Giveaway & Facebook...

I love all my fabulous followers!

Hurry!  Just a few more days to enter my giveaway.  The wonderful Mrs. Leeby is joining me and giving away one of her Spring Units, believe me you WANT this prize. 

I am also giving away copies of my Center Signs. 

Cick HERE to enter!

And FYI, I finally broke down and added a facebook page!  

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100 Follower Giveaway!

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!

5 lucky followers will get a copy of my Center Signs!

CENTER SIGNS!

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!

Fast forward to today and I have completely re-made those center signs and used the clipart from someone you may know:

If you haven't checked out Ashley's stuff do it, NOW!  I adore her clipart!

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!  

I have put them into 2 packs

grades 1-5: This pack focuses mainly on literacy centers 

Prek-K: This pack has it all, everything from the above pack as well as science, math, blocks, puppets, you name it!

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 CTP and they turned out SOOOO cute!).  However you post them I recommend making them double sided and laminating them!

You can see my current (with the Thistle Girl clipart) center sign at the top of this picture)

Also ONE lucky follower will get this AMAZING unit from the wonderful Mrs. Leeby

(click the image below to see this unit at her TpT store)

So without further ado... 

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How do you plan...

I am linking up... let's be honest I am hoping to be a giveaway winner, who doesn't love Erin Condren?  Sign me up.... {{swoon}} I am a planner, and I LOVE MY  PLANNER but an Erin Condren planner, that is beyond love, and beyond the teaching budget... enter giveaway.

Head over to Jessica's blog to link up with how you plan and enter her great giveaway to win a $25 giveaway to Erin Condren... me, me, me!!!

Okay... planning.

I am a binder kind of girl.  I have tried so many pre-made plan books, binders, etc. over the past 9 years... so many.  The awful planner you get from  the school, an adorable planner from CTP, that I had to write the exact same things in every week, over and over and over... It wasn't until I became a Reading Recovery teacher that I fell in love with the binder.  Something about keeping all my lessons in a binder, being able to add pages, etc. etc. etc.

Fast Forward to today.

I make my own planning pages.  I hate having my guided reading and weekly planning in separate places.  I have been teaching long enough now my plans are more like reminder notes, I don't need a lot of space.  (The first few years of teaching my plans were.... detailed... very, very, very detailed.  This system would not have worked then.)

Here are a few snippets of my planning system.

Above: Pictures of my planner.  I chose to print in black/white (just to save some ink) but if you click on my planning labels to the side or just out my TpT store you can find lots of my planning pages for FREE!  Happy Planning.

Sidenote: I go back to school on Monday, eek.  So much to do.  I am hoping to post a classroom tour over the weekend of the finished room.

Classroom Progress and a 50 Follower Giveaway!

Yesterday I headed over to my classroom to get a few more things finished... with the help of my five year old we got a lot done in an hour and a half.

 Look at how organized my cupboards are, moving all of my stuff (again) is really forcing me to decide what I need and what I can recycle... I recycled a ton!  Oh and do you see my cute new plastic bins over on the right there... I go them at the Target dollar spot, I am way excited to have a place to keep magnets, my projector remote and interactive whiteboard pen, and my markers and eraser!

I am getting my center chart ready for a new year, I had to re-make all of my titles for my back wall, the old ones were just too faded and didn't survive the move.  My new titles are all sitting in a giant pile to laminate, but I will post pictures when they are all done.

Room in progress, so much still to do but it is starting to look complete... I am excited for my new word wall, I have had to be super creative with a smaller space and putting it above my cabinet was my sweet daughter's idea, I LOVE it!

I have seen a lot of posts lately about birthdays.  I give each kidlet one of these cute bags and a birthday crown.  I make them all during the summer and then keep them in my cupboard to pull out when needed.

My final big project this week, I am getting my first day kits put together.  I actually give them to parents at their child's kindergarten testing appointment so that they have the kit for the first day.  That way they can log onto Barnes and Noble Storytime and listen to the story The Kissing Hand together.

Now that you are all caught up on what I have been up to.... the giveaway!  While I was sitting in class today I reached 50 followers!  I am so very excited and can hardly believe that in 3 weeks I have reached 50 followers, I have to say I have loved joining the blog world.  There are some amazing teachers out here in the blogosphere and I feel lucky to be a apart of it!  So without further ado, my very first giveaway!  I am going to give three lucky followers a copy of  My Picture Word Journal.  Just enter the rafflecopter below.  Remember to follow my blog and leave me a comment!


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