850 Follower Giveaway

It's been a long time coming, but I have finally finished putting together my big giveaway!! For all of your patience and support, I felt like you deserved 5 chances to win, and I have some amazing bloggers helping out. You have until midnight EST of May 8 (so by the end of day next Wednesday) to enter, so good luck!

Prize Pack #1 - Winner's Choice K-2:

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Prize Pack #2 - Winner's Choice 3-5:

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Prize Pack #3 - Literacy:

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Prize Pack #4 - Math and Other Resources:

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Prize Pack #5:

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A Five for Friday you DON'T want to miss!

Word Wizard chart in portrait or landscape (I used borders from Bubbly Borders and More and fonts from Kimberly Gershwin)

I mentioned in my post on Wednesday about how I'm focusing on Robust Vocabulary this year. Long story short, I give each group three vocabulary words for the week, and then encourage them to go out and find examples of the words being used at home. They collect those examples on a very simple recording sheet here and bring it back on Friday. Then I will put a star or sticker by their name. Once students get 5, they get to choose a prize from my box!

This may seem small, but one of my students noticed that my skittle jar was running low and decided to bring in a bag to refill it. Bonus: the green are back to LIME instead of green apple. My day was made!

On Fridays, we have game/review day. This is one of my favorite games because the words are higher level. Unfortunately it's too high for half of my kids, but I pulled it out for my higher 4th and 5th grade students. Notice a theme here?

Sometimes I do brain breaks before the students leave, and I recently added a few to my Pinterest board. One of my favorite new ones...

Hehe, I almost took video of my kids doing it. Hysterical! You can follow my board here. I also have "What Does the Fox Say?" which I highly recommend for a good laugh!

To celebrate surpassing 500 followers a while back, my Halloween Literacy Pack will be free for the next hour (or until I have a chance to get home and to a computer). Go grab it and be sure to leave feedback!

The time has now passed for the flash freebie, but you can still click on the link to add it to your cart!

300 follower FLASH giveaway!

Can you believe it? Once again, I have reached a milestone, and it's only been 9 months since I started this little blog! I really wanted to have a big celebration this time, so I decided to do something a little different. Instead of having a bunch of donations and only one or two winners, I am having a FLASH giveaway!

That means that all you have to do is follow me and leave a comment below by midnight TONIGHT! Don't forget to include your email. I will send an email (or more depending on the size) with all of the products you win. Then be sure and show your appreciation to their blogs as well! I will post later and list all of them (first I want to make sure I have everything nailed down - plus it will be a nice surprise, right?) thanking them for participating!

Don't forget to pass this along to your friends as well, but they have to comment by MIDNIGHT! It will be over in a flash!

Valentine freebie

I have been procrastinating racking my brain trying to think of the perfect freebie as a thank you to all of my wonderful followers that helped me reach the 200 mark so quickly! I wanted it to be something that would be useful for upper and lower grades, so I thought a craftivity would be perfect. Since Valentine's Day is coming up, that was the most logical theme. I have a confession though (please don't unfollow me!): I don't really care for Valentine's Day. There. I said it! Maybe it's the fact that I was single for every one of them until I met Steven in college. Or maybe it's that my parents never did any of the sending flowers or chocolates like my friends' parents in elementary/middle school. Or maybe it's that my heart is two sizes too small. Anyway, I'm not much for the whole cheese factor. But I finally came up with a craft that I could get on board with that was still related to Valentine's Day. Plus it's a little different since I'm sure there are MILLIONS of heart crafts already out there.

So this craft has students think about ways that they can show love to others. Yay for thinking about others and not what their favorite candy is or who has a crush on who! Sorry, Negative Nilly had to poke her head again. I stopped her, though! My helping otter (that's our 5th grade helpers - isn't it cute?) did this one for me to show as an example. I love it!

I'm putting this on TpT as a freebie UNTIL SUNDAY or until I remember to change the price! But I'm also giving my special readers a link here to the Google drive that will always work. (But that's our little secret).

And even though I'm not much of a sap, I really do LOVE y'all and am very grateful for all of your comments and ideas. You've made my short time on this blog great!

While you're downloading my freebie, go check out All Things Upper Elementary for their very first Friday Free 4 All linky party!

200 followers?

I can't believe how quickly this little blog is growing! Just two months ago, I reached 100 followers and was amazed. Now I've already doubled that! With that being said, I need to get my butt in gear and come up with some kind of giveaway/thank you. I wanted to change it up a little bit and not have some extensive list of people involved (plus I hate to ask people for help again when I feel like I just asked them). I'm thinking of having a flash freebie from my store for one day only.That way I can thank all of you at once! If I did that, what item would you most like to see? I was thinking about my Valentine Literacy Centers, but they're geared more toward upper grades, and I want to be able to help out my lower grade friends, too! Maybe I'll have to create some new craftivity similar to my MLK craft.

Input would be appreciated!

Mrs. Leeby is also celebrating 200 followers with 3 AMAZING gift cards! You really should check this one out!