Donations for Sandy Hook Elementary

My heart is so heavy for the families and friends of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy. I really want to help, but don't have a money tree growing in my back yard.  After brainstorming for a bit, I decided to do a giveaway.  For each $5 that is donated to the Sandy Hook Elementary School Support Fund, you will gain one entry to receive ALL of the products from my TpT store in English, Spanish, or both.  Click here to donate.

I will pick one winner a day for seven days starting on Tuesday, December 18th.  Even if you are not a teacher, please enter.  Certainly there is a teacher in your life that you could pass these products along to.  Please share this in any way that you can, and feel free to use the image below.  In the meantime, let's continue to lift up the families and the Newtown Community in our prayers.  I am praying that God wraps His peace and comfort around them in this most difficult time and brings many people to know Him as a result.  Thank you in advance for your prayers and generosity.

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Silence for Sandy Hook Elementary

Family Christmas Project

We love family projects in first grade, so this year we sent an ornament template home for the kids to decorate and send back to school.  My coworker found the cute ornament template online, and you can find it too by clicking here.  The ornaments came back super cute;   here is a picture of them on first grade's Christmas tree:

You can grab the note that I sent home here, and then save it and edit it to your liking.  Do you send a family project at Christmastime?  If so, leave a comment and let me know!

Flapjack's having a giveaway!

I absolutely adore Flapjack's resources.  Tabitha Carro creates awesome titles in both English and Spanish, and is SO creative!  Head on over to her blog to enter for your chance to win an item of your choice from her store :).  {Just click the image below}

Christmas is in the air + Freebie

It's been a little while since my last blog post-- the Christmas season is upon us and things are starting to get busy! Last week we were talking about sequence, so to tie it in with Christmas the kids wrote the sequence of how to wrap a Christmas present in their journals. They made a present out of ribbon & construction paper to go along with it, and I was pleasantly surprised that I only had to help one student tie the bow on the ribbon!

Tomorrow we are playing the Santa's Sleigh File Folder Games to practice short i words in English and words with za, ze, zi, zo, and zu in Spanish.  It is free on my TpT store, so you are welcome to grab a copy in English or Spanish!  If you get a chance to rate it that would be fantabulous :)  T minus 19 days till Christmas...

HUGE 100 follower Giveaway!

I am so excited to have finally reached 100 followers!  Thank YOU for taking the time to follow my teaching blog.  I started blogging over a year ago and stopped because I was overwhelmed.  This August, I decided to start blogging again thanks to some encouragement from a fellow blogger {shout out to Candis!}  

So... I decided to host a massive giveaway as a thank you to the people who have followed me on my blog, FB page, TpT store, and pinterest.  Thank you to all of the wonderful teachers who donated their products to make this giveaway happen.  I have found out that teachers are incredibly generous people!

Absolutely anyone is welcome to enter the giveaway, and you can enter for one or all of the prize packs.  All I ask is that you are honest and follow the blogs, TpT stores, FB pages, etc. of the teachers who contributed if you are entering.  Please feel free to use the graphic above with a link to my blog on your site to advertise the giveaway!

Prize Pack #1:

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Prize Pack #2:

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Prize Pack #3:

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Christmas Prize Pack:

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Cyber Monday & Tuesday Sale!

Well, Thanksgiving break is slowly coming to an end.  I've spent my days sleeping in, eating yummy breakfasts prepared by my husband, spending all day in my pajamas, crafting, decorating for Christmas, and overeating.  I'd say this break has been a success!  I do LOVE the Christmas season, though, so I am excited about the next few weeks.  I see lots of baking in my future :)

I am participating in the Cyber Monday + Bonus Tuesday sale on the TpT website coming up.  Hopefully you'll stock up on some items from my store and others.  Click the cute graphic below to check out the linky party that the 3 AM teacher is hosting to see which seller's are participating in the sale.

I just finished my Christmas Math File Folder Games and hope you will check them out!  I have them available in both English and Spanish at my TpT store.  Included are 4 math file folder games related to addition/ subtraction to 18 and place value to 99.

Decorate the Tree:  Students draw an addition fact card.  If they have the answer on their tree, they cover it with a bean.  If not, they forfeit their turn.  The first player to cover all of their ornaments wins.

Build a Snowman:  Read the description of the number on the snowman {for example:   I have 8 tens and 7 ones}  Match the correct hat to the snowman.

Santa's Workshop:  Each elf has three gifts.  Help the elves to order the numbers on the gifts from least to greatest.

Search for Santa's Hat:  Draw a subtraction fact card.  If you answer it correctly, move forward the number of spaces that the card says.  If not, stay where you are.  The first person to reach Santa's hat wins!

Happy Shopping :)