Anyone Want a Sweet Surprise Freebie ???

Yesterday was a great day!  I am so thankful and excited to have made 12 sales during the Super Sunday Sale on TPT!  I also gained a couple of followers.  Yay!!!!  

It might not sound like much to some, but I am thrilled!!  So......... because February is the month of love and because I am so happy about yesterday, I have extended my sale.........Everything will be 15% off until Tuesday!

Go check out my new Sweet February Math Centers up in my TPT store.

Now for the sweet surprise.... All you have to do is  follow my store and blog and leave me a comment below telling me you are a follower.  Don't forget to put your email in the comment and I will send you this sweet set of printable Valentine Notes!  That sounds like a deal to me!

                                                            

 Thanks!
Sharon

TPT Sale Extended......2/6/13

Because I love a sale and this is the month for love, I am extending my TPT sale one more day!

Click here to go to my store!

Penguins, Prepositions, and Persuasion!

The month of January just flew by....whew!! Check out some of the great things we did!

I used the Penguin Unit from Melissa Machan over at First Grade Smiles.  You can check it out here!  The students loved all the activities!  

Look at those cutie cute cute penguins.  I did not give them a pattern for them, nor did I tell them what size to make them.  Aren't they adorable?

Penguin writing.......I was so impressed with how much they learned from our penguin unit!

This great preposition anchor chart came from I {Heart} Teaching.  Check it out here!  My kids really liked it!

We also used this great Snowman Prepositional Phrases activity from Literacy Spark!  You can get it free here!  I forgot to take pictures of my kiddos actually doing the activity....duh!

We have also been working on persuasive letter writing.  We read these two books to get the kiddos thinking about what it means to persuade.  

I used this anchor chart from KinderGals.  You can get it free here!

I will also be using this great mini unit from Sarah's First Grade Snippets. Check it out here!

And the Winner is.............

The winner of my Snow Much Fun Math and Literacy Unit is.............

Since it was such a small amount of entries.....I am giving it to everyone who entered!

Thank you so much for participating!  I appreciate your following my blog and TPT store.  Glad we can now be blog buddies!

Sharon

Currently and A Little Shout Out Linky

I love Farley and haven't participated in one of her Currently posts in a long time so here goes.

I love contemporary Christian music...pretty much all I listen to these days!  I love Avalon!

Loving just hanging out and being lazy on this last Sunday of Christmas break. 

Thinking I don't know how I am going to get up in the morning.  My sleeping schedule gets so out of whack during long breaks....but I love staying up late stalking blogs, pinterest, TPT, and Facebook.

Wanting a new grill...well any grill.  I have really been wanting to learn how to cook on the grill but you gotta have one to do that!

Needing a new washing machine since mine decided to quit the day after Christmas!  Uggg...I hate buying stuff like washing machines and vacuum cleaners!

My OLW for this year is focus.  I want to focus on getting healthier, eating healthier, and my new TPT store.

I am also linking up with Growing Firsties and her Shout Out Linky to post about two blogs that have inspired me this year....one with more followers and one with fewer followers.

                               

Since moving to first grade this year, I haven't had a lot of time to comment on blogs......although I still regularly stalk many, many blogs.  

One blog in particular that has inspired me is A Turn to Learn.

She has lots of technology tutorials on how to do things in powerpoint that I have found helpful.  Especially the one on how to Make an Editable Powerpoint and Lockdown Clipart.

I am going to have to cheat a little on the blog with fewer followers.....I couldn't find one!  So I will just pick another blog that has been an inspiration.. First Grade Wow.

She has some awesome ideas.  Her Runaway Pumpkin Unit was adorable...as is all of her other units...and it is free!

Winter is Snow Much Fun Literacy and Math Unit.....Giveaway

I am so excited to have finished my first "unit" for TPT.  It is my Snow Much Fun Winter Literacy and Math Unit.  It is a unit created specifically for first grade but has some activities that would be appropriate for kindergarten and maybe second grade.

It took me a while to get it done but hopefully I will get faster at creating!

Anyway......because I am so so so so happy to have finished it, I am hosting a fast give-away for my unit. (My first give-away too....YAY!!!)

All you have to do is follow my TPT store (here) and my blog (here).   Then come back here and leave me a comment telling me you are a follower. Make sure you leave your name and email address in a comment too! I will choose a winner on Monday, January 7 at approximately 4:00 pm eastern time.

Good Luck!!

Here is a preview of the unit!

Reindeer Research, Grinch Day, and Ornament fun!

December has been super busy in first grade! We had our second benchmark test this month. Whew...glad to be done with that!! We began the month reading and discussing informational books. Then we decided to do our own research on reindeer. We read several books on them and then wrote about everything we learned. We labeled a reindeer, did a fact and opinion t-chart, and made a little reindeer book all from Melissa Machan at First Grade Smiles...all of which I forgot to take pictures of!  Why????  We made a cute little reindeer I got off Pinterest to go with our writing.

We also had Grinch Day this week. We watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and did some Grinchy adjective work.  I got the ideas from Made for First Grade.  We also colored a hidden Grinch picture from Lil' Country Kindergarten which I forgot to take a picture of...ugh!  We made the Grinch Grin from Deanna Jump....yet again...no picture!!  We ended the day by drinking Grinch punch and ate Grinch cookies.

On Monday of this week, I had some awesome parent volunteers come and help us make ornaments. They turned out so cute!

Colorful snowflakes!

This cute paper tree came from Parents magazine.

Rudolph ornaments!

On a side note....I sold my first two items on TPT last week!  I am so excited.  If you get a chance, go check out my store.  I will be posting several winter fun activities over the holiday.

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a restful break!!

Sharon

Snowflake Counting Math Center Freebie

Hey everybody!

I have another little freebie for ya!  It is a Snowflake Counting Math Center to practice counting objects 11-20.  Click here to go to my TPT store to get it.  If you like the center, please leave me some feedback.  My store is new and in serious need of some love!! :0)

 

I am also working on a Winter Math and Literacy Unit specifically for first grade skills.  I already have alphabetical order, compound words learning center, contractions memory game, addition and subtraction story problems, dice addition and subtraction math center, and dice addition worksheets.  What other kinds of activities would you like to see?  I was thinking maybe a printable reader, fact and opinion cards, and telling time.  Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Sharon

New FREE item in my TPT store

Here is another freebie from my new TPT store!  Enjoy!

Click here it get it!

Freebie and New TPT Store

I finally did it!!  I created my TPT store and made some items to sell.  It was sooooooooooo much harder that I had ever dreamed it would be.  I have been exceptionally worried about making sure everything I use is credited properly and that I haven't infringed on any intellectual property or copyright,  So worried in fact, that it has taken me forever to just get a couple of items up.   It is a scary world out there in TPT land!!

Right now I only have a few things posted but come check it!  Here is a little freebie just for checking out my store!

                                                    Click here to get your freebie!