Week 2 Giveaways and Flamingo Friday

We have teamed up with a TON of other teacher-authors to bring you some dollar deals...Friday, July 14, 2017 only. Search TpT for the hashtag to find all the amazing dollar deals! 

Are you trying to prepare for the upcoming school year? Well, if you missed week 1 and week 2 of deals, have no fear, we are doing another round of awesome deals you won't want to miss next week. Be sure to follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/karenandkelie to keep an eye on next week's deals.

Also, be sure and enter the Week 2 Giveaways by clicking the links below. We have some awesome prizes; enter before midnight EST Monday for a chance to win! Good luck!!

Giveaway #1 - FIVE WINNERS - $25 Vera Bradley Gift Certificate
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Giveaway #2 - FIVE WINNERS - $25 TpT Gift Certificate
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Giveaway #3 - FIVE WINNERS - $25 Oriental Trading Company
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Come back next Friday to enter the Week 3 Giveaways.

 

Valentine's Day Freebies & a Giveaway

Well hello February! And hello fellow bloggers and blog readers. :) Thanks for stopping by.

Kelie and I have teamed up with some amazing teacher bloggers to bring you a fun February themed blog hop and giveaway to celebrate Kelie's TpT store reaching 1,000 followers! Woot, woot! Congrats, partner! <3

The giveaway will run until February 10th. Enter to win by hopping to all 6 blog posts and then enter via any one of the Rafflecopter links. One winner, chosen randomly, will be announced sometime February 11th and will win a custom t-shirt and a $30 Target gift card. SCORE! :)  Hopefully you will find some great ideas on how to celebrate Valentine's Day in you classroom as you "hop" to each blog.

Put A Ring On It
Kelie here- I love to integrate games that align to what I'm teaching because, well, it just makes learning fun. Grab this freebie from my store and put your worksheets to rest this holiday.  Your students will have fun solving subtraction equations and reviewing the skill of regrouping.

This game is perfect for early finishers, small group extra support, or  morning review. I'm sure you will think of other ways you can use it with your students as well.

If you are looking for tons of fun addition and subtraction games to play with your students, you can find the whole unit here:

Valentine Party Planning

Last year, I (Karen) had a Valentine's party planning letter featured in the TpT newsletter. It brought me lots of new followers and a lot of wonderful feedback. Most often I hear how much time my resource saved busy teachers have a successful and fun card exchange and classroom party.

Sweet Math Game
Like Kelie, I love when I can make learning fun and super engaging by playing games! The game below is full of task cards that review measurement, number bonds, and data interpretation (graphs). It was developed to align with Engage New York / Eureka Math for First Grade, however it is Common Core aligned and works well regardless of the curriculum you use. :)

Writing is Sweet

I love teaching writing! I created this pack to use in my own classroom. I may no longer be in the classroom, but this pack is still being used by my team. :) It includes fun Valentine's or love themed writing paper along with pocket chart or word wall cards. Can you keep a secret? Kelie and I have teamed up with several other teacher-authors for a hashtag sale called #ShareTheLove and this resource will be available for just ONE DOLLAR on February 9th and 10th. Interested? Wish List it now and get those kiddos writing this month! :)

Thanks for reading! Be sure to enter our Rafflecopter for a chance to win a custom T-shirt and a $30 Target gift card! Good luck!

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Click the robot below to head over to Cindy's blog: Teacher's Brain

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Elf-tacular Giveaway

We have teamed up with Nikki at Teaching Autism for this Elf-tacular blog hop and giveaway! Hidden in our blog post you will find one of the letters needed to enter for a chance to win a $70 gift card! Hop through to everyone's blog to collect and unscramble all the letters into a December/Holiday themed word. Then, enter the Rafflecopter for a chance at winning.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (cue in the music)... in my room.  We only have 14 instructional days between Thanksgiving Break and Winter Break, which means we have been busier than Santa's Elves on Christmas Eve! 

Here is a peak at what we have been working on:

Christmas Centers

As you know, I teach 3 rotations a day of 3rd grade math.  I set up these centers to review skills that we have already learned about this year.  All of these centers are hands on and the kids absolutely love digging into them!

The centers will stay the same each day, I just tweek them a bit to include slightly different measurements etc. each day.  

Here is what you can find at each of the stations:

Station 1- Weight with Addition and Subtraction

At this station, students weigh 2 different objects using a digital scale.  Students then must find the difference and total weight of the two objects.

 Station 2- Liquid Measurement and Rounding

At this station students must measure the total amount of liquid in both containers.  Then, they must round the amount of liquid in the containers to the nearest 10 and nearest 100.

Station 3- Weight

At this station, students use a pan balance to measure the weight of an object.  They must show the units they used to calculate the weight.  This works well for multiples. For example if students weigh a 90 gram item, they may list that they used 2, 20 gram weights (2 x 20), and 5, 10 gram weights (5 x 10).

Station 4- Catch a Reindeer

In addition to these fun review centers, we are also learning about area.  At this center, students must "catch" one of Santa's reindeer that has gotten loose.   To do so, they must enclose it in a pen and calculate the area of that pen.

Station 5- Build a Figure

To go along with the area theme we are working on in class, students are given a specific area and must create as many rectangles or squares that they can with that given area.  Students use foam square inch tiles, in which I have glued magnetic pieces to them so they will stick to my magnetic whiteboard.  If you want to try this and don't have a magnetic board, cookie sheets would work as well for this center.

And there you have it.  Some easy to set up centers with little prep time.  In efforts to make sure students really understood what to do at each center, on Day 1, I only set up the first 3 stations, and then added a station each day after that. You can find the recording sheet that I use here: Christmas Stations Recording Sheet

While students are rotating around through the centers, that frees up a bit of time for me to work with small groups.  Right now, students are working on reviewing multiplication of whole numbers by multiples of 10 or single digit multiplication (depending upon each students ability) during small group time. 

I found these adorable Santa light up wands in the Dollar Spot at Target.  If you can't find the light up wands, you could use fly swatters or kids can simply slap their answer choice with their hands.  You can find this fun FREEBIE in my store here: Snatch a Santa

Paper Plate Santa Craft

Karen's kindergarten students had a lot of fun making these paper plate Santa's on our Polar Express / Pajama / Hot Cocoa Bar Day. **Disclaimer** Most of you know that I (Karen) taught for 16 years in Southern CA and then moved with my husband and kids to MO. I am no longer in the classroom.

December Themed Writing Topics

Students loved guided drawing lessons and writing holiday themed stories.

Elf on the Shelf

Every year Jingle, our Elf on the Shelf, would visit after Thanksgiving break. The students loved finding her and little notes and gifts she would leave.

Thanks for reading! Click the elf image below to hop to the next blog post... 

Be sure to collect all 7 letters and enter our Rafflecopter for a chance to win a $70 gift card. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

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