Word of the DAY and New Year SALES and FREEBIES!

Today- Jan.2 is the last day of our sale. Grab these Word of the Day products to start your New Year back at school. Just click on the picture below to check them all out or keep scrolling down this page and read all about them.:) Grab your FREEBIE at the end and we wish you the best as you start back to school!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

 We were so excited to tell ya'll about the savings you get over at Educents, including our Word of the Day Calendar Bundle! It is 67% off! Your kiddos will be introduced to a word a day on each calendar piece, as well as a math pattern that builds. There is a teacher's guide for the whole group activities as well as the student calendars.

Just click on the picture below to purchase:

 Here are a few journal entries using our calendar words.

The students like to do a pair and share where they talk about the words.

The kiddos also enjoy sharing what they wrote. It is a great communication tool, especially for your ELL students because they are learning the language as they learn these words.

  Here are some of the writing my students have done through the year using these calendar words. The words give them confidence as well as helps them to stay on topic.

 This shows where one of my students needed some help choosing 5 calendar words to write about, so he wrote the words on top of the page. I love this idea! Kids can be so smart!

 As you can see, I used my student's idea with other students and it helped them so much!

 This was how much the writing improved in my first grade classroom as we used these calendar words!

 I also noticed how my students started pointing out the calendar words in other places. This little girl pointed to "blizzard" in her book and said," Look, Mrs. Beckner!, it is one of our calendar words, and now I know what this word means!" How exciting it was to see her remember one of our calendar words that we had done a few months before she read this book:) YAY!!

 We also have our store on sale 20% off Jan.1 and 2, so it would be a good time to get our other Word of the Day products that help to reinforce these monthly words.

You could also pick up the Word of the Day Brain Bounce games that go with these words:
Each card has a question about these words so you could use it as discussion cards, exit cards, as a Scoot game, read around the room cards or as our Brain Bounce game, which our kiddos love because they like to break up into teams.

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We also have each Word of the Day product for the  month sold separately, so if you want to try a month to see how you like them.

This is our Quality Quest game. Your kiddos will have fun finding word chunks in these calendar words.

We added little magnifying glasses last month and our kiddos loved it! We told them that they were "word detectives"

This is the January Word Order Activities where the students cut out little snowballs with the words and manipulate them to place them in correct sentence order, glue them, copy the sentence, illustrate it and answer a bonus question. There is also a teacher guide to give ya'll  teaching ideas.

 This bonus question was "How were you a quality student?"

We also have a fun Memory game with the calendar words on cute cards. It is only a dollar!

We also have many bundles and units that include our original MP3 songs about the subjects like, Community Helpers, Goods and Services, Wants and Needs, Plants, Five Senses, and Money.

We also have many SCOOT games, so we hope that ya'll will check out our store and if you see things you like, please follow us so you will be notified of all our sales and promotions:)

We also love any recommendations of what you would like to see songs about or what Scoot games we could add for ya'll.   

Grab this Blends Scoot Game if you haven't already as a thank you for ya'lls support!

Ya'll can also grab this fun song! It really has helped our students to behave like "quality" students:)

We are new at this blogging thing so what things would ya'll like us to blog about? 

Thank you so much for all your support!

Ring in the New Year with Great Deals and a GiveAway!

We have joined up with some awesome teachers and we are excited to tell ya'll we are bringing in the New Year with great deals and a TPT Gift Card GiveAway!

We hope ya'll have enjoyed these 3 days of promotions and have gotten some great products to start your New Year:)      We also are having a 20% off of our store items Dec.31-Jan. 2 to help ya'll with starting back to school in 2015! 

 Just leave a comment here on our blog about your favorite part of this promotion so we can do something like this again or you can leave an idea of what you would like for us to do for our next promotion:) , and we will select a winner for our Coin unit. It is a 4 week unit that has these fun books ya'll can use at a math center with coins. Our kiddos love them! They also love seeing Quentin the Quality Penguin on some of the sheets.


You can click on the picture below to see more:

 This is a fun game that we are offering ya'll today as a thank you for this year's support! So, thank you from the bottom of our hearts:)
Just click on the picture to grab and we hope you will leave a nice comment when you download:) We appreciate that! We would also love you to follow our store if you aren't a follower, and if you are one-thank you!!  When you follow us, you  will be notified of all our fun FREEBIES and new products coming up. We would also love for you to follow us here on our blog so you will see all the fun things we will be doing in class this New Year!

Today's Deal: Dec.31- Bundle Sales! Check all of them out here:

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Get our entire year's worth of Brain Bounce games. These games have task cards that ask questions about monthly words. Get them all for just $15.00 today! This is more than 50% off:)

Just click on the picture below to purchase.

Here are a few samples and ya'll can scroll down and look under the Jan. Brain Bounce picture and see how we used these cards in class.

Remember it is the last day to enter the GiveAway to win a $25 TPT Gift Card!

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Our Brain Bounce game helps your kids practice addition, subtraction, greater than, and less than. This great math game is one of our new Brain Bounce games that facilitate ELA and Math skills for your kids. You can also use these cards in a center or as a Scoot game.

Included:
-24 Cards
-Directions to Brain Bounce
-Recording and Answer sheets 

Just click on the picture to purchase:

 Money Scoot is a fun and exciting game that gets all of your students moving. It can be used as a preview to see what your students already know about money or as a review of money or as an assessment after teaching about
counting money to 50¢. There are task cards that just have one kind of coin so you can also see if students can count just pennies, nickels or dimes and task cards that mix the coins. 

Includes:
Directions to Money “Scoot”
24 task cards and 4 Take a Break Cards if you have more than 24 students
A recording sheet
Answer Key

Here is the second deal for today: When ya'll buy January Word Order, you get Word Crumbs for free.  Just leave me a comment with your email when you buy it on Dec.30  here or on my Facebook  and I will email you the Crumbs for free! 

Just click on this picture to go to my Facebook page: We would love for you to follow us if you haven't already, so you can find more deals and activities:) We post FREEBIES and craft ideas as well. Check us out.

Just click on pictures to purchase:

Here are a few samples from other Word Order Activities:

 This is a sample of how one of my kiddos answered the bonus question. There is a bonus question on each page. There is also a teacher guide.

The kiddos can manipulate the word pieces before they glue them in order.

Here are a few samples of our Dec. Word Crumbs.

 My kiddos loved using little magnifying glasses with them. It made this center so much fun! I told them they were word detectives:)

Dec.29th deals:

 These are a few journal entries that my kiddos did using our word of the day calendars.

 Here are a few writings that my ELL students did last Jan. using these calendar words.

Here are a few more Jan. writings using words from this calendar. My kiddos really enjoy having these words to help them with their writings.

My kiddos love to share their calendar notebooks!

We also have the entire year's worth of calendars over 54% off at a special sale at Educents, so it is a great time to grab all of them now.

Just click on the picture below to purchase:

This is our Brain Bounce game that has task cards that ask questions about our January Calendar words. My kiddos love playing this game because they like to break into teams to play.

This is my awesome ELL teacher! She is asking one of her ELL students a question from our bounce game. She said that these Word of the Day products have helped her students to understand content area vocabulary.

We have also used these cards as a read around the room activity.

 You could use the game cards for Scoot as well.

And our last product on sale today is: Some fun word problem task cards.

 These cards are great for a math center! There are also fun fish manipulatives included as well as a pond to put the fish in.

 Click on this link to win a chance at a $25 TPT Card:

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!