Teachers Prepping Teachers Giveaway

In less than 10 days, Mandy from Mandy's Tips for Teachers, Jessica from Ideas by Jivey, and I will be joining forces to bring you an awesome day of professional development! We decided in celebration, we wanted to feel like Oprah for a minute and give away some fabulous prizes!

Feel free to enter all three Rafflecopters. Not sure what the Teachers Prepping Teachers Workshop is?? Here are the details:

It is located in Marietta, Georgia at the Chattahoochee Technical College. Is that within driving distance from you? Here is how you can register...

 

...or better yet, you could win your ticket! Enter into the rafflecopter below!

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Maybe Marietta is too far, or maybe you have plans for next Friday already... well, we will be giving our participants some AWESOME swag at the session (think Blair Turner notepad, fun math dice, coupons, Expo Markers... and the list goes on!), and you could win one of those swag bags PLUS a $10 TPT gift certificate if you enter the next Rafflecopter below!

  

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And finally, who doesn't love extra sharp pencils? I know I do! Add this awesome sharpener to your classroom from Classroom Friendly Supplies in our last giveaway!

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If you attend our session, you will also be eligible to enter several more giveaways exclusive to our attendees! Here are just a few:

Planner from A Modern Teacher

   

Geomodels from EAI and Number Line Floor Mat from Smile Makers

Rigorous Reading by Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher

$25 Amazon Gift Card

...as well as a few SETS of mentor texts for your classroom, too! Who couldn't use more books?

We hope to see you next Friday! :o)

Back to School Units are Half Off for 2 For Tuesday!

Hi!

We are linking up with Cyndie from Chalk One Up for the Teacher for her 2 for Tuesday Deals!

That means that TODAY ONLY we have selected 2 of our favorite products to put on sale for half off! Yep, 2 products are 50% off today only! Yay!!!

So which products are half off?!?  We chose two of our Back to School Units we use every year- Enemy Pie and First Day Jitters. If you haven't read these books, I highly recommend them! They are PERFECT for back to school and the kids love them!  :)

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Enemy Pie is one of my personal favorites- it's teaches such an important lesson about friendship in a fun and silly way. This mentor text printable pack contains reading, writing, and grammar lessons. There is a vocabulary chart, comprehension questions, literary elements graphic organizer, a grammar hunt, and more! 

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First Day Jitters shares the worries of going back to school- both for teachers and students. The pack we created has tons of activities to accompany this book: pre-reading "jitters" activities, vocabulary chart, writing activities, grammar printables and flip book, get to know you games, an all about me poster, jitter-free jellybeans activity and much more!

Okay, so these products are 50% off today only! Please check them out if you are interested!
Thanks so much for stopping by! :)

Please head over and see all the other great products on sale today for 2 for Tuesday- just click the image below!

Have a great day!

Teachers Prepping Teachers Workshop

Hi there! I am so excited to share my next adventure with you!! Two of my favorite blogger-teachers and I are teaming up to prepare you for the best school year ever! Jessica from Ideas by Jivey, Mandy from Mandy's Tips for Teachers, and I have collaborated to bring you a day filled with three awesome sessions to enhance the core subjects in your classroom!

This session will take place at Chattahoochee Tech in Marietta, Georgia. It will be a fun-filled, full-day session (9:00 AM-4:30 PM) with a lunch break. When you register, you can order a Firehouse boxed lunch for a few extra dollars, or you can bring your own lunch. It's your choice! Please buy your box lunch ticket by July 21 if you want the Firehouse lunch!

We will have some awesome swag for everyone who attends, fun giveaways, and of course, super-informative sessions that will get you in the perfect mind-set to get your school year started off on the right foot! There will also be discounts offered on our products the day of the workshop!

Ready to register?

Prices will go up July 5th,
so make sure to sign up to get the early bird discount!

We are so excited to get you prepared for your new school year! We hope to see you there!

Makeover Madness- We COMPLETELY revamped our Subjects and Predicates Pack!!

Hey there!!  We haven't been the best bloggers lately.  I'm so sorry about that!!  In order to try to get involved, you'll see that we'll be joining some linkies and recently, we found one to get the ball rolling so that we might be better bloggers and creators FOR YOU!

We are joining up with several lovely bloggers (you can find out more by heading to Emily's blog at Third in Hollywood) to do a product makeover.  I thought some of you may be really THRILLED about this because maybe you OWN the product, and now you can just redownload it and I think you will agree it looks A LOT better!

I chose to redo our Subject and Predicate Pack because, well, it was one of the products we FIRST made and we did it based on what we had made years before and still used in our class.  We did try to make it look better, but now that we have a few years under our belt on TpT, we just didn't feel comfortable leaving it like it was because people often buy several of our grammar units because they like how they are set up, and, well...this one just wasn't up to par with the new units we had made.

So, we thought CLEARLY it needed a makeover, we just needed to DO IT.  So I did!!  Here's what it looked like before:

Originally, it was a "Monkeys at the Beach" kind of theme.  Which was cute.  There was a lot of white space and there were pages where when I had originally made the practice sheets, I put two sheets on a page because I was *illegally* printing them from my printer and so I was trying to save paper.  Well, we now know there are other ways we can save paper and so I needed to fix that.  Plus, I changed the clipart and made it a little meatier (in my opinion), now that I sort of know what I'm doing.  Oh, and I tried to format it like our other grammar units.

Here's what it looks like now!

In case you need to see it side by side:

Here are more pictures of what it looks like now:

Looks a wee bit different, right?  So, if you own this product hurry!  Go!!  Redownload it!!  You can click HERE to see if you already own it.

ANNNNNND, if you don't own it, but think you could use it, I'll have it on sale for HALF OFF until Saturday.  Click HERE if you'd like to buy it half off!

So, what do you think?  (It's okay for you to be honest...truly!)

Doesn't everyone love a makeover?  ;O)

Math Manipulatives- Organizational Tips and Tools Linky

Happy June!!! I can't believe the SUMMER is FINALLY here! :)
I'm sorry I have been away so long....finishing the school year and prepping for baby has been crazy busy! Exciting and fun, but so much to do!
I am enjoying the warm weather and preparing for the arrival of our sweet baby boy- could be any day now! Until then, I'm linking up with The Primary Peach (a collaborative blog with teachers from Georgia) to share some great classroom organization tips.

I'm excited to share some organizational tips and tools with you- this will be a weekly Sunday Linky through The Primary Peach.

This Week's Tip: Organizing Math Manipulatives 

My Math Manipulative Organization is nothing fancy or cute, but it works for me and my students. I've found the best way to organize these materials is to sort them into plastic containers and label them. I keep them all on a metal shelf behind my desk. This way I can grab the bins I need easily and distribute the materials to the students. And if I realize I need something else in the middle of a lesson, I can have one of my students go grab it. :)

For games and centers that require manipulatives, I pull out however many I need and place them in a smaller labeled container or plastic baggy. Then I can keep it with the game or center for the kids to use as needed. That way, I still have the bin of remaining manipulatives if I need them for a mini lesson or small groups.

My favorite place to find containers for manipulatives is Dollar Tree- they're cheap AND cute! Take a look below- I really want some of those pink and blue clip top lid ones- so cheery and bright!

I hope this gives you some ideas for organizing your manipulatives!

Please check out other Organizational Tips and Tools on the Primary Peach Blog- just click the image below.

Happy Sunday! Thanks for stopping by!  :)

Primary Peach Blog Launch, a Freebie, AND a Giveaway!

Hey there!  We are so excited to share some special news!!!  We are joining around 30 other bloggers from the great peach state of Georgia on a new collaborative blog called The Primary Peach!  Be sure to follow it so you don't miss out on amazing freebies and blogposts!

To kick off our launch, each of the authors is sharing an End of the Year freebie in a blogpost on their blogs so that they can introduce themselves!!  This is an amazing opportunity for you to find new bloggers to follow AND to SCORE with a bunch of FREEBIES!!!  :O)

So, please let us introduce ourselves!

Stacia and I first met when she did an internship with me in my third grade classroom about 8 years ago.  She came back and student taught with me the next year and we have been best friends ever since!  We love to collaborate and share ideas, but mostly, to learn from others!

Hi!  I am Amanda!  I'm the proud mama of three kiddos who keep me quite busy!  I taught 3rd grade for 11 years and this is my fourth year in 4th grade!  I've loved teaching both grade levels.  Next year I am moving into an instructional coach position at my school and I will be coaching teachers in grades 3-5 in language arts and math.  I'm a little nervous about this change but mostly excited!  I can't deny that I will miss having my own classroom, though!

Hi! I am Stacia! My husband and I are excited parents-to-be in just 2 months! We are looking forward to meeting our precious baby boy. I taught 3rd grade for 4 years, and I've taught 4th grade for the past 4 years. I love working with this age group. The kids are so full of energy and excited about learning! 

Our End of the Year freebie is a fun game that students can play to reminisce about the past school year. Just click on the picture below!

Here is what the directions page looks like:

We hope your kiddos enjoy this game and the memories it will bring back from the year!!

Now, here's where it gets REALLY exciting!!!  Because we are just launching The Primary Peach, not only are you getting all of these awesome freebies in this hop, BUT you can also enter to win our HUGE giveaway!!!

There are 4, count them 4, chances to win!  The biggest prize is a $50 gift certificate to TpT!  But, if you aren't the grand prize winner, no worries!  You can still win one of four $25 gift certificates to TpT!!  Make sure you go over to The Primary Peach to enter to win, then come back here and hop to the next author and get your next freebie!!

Good luck at winning the Rafflecopter!!  Now, please hop on over and visit with Deb from Fabulously First!!