FREE Popcorn and Movie Day Pack for Everyone!

Just a quickie post to remind you about our FREE Popcorn and Movie Day Pack!  Next week is our last week...wahoo!!!  Whether your year is wrapping up too, or even if you have a few weeks to go, this pack will hopefully bring you some much needed peace and quiet to your classroom!

We joke that using theme days the last week ensures there are no tears...not even from the teachers!  We created and used this pack last year and ---oh---my---gosh, the last few days were actually FUN again because we weren't going crazy with chaos and disorder, just focused fun!

It's an easy pack to use too.  You just need to gather 4 bags of popcorn-butter, cheese, kettle, and caramel.

Then the kiddos have a tasting party, poll classmates on their favorite kind and graph the results, and then do some fun and creative POPCORN and MOVIE writing like narratives, acrostic poems, and more.

(Click on ANY of the images to snag it for FREE over at our TPT store!)

There's also a GREAT game to play with your whole class that involves "popping" some words and kiddos use phonics skills taught throughout the year to decode each "theme" word.  They LOVED this!

Hope you have a FUN, FOCUSED, and PAIN-FREE end of school! :)

Awards Ideas for your Kiddos!

Wow!! Yahoo!! What a relief!! Our kindergarten play, EIEI OOPs was a huge success. The kiddos looked adorable, did a fabulous job and we are relieved to leave all the stress behind us.

Play

Class DVD (What a nightmare! Crashed about 4 times! New computers are overrated!!)

Awards

Volunteer Gifts

What next??? We will just finish out the year strong continuing Café, Daily 5, Measurement, and our unit on Animals. We are even having a learning celebration the last day of school to share our animal projects and our PowerPoints from our Community Unit. I am a little behind Cristy! She is the WOMAN!! Her class shared their PowerPoints of course at the logical point in time, which was at the end of the Community Unit :).

So how can we help you with the little time you have??? 

Well, the most challenging part of award night was coming up with an individual award for everyone that was special! Some of the individual awards we gave were related to academics but some we gave showed how well we know and love each baby :).

Below is a list that we came up with by GOOGLING awards or just thinking about our own kiddos. Sometimes with just some award ideas, we were able to think of kids that fit that award.

Hope this list helps!!! Let us know what you think or if you have any other special awards that you give in your classroom. We are trying to compile a list to save for next year, so we are not thinking for days about the most special awards :).

Enjoy the rest of your school year!! It's downhill from here! Sad the year goes so quickly. Wish we could slow down time just a little bit :).

Game Day Give Away!

Hi Pals!! Hope all is well and your year is winding down with a little LOT less stress and craziness than our year!

Yikes, we are having nightmares about all the things we have to do: get ready for the play, finish assessing and enter GKIDS by Friday, make photo stories for kiddos, awards, volunteer gifts, animal projects, PowerPoints, end of the year theme day fun, and the list goes on and on and on!!!!

Could we just add an additional week to the year, then maybe we could fit it all in! Just kidding! We are ready to hit the beach :).

Did I mention end of the year theme days??  We just updated our game day pack. We added a few more ideas and activities! We love the end of the year theme day packs because they help give our fun days some structure. We still have fun, but also keep the kiddos engaged and reviewing the curriculum as we race to build words, collect data about our favorite games, write steps to play a game, and tons more (including enjoying our favorite Game Day Munchies! :). Check it out below.

Leave us a comment and include your email address.
Then, we'll pull a lucky winner from the HAT :).

We can't wait to see what you think about the new Game Day pack! Well--- off to shop in the last few hours of the TPT teacher appreciation sale!! So much good stuff!! Can't wait to get lots of bargains!!

TPT Sale (up to 40%) and Buy 3, Get 1 FREE!

I am a coupon-a-holic!  I LOVE to make our money s-t-r-e-t-c-h as FAR as it can go.  Can I get an "AMEN!"

If you are a kindred soul...then THIS will be music to your wallet ears!

TPT is throwing a HUGE Teacher Appreciation Sale this Tuesday and Wednesday - May 7th and 8th!

We are offering 20% off ALL of our products in our store...and we mean ALL of them...even bundles that are already marked at a 20% savings off the individual packs!

Enter code TAD13 at checkout and you'll save another 10% off the sale prices courtesy of TPT!

That's a TOTAL of 28% off ALL products and you end up saving about 40% on our bundles!  

We hope this saves you some extra cash for an awesome beach trip with your toes in the water and boo-tay in the sand! :)

AND...for EVERY 3 products you purchase from our store on May 7th and 8th, you can choose ANY product priced $5 or less for FREE!  Oh yeah!!!

Simply email us at foglem@bellsouth.net after making your purchases.  Be sure to include the name you purchased under (your TPT username), your email address, and the item/s you would like as your FREE choice ($5 or less).  That's it!  Easy, right!

Here are the latest products we have listed, updated, or just think you might enjoy this time of year!

This is our "End of School Theme Days" bundle.  The popcorn pack is a freebie and the other 4 packs sell for $3.50 each for a total of $14.00.  The bundle normally costs $10, but is on sale for only $8!  Wahoo!

Or you can snag them on sale individually for just $2.80 each!

      

This one is a FREEBIE!  Just click on the image below to grab it on TPT for FREE!

 Here's a fun Father's Day Craftivity on sale for only $2.00.

And finally, if you are already thinking about next school year, here's out BEST SELLING Back To School Lessons and Activities MEGA Pack on sale for $8.00!

We truly do appreciate all of you!  You are our brothers and sisters, the ones who get in the trenches EVERY SINGLE DAY to touch children's lives one kiddo at a time!  We know it's not easy!  Thank you!

Thanks to Beth over at Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah Designs for the cute TPT Sale button!

Currently...Oh yeah!!!!

Wahoo!  Love me some currently!  I have so much fun reading these babies.  And I have to confess...I secretly check Farley's post trying to be one of the first Currentlys posted, and people...I am NOT alone!  Once Farley hits "Publish", I think 50 Currentlys go live in like 5 seconds!

Somehow I always end up being "Lately" and not "Currently"! ;)

But this time---oh this time---I might just get in under 100!  Seriously...100!  REALLY!  Farley you must just be a rock star and ALL the cool kids wanna hang with  you!  HOLLA! ;)

Anywho, here's our latest currently!

I know! I know!  For those of you who follow us, I am so sorry.  I am simply obsessed with Adam Levine!  I think he's made it into the last 3 or 4 currentlys!  He's hot in a totally NOT my type kinda way.  And Blake, that man is a riot (and pretty hot too!)  But really...LOVE that show.  Fun to watch!

Wasabi peas!  Is it wrong to love hard crunchy peas with hot sauce all over them...and when you eat them...you cry a little bit---seriously...burn your nose hairs kinda hot!  Really---I think something may be wrong with me!  

17 school days left!  Gotta buy volunteer gifts, make End of the Year Kindergarten DVD's for my littles, Mother's Day necklaces, silhouettes of the kiddos, make backdrop/costumes/learn dances for the school-wide kindergarten play, report cards, GKIDS (GA assessment), awards...Are you feelin' me on this one?  I know you guys are RIGHT THERE WITH ME!  Hang in there...see next comment!

Zac Brown said it best, yeah?  Toes in the water...

Seriously...please just fall off TONIGHT!!!

Been running around like a mad woman...ready to slow down and take it ALL in!  Love summer with my own personal littles and hubs!

So...what's up with you?  Can't wait to check out some more Currentlys.  Be sure and head over to Farley's at Oh' Boy Fourth Grade.  Trust me...it's good times over there!

Measurement Pack Winners and a FREEBIE!

Thank you SOOO much to everyone who left us a comment to enter our Measurement Math Pack giveaway!  We LOVED reading all of them and appreciate your comments!

We drew our 2 lucky winners---and---they---are---

Melinda and Bethany!

Wahoo ladies!  We hope you love our new measurement math pack.

But...it's no fun NOT to win---so everyone gets a little something!

Many of you commented that the TOWER GRAB looked fun and you thought your littles (boys especially) would enjoy it!  So...it's yours...all of you---FOR FREE!  We hope you enjoy it!

And if you missed our last post about our newest pack...here's the quick peek!

Thanks so much!  Hope you are having an awesome week!

Measurement Math Pack - Comment to Win!

FINALLY!!!!  Oh...my...word...I didn't think we were EVER gonna get finished with our last common core math unit in the series of 5!  It's just been a zoo around here...kiddos in baseball and soccer, trainings and workshops, special school events...the end of the year is coming at us FULL SPEED!

We know some of you will be wrapping things up at the end of May like us, but some of you won't be finishing up until late June.   Hopefully, you'll still have plenty of time for this unit to work for you and your kiddos!  Thank you SO MUCH to all of you hanging in there with us until we finally finished it up!

This unit is the final math unit we'll be creating.  These 5 units (Counting and Cardinality, Numbers to 20, Shapes, Addition and Subtraction, and Measurement) encompass EVERY SINGLE kindergarten common core standard and are chock full of games, printables, activities, lesson ideas, stations, centers, and more.  We have absolutely LOVED these units and they have worked so PERFECTLY in our own 2 rooms.  We feel like our kids have truly become mathematical thinkers in EVERY way!

This last math unit focuses on measureable attributes including length, height, weight, and capacity.   Check out the pictures to get an idea of what's included.

Quick Peek!

(Click on any of the images to grab this at our TPT store!)

Longer Peek!

Well...that's it!  We have finally wrapped up our Common Core Math Series!

We hope you love the pack!

Please leave us a comment and let us know if you have used any of our other packs or what you like best from this pack! 

We'll pick 2 winners to get this MEASUREMENT MATH PACK for FREE from all the comments below!  Wahoo!  We love FREE!