tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63493460121696534552024-03-17T21:02:51.047-06:00kindergarten kidletsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-71814244172277686882014-09-15T21:04:00.000-06:002014-09-15T21:04:59.531-06:00Moving Right Along...We just finished day 14 today, 14 days! I must say on day four I was concerned if my sanity would make it to day 14. I compare training a new set of kinders to the third trimester of pregnancy. If you remembered all of the discomfort of the end of pregnancy and the pain of childbirth you would hesitate to suffer through it again but once you see that sweet baby all that pain and discomfort is worth it. That is what the first 10-14 days of kinder are like, PAIN.FUL. But then after a few days of what feel like herding cats they can make a line, respond to your attention signal, transition from their seats to the carpet without running and somersaults.... ahhhhh. Then the real teaching can begin and I fall in love with my new classes of kinders and I remind myself that those first 10 days were worth every painful moment. <br />
I love my job, LOVE. and now that we are getting into our routines I am very excited for a fabulous year.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-1481284381751693102014-09-01T22:53:00.000-06:002014-09-01T22:53:26.512-06:00New Year.... Classroom revealI really dropped the ball completely as far as my blog was considered last year. I had no choice. I apologize, if there are any readers left out here to apologize to. It was quite a year for our little family. I just needed to be more present for my kiddos and my hubby as we all went through quite a transition. <br />
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I am about to begin my second week with my kinders tomorrow. It is hard to comprehend that we survived last year and are staring over again. I must admit this year has had a pretty smooth start (knock on wood). For the most part I kept my classroom the same as it was last year, sans my teacher desk. I HATE having a teacher desk, it just becomes a clutter collector. Here are a few pics of this year's classroom.<br />
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PS this little man is making kindergarten extra special this year!</div>
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I get to have my own sweet boy in my class this year. I have to admit I was more than a bit nervous about how he would do (and how I would do) but so far it has been pretty great (other than him trying to take his shoes off all day, he hates shoes!) </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-3716857102709342892013-11-05T22:09:00.001-07:002013-11-05T22:10:00.059-07:00I'm ALIVE! & Looking... <div style="text-align: center;">
I don't even think attempting to catch up is possible. I have been so busy getting moved, starting a new school year, helping hubby start his FIRST school year (as a teacher at least), helping my kids get settled in in a new area, with new friends to meet, and a new church to attend. Add to that my mother in law moving in and construction in the basement to get her space set up and ready.... which should FINALLY be done in the next 2 weeks!!! Whew. I am still not all unpacked (because well we closed the first week of school on our house of course) I have just been in survival mode, it was all the energy I had to teach, keep the laundry done, dishes clean, and food in the fridge. </div>
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Why has this change been SO HARD for me??? Oy! Anywho... I am loving my new school, I am LOVING my cute classes, and I am loving our new home! My little kids are loving their new preschool and my BIG girl is beyond happy with her fabulous first grade teacher... all is well! Since backing up and telling you all that my kinders and I have been up to this year is just NOT happening here is a peek at what we did TODAY.</div>
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We read this Book:</div>
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Have you read it? It is MARVELOUS! In my new district we teach Journeys, which is great (it is taking some getting used to switching from Treasures to Journeys, but they are both good programs) sorry, tangent. Anyway in Journeys this week we are learning about our 5 senses, perfect intro to science and the scientific method! So we read this fantastic book to enhance our 5 senses study and THEN...</div>
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We put on some of THESE:</div>
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Do you see what this cute face has on? They are just 3D glasses, sans lenses, perfect "lookers" once they were all wearing a pair of "lookers" we went out "looking". The kids had so much fun looking and then writing about what they could see. I honestly believe that class should take place outside more often than it does! How do you introduce senses and science? I would love to hear your ides (that is is any of you are still out there what with my prolonged sabbatical and all.)</div>
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On an unrelated note my student teacher starts tomorrow, I have not decided as of yet if that means I will have more time or less time on my hands... but from what I can tell she is beyond fantastic and I am very excited to get to know her better!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-82935383987032198312013-08-15T10:23:00.001-06:002013-08-15T10:30:44.228-06:00one week and counting!I have been MIA, this move is killing me! We are STILL waiting for our new house to close (it was supposed to close July 26th) and living in Grandma's basement without WiFi is BRU.TAL. Being 200+ miles from my friends is HARD. Staring at a new school and a new district with different ideas is unsettling. BUT I can do this and I really am excited for a new school year.<br />
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Since I can't move into a house yet... which sooooo I wish I could, I have been getting my classroom ready. School starts one week from TODAY (which with my luck will also be the day we finally close on this house). So here is a sneak peak of what I have been up to, sorry about the crappy cell phone pics, who knows where my camera got packed!<br />
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I have been so busy with moving, changing schools, etc. this summer I have hardly had a moment to blog. I feel bad, so to make amends I am offering a FREEBIE. <br />
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These are my Running Record Sheets, I love them! Feel free to snag your own copies! Just click on the image below to head over to my TpT shop!<br />
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Okay, now that I feel better I am off to finish packing! It is moving day tomorrow and I have LOTS to do before that big truck arrives!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-54323974245536374542013-07-05T16:54:00.001-06:002013-07-05T18:35:47.918-06:00Planning and prayer through a mini disaster...<div style="text-align: center;">
As you may know because I may have mentioned we are <a href="http://kindergartenkidlets.blogspot.com/search/label/changes" target="_blank">moving</a>. </div>
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I am realizing that once we move in exactly 10 days life will be hectic (haha, as if it isn't now!) and summer will be O.V.ER. much, much, much too quickly! </div>
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We move our stuff into storage (250 miles away) July 15, drive back to St. George to party with some friends and close on July 22nd. </div>
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(Please pray everything goes well for CLOSING we just had a home inspection today and discovered our water heater has been leaking for WEEKS and are now in the middle of major water heater repairs as well as tearing out sheetrock that is more than a little moldy, precisely what I needed today! This was <i>NOT</i> in the budget!!!) </div>
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Then we are to turn around and drive those 250 miles once again to make the FINAL move and close on our new house on July 26th. </div>
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We have meetings at both of our schools Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the next week, then a full week of New Teacher Induction (how I loathe that I have to go to a full week of new teacher induction meetings after teaching for 10 years), then we have a week before school starts! Panic. </div>
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Everything is depending on the fact that this house SELLS, it has to sell!!! </div>
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In an attempt to make me feel <strike>better</strike> so much more stressed out, everyone keeps telling me their moving horror stories, how their house took 6 months to close, how they went through 4 buyers before they finally sold, how their moving truck got in an accident on the freeway and all their belongings were scattered across I-15... fabulous. How do <i>your</i> horror stories help me relax??? How?</div>
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So how do I deal with my stress? I plan. <br />
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Yep, while work men tore out my water heater and dealt with the NASTY mold I sat inside and worked on my planning pages. <br />
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(While my kids had a lunch of Popsicles, Goldfish crackers, and Hawaiian Punch. Please don't judge too harshly.)<br />
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It got my mind off of how much this is going to cost me, on top of how much everything else is costing me, uugh. On top of the fact that I am so far away I can't unpack my classroom, or decorate, or run copies, or, or, or! And once I get up there I have to do all of that and unpack a house, and get 3 kids settled, and have both hubby, daughter, and I ready for a new school year. Moving may just cause my mental break down if it doesn't bankrupt us.<br />
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I had to remind myself that this will all be worth it, that I KNOW this is where the Lord wants us to go, that there is a plan I do not yet fully understand.<br />
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Have you tried them??? Have you heard of them??? They are A.MAZ.ING! </div>
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I am having an <a href="http://kmabb.jamberrynails.net/" target="_blank">ONLINE PARTY</a> and I would love for you to check them out! </div>
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If you are like me you LOVE to have your nails painted but you teach kindergarten (or some other equally as nail thrashing of a grade level), you are a mommy, you have a house to keep clean, and your pretty mani looks chipped and awful by the end of the first day. (I HATE THIS) </div>
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I love them! LOVE. So do my girls, they have jamberry juniors for kiddos under 8, and they are adorable!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-73339048166207022192013-06-25T10:36:00.004-06:002013-06-25T10:38:57.550-06:00Story Bots...Ta Da!I LOVE Story Bots! My kinder kiddos LOVE Story Bots! My four year old has begged for Story Bots all Summer, and now comes up to me and says crazy things like, "Mom, did you know that birds, bears, and bread sticks all start with Bb!" I love it!!! <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-63814572894132424552013-06-20T17:29:00.000-06:002013-06-20T17:29:07.306-06:00Throwback Thursday: the e-beam<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am throwing back to last fall when I told all my bloggy buddies (YOU) about one of my FAVORITE techie gadgets, the<i><a href="http://www.e-beam.com/home.html" target="_blank"> E-BEAM</a></i>! In my new room I have a Promethean board and so no e-beam will be needed but I have to say I loved my e-beam (hubsters is trying to get a grant for one in his choir room next year) and I highly recommend them! It was nice having all the benefits of an interactive whiteboard while still having the use of my actual whiteboard! Best of both worlds....<br />
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Despite the fact that it was the first day of Kindergarten today, and I am beyond exhausted... anyone else ALWAYS up the night before the first day??? I can NEVER sleep! I also made the mistake of wearing heels... ReAlLy?!?! What was I thinking... that was a rookie mistake and I am NOT a rookie!</div>
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You see I wanted an interactive whiteboard... BADLY... but the money was NOT in the technology budget. My principal was able to get her hands on a bunch of these last year for a FRACTION of the cost of a SMART or Promethean Board. FRACTION. We are talking less than $500 people. It works with either ActiveInspire or SMART software and it is AWESOME. You see because it is just this teeny tiny little gizmo at the top of my whiteboard I still have my whiteboard. That is right, I still have my whiteboard! I don't know about you but there are times when I just need to take out and EXPO and write... with those other pricey boards, you can't expo on that surface... no way! I feel like I have the best of both worlds... love.</div>
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Just a few reasons I love SuMmEr:</div>
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Ready or not next year brings BIG and EXCITING changes for our family! I am so excited! I am so nervous, eek! I have to make new friends and colleagues (I have taught at the same school and lived in the same house for 8 years, it will be hard to start over). But, I can't wait, this transitional phase is HARD because hubsters and I just want to get up there and start getting settled. I am trying to remind myself to be patient and enjoy our last summer in BEAUTIFUL St. George. </div>
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Hubsters and I are road tripping, taking my first load of school stuff the 250-ish miles to what will soon be our new home town. He has a training at the Junior High he will be teaching at... I have LOTS of <strike>crap</strike> I mean fabulous and priceless items I cannot teach without, that need to be transported to my new classroom. So we are multitasking. Yesterday I walked into my new school as an official employee. It was fantastic! I met the secretary, the custodian, and saw what will be (because the other teacher is not quite out yet) my new classroom (it is fabulous). Did I mention I am still teaching kindergarten?!? Things couldn't be working out more perfectly. Hubby is in training today and tomorrow. He is meeting his new faculty and getting to see his choir room. I felt like I was dropping my baby off for his first day of school! I may have been more nervous than he was, hoping he made new friends... haha.</div>
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While he is training, I am at my bestie's mom's funeral, so sad. So glad I could be here though. We found out her mom had stage 4 cancer a week ago. The doctor's said she had a few weeks or months. I had planned on going over and helping out, or just bringing food, while we were here and hubby was busy with his things, I had no idea that I would be supporting her at the funeral instead. </div>
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My kiddos LOVE this song, every year! They BEG me to play it again and again, so I do if they earn it... yep, they have to earn it and then they sing along! The fifth grade teacher who shares a wall with me will be so glad to have someone else in my room next year who is not SCREAMING,<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951965657836881334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349346012169653455.post-76912039105626769062013-04-25T22:42:00.000-06:002013-07-05T16:55:13.361-06:00Change is inevitable.... so why is it so hard!?!Change. My life is in a state of flux, change, adjustment, transition... EEEK. It is exciting, overwhelming, and scares me to death!<br />
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I have had to begin my own job hunt because 250 miles is one heck of a commute! So for the first time in 9 years I am interviewing, applying, typing resumes, collecting letters of recommendation... I am starting over.<br />
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When I told my principal on Tuesday morning that hubby's job was official, and I was leaving, I cried... she cried... we hugged! I went back to my classroom and cried again.<br />
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When I told my team (the most fabulous kinder team that I have ever known and who make my job so much easier) they were so supportive, so amazing, and I think I may have cried again.<br />
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Today at the choir assembly they sang <i>For Good,</i> from<i> Wicked, </i> we all cried and then I got a lot of hugs.... I have taught at this school for 8 years. Since it was built in 2005. I have had 3 babies, taught 3 grade levels, worked, and laughed, and cried here. They are my second family. These last few weeks will be bittersweet, I know that we are supposed to move. I know without a doubt that the Lord has a plan for us and that this is part of our path... but change scares me to DEATH!<br />
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Now I just hope and pray that my new school, because I have faith I will find a job, will become family! That I will someday look at the faces around me and know that because of them I have been changed for good....<br />
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For now, I have a job to find and LOTS of packing to do! Kindergarten teachers are hoarders don't you know and I have LOTS of crap (I mean precious learning materials) to pack away before May 23rd. <br />
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These are the same caterpillars that we have in our room, which made watching the video even more amazing to the kiddos! I am happy to report that as of now all 10 caterpillars have successfully made it to the pupa stage! Woo Hoo! Last year we lost a couple during this critical transition!</div>
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To make our study of insects even more enjoyable we enjoyed this great yoga story when it was too chilly and windy to go outside last week... love watching the kids do yoga, adorable!</div>
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Hope you had a marvelous weekend, I have! My daughter and I went bike shopping (she just graduated from her training wheels, yep, she rode her bike without training wheels for the first time this weekend! I said my weekend was marvelous!) Now she and I can hit the town on our new bikes, she being so big and all! Spring in Southern Utah is heavenly. I only wish the weather were this nice in the summer time when I have time to fully enjoy it. By the time summer hits it will be 110 degrees and I will want to seek refuge in my air conditioned home! Every summer we have a day when the power goes out or the A/C unit ices over and I wonder how people lived here before electricity! uggh! I guess we better get our bike riding in while we still can! I love it! </div>
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These arrived yesterday at lunch! We start our insect unit on Monday so their timing was PERFECT!</div>
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See those teeny tiny caterpillars? Well when I got to school this morning they had doubled in size...<br />
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I rushed out the door with the kiddos on Thursday! Family was on their way into town, my 6 year old had a soccer game, it was Easter and I just needed to get OUT! I paid the price tonight... ugh! Centers to switch out, tables to scrub, homework to check and new packets to put together! Whew. I showed up to the school at 6 and didn't leave until after nine! The life of a teacher. </div>
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I am in a bit of denial that my Spring Break is over, real life has been hard to adjust to after waking up and falling asleep to the ocean every day for 6 days. I could go back tomorrow! I have decided listening to waves crash and smelling salty sea air is my happy place! Hubby and I had a wonderful, relaxing vacay! It was the perfect way to celebrate 10 amazing years together!</div>
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I spent a HUGE part of our trip HERE with my feet up, staring at the ocean outside my room, reading a book. HEAVEN! As a mom of 3 little kidlets and a full time teacher I don't have enough time in my life to just sit and read, I love love love having little kids but I have days when I am excited for that <i>someday</i> when they will be big and I will have time to just sit and read, no interruptions!<br />
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I may be obsessed with watching the ocean, that happens when you have grown up in a land locked state. So, now that the the trip is over... (insert sad sigh) I am freaking out that summer is right around the corner! Eeek! I have so much to do to get these kiddos ready for first grade! But mark my words, they WILL be ready!<br />
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We kicked it off with a visit from <a href="http://www.drcodykidsdental.com/" target="_blank">Dr. Cody</a> and his team. They do such a great job!<br />
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Next week is all about weather! I love this time of year, all my favorite units are in the second half of the year! Spring break is the second week of March and then plants, insects, dinosaurs, and ocean/desert animals! whew! Kindergarten Graduation will be here before I know it!<br />
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During one SEP my eyes just started to water, I looked like I was having a break down. The confused father sitting across from me smiled kindly. I reassured him that I was fine but my eyes were wigging out... I am not sure he believed me. My eyes are twitching, in front of parents, at SEP (parent-teacher) conferences and I am certain they all think I am CRAZY. The custodian asked me if I was feeling alright, it looked like I had been crying. I wasn't. People think I am having an emotional break down, which now I might because my eyes have gone CRAY-CRAY! For the first two days of SEP week (our version of parent-teacher conferences) there is NO KINDERGARTEN (the rest of the week they come-but it is shortened schedule) so we can fit in all of those conferences for our 40+ kidlets. The days are LOOONG. I feel more exhausted just sitting there talking to parents than I do when I am teaching. I have to talk too much. I get nervous. Do parents make you nervous? Even after 9 years of teaching parents make me nervous (I love them to pieces don't get me wrong and they are so very kind to me, they just make me nervous... anyone older than 5 seems to make me nervous). I have to read report cards upside down for 6+ hours and my eyes twitch. What the crappy-ness! At least I have kidlets back tomorrow, days are better with kidlets. Tomorrow we have a pediatric dentist coming to talk to us about dental health <i>and </i>our principal, staff developer, and librarian are coming in to perform a skit titled: <i>Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss</i>. It will be spectacular (they perform a new and exciting skit for us each year, written and directed by our lovely staff developer, who we lovingly call <i>Kitty</i>, even though her office is completely decorated in <i>Snoopy, </i>she is hilarious!). I am giddy with anticipation, maybe that is why my eyes are twitching... the thought of our pending production has me spinning!<br />
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Hurry! Just a few more days to enter my giveaway. The wonderful <a href="http://learningwithmrsleeby.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mrs. Leeby </a>is joining me and giving away one of her Spring Units, believe me you WANT this prize. </div>
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I have FINALLY made it to 100 followers! WHAT! It seems like it has taken forever for this little blog to reach that monumental milestone! In honor of this exciting moment I am having a GIVEAWAY!</div>
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What!?! Yep! One of my MOST requested items that people have seen on this little blog are those circle center signs hanging from my ceiling. I made them, but I couldn't share them due to the fact that I had used Thistle Girl clipart and I did not have a commercial license... boo hoo!</div>
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Fast forward to today and I have completely re-made those center signs and used the clipart from someone you may know:</div>
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If you haven't checked out Ashley's stuff do it, NOW! I adore her clipart!</div>
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So now that my center sign packs are new and fresh and using clipart that I can legally sell they are ready to giveaway to one lovely follower! </div>
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Each pack is ready for you to PRINT, post onto colored circles (I just use colored cardstock; that is how I sort my centers into groups: green=language arts, blue=other subjects, pink=play/discovery. My teammate posted hers onto colored circles from <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-4505-dots-on-turquoise-dots-10-jumbo-designer-cut-outs.aspx" target="_blank">CTP</a> and they turned out SOOOO cute!). However you post them I recommend making them double sided and laminating them!</div>
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Here I am as President Sumens with my pet zebra on the white house lawn.</div>
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After the video we solved some riddles about coins and then played Kagan style with a quiz, quiz trade all about MONEY! The kids had a BLAST learning about money today and hopefully we have those coins down because my daughter and I cannot seem to get this song out of our heads.... haha.<br />
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Oh and by the way, did you notice that I am almost to 100 followers?! It seems like it has been a looooong time coming! So I really want to plan a big giveaway... if you are interested in joining in leave me a comment below or send me an e-mail: mindysumens@gmail.com</div>
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