If You Give a Teacher a Gift Card...

...they'll run out like a mad woman/man and spend that sucker in 5 minutes flat...because it's SUMMER BREAK!  OK...so it's not here just yet, but people... we are hitting the home stretch here!

We can leisurely enjoy a latte from STARBUCKS, or mill about smartly in TARGET...for hours, or sleep in-sip on said coffee-order online because we like to shop whilst still in our PJ's-because we can...on AMAZON, or peruse the goodies on TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS whilst still in aforementioned PJ's!

If this sounds like a perfect way to pamper yourself just a little, then head over to iTeachKinder and enter the giveaways for the gift cards you love!  Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

$100 Teacher Appreciation Giveaway!

Psst!  Hey you!  Yes, you there buried under paperwork, feeling stressed, wondering how the heck you are gonna survive the next few weeks!  To be honest, we don't have a perfect solution for you! Not helpful, right???   BUT we DO have something for you to look forward to once the smoke clears and we all check to see if we are still standing come SUMMER, sweet SUMMER!

Teacher Appreciation is right around the corner.  And we know (seriously KNOW) what you do every.single.day to lift up your littles and help them soar!  It's not an easy task for sure, but one that is SO worth it!

And to make sure you know we SEE you, KNOW what you do, BELIEVE in who you are, and want to LIFT you up for all the goodness you bring to this world... we want to pamper you!  Head over to our wonderful new iTeachKinder blog to enter our giveaway for some gift cards to our FAVORITE pampering places.

Who doesn't love TARGET...I mean you can hit up their home goods section for some sweet new decor, hop over to their clothing for some cute summer swag, or hit the beach collection to get your "beach on"!

Or how about STARBUCKS...did someone say "Grande Cinnamon Dolce Latte Extra Hot...and HECK YEAH I want whipped cream!"

And AMAZON...well seriously...you can get ANYTHING and EVERYTHING here!

And lastly, TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS because every teacher needs a little "please help me so I don't have to create this stuff on my own" pampering!

So please take a minute and head over to enter...you're WORTH it!

4th night of Christmas Giveaway

On the 4th Night of Christmas 

Kindergarten Squared gave to me...

The Sight Word "WHO" interactive flap book and more

for FREE

(Link available for 24 hours only)

9th Night of Christmas Giveaway

On the 9th Night of Christmas

Kindergarten Squared gave to me

The Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanzaa Pack 

To those who left an email address for FREE

We sent the last email at 9:33 pm. Thanks for looking!

11th Night of Christmas Giveaway

On the 11th night of Christmas Kindergarten Squared gave to me 

The Bubbles, Bubbles, STEM activity for FREE

(Link no longer available!) 

Giveaway Winner and More

We told you this would be the right time to hang out with us at our blog!  We just randomly selected our Common Core Math Bundle Winner... and it's Carolyn M!  Woo-hoo!

But if you didn't win this time, NO WORRIES because there is plenty more to come!

We still plan on giving away our Alphabet Consonants Mega Bundle ($96 value), an awesome "Quietest Pencil Sharpener" from Classroom Friendly Supplies, and we'll be hosting a giveaway with some of our favorite blogging buddies with TONS of goodies and several winners!

But until then, we have another GREAT opportunity for you.  Our friend Jess over at Teacher Talk is hosting a fantastic giveaway with over 20 prizes up for grabs!  Woo-hoo!

  You can snag our Desk Name Plates as part of the giveaway!

So hop on over and see if you can be the next LUCKY winner!  And be sure and keep watching for the next BIG giveaway to come right here on our blog!  

Giveaway and Vegas!

Just a quickie post to remind you guys about our COMPLETE Common Core Kindergarten Math Giveaway going on now!  You have 2 1/2 days left to enter!

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Page will be heading home from VEGAS tomorrow!  She has lots of pictures of some awesome TPT sellers and some awesome bloggers!  Be on the lookout for all of the juicy Vegas details to hit soon!

Have a super Saturday!

Giveaway Time!

It's giveaway time over at Primary Inspiration!

Linda is celebrating her followers with 2 great packs.  One for K-2 and another for 3-5.  Hopefully there is something for everyone!  So head on over and enter!

We are giving away our Fall Into Building Numbers to 20 Common Core Math Pack! 

Plus there are other great products up for grabs!  So hop over and ENTER!  Good luck!

And the Winner is...

Thank you SO SO much to everyone who entered our...

Without further ado...

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Thanks again for entering.  We have several back to school posts planned for this weekend!  We'll be sharing pictures of our newly spruced up rooms.  (I went PINTEREST cray-cray!)  We also have a craft project that we think is pretty awesome too!  Please check back soon.  We just finished our 1st week with our littles and we are SLAP WORN OUT!!!! :)

Back To School Hall Display!

Woo-hoo!  Success!  We survived our "meet the teacher" day!  We are so stinkin' excited about our new group of littles.  We are gonna have some fun this year!

So since we are slap worn out from our last workday before we OFFICIALLY start tomorrow, this will be a quick little post!

We told you about our hallway theme a few weeks back, but here's the REAL DEAL display in the hallway. We think it turned out SO SUPER CUTE...granted...we are a little biased!

The kiddos loved their gum...and I ain't gonna lie...so did the parents.  I know they were sneaking a piece as soon as they hit the hallway! ;)

Here's hoping you get some good ideas and that YOUR "meet the teacher" is a HUGE SUCCESS!!!

Here's everything!  We printed out the adorable heads from Melonheadz.  We only put "gum" (balloons) in front of a few of the kiddos.  Didn't want it to be too busy!  We also enlarged the gumball machine onto the projector and then cut out the parts in different colors.  (The gumball graphic is from Krista Wallden!)  LOVE!!!

We first saw this SUPER cute idea for the gum bags over at Smitten With First!  We used pre-packaged gumballs and added some graphics and color to our tags!  So Cute!  You can snag these cute little tags here!

Don't forget to enter our GIVEAWAY to win our...

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Complete CC K Math Curriculum GIVEAWAY!!!

We did it!  We finally bundled ALL 5 of our math units, plus our Math POP! Active Task Cards for Practice and Review into 1 HUGE bundle.

It's everything you need to introduce, teach, review, and assess EVERY. SINGLE. Kindergarten. COMMON. CORE. STANDARD! 
 Can I get an AMEN! ;)

So if you are new to the CC standards, or just need some new resources to help you teach the standards in a meaningful, engaging, and fun way...then this might be perfect for you.

We are going to attempt our 2nd Rafflecopter giveaway (practicing for the BIG GIVEAWAY coming soon from lots of our favorite bloggy buddies...be on the look out for more details in the next few weeks!) to give this bundle away to 1 winner!

The bundle value is $57.00!!!

The giveaway runs through Thursday the 8th at midnight!  Earn 2 entries each for following our blog, TpT store, and Pinterest board.  You can also earn 10 entries simply by adding a one line blurb about the giveaway onto any of your blog posts this week!  Good luck!

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AH-MA-ZING K and 1st Back To School GIVEAWAYS!!!

Our super amazing awesome bloggy friend Samantha over at Mrs. Kelly's Klass is switching grade levels this year.  And good news for all of us kindergarten and 1st grade teachers, because that's exactly where's she heading to...KINDERGARTEN!

So...she put together an awesome giveaway with products from some top TpT sellers to celebrate her move to K!

We have "known" Sam since we started on TpT and blogging over a year ago.  She is a newlywed, a new teacher (this will be her 2nd year), and mom to some seriously cuddly, fluffy, and cute kiddos!  It has been truly a joy to get to know her and support each other over the last year.  Anywho...enough with the sappy stuff, yeah?  Let's get on to the REAL business here...

A SUPER AWESOME GIVEAWAY that we secretly want to win that will help make your back to school SO MUCH easier!!!  She's divided it into K and 1st so that you can win products that fit YOUR kiddo's needs perfectly!  LOVE!!!

So...run...do not walk...over to her blog and sign up for this puppy!  Here's crossing our fingers for YOU ok...maybe secretly for us too! GOOD LUCK!

Theme Days Bundle-Comment to Win!

Whew!  We are LOVIN' our summer break!  Only a few days in, but man are we loving the time with our fams!

OK...so we know that some of you still have a couple of weeks to go---that makes us sad for you (but we'll be the ones crying when you guys are still beach and poolside in August when our boo-tays will be back at school...like August 1st...ahhhhhh!)

So in case you are one of our bloggy buddies who still need some goodies to keep your kiddos focused these last few weeks...here's your chance to WIN our END OF SCHOOL THEME DAYS BUNDLE!  We used all of the packs our last week of school...and I'm telling you...it's all that kept us sane!!!

Please leave us a comment and let us know how you are hanging in there those last few days/weeks!  We'll pick 2 winners to get the BUNDLE for FREE.  We hope it helps you have a FUN, yet meaningful last week with your kiddos!

Happy Summer everyone!

K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Giveaway Time!!!

Where did the time go?  Really...where?  Only 1 day left of our Spring Break!  AAAAAAAAHH!

So I promised the kiddos that I would PEEL myself away from the computer (I promise I am almost finished with Math Unit 5 on measurement...I'm sorry I have  been so stinkin' slow!  It's Spring's fault!) and do something that's just good old FUN today!

So in order to keep that promise...here's a quickie post sharing a super 100 product giveaway with you!  Nicole over at Mrs. Rios Teaches Second Grade is hosting an awesome giveaway that she has so kindly divided up by grade level. Wahoo!

There is a giveaway package for each grade level from K to 4th grade!  AWESOME!  Now you can only enter in the package or two that you think will work best for your kiddos.

Heads up!  Our Ice Cream Sundae FUN-Days pack is actually included in the 1st GRADE GIVEAWAY since it's geared to K-2!  Be sure and enter her 1st Grade Package Giveaway for a chance to win it!

Good luck and enjoy this glorious Saturday!

Free Assessments and a Giveaway!

Where does time go? We can't believe our year is almost over. Boohoo! Just when you get your babies trained really well, it is time to give them up. We spend the first 6 weeks of kindergarten wishing we could have our babies from the previous year back. We always forget how well we get them trained by the end of the year.

Can you believe it is already time for us to enter grades for the 3rd Nine Weeks? What is crazy is that we conduct formative assessments all the time. However, a couple weeks before we have to enter grades, we scramble because we decide our checklists, individual conference forms, journal entries, and work samples, may not be enough to prove to parents that their child Meets or Does Not Meet the Standard.

So, we get busy making one more final assessment to test these new skills.  Below are a couple of assessments for some Common Core Language Arts Standards that we just created.

If you are like us and just need ONE--- MORE--- ASSESSMENT to make SURE your kiddos meet the standard, feel free to click on it and grab.

If you don't need anymore assessments, you could also use these for formative assessments and/or extra practice.

K.RFS.3 (d) - Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.


K.RL.9 - Compare and Contrast the adventrues and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

K.RIT.9 - Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.

Congratulations to our blogging buddy, Tammy over at 1..2..3..Teach With Me on 600 Followers. Thanks so much for letting us share in your success and participate in your giveaway. We are giving away our Common Core Unit 4 Math Pack: Wild About Addition and Subtraction. The giveaway ends Monday so hop on over and check it out.

If you have any great assessment ideas, we would love to hear them :). Thanks for reading!!

 Good luck in the GIVEAWAY!!

Giveaway Winner!

Woo-hoo!  We actually were successful with hosting our first ever Rafflecopter giveaway!!!

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who entered!  We had 678 entries!

So...who's the lucky winner?

We'll be sending our Short Vowels Bundle to you right away Erica!

Thank you again for supporting our first "official" giveaway.  Also, be on the lookout for a HUGE giveaway heading your way soon. Now that we took a baby step and got our feet wet with this giveaway, we are planning on hosting a fantastic giveaway with the support of some of our favorite bloggy buddies!  We'll keep you posted as we get rolling!

Princess and History Makers

    Hi Friends!! Long time no blog for me!! Yes, I am back from my never ending trip to the "Happiest Place on Earth"!! Wow my poor husband drove over 1000 miles for this princess. I am a lucky girl. I probably didn't have the best plan when I decided we should drive to Disney to take the boys Monday through Thursday  then drive to Valdosta, then drive back to Orlando for the Princess 1/2. Well I loved it!! I love to ride and I love going to the park with and without my kiddos!!

The Girls Before the Run :)

Anyway the run was super tough!!! I finished, but took longer than I expected. There were 22000 runners! You can only imagine the traffic on the course. The worst part was when we got to the castle we had to completely stop and wait to go through because it was so crowded. Not great when we were trying to run the entire time!! But, I loved running in my tutu and tiara and I love, love the gorgeous medal. So worth the 2 hours and 51 minutes and 13.1 mile run plus the extra mile or so to walk to the race beginning :).


After the Run :).

 Enough about princesses and travels!!! Time to celebrate our AWESOME Pal at Kooky Kindergarten. She has a store on Teacher Pay Teacher and a Teachers Notebook Store. Thank you Kooky Kindergarten for the adorable Dr. Martin Luther King Craftivity! The kiddos had to draw, cut and glue their own shapes and follow directions!!! Very important skills in kindergarten. Every child's finished product was unique.

 During Black History Month, we have been celebrating famous African American History Makers. The first history maker we celebrated was Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. We read stories, had discussions then finished off with an awesome craftivity from Kooky Kindergarten. Check out her link to purchase this craftivity. Also, check out some of our kiddo's work. They did an awesome job.

 Another history maker we celebrated was George Washington Carver. We choose to celebrate him to support our science unit on rocks ans soil and who can pass up a chance to celebrate the inventor of peanut butter. Can you imagine a world without peanut butter? I guess our peanut allergy friends would be happy!



We also celebrated Ruby Bridges! The kiddos had a great time creating portraits of Ruby and writing facts about her life!! The kids liked learning about a history maker who made history at their age!!

We have a few more important history makers we are going to have to learn about in March like Jesse Owens and Thurgood Marshall. We wish we had more time to do so many more :).

Don't forget our giveaway!!

This is the last day to enter to win our OWN bundle with products worth $23!

 Short Vowels Bundle:  Word Work MEGA Pack!

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By the way!! I have missed 3 weeks in a row of the Bachelor and Cristy has failed at her friend job to keep me updated! I would love any info on what happened. The only thing I know is he sent Ashlee home!! Boohoo! I loved her! Why did he send her home?????