100th Follower Giveaway Clip Art/ Grades 6-12

This is my final giveaway with another batch of incredible products from creative and talented teachers. You will receive some beautiful clip art to dress up your work from several artistic clip artists. There are some great lessons included from teachers 6-12. You will also receive one of the most sort after teacher binders to help keep you organized this year from Mrs.Hildebrand. Don't miss out this opportunity to win some fabulous products. This giveaway is live until midnight. Good Luck!

Clipart

Ink n Little Things winner's choice
Away With The Pixels winner's choice
Poppydreamz Digital Art winner's choice


Click on the links below to see the prizes you will receive.
Grades 6-8


Giveaway is Live for Grades 3-5, Lots of Prizes

Don't miss out on your opportunity to win lots of fantastic prizes from some amazing teachers from grades
 3-5. The giveaway is live up until midnight. Tell all your teacher friends. Hurry!

Amazing Giveaway

Wow!!! It is time for the fun to begin. There are over 50 prizes in all that will be given away this week.  My giveaway is live for grades Prek-2 starting now. July 27-July 28th until midnight. Check out all the fabulous prizes. You won't believe it!!! Don't miss out. Fill out the form on rafflecopter to enter for over 30 prizes in grades Prek-2. This includes the five products of your choice from my TPT store. On July 29th-July 30th, I will be hosting the giveaway for grades 3-5. July 31-Aug.1st will be the giveaway for the upper grades plus some amazing clip artists.

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are from  www.mycutegraphics.com andwww.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Wizard-Of_Boz

Here are Some Amazing Teachers~ Thank You!

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF THE AMAZING PRE K-2  TEACHERS
WHO DONATED TO THIS GIVEAWAY !
I am truly amazed at the response I have so far, especially for this age group. Tomorrow the giveaway will start live. Let's give credit to these generous teachers. Check out these stores
and you will find some extraordinary products for your classroom.
Be sure to click on each of the links below to see which prizes are being donated. You won't believe the generous donations. Be sure to check out their awesome stores and become a follower so you will be aware of new products and upcoming sales. The winner will receive prizes worth well over $100.00.

Class of Kinders winner's choice
My Fabulous Class winner's choicee
Differentiated Instruction winner's choice
Brittani Black winner's choice


Be sure to click on each of the links below to see which prizes are being donated. You won't believe the generous donations. Be sure to check out their awesome stores and become a follower so you will be aware of new products and upcoming sales. The winner will receive  prizes worth well over $100.00.



Grades 3-5
Ashley Cook winner's choice
Rick's Resources winner's choice
Janet Rainey winner's choice
Green Grubs winner's choice
Rock Stars in the Classroom winner's choice

Wow! Check out the amazing Clip Artist Donations Below.

Clipart

Ink n Little Things winner's choice
Away With The Pixels winner's choice
Poppydreamz Digital Art winner's choice




Click on the links below to see the prizes you will receive.
Grades 6-8








100th Follower Giveaway

It is an exciting time as I approach 100 Followers at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. I will be hosting a giveaway starting next Saturday. I am currently taking donations from amazing sellers at Teachers Pay Teachers for this exciting giveaway. The winner will receive any five products of your choice from my store  and whatever products I get from donations that I will be collecting all week long.  When you donate products it is a win for you because you can gain more followers. I will set up my giveaway so that when the person is entering the giveaway, he/she will have the opportunity to gain more entries by following the links that you provide me to your store. It is a win, win for you and the person entering the giveaway. If you want to join in on the fun and donate a prize, please click on the link below and fill out the form to get started. I am currently taking donations from grades 6-12 only since I have so many so far from the lower grades. Thanks so much!!  
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ljSosBHHYcN9gMNWdQ5IMx1ednTMNpQGWioRn9nFpkM/viewform

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Word Problems

Not only do word problems provide higher level thinking for young children, but they bring meaning to real life situations. Children learn quickly why it is important to learn how to add and subtract because they need to in order to solve problems that they may face in the everyday world. It is important to create word problems or number stories that students can easily relate to. Students should begin solving simple number stories with tangible items found in the classroom. Once the students have lots of experience with adding and subtracting with manipulatives, they can move on to picture representations to assist them in solving problems. I have created a few number story booklets that will motivate students as they practice solving word problems. These booklets have both addition and subtraction number stories within ten. Students will be able to solve the problems by drawing pictures to show their work. Next, students will write an equation to go along with the number story .I have found that by teaching students to look for key words such as {in all, all together, are left}and highlighting them with a yellow crayon or circling them can be very helpful when deciding which operation to choose as they write their equations. When students are solving subtraction problems, I often teach them to X out the ones that leave with a red crayon. They can then easily count the X's because they are distinguished easier with the red crayon and they don't get lost in their drawings. Below is an example of one of my number story booklets that I created. It is currently my top selling item. I just created a new number story booklet with a fall theme for back to school. These activities align nicely with the Common Core for both the end of the year in kindergarten and the for the beginning of the year in first grade.
Common Core: K.OA.2  &  Common Core: 1.OA.1

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Theme-Number-Stories-Addition-Subtraction-Word-Problems-CC-KOA2-607945



Classroom Videos

I have been collecting several educational classroom videos since I started on Pinterest. My collection has now reached 160 videos. The kids in my class love them. Not only are they entertaining and capture their attention, but they provide learning in a fun way. My collection includes several English language arts, storybook, character education, holiday fun, math, science and movement video clips. The majority of my videos are only a couple of minutes long and are geared towards the early primary grades. These clips are perfect for introducing a lesson or you can use them for a review. Before I start separating them into different boards, I thought I would share them with you. Please follow me on Pinterest so you can be aware of the new videos I find. Below is just a sample of one of the videos you will find.

http://pinterest.com/pin/186336503304724533/

Happy 4th of July


I hope you all enjoy a happy and safe 4th of July. It feels so nice to finally relax after a busy and hectic school year. I've been out of school now for almost two weeks. We said our final goodbyes and ended our school year with our " Kindergarten Moving On Day Celebration." The students did an amazing job with reciting a poem and singing a couple of songs. The parents especially loved it when we sang to the tune of Frank Sinatra's" New York, New York" while dancing like the Rockettes. We changed the lyrics to "First Grade, First Grade." The students all received a pail and shovel with lots of goodies inside. In the buckets the students brought home memory books, journals,  pictures and special awards. We ended the last day of school with a slide show I put together on Movie Maker and the students enjoyed some popsicles before saying so long for the summer. Putting together this end of the year program was a lot of work, but it was all worth it in the end. The parents were so appreciative and the kids had a blast. I am always amazed at the tremendous gains the students make throughout the year and it is not always easy to let them go.  Now that I am home, I can spend some quality time with my family and work on those projects that I've been putting off to get my house organized. This summer I signed up to take several technology workshops that will keep me busy. With this new information I plan on developing lots more lessons and activities that I can share.