Leap Day Sale!

Hello friends!  I'm celebrating Leap Day today with a sale in my TpT store!  Stop by and pick up a few great products to help you get through the spring season!

Do you need a few fun ways for your students to practice math skills with multiple choice questions? 

Check these out:

My students love practicing with these cards!  I love them because we get in a little practice before our state assessment with how to answer multiple choice questions in math!

Or how about this Spring Figurative Language review pack?  It's a great refresher before the big day!

Have an amazing day!

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It's a Sale on Teachers Pay Teachers!

Hello friends!  I'm sure that many of you have already heard, but just in case, Wednesday and Thursday there is a big sale going on at Teachers Pay Teachers where you can save up to 28% in my store by using the CODE: START16.

Check out a few of my products below.  They are major hits in my classroom!!

Don't forget to stop back tomorrow for a litte Mid-Week Math Motivation!! I'm talking fraction models and interactive notebook pieces!

Interested in foldables and interactive activites for your math block?

Try these:

     

How about a fun game to review and practice Greek and Latin Roots?

Do you teach Rocks and Minerals in your science class?  Try this bundle that includes CLOSE READING activities-- hello-- teaching reading across the content areas, labs, a study review and assessment.  It is one of my most wishlisted items.. If you have it on your list, grab it at this great discount!

Happy Shopping!

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Teachers are Super Heroes and WE NEED Superhero Products!

With the upcoming TpT sale, we want to help you find "heroic" products that have helped others in their classrooms. I recently received some wonderful feedback on my Expressions and Equations Scoot and Compute Pack. Many teachers have commented about how much they love this product because I have differentiated the questions.  There are 120 problems, 12 questions in 10 different algebra areas.  I printed mine on colored cardstock and put them on rings.  Then I can give more difficult problems to students who need a challenge.  You can see pictures in a blogpost I did {HERE}.  I use these primarily when it comes time to review for our state assessment, but I found myself pulling them out as center review several times this year to keep the algebriac thinking fresh throughout the year.

Click on the image above or {here} to go to the product.

Browse around the linky for other heroic products, or feel free to grab the graphic and link up your own! Link to a post containing one heroic product and its feedback. Use the graphic if you wish. (No direct links to stores or products, please.) Include the linky button and link it back to this post so others may find great heroic products.

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Products That Will Save My Sanity this Holiday Season!

I LOVE the Thanksgiving holiday break.  I get a chance to relax with family, and rest before the three weeks of Festivus Frenzy!
I always like to make the weeks before Christmas as smooth as possible.  My class is reved up, and honestly everyone is busy.  I have Christmas concerts to attend, presents to buy, a house to decorate, and a classroom to control.
I have a few products that I use to help make the season festive and fun, and save my sanity.

In small group reading work I love my Gingerbread Cookie Survival Kit.  It uses The Gingerbread Boy, The Gingerbread Baby, and The Gingerbread Girl.  Students make character inferences and compare/contrast the paired texts, complete a sequencing activity, and work in a little alliteration.  Students also have the option of completing a persuasive writing activity.  They can create a Gingerbread Cookie Survival catalog where they create an item that will help keep the cookie safe from being eaten during the holidays.  I love using these activities with my students who are struggling with character traits and writing.

I also love to use my Christmas Figurative Language Cards in Word Work Centers.  We've worked our way through the Figurative Language featured in the cards, so these are a great review for them. Plus, how can you not LOVE the tangled moose!

Finally, in Math I'm going to pull out my Jingle, Jangle 'Round the Hundreds Board.  This is a new series of Math Riddles that I've created.  I've really tried to differentiate these Task Cards.  Students who still need a visual use the Hundreds Chart and start at the first Task Card.  Those who can handle it don't use the Hundreds Chart and just use mental math.  My students LOVE using these cards when we have small group math.  I can't wait to see their faces!

Don't forget that the TpT Sale has started today, and you can get 28% off of all of the above products by using the promo code TPTCYBER.  My entire store is on sale, and I have a ton of fun math and ELA products that will help make teaching a little easier while you balance the busy-ness of home.

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I'm Wishing for a Cyber Monday Sale!

I love the first weekend of the holiday season!  Friends, Family and Shopping.  It doesn't get much better than that!  I went out with my sister yesterday and did a little Black Friday shopping before the football game.   Today, I'll be visitng a few local stores before heading out to watch my Gators play, then I'll be gearing up for CYBER MONDAY!  I'm sure you've heard about the quarterly sale at TpT.

...but have you entered to win one of the five $25 TPT gift cards yet? Today is the last day to enter. If you win, that extra cash will come to your inbox just in time for the sale! Click the image below to enter if you haven't already... winners will be announced tomorrow!

Now, let's get down to business! What is on your wishlist? I love seeing what other people are buying for their classroom. As if I need any other excuse to buy products from TPT...

Feel free to grab the banners and link up, too! Share two items that everyone has on their wish list from your store and one item that you have on your own wish list that you'll buy during the sale.

The number one thing people have wish listed from my store is my Expressions and Equations Scoot and Compute Pack.  This set of 120 cards covers Algebra from Order of Operations all the way through Inequalities and Two Step Equations.  There are 12 cards for each topic.  I used them as a review when we took our big Algebra Assessment in early November.  My students used the problems at my small group table with me, so I could watch their problem solving process, and formatively assess where we were with mental math computation. I copied one of each of the 12 sets on to colored paper and put them on rings.  That way I could differentiate as needed.  For some of my students that needed a little extra practice in one area, I combined the same colored cards and had them complete practice in one area before moving on to another skill.   I'll pull them out again before our state assessment.  It will be a great test prep tool.

The second most wish listed item is my Salt in His Shoes Reflective Reading and Writing Pack.

I LOVE using this pack with my class after Christmas.  Salt in His Shoes is a great way to reinforce the character traits of Perseverance and Determination.  I use the story to talk about Grade Level vocabulary as well as academic vocabulary,  we discuss Author's Purpose, and character development.  I use the quotes as a bulletin board where students reflect on their own goals and character traits.  Later, I use the story as a springboard for biography writing unit.  This pack will be a STEAL at $2.40 during the sale, plus you get an extra 10% OFF with the code TPTCYBER.

One of the items I'm going to scoop up in the sale is Diane's Close Reading Pack for December.   Diane's Close Reads are FABULOUS products!  I love that they are full of science and social studies related topics.  My class will love reading about Ice Hockey.  It isn't a popular sport down here, and my class doesn't know much about it.  Plus again, it is a great way to teach them about Grade-Level, versus Academic Vocabulary.

What do you have on your wish list?

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Black Friday Sale and New Math Riddles Task Cards for Christmas

Happy Black Friday Friends!  I'm headed out to join the millions of people scooping up fun bargains and enjoying the start of the crazy shopping season!
I wanted to pop in and let you know that my TpT store is ON SALE today in honor of Black Friday, so if you are staying home, warm and cozy in your pjs, pop on over and pick up a few things that will help you out in December!  I just posted my new set of Christmas themed Hundreds Board Riddles for practicing Number Sense and Operations.

My class LOVES these.  I have many that are trying to use mental math only to solve them, without the visual of the Hundreds Chart.  So fun!
Don't forget you still have time to enter an amazing giveaway!  Five $25 Gift Cards to TpT.. what a great gift!  Go {HERE} to enter!
Happy Shopping!

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Hallooooo? Is there anybody in there?

Hello friends!  I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything in over two weeks.  Life appears to have gotten in the way!
Short version: I've accepted a job teaching sixth grade at a new school...well new to me anyway in the great state of ALABAMA...

Say What?  I know, you're saying.. HUH?  I thought she was a NY blogger, why did she go to Alabama?
My husband finished his PhD program earlier this summer, and is the new Associate Director of Bands at the University of South Alabama.  {GO JAGS!}  In the picture below we took him out to dinner to celebrate when we got word that he was finished.  Can't you tell how excited my daughter is!  He did not have time to walk through ceremonies because he is in charge of the marching band at South and they had band camp, so we will see him get his hood in December.

We finished the school year, and a quick four weeks later we are starting a new school year!
I was worried I wouldn't find a job, since I have to become certified here, and take a bunch of praxis exams, (NOT FUN BEACH READING)

but God had other plans for me, and granted me the grace of quickly finding a position... in SIXTH grade none the less!
I love my new school, but there has been a TON of work and learning for me to do.  I found out I had a position about a week before school started, and I had to take those darned exams, so my head has been BURIED!
Please forgive me!  I promise I'll be back into the blogging routine soon, and sharing the antics of my very awesome, very rambunctious sixth graders!
Meanwhile!  I did manage to participate in the TpT BOOST sale that will be on TODAY.  Everything in my store will be onsale, and if you use the TpT code:  BOOST you will be able to save an extra 10%.

Are you an Alabama blogger? or even from the South?  I'd love to hear from you.  This Yankee girl need to learn a few rules about being Southern!

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On Your Mark.. Get Set.. SHOP

Are you ready for today?  Is your cart LOCKED and LOADED?
It's finally here, that big sale that the teacher blogger world has been talking about for DAYS!

I've been going over my wishlisted items and I think I'm ready.  Speaking of ready.. are you ready to head back to school?  I've been looking at some back to school products that I really need to start to prep.  Here are a few from my store:

I use these in my Interactive Notebooks to help my students complete data analysis

Need them both?  You can go {HERE} and get the BUNDLED SET at a reduced price!

I usually start the year with Algebra, so getting my properties match up cards ready along with

 Express 'Yarself Matey is a must for the first few weeks of school.

Are you already ahead of the game and ready to be really looking ahead?  

Why not pick up my Halloween or Thanksgiving Figurative Language Pack?  It is great practice for the basics in Figurative Language, and by saving that extra 28% now will ease your paycheck later!  There won't be another sale this quarter!

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Back to School Sale- What's on Your Wish List and a Giveaway!

Are you ready for a little Back to School TpT shopping!  Those two awesome days when so much WONDERFUL is on sale is comine soon!  August 4th and 5th to be exact.  My store will be onsale and you will be able to get up to 28% off of all of my products for ELA and Math.
My Algebra bundle will be less than $20 if you use the CODE:  BTS14 for 12 activities, task cards and lessons for your classroom!  That's less $2.00 an item...

Two of my Most Wishlisted items include:

This Interative Lesson includes a book suggestion, Hundreds Chart Lesson applying prime and composite numbers, and a foldable and Lessons on finding the Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor.  My students LOVE this lesson.. no more rainbows, they really see the connection that prime numbers have to these concepts.

My students also love this writing project.  I have done this both at Back to School and as a prject at the end of the year.  Students make comparisions, write a friendly letter, and do reflections.  It is a great project to set out at Open House, and it will give you a good handle on where your students are to start the year.  Most of the project is pretty independent once you get the basics down, so if you have any individual reading assessments to take care of, this is a great way for students to stay engaged.

What's on MY wishlist?  Something AWESOME that just came out from Christy over at Teaching Tales along the Yellow Brick Road.  One of my goals this year is to integrate more technology into my teaching. Christy has created this amazing I-Pad Interactive Notebook product: 

You know I love using Interactive Lessons and Notebooks, and with over 40 different organizers that I can use with or without the I-pad.. I'm in heaven!

Want to see what other great products are wishlisted?  Check out out linky below and don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter for a chance to win some moolah to spend during the sale! We are giving away 3 TpT gift cards! 

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Sooooo don't you need some extra money to spend during this sale??? We've got your back!

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