Giveaway Winners

Drum roll please.... And the winners are...

Ladies, I have emailed you!

And to everyone else who entered, check your email too.  I just couldn't help but say thank you for visiting my TPT store and taking the time to rate and leave feedback on one of my products!  I truly appreciate it!

I'm off to have some spring break fun with my kiddos!  The weather has been absolutely gorgeous this week.  My creative juices flowing, so I will have more gardening goodies to share later in the week! 

Spring Break, Finally! And a Giveaway!

Whew! I'm so happy to be on Spring Break this coming week!  I am looking forward to sleeping in, naps, a little reading, painting a few rooms, and working on some projects for my classroom!  My kids are working on a Spring Break Bucket List, so I'm sure my list will be growing!

Last week I started putting together some activities for our gardening and plants unit, but I didn't have much time to work on it during the week.  I finished my Green Thumb Math Work Stations, and just uploaded it to TPT!  It has 5 days worth of math journal prompts with manipulatives and 5 math work stations.  I absolutely love KMP Doodles Veggie Garden Clip Art!

Here's a peek at what's inside:

I would love to give away 3 copies of Green Thumb Math Work Stations!  Here's how to enter (3 chances):

          1. Follow my blog.

          2. Follow me on TPT.

          3. Download one of my free products on TPT and rate it.

Leave me a comment for each one.  Giveaway closes Monday night.

Yippy! I Won! And an Award

I was so excited to find out that I won the giveaway at Little Priorities! 

I won her new If You Give A... Books by Laura Numeroff Unit!  I love Laura Numeroff and I was thinking about adding her to our author studies for this last quarter!  It's a definite now!  If you haven't already seen her unit you must go check it out, and it's on sale right now!  Thank you Lori!

Also, Jessica at A Turn to Learn awarded me with 

Jessica has a great blog!  Thank you so much for the award! I'm truly honored!  She's a new blogger, so if you haven't visited her blog yet, pop on over and say "Hi," and follow her while you're there! You won't be disappointed!

I was previously awarded here, (the award seems to have disappeared from my sidebar - I'm not sure how long I can blame things on those sneaky leprechauns, but it's still March, so leprechaun shenanigans it is!)  So I'm not sure what the rules are in this instance, LOL! I'm sticking by the 15 lovely ladies that I previously passed this on to, and lots of them are newer bloggers too, so please, go check them out!

1. Joyul Learning in KC

2. A Differentiated Kindergarten

3. Ketchen's Kindergarten

4. Kinder Friendly

5. Primary Princesses

6. Wild About Teaching

7. Young & Lively Kindergarten

8. The Teacher Tattles

9. Klassy Kinders

10. Little Minds at Work

11. Learning with a Happy Heart

12. Kinder Creations

13. Kindergarten at Heart

14. Kindergarten Days

15. Peterson's Primary Peeps

I'm so looking forward to Spring Break!  All I can think about is sleep!  For those of you who haven't had break yet, hang in there!

Weather Activities (with feebies)

Our theme for the week is wild, wacky, wonderful weather. I wasn't going to make anything new for this week.  I have tons of weather related things, but when I started looking back through them there were a few skills that I really wanted to hit again before spring break.  For some of my little lovelies digraphs are finally starting to click, others can put the correct sound with the digraph, but they are only identifying the digraph when it's the initial sound.

Thus, the Rainy Day Digraph Sort was born.

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And some more freebies...

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A simple write the room with weather words.  There is one set of words, but the cards are slightly different.  The blue cards have the entire word, and the red cards have blanks that they must fill in when writing the word. I am planning to hang both sets and then let the kids know which color cards they are looking for.  There is also a recording sheet that will work for either set of cards.

Due to the size of our school and the need to give us all plan time our kids have science as a special.  I miss teaching science and incorporating it with the rest of the learning that goes on in our room.  It has been ridiculously windy here lately, so I thought it would be fun to do something with the wind.  I saw a wind sort on Little Giraffes and decided to set it up as a station this week.

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I have just opened my TPT store.  Everything is free, so if you download any of these freebies I would really love for you to rate them and leave me feedback!  Pretty, pretty please!  You could even follow my store while you're there!  I have also uploaded some of the other freebies from my blog, and will try to get the rest uploaded this week.

Thanks To Lacey at Wild About Teaching!

{I thought I posted this earlier in the week, those sneaky leprechauns must be at work!}


Lacey at Wild About Teaching! had a flash giveaway this week, and I won her Counting On Flashcards! Yea for me! And my kiddos! They absolutely loved them! I mean loved them! Like "Mrs. Krull, we finished our station, so can we PLEASE do the counting on cards" loved them.

If you haven't seen Lacey's Counting on Cards you can check out her post about them here and you can get you very own set from Wild About Teaching's Teachers Pay Teachers store!  She has all kinds of goodies you should really check out!

Thanks again, Lacey, for a great activity that my kids LOVE!

St. Patrick's Day Fun

We have been having lots of fun this week.  We are fascinated with all things green, and sneaky little leprechauns!


I have been bad about snapping photos, but here's a peek at some of our literacy work stations.

Making a list of green things

Pot of Gold Mini book from Scholastic

See the post about these goodies here

We did our syllable sort in the pocket chart as a whole group and then students have been practicing during work stations.  Some groups started making their own syllable cards to add to our sort.  They are always so motivated to create and add to our current stations.

Syllable Sort can be found here

We are also doing a St. Patrick's Day themed write the room.

St. Patty Write the Room Recording Sheet

We also brainstormed adjectives to describe our sneaky little leprechaun friend and completed a bubble map that we will be using tomorrow for students who choose to write leprechaun stories during writer's workshop.

Leprechaun Bubble Map

And at our math work stations we continued with the theme.

Fill Your Pot from Musings of Me - can't seem to find her blog anymore :(

Surveys are always a hit, and I tried to sneak in a bit more practice with adding and subtracting fluently to 5.

Potato Survey

We also practiced ordering numbers in a pocket chart.  I use a multiplication pocket chart that I have folded down to make a hundred chart.  They can also practice counting by 5s and 10s in the smaller pocket charts.  The cards are sized smaller to fit the multiplication chart we use, but feel free to grab them below if you like.

St. Patty Number Ordering

We also sorted, graphed, and practiced addition with Lucky Charms.

Tomorrow and Friday we are hitting inferring hard as we follow clues hunting for the leprechauns pot of gold.  Hope everyone is having a great week!

Jeannie over at Kindergarten Lifestyle is hosting a linky party so that K-2 bloggers everywhere can unite, or at least find one another.  There are so many fabulous new blogs out there that it's hard to keep up with them all. Jeannie will also be creating a Pinterest board with all of the blogs that link up too!  What are you waiting for, hop on over and check it out!

 Now, I'm off to visit the linky and find some new blogs to stalk:)