Back to School Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers!

 

 TpT is having their annual BTS Sale this August 4th and 5th.  Make sure you get ready and load up your cart so you don't forget anything! 

 

 My entire TpT store will be 20% off plus TpT is adding an additional 10% if  you use the promo code BTS14.  This is a total of 28% off your entire purchase! 

 

Here are a few of my most popular items:

 

Place Value Safari

 

 

Place Value Base Ten Block Buddies

 

 

 Charlotte's Web Book Study and Activities Packet

 

 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Book Study and Activities Packet

 

 

Kids at Work Construction Themed Classic Set

 

 

Giddee Up Pardner Western Theme Class Set

 

 

Lab Safety Rules

 

 

 

And here is a BTS FREEBIE for you!

 

 



Back to School Fun Freebie!

 

If you would like to know when I add new products including freebies, you can follow my TpT store and you will be notified whenever I post something new!

 

Just click the "follow" link right under my store title.

 

Happy Shopping!



Worksheet Wednesday: Free One Page Worksheet!

I'm linking up with my blogging buddies over at The Teaching Tribune to bring you a great one page freebie on telling time! My Step Up to Telling Time Freebie is a great review or quiz. Times are mixed (to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour) and it includes an answer key.

 

Click on the link above to download your copy today!

 





2014 the Best Year Yet Blog Hop!

2014 is right around the corner!  Have you decided on a New Year's Resolution yet?  Is it to get in better shape,to de-stress your life, or to amp up your teaching game?  Well, whatever it is, we're here to help you...although we all think you're perfect just the way you are!

I have teamed up with several fabulous teacher bloggers to bring you The Best Year Yet Blog Hop and Giveaway. 

 

From New Year's Eve until January 2, you can hop around our blogs and grab a FREEBIE from each of us.  Be sure to enter the Rafflecopter at The Teaching Tribune for your chance to win one of these fabulous prizes.

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Today I am offering the product below as my freebie.  Simply click on the picture to take you to my store to download it.

 

While you're at my store you may also want to check out these products, just perfect for those first few weeks back at school.

Be sure to continue the circle on the blog hop by clicking the button below.

 

 

We truly hope that 2014 is your best year yet and that it brings you good health, happiness, and many other good things.

Big Sale and a Holiday Freebie!

It's that time of year again for the huge Cyber Sale!!!  Starting Monday, December 2nd and ending Tuesday, December 3rd, my entire store will be 20% off, and with the additional 10% from TpT, you will get a total of 28% off your total purchase!  So look at your wish list and start preparing for the sale today, while you're still off! 

Here are a few of my holiday units that you might want to consider.
 

My newest addition, Dancing Lights ELA Holiday Worksheets, is great for warm-ups or as a review.  Spread holiday cheer and keep your students busy with these cute ELA worksheets!

 

Santa's Workshop Math Centers contains four different math centers covering place value, 3 digit subtraction, rounding, and multiplication.  Students help Santa and his friends solve these holiday math problems!

My Gingerbread Holiday Bundle includes activities for Math, Reading, Social Studies and English. Students enjoy learning how the gingerbread man originated and participating in all the gingerbread themed activities.

    

                                                                                                                   

And one of my largest bundles that includes 3 literacy and 3 math centers is my Snow Fun Math & Literacy Centers Bundle!  It covers common & proper nouns, synonyms, singular and plural nouns, rounding, place value, and multiplication.

You can get more details about each of these holiday units by clicking on the pics and visiting my TpT store: A Series of 3rd Grade Events.

And as promised.... here is a little holiday freebie just for you.  It is my Silly Santa Story Maps Freebie, and it contains 8 different story maps that you can use with your holiday read alouds!  I hope you and your kiddos enjoy them!

Happy Shopping!!!

Super Saturday YouTube Video of the Week: History of Halloween

I thought it would be fun and informative for my students to watch a video about the origins of Halloween, and how the celebration developed over thousands of years.  The following video has some really great pictures, and the narration is easily understood.

In addition to this great video, I am offering a little Halloween FREEBIE just for you!  It is a set of spooky story maps for your kiddos to enjoy.  Visit my TpT store to pick up your very own copy!

I hope you like them, and Happy Halloween!
  

A Chance to Win a Tablet and a Freebie for You!!!

Well, there's only one prize left, and it is a TABLET!!! You could win by visiting our collaborative blog, The Teaching Tribune , and entering the Rafflecopter today!!!

And.... in addition to this great giveaway, just click on the link below to get a great freebie that will help your students during independent reading if they get stuck.  It will help you as a teacher as well, because they won't need to ask what to do if they get stuck.  It's on the bookmark!

Do Your Kiddos Know Their Parts of Speech?

Every year I am amazed at how many of my students do not know what a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb is.  I know when I was in school this stuff was pounded into our heads. I also remember taking sentences apart and diagramming them, labeling each part.  It sometimes seems that we are so caught up with "higher order thinking" that we forget the basics.

I know memorization and recognition might be on the bottom of the Blooms Taxonomy Scale, but we as educators cannot ignore the importance of these basic components of a sentence. I also know that it seems like we have so much to teach and so little time.

A suggestion.... quiz your students on Parts of Speech whenever you have a few minutes such as lining up for lunch or recess, or before leaving for the day.  Kids often see this as a "game" and don't even know they are learning.

And to assist you, I have created a set of Parts of Speech Posters that you can put up in your room.  One teacher said that she copied several to a page and had her students glue them in their writing journals in the Word Work section.

Click on the picture below to get your free copy from my TpT store: A Series of 3rd Grade Events. Please leave feedback if you feel these posters are helpful.

You can pick up even more great BTS freebies by entering the blog hop at The Teaching Tribune. A $25 GC and a tablet are still up for grabs in the prize category as well!!