Two for Tuesday With The Teaching Tribune!

If you haven't already heard, I'm participating in The Teaching Tribune's Summer Blogging Events and today's event is Two for Tuesday so, I am offering my top two selling products at 50% off for one day only, Tuesday, June 10th. 

 

My Charlotte's Web Book Study and Activities Packet is on sale for only $5.00!!!

My Place Value Safari Unit is on sale for $3.50!!!

 

 

 

So head on over to my TpT store to take advantage of these great deals!

 

 



Two for Tuesday: 50% Off 2 Products!

 

 

 

 

For one day only, Tuesday, June 3rd, you can get my two newest book studies and activities packets for 50% off.  That's only $6.00 for my Julie of the Wolves and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.  So just click on the pics above and hurry on over to my TpT store and pick them up for a steal!

Happy Two for Tuesday!

Teacher Appreciation Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers!

Head on over to my TpT store and stock up during the Teacher Appreciation Sale May 6-7th.  My entire store is 20% off, and with the additional 10% from TpT, that's a total of 28% off my entire store.  Just remember to type in code TPTXO. 

Geometry, Time, & Money Bundle at Educents

Does your student need extra practice with geometry, time, or money?

Math can be so fun to teach! So some friends and I have teamed up with Educents for an amazing bundle of instant downloads for you! Click on any of the pics to go to Educents!

My products that are included in this bundle, This Little Piggy Went to the Market, and Polygon Pals will surely be loved by your students!  

 

Your students will have loads of fun with Pat & Peter Piggy as they go shopping and plan a party. Complete with piggy money, grocery lists, and price lists, this 29 page unit is chock full of manipulatives and hands on activities for your students to practice counting money, giving change, adding & subtracting money as well as planning shopping trips and calculating total costs.

  Complete Description of What's included:
*Grocery Price List (2 pages)
*Piggy Calculation Practice & Answer Key
(2 digit x 1 digit multiplication)
*Piggy Party Planning Sheet & Answer Key
*Grocery Shopping Planning Sheet & Answer Key
*Extra Grocery Lists (one page/2 per page)
*Piggy Purchase Word Problems #1 & Answer Sheet
*Piggy Purchase Word Problems #2 & Answer Sheet
*Piggy Money Addition & Subtraction Practice & Answer Sheet
*What Makes a Dollar Poster
*More Ways to Make a Dollar
*8 Sheets of Piggy Money

- 1 sheet of $20.00 bills (12 per page)

- 1 sheet of $10.00 bills (12 per page)

- 1 sheet of $5.00 bills (12 per page)

- 1 sheet of $1.00 bills (12 per page)

- 1 sheet of quarters (35 per page)

- 1 sheet of dimes (88 per page)

- 1 sheet of nickels (63 per page)

- 1 sheet of pennies (80 per page)

 

Students will have fun learning about polygons with this colorful 17 page hands-on unit! Posters explain the different types of 2-D figures, and students are provided with a chart to fill out the attributes of each figure.  It also includes a matching game that could be used as a center!

Complete Description of What's Included:

Polygon Pals Cover Page
What's Included Page
Polygon Definition Poster
Polygon Pals Poster
Quadrilateral Poster
2-D Shapes That Are NOT Polygons Poster
Polygon Pals Chart
Polygon Pals Answer Sheet
1 1/2 pages of Polygon Matching Shapes Cards (6 per page)
1 1/2 pages of Polygon Matching Definitions Cards (6 per page)
2 Polygon Matching Name Cards Pages
(6 per page / 3 blank cards)
Acknowledgements Page
Thank You

 

For a limited time it is $10.99 from Educents which is about 80% off (My 2 units combined cost $11.00 at regular price)!  It also includes seven additional products, what a great savings!  

So head on over to Educents and grab this great Math bundle!

Breast Cance Awareness Bundles

My friend Lindsay Perro at Teachers Pay Teachers has put together some great ELA and Math bundles for a great price of $25 .  All profits will go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. I am a huge supporter, as I recently had my own bout with breast cancer.  I had to have a mastectomy on my right breast, and was lucky that my tumor was small enough that I didn't have to have chemo or radiation.  This disease is becoming more prominent every day.  Please be generous!  The bundles will be on sale through October 31st.

The 3rd-5th grade ELA bundle has 29 products at a value of $136, and you can get it for a $25 donation.  I donated my most popular item, Charlotte's Web Book Study and Activity Packet.  It is a value of $10 by itself (Remember, you get 28 more products for a donation of $25).  Here a preview of my book study. You can click on the pic below to get a better description of what is included in this packet:

Don't forget to CLICK on the picture below to shop for your bundle today:

 

Thank you for supporting the fight against breast cancer!



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!

Super Saturday YouTube Educational Video of the Week: Life as an Inuit

We will be studying the Polar Regions until the end of school.  I found this cool video about the Inuit culture that I would like to show my kiddos. We are reading Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, and I think that this video will help them build some schema, or background knowledge for them to better understand the book.  Check it out!

                                 

Super Saturday YouTube Educational Video of the Week: The Emporer Penguin

This is one of my favorite times of the year!  We are done with state testing and we begin our study of habitats in science.  Every year, our entire 3rd grade studies a specific habitat.  As a class, we study the climate, animals, plants, and people of the chosen habitat. Next, each 3rd grade class studies one particular animal and creates a life size representation to hang on our habitat mural in the hall.Then, each student chooses and animal, does a report, and creates a life size representation to hang on our mural in the hall. We rotate between the following habitats:

Madagascar Rain Forest
Australian Desert
Kelp Forest
Polar Regions: Arctic and Antarctic

Here are a few pics for the Kelp Forest, Australia, and Madagascar: 

Kelp Forest

 

Kelp Forest (Food Chain for Sea Lion)

 Australian Desert

Australian Desert 

Australian Art (Winged Lizard) 

Students did an art piece on the animal they were researching.

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Australian Art (Python)

 Madagascar Rain Forest

 Madagascar Rain Forest

 Madagascar Rain Forest

This year we are doing the Polar Regions, and my class will be researching and making the Emperor Penguin.  I found this great National Geographic video on YouTube that describes the Emperor Penguin and the harsh habitat that it lives in.  It also talks about global warming, and the effects of the changing temperatures on the Antarctic.  It's almost an hour long, so have your kiddos sit back and relax.  Maybe throw in some popcorn!