Hide and Go Seek BTS Blog Hop!!!

The Teaching Tribune bloggers have teamed up to bring you amazing freebies and the chance at one of 2 $50 TPT gift certificate as well as a custom door hanger (for a US winner). We will select one US winner and one international winner for the gift certificates!

 

 

As you play Hide and Go Seek, you will hop to 20 blogs where you will collect freebies. Hidden in each freebie is a school supply with a price tag. You will need to collect all 20 supplies and add up the price tags. Once you have the sum, then you will enter to win a $50 TPT gift certificate as well as a custom door hanger at the final stop, The Teaching Tribune.

 

If you are looking for school supplies to fill your backpack,  then you are at the right place! Start by downloading the recording form.

 

A Series of 3rd Grade Events is the 2nd stop as you play Hide and Go Seek!  

 

Are you ready? Well, what are you waiting for...get seeking! =) 
 

Now all you need to do is download my freebie and find the school supply! Then you will complete a circle with the other bloggers to collect their freebies and school supplies. 

 

My freebie is a sneak peek of one of my best selling book study and activities packets, so click the link below to try it out for free!

 

 

You can complete the loop by starting at the first blog or continue on by visiting the next stop. Either way, you will make a complete loop to all the blogs, freebies, supplies, and final prize!

Don't forget to become a follower of our blogs as you continue on. You never know what we will be doing next! 

Just click picture below to continue Hide and Go Seek!

Or you can choose to start at the beginning by clicking below…

 

Make sure you make it to the final stop at The Teaching Tribune

to enter to win!

 

I hope you have a great time playing our BTS Hide and Go Seek, and don't forget to add up all the prices of the hidden school supplies and enter to win a $50 TpT gift certificate and a custom door hanger!

 

 

 



Trick or Treat Blog Hop!

BOO!! =) It's Christi here from Ms. Fultz's Corner and my Halloween trick for you is taking over Patti's blog today! Don't worry though... I also have a treat for you. Mmmm.... treats. {Anyone else have a weakness for candy with all of it hanging around this time of year, or is that just me?} Anyway... 

Several bloggers at The Teaching Tribune have joined together for this Trick or Treat Blog Hop. It's really simple, just hop from door to door collecting some fabulous freebies and paid seasonal items. 

For those of you who already know me, you know I'm always thinking weeks ahead so my October/ Halloween has been planned forever and I'm already thinking ahead to November/ turkeys. My students have been having some trouble with three digit addition, subtraction, and money. They aren't always getting their numbers lined up neatly, carrying, and/or borrowing accurately. They're also forgetting those pesky dollar signs and decimals.

A fun intervention with extra practice was certainly in order, so I came up with this turkey math craftivity. Just look how cute that little guy is! But, before students can color and assemble the craft, they first have to solve 32 math problems and show their work on the back.  You can purchase my Gobbling Up Number Sentences {A Turkey Math Craftivity} from my TeachersPayTeachers store. 

Now you can go "next door" to discover the next trickster. Click on the picture below to take you there. Thanks for hopping along with us!

World Gratitude Day, September 21st!

Today is World Gratitude Day, a day to say thank you for the blessings we have been given!

I am grateful for many things: my wonderful husband and beautiful daughter, my sweet 2nd graders, my supportive sisters, and fellow teachers.  I am also grateful for my friends who make up the Teaching Tribune group, as well as all of my followers. 

My friend Mel,  came up with the idea to do a blog hop with all my other Teaching Tribune friends where you can grab LOTS of goodies! Click on the pic below to visit her blog and give her some love!  She also has links to all the participating blogs if you happen to get lost. 

The blog hop ends at The Teaching Tribune, where you can enter to win a $50 TpT Gift Certificate! 

 

To say, "Thank you!", I am offering a FLASH FREEBIE at my TpT store for one day only.  On Saturday, September 21st, you can download my brand new Life Cycle of a Pumpkin for FREE!  Just click on the link below!

You can hop on over to my friend Ms.Smarty Pants to take advantage of another great freebie!  Just click on the pic below!

Once again I would like to thank you for all of your support!

Back to School Tip, Blog Hop, Freebie, & Giveaway!

That's right. It's back to school time again!  Where did the summer go?  I just got back from vacation at the coast.....

 

What am I going to do the first week of school?  Well, one of the most important things to do is to create a classroom community, a sense of "togetherness", and one way to do that is with "getting to know you" activities. 

TIP:
One great activity you can do with your kiddos is have them interview someone else in the classroom, and then write an article about them.  One year we had students make people out of construction paper to look like the person they interviewed. We had them paste the written interview on the "body", then we attached a head, arms, and legs.  We even had them use "google eyes" (Kids love google eyes)!

In order to guide your students through the interviewing process, I have created the following freebie just in time for Back to School!

 

Click the pic above for your very own copy from my TpT store!

This freebie includes suggested interview questions, a paper to write the questions on , and a "final copy" paper that they can write their article on. Students can use the final copy page instead of notebook paper to glue on the body of the person they are writing the paper about. 

And now for the BLOG HOP!!!!

My friend, Laurah The ESOL Odyssey is hosting this blog hop, and I have donated an item that usually corresponds with what is taught in the first month in math: Place Value!!! It's one of my top sellers and it is in a cute safari theme.

You can check it out more in detail at my TpT store by clicking on the pic above.

Blog Hop and Giveaway runs August 12th-17th .

Grand Prize ($122 value)

• Pencil Sharpener in color of your choice from Classroom Friendly Supplies
• Your choice of $25 in products from Tools for Teachers by Laurah J OR A blog design
• 10 units donated by Awesome TpT Teacher-Author-Bloggers (see list below)

2nd Prize ($88 value)

• Your choice of $25 in products from Tools for Teachers by Laurah J
• 10 donated by Awesome TpT Teacher-Author-Bloggers (see list below)

Items donated by participating Teacher-Author-Bloggers:

Elements of Fiction Posters

First Week Back to School Classroom Essentials Bundle

Write with Me Journal (Common Core Aligned)

Latin Greek Vocabulary Through the Year, Set 1

Getting to Know You- A Back to School Math Game for your Class

Place Value Safari

Back to School Icebreaker Pack

Ten Real Life Applicable Area and Perimeter Cards 

Back to school and end of year foldables

Common Core Writing and Editing Checklists

Click on the Back to School Blog Hop and Giveaway pic below to visit The ESOL Odyssy!

Good luck!

Hot Off the Press: A Back-to-School Exclusive

EXTRA! EXTRA! It's time to read all about it!


Twenty, yes, twenty, amazing teacher-bloggers are celebrating the fact that it is almost time to go back to school. We all love summer, but it’s time to start thinking about getting back to school. We have decided we all will need some fun to break up all those days of professional development and endless meetings, mixed with late nights and weekend spent decorating your classroom. So for the next 10 days, we are celebrating with freebies and a prize a day! Yes, we said a PRIZE A DAY… FOR 10 DAYS.

Every day, you will have the chance to enter and win one of 10 great prizes!


This is what you can win during our Back to School Exclusive…(in no particular order)



Prize #1 Quiet Pencil Sharpener & a $25 TPT from Graphics from the Pond $50 value


Prize #2 Bright Chevron Classroom Decor Set $50 value


Prize #3 Teacher/Classroom Gift Basket $200 value


Prize #4 Teacher/Classroom Gift Basket $200 value


Prize #5 Google Nexus 7 Tablet with case & stylus pen $250 value


Prize #6 Scotch Laminator $25 value


Prize #7 K-2 TPT Product Bundle over $100 value


Prize #8 3-5 TPT Product Bundle over $100 value


Prize #9 Blog ("Cuter" Design by Christi Blogs!) $70 value


Prize#10 TPT Gift Cert $50



This is the IMPORTANT part. Please read carefully. EVERY DAY, FOR 10 DAYS, you will need to visit the final stop blog

each day to enter to win and to see if you were the previous day’s winner! Each day a winner will be drawn and one of the ten prizes will be awarded. 

To keep it fun and exciting, you won’t know what prize you have entered to win until the winner is announced the next day!

You never know what you might win! I know I would visit every day to enter for a chance to win the Google Nexus Tablet!

To win one of these great prizes, just follow these steps…

Step 1: You will need to download and print the

Hot Off the Press Cheat Sheet.

Click the image below.

Step 2:  You’ll need to collect your freebies. This hop will

take you to all 20 blogs where you will collect freebies

along the way. You can start at any of the blogs,

follow the “next stop” buttons, and it will take you in a 

loop to all 20 blogs.  The very last stop will be

The Teaching Tribune. 

Step 3: Hidden in each freebie is a QR code,

which looks like this…

  (Note: This is just a sample image. You do not need it for any reason.)

Find the QR code.

You will need to scan all 20 QR codes for a cash value with your

 smart device.  For those of you without a smart device,

head on over to Sugar & Spice where she has the solution for you! 

 

After downloading the freebie at each blog stop, be sure

to record the amount in the QR code onto your

cheat sheet. 

Here's my freebie!

I am the last blog, so after downloading your freebie and scanning the QR Code, the link below will take you to the Teaching Tribune, where you can enter the giveaway!

Good luck and start hopping!

To start at the beginning, click on the picture below: