My Blogiversary Mega Giveway Winners

Sorry I am late drawing for my winners. I have had a lot going on this week - IEP meetings, SIT meetings, etc. 

Without further delay, here are the winners of my 1 year blogiversary giveaway!

We will be emailing you soon with your prizes. Thanks so much for following my blog and entering my giveaway!

Writer's Workshop Wednesday: Labeling things & parts

We are using our new reading series - Houghton Mifflin Journeys for our writers workshop. For the past 2 weeks, we have been working on drawing and labeling our pictures with nouns for things and labeling parts of things. Here are some pictures of our writing.

Giveaway Reminder

Just want to drop by to remind you that my mega giveaway for my blogiversary ends tonight so please enter quickly if you haven't already!

Monthly Made-Its - October Edition

October is here, so here are my October Monday Made-It's. I didn't get as much completed this past month since I have been so busy with school, but here are the things I did get finished.

Classroom Made-It #1: Tidy Trash Tubs
I printed these labels from Rowdy in Room 300 and laminated them before hot gluing them to these plastic buckets. I found the buckets for $1.00 each at our local Family Dollar in the seasonal section. I made one for each table in my classroom for a total of 5. They are so functional and my kinders know to get them for their tables when we are doing a cutting activity. It keeps the mess around our room down to a minimum and it helps my kinders practice recycling the scrap paper since we have a new recycling program in our school.

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Classroom Made-It #2: Paint Chip Word Wall Words
I don't remember which blog I saw these on, but I know I saw them on Pinterest too. I got my paint chips from Walmart and got a few of each color to start with. Then I typed up our word wall words and cut them out in the shape of the word. I found the words showed up best on bright/dark colors. This is the word we are doing this week in Journeys. I didn't take a picture of the others...sorry!

Home Made-It #1: Fall Subway Art
This may not count as a Made-It since I just printed a free subway art sign from Pinterest and framed it, but I LOVE it. It looks great sitting on my mantel with my fall decor.

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I am linking up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics for her October Monthly Made It linky party. Now I am off to see what other great things other bloggers have made this month.

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Please don't forget to enter my 1 year blogiversary! It ends tomorrow night at midnight!

Apples Aplenty! Apples Galore!

This past week, my kinders worked on one of my favorite units - my apple unit. These are some pictures from our week.

Frugal Finds

Last night, I went with a friend on a "quick" trip to Target (probably my FAVORITE store!). Yeah right! We can never make a "quick" trip anywhere! We always find lots to look at! :)

While we were there, we had to make a trip through the Dollar Spot. We noticed that the selection was rather slim (I guess they are changing over their seasonal merchandise) and they had some of their Dollar Spot items marked down to 50% off making them $0.50 each. When we got to checkout we discovered they were actually 70% off making them only $0.30 each. I only purchased a few things but they sure were a great deal!

Here are the items I purchased for $0.30 each:

These tin pails have chalkboard labels painted on so I can label what is in each container. I love it!

These are 3 little adhesive cork boards. I am going to put them around my room to hang notes that I need to see but can change out easily.

I also purchased a set of 4 plastic tumblers for my kinders to store their pencils in at their tables. I couldn't get the picture of them to load. Sorry!

While wandering in the store, we went through the Back to School section where some items were on clearance as well. I found a couple of great buys there too!

These student scissors have 2 per pack and I got them for $0.43 per pack. These scissors were originally $1.50 per pack. WOW!! I got 14 packs to allow for up to 28 students which only cost me a little over $6. I have been needing new scissors for my kinders but didn't want to spend $30 on them!

I found these 6 packs of pink erasers for $0.92. They were originally $1.84. I got 5 packs so I could give each of my kinders a new eraser. Erasers seems to disappear in our room...LOL!

Friday Freebie: Labeling Parts of an Apple

Since we have been working this week on both labeling parts of objects as well as my apple unit. This was the perfect addition to our week. This is a simple activity sheet that has the kids practice labeling the main parts of the apple. Each child is given the apple sheet and a strip of labels to cut out and glue.

Click on the picture to download this activity from TpT.
Please let me know if you can use this too! I love hearing from you!

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What I'm Loving Wednesday

I have so much that I am loving this week. Today is Johnny Appleseed's birthday so I love the apple unit that I have been doing this week with my kinders.

I love that it is officially fall even though it is still very warm here in SC. I have started decorating for the fall season and I love all of it. Today, I am sharing some pictures with you of my decorations at home. I love incorporating fall into my house.

Top of living room shelf

 

Dining room table

End of kitchen counter

Fall is such a beautiful time and I love this time of year for so many reasons. I love seeing the leaves change colors, the cool down (some what) in temperatures, and of course I love watching college football!

My 1 Year Blogiversary!

Today makes the 1 year anniversary of me starting my little kindergarten blog! Wow! I can't believe it has been 1 year since I started this journey! Boy the time has flown by! I have learned so much and met so many great teachers who have taught me so much!

In honor of my 1 year anniversary, I am having a huge giveaway with some great products by some of my favorite bloggers! So here is the list of fabulous goodies:

My fellow SC blogger Amanda at Teaching Maddeness is giving away her Set of Non-Fiction Text Features Signs Set from Teacher's Clubhouse.

Lacey from Wild About Teaching is giving away her Apples unit.

Lori from Teaching with Love and Laughter is giving away her Kindergarten and First Grade Writing Forms.

Mrs. Cupcake at A Cupcake for the Teacher is giving away her Perfect Pumpkins Pack.

Debbie from K is for Kinderriffic is giving away 0-20 Number Posters pack.

Leslie at KindergartenWorks is giving away the choice of one item from her Teachers Notebook shop.

Jen from Jen's KinderKids is giving away the choie of 1 item from her TpT store.

Marie from The Hands-On Teacher is giving away the choice of 1 item from her TpT store.

Tangelia from Buggy in Kindergarten is giving away her Now I Know My ABCs Phonics Packet.

Erin from Creating & Designing is giving away her On The Farm unit.

Cara is giving away the book: The Response Revolution.

I am giving away a choice of either my Common Core Math Assessments Pack or 2 of my Calendar Sets.

Here are the important details for entering my giveaway:
1) Follow my blog
2) Follow my TpT store
3) Follow these wonderful teaching blogs
4) The giveaway ends at midnight on Oct. 2nd.

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Thanks so much for being such wonderful followers and friends! I love hearing from all of you!

Limeades for Learning Voting (Donors Choose)

As I have said several times since starting my blog, I am a HUGE fan of Donors Choose. They have helped me get much needed items in my classroom without having to purchase them with my own money.

With that being said, I am a Sonic teacher and beginning today, there is a voting contest called Limeades for Learning going on. I would love it if you could vote for my project to help it get funded. The voting begins today and ends on Oct. 29th. You can only vote once per day per email address. The projects with the most votes will win funding by Sonic. Thanks in advance for you help!

Just click on the picture below to vote!

Sundays in the South: Halloween Fun Unit

Sorry that I have been MIA for the past few days. My hubby's brother just bought a house and we have been helping him clean and move in.

This week I finished my new Halloween unit and posted it today on TpT and TN for $5.00. This unit includes 27 pages of activities to use that are aligned to the Kindergarten Common Core standards. Included in this unit are literacy center activities, math center activities, and activity sheets.

Language arts activities:
-Halloween Costume writing paper (2 versions)
-Favorite Halloween Candy writing paper (2 versions)
-Matching uppercase to lowercase letters center activity
-Trace, write & glue sight words activity sheets (2 versions)

Math activities:
-Matching sets to numbers game
-Sequencing numbers 1-10 activity sheet
-Tracing numbers 0-20 activity sheet
-Writing numbers 0-20 activity sheet
-Sequencing jack-o-lanterns by size activity sheet
-Counting jack-o-lanterns activity sheet
-Comparing jack-o-lanterns activity sheet

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Friday Freebie: Apples Counting activity sheet

I love teaching my apples unit every year so Johnny Appleseed's birthday next week (Sept. 26th) is the perfect excuse to teach about apples.

Next week, my kinders will be doing this counting sheet where they will circle the correct number for each box. This activity sheet was created with an old Carson Dellosa clipart cd.

Apple Counting activity sheet

I hope you can use this freebie too! Please let me know if you download and how you use this activity sheet!