Free clipart, getting ready for testing, an ecosystems flipbook, and an upcoming linky!!! {five for friday flashback}

Welcome to our Friday flashback for the week!  We love linking up with these lovely ladies each week to tell you how our week has been!!

  

In light of recent events, we will be getting together with Jessica from Ideas by Jivey and Joanne from Head Over Heels for Teaching to help host an uplifting linky!

This Peace, Hope, Love, and Kindness linky party will be a place for you to link up whenever you have heartwarming stories, lessons you've done with your class about peace, hope, love, or kindness, or even random acts of kindness. When the world seems to be falling apart around us, we will have a webpage to visit to get a pick-me-up! We hope this linky will not only lift our spirits and remind us that there is so much good around us, but also will be an encouragement to us to be the good we want to see in the world. As teachers, we have such a powerful role in shaping the future...let's share our ideas so we can make the world a better place TOGETHER!

So here's our idea- how awesome would it be for us to flood all the bloggy newsfeeds with uplifting posts? Let's all try to post for Peace, Hope, Love, and Kindness this Thursday! Then, you can come back anytime after that and link up as often as you'd like. Need some ideas? You know that awesome teacher friend that you wish you could show a little more appreciation...? Surprise them with Starbucks or breakfast one morning! Or maybe you have a child in your class who went out of their way to make someone else feel special...... share that heartwarming story with us! We're teachers- you know we eat it up! :o) Or perhaps you've done a lesson (or are going to do a lesson) that helps students find peace, hope, or love... or maybe a character-building activity about kindness. The options are limitless, really! We hope you'll join us this Thursday! Come back to any one of our blogs to link up!

You probably think I forgot, but I didn't!! Here are my 3 winners for the sparkly striped paper!  Thank you for all of your sweet comments on my first "clipart" type product!!  ~Amanda

Congratulations Joanne, Liz, and Suzy!!  You have been emailed!!  Enjoy!

My students and I were working on ecosystems this week, and we created little flip books to show our learning! Our important vocabulary words were ecosystem, producer,  consumer, and decomposer. They had to have the meaning of each word and an illustration under each flap. 

I am so excited to share some new clipart with you! I have created some colored crayons and a pail of daisies. These are both going to be free in our Teachers Pay Teachers Store. They would be great to use in your products and in Spring items! ~Stacia

Click below to download these freebies.

TESTING...TESTING...TESTING...It has arrived! Our rooms look so sad! Our walls are covered or bare...and are brains are aching...it all starts Monday and we are STRESSED...but...it will all be okay...everyone will do their best.....Amanda and I have been eating our M&M's......they do seem to help a little...hehe  :)

Have a Happy Friday!
Stacia and Amanda

(Aren't these daisies adorable???  Daisies are my favorite and they make me so happy!!  I love these!!  Thanks Stacia!!  ~Amanda)