A SPOOK-TACULAR Giveaway!

You have to check out this "Spook-tacular" giveaway...12 amazing prizes!!!! A bunch of us have teamed up with Donna over at Kinderglynn for this whoppin' giveaway! Who wouldn't love to win this stuff?!?

Oh yeah! I told you-some GrEaT stuff huh!?! Head on over to Kinderglynn to enter! (Contest ends Saturday, October 15th- 10:00EST)


Click here to enter the giveaway!

I have also fallen in love with this aDoRaBle lil Scaredy Cat!!!

If you haven't read this book, OH MY you NEED to! The illustrations are amazing-makes you want to just grab & squeeze this lil cat! It's about a little cat that is trying to find the perfect costume to scare his classmates-only problem is that he is a real scaredy cat himself! My firsties LOVE this story so I decided to create a few activities to go along with it. (It's a super bargin at my TpT & Teachers Notebook shops.)

AND....I will give a FREEBIE copy to the first 10 people that leave me a lil comment here!!! Don't have to do anything special, just say "Hey! Have a Spooktacular Day!" or "Happy Halloween Girl!" or whatever you feel like sayin' right now! 

Lookin' forward to our field trip to the pumpkin patch on Friday!!!

 

This is Where the Wild Things Are!

Oh WoWSie these first graders are having some monsterous fun! Not sure what it is about these silly monsters but this unit is always a student favorite! There are so many cute books to go along with this theme. Of course, "Where The Wild Things Are" is a classic and it goes along great with our Wild About Learning school theme. Check out the new bulletin board!

Our monster glyphs turned out soooo stinkin' cute. The kiddos did a great job-LUV em! I'm amazed how different each one of them is! (In addition to the glyph below, I added spots on the nose that stand for the number of pets the student has.)

After we read "Where the Wild Things Are", we brainstormed things from the story that were real (or could be real) & things that are pretend. Click on the pic below if you would like a copy of this FREEBIE!

Check out more of my Super Silly Monster Fun unit at Teachers Pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook for more literacy & math activities!

Got a quick question...Does anyone else get emails requesting copies of files that are already accessible on Google Docs????  Can't the files just be downloaded directly from there? I feel really bad not emailing everyone the requested file but there are so many requests that I can't keep up! :(  Any suggestions?

S'mores, Pumpkins & Hayrides...FAB-U-LOUS Fall Centers!

Hey everyone! There is a chill in the air, so...grab your favorite cozy sweater & a mug of hot cocoa and get ready for some "Fab-U-lous Fall Fun"! I just love bonfires & toasting marshmallows! How 'bout you?  So I was thinking "Why not bring some of that fall fun into the classroom?"  {The S'mores word work center is my fav!}

Check it out at my lil shop at Teachers Pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook. Also, I just finished up a few Fall Sentence Scramblers-just click the pic to grab your FREEBIES!

Have a great Wednesday! {Only 2 more days til Friday-Woo Hoo!}

French Fry Math Center FREEBIE & a Super-Big Thank You!

A big "Hey!" to everyone! First, I want to give a super big "Thanks" to Miss Bowers over at First Grade Jabber for awarding me the "Versatile Blogger Award"! WOWsie! I'm honored-you are just too sweet!

And I'm really excited to share one of our fun math activities that we worked on this week... "French Fry Facts"! We've been working really hard on addition and finding different ways to make numbers. This was a really fun activity! I started by cutting yellow construction paper into strips to make french fry counters. Then I had the kiddos separate the fries into two groups and come up with addition facts.

Then the students worked in groups & I gave each group a French Fry Sum Card. They worked together to find as many addition math facts for that sum as possible and then wrote those math sentences on their construction paper french fries. We then placed the addition facts in the correct french fry box. {I kinda came up with this display below at the last minute so don't look too close at those french fry boxes...they are a little bit crooked! Oh well-my firsties LOVED this activity anyway!}

Okay blogging friends, here is the math center FREEBIE!!! Gotta LoVe those freebies!!! Just click the pic below to download your copy! Sure do hope your kiddos enjoy this center as much as mine have!!

Just one more lil thing I want to mention...The Clutter Free Classroom is hosting a "Peek Into My Planbook" linky party. So...I've linked up my math activity to this great collection of classroom plans. Head on over to check them all out!

It's Time for Some Apple-licious Fun!

Oh, my! Had a very stressful evening...my computer went BlAnK!!!!! Yikes!! I was flippin' out! {you know you would be too!} All I could think was "Oh no! How will I log onto my blog? Will I be able to save any of  that super-cute clipart?" Seriously, I felt sick & wanted to cry...but after a phone call to my computer-genius friend Kim & a little research, I was able to drain my excess power, remove the battery & it STARTED right back up!!! I now have my clipart collection saved on a zip drive!!! {I'm not chancin' the loss of that stuff again!} Still not sure what the problem was but...the good news is I was able to load my "Apple-licious Fun!" mini-unit. My firsties love doing the apple taste test & the sentence-building activity! {Check out that awesome punctuation!}

The unit includes a ready-to-go math center, ABC center {2 levels}, graphing activity, apple craft & sentence-building activity. Check it out at my lil shops at TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS & TEACHERS NOTEBOOK! Happy birthday Johnny Appleseed!

Gettin' Into the Swing of DAILY 5-Read to Someone

WowSiE! I'm so excited about using the Daily 5 with my first graders this year! Today, we had our first focus lesson for Read to Someone. We made an anchor chart: "When I Read to Someone, I will..."I modeled the EEKK {elbow to elbow, knee to knee} reading position & then the kiddos all practiced with partners. Amazing!!! They actually were all engaged in reading {for a few minutes anyway}. For the first day, I thought they did a GREAT job! It was just too cute watching them work so hard to get their elbows & knees matched up!

The Daily 5 book {below} & the website The Daily Cafe are amazing resources filled with a wealth of info-check these out! Thanks so much Danielle for letting me borrow your book!!

And, of course, I had to add a little "zebra bling" to my Daily 5 signs! If you would like a copy, just click on the pics below for your FREEBIES! I would also LOVE to hear from you guys about any Daily 5 things you are doing in your classrooms or if you have found any great Daily 5 blogs or websites!

More Prize Pass Catalog FREEBIES!

Hey! Just doin' a lil late night blogging & got a good laugh from Miss Bowers over at First Grade Jabber. She posted a really cute {& oH, sO TRUE} picture of how many teachers are feeling about now! It's too funny!  Well, since it is VERY late & I will have 23 energetic cuties waiting for me in just a few short hours, I'm keeping this post short-n-sweet. I've received lots of super sweet comments on my Prize Pass Catalog {sounds like lots of Treasure Boxes have found there way to the trash!!} I also had a few requests for more prizes. So....here you go!! 4 more to add to the catalog! Just click the pics to download your FREEBIES!

Add these pages to the Prize Pass Catalog:

Here are the Prize Passes that the kiddos get:

Getting really close to finishing up my "FAB-U-LOUS Fall Fun!" unit! Can't wait to share another freebie with everyone!