ribbon and 2 colorful pony beads, here is the final project.

Now head over to see what everyone else made too!

Five for Fraterday {5-2-14}

Better late than never!  I'm linking up with my five moments from this week. 1.  I'm having a sale!!  My store is 30% off and you get an additional 10% off at Teachers Notebook - today through Monday.  Be sure to check out {MY STORE}to get your favorite products but also enter to win some PRIZES!  Some lucky teachers will win tablets and TN Gift Certificates!!  What are  you waiting for.....go check it out!  (But please come back for the rest of my post!!)

.   2.  My kiddos did some great learning this week during guided reading time.  This is a student from the local High School who is volunteering in my room.  She is helping these kiddos make sight words from their story.

3.  It's assessment time!  I feel like once May hits...all I'm doing is pulling kids to assess their growth.  We have a state test called PALS that we have to give, interims go home next week, our goal setting data is due soon, and running records have to be done before the end of the year.  I'm going to stay VERY busy!!  Here's my student teacher working with one child on the interim assessment.

4.  My kids did a great job at the pocket chart station this week!  I love these cards that my student teacher drew.  She is an amazing artist!  I've been encouraging her to look into getting a computer program so that she can make her graphics digital and sell on TpT!  My kids loved sorting these pictures while listening for diagraphs.  

5.  And Friday we worked on making this really neat plant picture.  I think the photos say it all.  I'll have to remember to take a picture of the finished products hanging in the hallway on Monday!  

Thanks for hanging around til the end!  Be sure to check on Teachers Notebook this weekend!  The sale ends on Monday!   Now head over to see what everyone else was up to this week!