700 Followers Giveaway!

Yippee, I have 700 followers!!! 

I also finally have a blog button! Can things get any better?

To celebrate I am going to give a lucky person any item they would like from my TPT store. 

Maybe you'd like...

 OR

or maybe you had one of my other items in your wishlist?

Here's how you can earn 6 entries:
1. Blog about my giveaway on your blog.
2. Follow my TPT store.
3. Grab my blog button and put it on your blog (on my sidebar.)
4. Like me on Facebook (on my sidebar.)
5. Follow me on Twitter (on my sidebar.)
6. Follow my blog.


I will announce the winner on WEDNESDAY so don't delay!!

Blue Skies Giveaway

Jennifer over at First Grade Blue Skies is having a giveaway for a Target or Amazon card! I am crossing my fingers that I win so I can but some books for Kindle for my trip to the East Coast next week!

Maybe if I cross my toes, too?

Blogging Buddies, let's see if we can help some newbies. I had two new bloggers email me saying they have made new blogs but they can't seem to leave comments. Of course, this is making it difficult for them to get the word out that they have new blogs. So, will you please do me a favor and hop on over to their blogs and give them a big blogging welcome?

Erica's Elementary Excitement posted this cool sentence ladder idea from Whole Brain Teaching. (You may recall my video on me using WBT?)

 

Lisa at First Class with Mrs Mac posted free math task cards to help with 1 more/less and 10 more/less.

If you can figure out what is going on with Blogger and their comments you will be their HERO! Anyone have a guess who might figure out? My bet is on Kristen from Ladybug's Teacher Files. (No pressure Kristen, just a hunch.)

Chapter 6 FREEBIE

I was so excited when I got back online to read Chapter 6 of Math Work Stations and it was on Place-Value -exactly what I am working on with the girl I am tutoring! You may recall that I made Place-Value Go Fish to use with her last week. So here is my version of Race to 100 (or 50) that Debbie mentions in her book. I had to change the name to use my cute dino clip-art!

I included the easier version where trains are made with unifix cubes and the harder version which requires the students to EXCHANGE 10 ones for a ten and uses base ten blocks.

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I included the Math Talk cards for both versions.

I am sharing this game for FREE so click HERE to get your copy!

I would love it if you would leave me some positive feedback.

**** Edited to say that sadly, Scrappin Doodles changed their policies and I can no longer share games I made with their clipart for free so this game is now on sale for $2 like all my other math games.

If you haven't already, you must go check out the fabulous post by our hostess for this chapter at Oceans of First Grade Fun

A Different Making Words Folder Idea

Rachelle over at What The Teacher Wants blogged the other day about the folder she uses for Making Words. That reminded me that I don't think I ever shared what I use so thanks Rachelle!

This idea I believe was first shared by the Santa-Maria Bonita School District. 

All you need is file folders and the small size of post-it notes.

Make sure you write the letter on the file folder first so the kids know where to put it back. They think it is such fun to unstick and restick the notes to make a word in the big open space.

I use these in my guided reading groups so they stay nice since I store them. The best part is that this is inexpensive and very easy to replace a note if it loses its stick.

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