K-3 Connection

Monday, April 8, 2013

Fabulous 50 Follower Giveaway!

I hit 50 followers last night and I am SUPER excited about it!! It is a big milestone for me. =) In celebration, I am doing a little giveaway for my fabulous followers. It is my first one, so please bear with me!. So fun! The winner will get to choose ANY TWO items from my TpT store. You have more than 20 entries to earn, so go ahead and get started!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Also be sure to check out all of these other fabulous giveaways my fellow bloggers are doing. I have donated to a couple of them!

Good luck!

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Boot Scootin' Blog Hop with a FREEBIE! and Let's Get Acquainted

Howdy y'all! I am so happy you stopped by! I am joining some of my fellow Tennessee bloggers and taking part in my first ever blog hop. Woo hoo! So exciting. =) Be sure to click through to look at all of the fabulous blogs and grab some freebies. Thank you to Elizabeth from Kickin' it in Kindergarten for putting this together for all of us! You're amazing!

Without any delay... here is your FREEBIE!

It is a skip counting center with a recording sheet and a cover page with visual directions. With this, your kiddos can practice skip counting by both 5 and 10. Not to mention, it is perfect to add to your spring centers! Click on the picture above to grab the freebie.

If you like the freebie, be sure to check out my other springy centers in my April Showers Bring May Flowers set.

Your next stop in our Boot Scootin' Blog Hop will be with Kelly at Young & Lively Kindergarten.

She has tons of great ideas with pictures so that you can see exactly how she does things! Her blog rocks!

Now "scoot" on over to check out Young & Lively Kindergarten and don't forget to check out the other Tennessee bloggers so that you can grab up your freebies!

Let's Get Acquainted

This week we are supposed to tell what three things we would want if we were stranded on a desert island.

1. Cell phone

Even though I'm sure I wouldn't have service on a desert island, I would still want to have my phone close. You never know, maybe I would get lucky and it would work. Oooor I would just play on it or listen to music like I always do (until it died anyway).

2. Chap stick

I always HAVE TO have my chap stick and it HAS to be Burt's Beeswax. I would definitely want it if I was stranded somewhere. I put it on all the time at school and my kids always ask me why I am putting on lipstick. It makes me wonder if they go home and tell their parents that I put on lipstick all day long.

3. A Hair Tie

I can't stand to have my hair down most of the time. Its always in a ponytail unless I am working (sometimes even then) or somewhere I need to look nice.

Don't forget to link up and hop through our blog hop!

Thanks for stopping by =)

Friday, April 5, 2013

Double Linky! Let's Talk About Blogs, Baby and Five for Friday (April 5)

Let's Talk About Blogs, Baby!

Melissa from First Grade Smiles is doing a "Let's Talk About Blogs, Baby!" linky party. I love it and it is perfect for newer bloggers! Here are my answers:

The question I added is:

"How often do you post on your blog? How much do you think is too much/too little for blogs you follow to post?"

I would love to know what you think since I am still sort of new to the whole blogging thing. =)

Be sure to link up so that I can see your answers!

Five for Friday

TGIF!! This was my first week back from spring break. It always takes me a little while to get my head on straight when we've been out of school for a while. I was worried my kids might be a little wild, but they were great!

Here's a quick look at my week:

1. This afternoon we played an (unplanned) math game. I think I've seen something similar on pinterest somewhere, but I randomly thought of it this afternoon and my kiddos loved it. I loved it too because it is a quiet game. =) A lot of you have probably played something similar. We played with time cards, but you could really play with any matching game.

Here's how we played: Students stand in a circle. Pass out one card to each person. Without talking, students have to find their match. (We matched digital clocks to analog clocks with the same time, but you could match upper and lowercase letters, shapes, addition problems to their sum... you get the idea.)

It was nice to do something unplanned and fun in celebration of Friday!

2. I ordered some book bags with my free $10 from Scholastic. I really want to send them home next year! The only problem is... I can't figure out how I want to do it. I have looked around online, but I haven't found what I'm looking for. I would like the kids to do an activity with their book, but another issue is that the bags are too small to fit a regular sized piece of paper. I would LOVE to hear any of your suggestions and how you do it in your classroom.

3. Here's a peek at a couple of the centers we've been doing this week. They are from my April Showers Bring May Flowers set.

Here the kids pick a pattern and complete it. Then they color the flowers on the recording sheet to match the pattern. They LOVE pocket charts.

Here the kiddos match rhyming words and then write them on the recording sheet. Our copier at school sometimes makes worksheets tiny with no warning. Drives me crazy but I can't stand to waste the paper and copy it again!

4. So today, my kiddos were practicing marking their vowels. They put a "line for long, smile for short". One of my kiddo's papers looked like this:

I obviously had a hard time figuring out if those were lines or smiles. When I asked her what it was, she said, "It's a smile that's talking". I couldn't help but laugh at that. =D

5. We started a countdown to summer this week. Only 29 school days left. That is so insane to me! I can't believe I am almost done with my first year of teaching. Where did the year go?

Don't forget to link up and have a fabulous weekend!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

HUGE Fabulous Giveaway from Keepin' It Kool in KinderLand!

I am excited to share with you that Khrys over at Keepin' It Kool in KinderLand is celebrating her 375+ followers by throwing a HUGE giveaway and I am a part of the fun! It is my first time to be part of something like this so I am super excited. =)

I am giving away my April Showers Bring May Flowers Math and Literacy Centers. Click the picture below to check them out! They are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.