I Heart Giveaways!

The best thing about the blog world = giveaways!  Honestly, Bloggers are very generous!  For the amount of time teachers spend planning lessons let alone, and then make all these wonderful files for us to download, and then to give it away for free is amazing!!!    Annnyywaayysss.... I am all about a giveaway so here we go; check these out!

12 bloggers with over 15 products, $75 in gift cards what more could you ask for!  Congrats to a fellow WI teacher @ Growing Firsties, with 500 followers! WHOO HOO!!  Enter here:  

Teaching with Love and Laughter is giving away a  "customized teacher plaque ($25.00 value) or clipboard ($20.00 value) and a one (non-bundled) item, of your choice, from my teaching store"  Go here: 




MelonHeadz is giving away clip art!!  




Busy Bees  is giving away a St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Clipart Set and Kiss Me I'm Irish St. Patrick's Day Chevron Digital Scrapbook Pack.  Also will be giving away a St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Math Packet that focuses on Counting and Cardinality Standards 6 and 7 with comparing numbers
Hope you are a winner!  Let me know if I bring you any Irish Luck!!!

Time for a BRAIN BREAK!!!

Are your kiddos getting as antsy as mine?  They sit for a maximum of 15 minuets, but then......... wiggle, wiggle, wiggle....

So what do you do?  I get them moving!!!  Here are their favorite Brain Break Videos!!

Here are some awesome brain breaks my kiddos love!

You can also go to pinterest, and type in brain breaks to find a TON of great resources!

Snowflakes for Sandy Hook

Silence for Sandy Hook

Teachers Pay Teachers!

Morning Teachers!  I have exciting news to share!  I am now selling items and sharing Free items on Teachers Pay Teachers!   A few items I put in my store are:

I am very excited to say I have sold my first item!!  I hope that I can truly help teachers save time on making documents like the above, and would love to know more what teachers need so I can help!  

Check it out here!

Smartboard Calendar

Each day I start my kiddos with a really fun, full of movement calendar!  I thought it would be fun to share this with you as well.  Here is a quick look at a few pages from my November Version!

I put a ton of videos to change it up each day!  The kiddos are totally in control, they choose who will get picked....  

I also use First Grade Parade's calendar pack, which I love, and so do the kids!

Classroom Tour!

I am so excited to share with you my classroom pictures!  Since this is a new district & school, this was a lot of fun for me!  When I walked into my room, I was in awe... It is simply amazing.  I couldn't ask for a better room...  Here it is when I first arrived 3 weeks ago...

Check out those shiny floors!

Oh boy!

Sparkling clean!

Literally a blank slate!

I couldn't wait to just see it all come together.  It took a lot of time, hard work, and "pinterest!"  I love it!

So drumroll please.....  This is my Kindergarten classroom!  

Got this idea from http://flipflopteacher.blogspot.com/

Such cute little cubbies!  Supplies all dropped off from Meet the Teacher night!  

I love that the cubbie area is a hallway outside of the classroom.  I am going to be posting student work on the blue & green construction paper.  I put clothespin clips to hold the papers up.

Library, writing, CAFE board.

Student tables all set for day 1

Book bins!  Love Donors Choose!

So what do you think?!!?  I love this room, and I feel so blessed to have this classroom.  I can't wait to have all the kiddos in it on Tuesday!!!   If you see anything that needs a little tweaking, let me know!  I plan on filling it up with anchor charts, kids work, ect.