SitSpots Giveaway WINNER!!!

Um...what just happened there?  The giveaway ended Wednesday morning, and then there was a crazy blur of 4 hour PD sessions, hot glue scenarios that involved strings of the stuff falling out of places hot glue should not be, name tag creating, hallway decorating, copying, and other madness otherwise know as "HOLY MOTHER....School Starts THIS FRIDAY and I'm NOT READY!"
Whew!!!!  Now that I actually survived getting my room ready AND our FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL just yesterday, I am finally ready to announce the SitSpots Giveaway Winner!!!  Woot-Woot!
Hundreds of folks entered and we sincerely appreciate every one of you!  If we could, we would so be like Oprah..."SitSpots for YOU, and SitSpots for YOU, and YOU!"  But alas, we teach, so that just ain't happening! ;)  But at least we are able to randomly select (along with the helpful random selector people over at Rafflecopter) one of you to snag this amazing prize!
So here we go...

Sheryl, you are the LUCKY winner!  I'll be emailing you the gift card code for your $50 SitSpots prize!  We truly hope you love these bad boys as much as we do.

And if you don't know too much about SitSpots, but now you're thinking "What are these magical creatures and how do they work?"...then head over to SitSpots to read all about them or our SitSpots Blog Post.

And as an update....We started school yesterday and the kiddos loved them.  They thought they were cool and they thought choosing a color was pretty awesome.  (Side note...I did have ONE friend that considered pulling one up...you should have heard the teeth sucking going on in my room.  If the kids could have shot darts from their eyes...they would have.  Needless to say, he politely smoothed that sucker RIGHT back down!!!!)

And A HUGE THANK YOU to Joyce over at SitSpots for her VERY GENEROUS donation!

I-Pad Air 2 Giveaway...and More!

Oh my word.  Back to School has really gotten here for us.  We had our "Meet the Teacher" visits this afternoon.  I am feeling some serious LOVE for my sweet new littles!
And with all of this back to school planning, decorating, laminating madness...some sweet bloggy friends and I decided we needed to show you all some LOVE!  

Head over to I Teach Kinder, our collaborative blog with ALL things KINDER, and enter this amazing giveaway.  An I-pad Air 2 is pretty amazing all by itself, but there's a whole lot more!  You also win 2 adorable owl cases, a Stylus, and an I-Tunes gift card!
We wish for each of you to have a year that's filled with love, tons of learning, and a classroom full of positivity!  YOU make all the difference in the WORLD!
Good luck and here's to a wonderful year!

SitSpots GIVEAWAY! I'm in LOVE!

If you've been following us on Periscope...then you KNOW "I got 99 problems and my rug is one!!!"  We had to pack up EVERYTHING...and I mean EH-VUH-REE-THANG in our rooms at the end of the year.  Our entire school had all the carpet ripped up and shiny new white tile installed in its place. 

Great, right?  Everything's all sparkly and clean.  Except I had a major RUG drama going on.  Our old Lakeshore "spot for everybody" rug was on it's last leg.  I mean, a rug can only be barfed on, peed on, drawn on, and tooted on so many times before it dies a slow and ugly death!!!! ;) It was past the point of no return.  And alas, the drama didn't end there.  Those bad boys cost upwards of $400 and the funds are just NOT THERE for everyone in our school to get a new rug.  So our sweet admin team found a way to allot each of us a smaller sum to purchase a rug or a class set of carpet tiles that can be carted all over the place and used for a ton of purposes. I ended up choosing the carpet squares, but that still left me with my RUG DRAMA.  Don't even think those carpet squares can be carted to the front of the room and placed in ANY sort of order that wouldn't tear my nerves slap to pieces.  I mean...the thought of that just makes my stomach twist into knots.  I'm far too OCD in that regard.  I agree with Kristin at The Teeny Tiny Teacher when she said,   "I never did anything except say to my kids over and over and over again . . . Where's your spot?  Which row are you on?  Wait.  I am supposed to have five rows.  It looks like we have six and a half and a couple of islands and possibly a peninsula.  What's going on here?  Last row -- scoot up and join us, I can hardly see you back there!  First row -- scoot back, you're practically on top of me and I cannot breathe For The Love Of Pete Can Everyone Just Sit Where I Assigned Them?!"  

That woman cracks me up y'all!  I totally envision the carpet squares ending up this way when I tell the kids to bring them in.  SOOOO... to solve the rug dilemma...I bought my OWN 8x12 rug from Lowe's for $72 bucks.  Now the tag said it was "charcoal", but once I got it in my room it said "black".  To be honest, I am feeling some serious love for it, but I already know that my teaching partner is going to beat me.  Beat me, I tell you.  My brand new rug is not so good at hiding stuff, what with it being "black - supposed to be charcoal" and all.  I bought a Shark vacuum cleaner to solve that.  Now that woman can vacuum to her heart's content and fall in love with the rug too. But...I digress!!!

So how did I solve the whole "island, peninsula, what kinda order is this"seating dilemma?  I bought SitSpots.   I did y'all!  I really did.  And I swear I believe in my heart that it may just be the best $55 dollars I have ever spent.

They look SO bright and happy on my rug.  EVERYBODY has a spot and this OCD teacher is happy for some order!  AND the best part is the rug and spots came in at just $135 total!  Way better than $400+.  And to be honest, I think it's WAAAAY cuter.  No offense to my old rug, this one just matches my class decor perfectly.  And did I mention I can wash those SitSpots and keep that rug looking beautiful! And did I also mention that this suckers stay put.  You can vacuum right over them with no worries, and you KNOW that will make my teaching partner very happy.  And did I also also mention that they come in all sorts of bright colors and even other shapes like stars and hearts and fish, oh my!  People...it's my JAM!  I am one happy girl!  Now...let's just hope none of my sweet new babies even CONSIDER pulling up 1 of my SPOTS!

And do you remember when I said it was the best $55 I have ever spent?  Well...here's YOUR CHANCE for it to be the BEST $50 you DON'T have to spend!  That's right!  You get a chance to win $50 in SitSpots for FREE!  I know, right!!!!

I emailed Joyce over at SitSpots to see if they had any coupon codes going on right now that I could offer to you all.  And that sweet woman, well she did even better.  She said "How about you give a $50 SitSpots gift card code away to a reader!"  And I was all like "Woman, I love you!  Sit Spots are my new JAM and now I get to share them with a bloggy friend". (Or something along those lines...I was so excited who knows what I emailed her!)  It was a happy moment I tell you!

a Rafflecopter giveaway  The giveaway will end Wednesday!  Come Thursday morning...you might just be the new proud owner of some glorious SitSpots!!!  Good luck!

Instagram Giveaway Winners...and Periscope!

Oh my goodness!  We finally decided to be productive and just finished up our newest  Science Flip Flap book for Our Five Senses!  

And what better way to celebrate some productivity than by giving a couple of them away!!  Now if you don't follow us on Instagram, don't worry because we are going to choose TWO winners from our blog too!  Leave us a comment below and let us know what you like best about the book or give us suggestions to make it better.  We'll choose 2 folks to get this for FREE and we'll send it to you later this week!
For now, we better announce the IG winners!!!

Thanks so much for following our blog, Instagram, Pinterest...and NOW...you can also find us on Periscope!!!
If you haven't discovered this highly addictive form of social media already, then trust me...you want to.  You'll get to see live video broadcasts (called Scopes) from your favorite teacher bloggers.  You even get to comment and interact with the teacher as well as with the teachers who join that particular scope.  If you haven't joined yet, you can download the PERISCOPE app on your phone and then you are all set.  
You can follow us by searching for "kindergartensquared".  We haven't added a button to our blog yet, so sorry there are no direct links just yet!
Oh...and did I mention that you have no time to loose, because once a scope goes live...it's only available to view for 24 HOURS and then POOF...it's gone!  Eeek!  
Have fun!!!

1st Day of Christmas Giveaway

On the 1st Night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

Common Core Addition and Subtraction Math Unit 

For FREE (to the first 3 friends who leave a comment).

Click the image to see the preview on our tpt site. Leave your email address below if you are one of the first 3 to comment and we will send you a dropbox link so you can download for free!

Thank you so much for joining us for the 12 days of Christmas. We hope you have been able to grab a few of our favorite things. We hope everyone has a safe and very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

2nd Night of Christmas Giveaway

On the 2nd Night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

The Word Family and Letter T Cube game

For FREE to the first 5 friends who leave a comment and email address.

3rd Night of Christams

On the 3rd Night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

Link No longer available

5th Night of Christmas

On the 5th Night of Christmas Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

Beach Day - End of Year Theme Days for FREE 

(link no longer available)

Kub

Let us know what you think!!

6th Night of Christmas Giveaway

On the 6th Night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

The Short U Cube Game

For Free

Link no longer available

7th Night of Christmas Giveaway

On the 7th night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

Digraph TH Word Work

for FREE

(Click the image below to grab this product. This link is no longer available )

8th Night of Christmas Giveaway

On the 8th Night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me

George Washington Carver for Early Learners

For FREE

(This link is no longer available)

10th Night Of Christmas Giveaway

On the 10th Night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

The Sight Word THE Interactive Flap Book

For FREE

(Link No longer available)

12 Nights of Christmas- 24 Hour GiveAways

Starting tonight and each night for 12 nights we will post a link to a product that you can grab for free for 24 hours! Hope you enjoy collecting some items you can use with your kiddos!! Happy Holidays!

On the 12th Night of Christmas Kindergarten Squared gave to me....

Christmas Word Work Literacy Stations for FREE!!
(No longer available for free)

Let us know some products you would like to see during our 12 nights of giveaways! 

Giveaways Galore

Woohoo!! We  are part of another great GIVEAWAY!  Help us celebrate with Kelly over at An Apple for the Teacher! She is super excited to celebrate 700 followers!

This is a huge giveaway! She is giving away a $25 TPT gift certificate along with products from 70 TPT sellers.

From our Kindergarten Squared store, we are giving away WINNERS CHOICE! Winner can choose any product that is $10 or less in our store! Woohoo! Check out our store Kindergarten Squared to see what we have!!

Click below to head on over to An Apple for the Teacher!! You have 6 days to enter in this giveaway!

Good luck friends!!!

Giveaway at Teaching Trio

Hi Friends, we are celebrating Kristen's 30th Birthday, by participating in her GIVEAWAY over at Teaching Trio. 30 sellers are participating!!!

You have until Wednesday at Midnight to enter this awesome give away! Below are the prize packs for grade levels k-3, but visit Teaching Trio's site to see prize packs also for grades 4-6, for anyone as well as enter this give away!!!

We are giving away our newly popular Back to School GALORE pack for kinders. Check it out!!

Good luck EVERYONE!!! 

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

We have our GIVEAWAY winners!  Woo-hoo!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered our giveaways.  We had nearly 2,000 entries for the K pack and 1,000 entries for the 1st grade pack.  Thank you so much for joining in on the FUN!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway 

Thank you again to everyone!  We'll be emailing out the prizes to our 2 winners this week!

If you didn't win this time, NO WORRIES!  We have a few more giveaways up our sleeves!  We still plan on giving away one of our ALPHABET WORD WORK bundles ($75) and a "Quietest Pencil Sharpener" ($31) very soon.  So keep checking back for more giveaways and some classroom reveal pictures too!

Also...did I happen to mention that we STARTED BACK TO SCHOOL today!!!!  WHAT????  Crazy town, I know...but I am speaking the truth.  Summer break has officially ended for us so we are in FULL SWING school mode and we'll be bringing lots of back to school goodies to share with you all.

Enjoy those last few days of summer if you still have them!  And if you're back in like us, hang on for the ride!

Last day to ENTER the giveaway!

Last chance to enter these 2 GREAT giveaways that are perfect for helping you prepare for BACK TO SCHOOL!  The giveaway ends tonight and we'll announce the winner tomorrow!  Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Be sure and head over again soon.  We have lots of classroom reveal pictures coming soon!  We officially head back THIS Thursday!  YIKES!!!

Here's a little sneak peek!

We are loving our "reading inspiration" shelf with some of our favorite books and characters that we snagged over at Kohl's.  They have the $5 books and $5 characters that change out on a regular basis.  We use small picture easels to stand the books on and then sit the characters beside them.  We change these out whenever we want to shake things up a bit and keep the kiddos excited about reading.

The book bins were purchased at Dollar Tree about 3 years ago, but they are holding up like CHAMPS!  I don't think I'll be needing new ones for a while still!  And you can't beat THAT bargain...$1!  The adorable chalkboard labels are from Hope King over at TpT!  They are editable and I've used them to label EVERYTHING in my room...gives it a nice cohesive look!

We'll be posting more classroom reveals over the next few weeks...plus we have 2 or 3 MORE giveaways that you won't want to miss!

The BIG one is finally here! Giveaway Time!

 Oh...my...goodness.  We have been promising y'all a BIG giveaway for a while now...and it's finally here. Some of our sweet blogging buddies have graciously shared a product for this giveaway!

We have 5 products featured in our KINDERGARTEN Giveaway!

These are ALL products that will help make your BACK to SCHOOL prep SO much easier as well as keep your classroom running smoothly all year long!

Click on ANY of the product photos to take a closer look!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

We have 4 products featured in our 

1ST GRADE Giveaway!

Oh man, here you will find goodies that can make your teaching much easier as well as a Winner's Choice prize so you can look for just the right item to make you sing!

Click on ANY of the product photos to take a closer look!

a Rafflecopter giveaway 

You are MORE than welcome to enter BOTH giveaways if you think the products will work for you, but we did want to split them up so we can have 2 WINNERS!  And so that you get JUST THE RIGHT products for you and your kiddos.

Have fun visiting stores, blogs, and Facebook pages.  We hope you'll find some new folks to follow and show them the LOVE!  Good luck!!!