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!!! 

PBIS- Another Acronym??

What is PBIS??? Well you probably already know, but if not for my husband heading to a conference this summer and me interviewing for a new position, I probably would have no idea what that acronym stands for!

Anyway it stands for Positive Behavior Intervention System. I guess good thing I threw out that red light last year! That definitely did not qualify as Positive! Can you believe I was like Negative Nellie for 16 years!! Yikes! Poor babies!!

Love some PBIS! We are just getting started and decided to implement in phases as not to send out staff over a CLIFF! AHHHHHHH!

No we wanted this to be simple, but effective! What did we need first??? A common set of expectations around our school and community! Here is what our School Based Leadership Team came up with!

Now that we have common expectations what do we do?? We made a video of students doing things the right way and the wrong way. We showed the video on our school news show just to help our kiddos know what we expected.

What next???  Make some coupons of course! Who gets to give these out?? Teachers, administrators, counselors, bus drivers, custodians, our media specialist, etc... Basically, anyone in the VILLAGE! You know it does take a VILLAGE to raise our kiddos!!

Who earns coupons?? Anyone in the school community?? There should be rewards for everyone!! AWESOMENESS should be rewarded no matter the position (student, teacher, administrator, driver, cafeteria worker, custodian, etc...)

So, what is our last phase of implementation for the year??? A list of rewards for students and other stakeholders! Right now this is very tentative. We are still working on refining rewards and number of coupons needed for the prizes. We have asked teachers, students and are now asking you! Help us!! What are some more rewards?? How many Gators should be required at each prize level. These are rewards for students only right now! Do you have any suggestions for faculty/ staff rewards?? 

What happens after we get this rolling?? Eventually, our entire school would use a similar classroom management system (class dojo rocks)! 

We can't wait for this to be in full effect!! This is a Tier I system! We have more ideas for what to do if this does not work for all of our students. We do have  Tier II and Tier III (SST) ideas! Tune in later for those!

Thanks so much for your help!!!

Grandparent's Day Pack...Just UPDATED!!!

Just a quick post to let you know we updated our Grandparent's Day Pack.  This is our ABSOLUTE BEST SELLING product in our store!

The mini-unit includes everything you need to have a GREAT Grandparent's Day celebration with or without your grandparents in attendance!

There are poems, coupon gift books, writing about grandparents, a song for entertainment, Roll a Grandparent game, plus more!  

We also just added this adorable activity in the update!

There's also a page to interview Grandpa as well as one where the grandparents get to interview their grand kids!  How fun!

If you already own this pack, please be sure and RE-DOWNLOAD it to get all the new goodies, plus the updated fonts, borders, and graphics!  It's SOOOOOO much cuter!

Happy Grandparent's Day!!!

It's Currently Time!

I just LOVE Farley's Currentlys each month!  I have to say we have been MIA the last few months, because, well, people..."We always seem to be SO LATE to the party that we figure nothing's left but the solo cups on the floor and tattered party streamers!  There is no FASHIONABLY LATE with Farley.   Honestly, I am pretty darn certain there may be a race to see who can be the first to link up...and sadly to say---we are clearly NEVER EVER gonna win!  :)

But this month...we are actually linking up on the FIRST day of the month and since Farley's linky is just not popular at all (yeah, right! ;)  I think we may be link number 200 already!  Way to be early stinkin' late again to the party!  But dang it...we are comin' anyway!!!

So...without any more crazy rambling...here it is!

Not sure what time zone you are in, but let's just say my husband is maybe more like cooking BRUNCH, or really---if we call it what it is---LUNCH--- in this time zone!  We went out of town for the weekend, stayed up too late every night, ran all day, and we got in last night at 2:00.  We sacked out and maybe didn't get up until after 11:00!  I LOVE THAT!!!!!!  So brunch, lunch, call it what you want...it's homemade sausage gravy and biscuits and that's good ANY time of day!

We finally reconnected with our SC friends and hung out a WHOLE 2 days!  We have missed them so much...especially the kiddos!  It was great to just hang out by the pool, mill about downtown Greenville, hit up some restaurants, and maybe end the night with some Marble Slab Creamery ice cream!

Today...it's do nothing day!  And we are EXCITED to finally get one!!!  The end!

It's been FAR too long since we had one...and I don't like it one bit people!!!!  Gotta fix that...and PRONTO!

Uggh!  Bills!  They get in the way of everything FUN!  We have been working to pay them off for a couple of years!  We are Dave Ramsay flunkies, but I promise we are finally getting REAL close...even if we were on the Dave Ramsay...5 year plan!!!

Travel...we love it!  It's been too long!  Ready to head out and do some exploring.  Looks like Costa Rica might be up first!

So...what are YOU up too?

Link up with Farley over at Oh Boy! Fourth Grade and let us know!

An exciting call!

Ok one last story from Vegas! We promise! Ok maybe just one more after this one, but this one is the BEST!

So, after the conference sessions there was a MEET and GREET with yummy snacks and refreshing beverages. As I was walking to the MEET and GREET, I decided to call Cristy and fill her in on the day! She was back in Georgia, wishing she was in Vegas and I was sad in Vegas, wishing Cristy was with me!!

Anyway, I was walking along and bumped into Deedee Wills. She is one of Cristy's absolute favorite TPT girls!! I quick handed the phone to Deedee!

Page and Deedee Will in Vegas

Cristy was so excited! You could just hear the excitement in her voice! TPT super stars were super down to Earth, amazingly SWEET and very informative!

Hope to see and meet more TPT and Blogging friends in Vegas next year!

A little inspiration!

Need a little inspiration?? Have you have ever had a bad day at school or wondered why you do what you do?
Here are 2 awesome videos to help you remember why you have the best job in the world! You are a teacher!! YOU make a DIFFERENCE!!! YOU MATTER!!!

For Students and Teachers!

A Pep Talk!

Let us know what you think about Kid President!! We think he is pretty special and AWESOME!!

TpT BOOST Sale - August 20th ONLY!

How much do we LOVE TpT?  They knew some teachers were not even THINKING about back to school a few weeks ago.

So what do they do...throw a 1 day BOOST sale to help out all those teachers just now planning on heading back for a brand new year!

And let's be honest...we've been back 2 1/2 weeks and are just now getting the dust to settle and figure out EXACTLY what resources we need for our NEW littles!  Thank goodness we have 1 more shot at some great deals here at the beginning of the year!

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 BOOST 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!  

Here are some items that may be perfect for back to school...

SAVE A TON!!! (40+%)

SAVE A LOT! (28%) 

We hope you snag some great deals that get your year started out right!  Happy shopping!