New Beginnings and a FREEBIE!

Hey Y'all!

 So it is a new year and Brittany and I have several 2015 beginnings that we are excited about!

First, yes I have taken the tree in the background of this picture down and I even have put all the Christmas decorations put away!

As you can see, Santa brought me a fit desk so I will be working on weight loss as I create new and great products for you in 2015:)

This is Brittany and her husband Kevin and they are at their baby shower, and of course, being a teacher, she is very pleased with the books!  This is her first baby and my first grandchild so we are very excited! She is due Feb.15 so we will be sharing baby pictures soon:) They were so blessed with gifts for this baby!

I can't wait to see my sweet little granddaughter in this cute coat and all the darling clothes that she got.

This is our newest Scoot game for 2015 and as promised, we are offering it 50% off this weekend: Jan. 17 and Jan.18.

Another beginning that is happening is our Kickstarter video. We are trying to raise money for a science cd. We would appreciate ya'll watching this video and if you can and are willing to donate that  would be amazing! Please tell all your friends that may be interested in this to watch. There are prizes for donating so look at all the things that you can get for the different amounts donated. We also will be flashing FREEBIES on our FB for every 10 donations so make sure you have liked our FB page.  After you click LIKED on FB, click on down arrow in the right hand corner of LIKED and click on Notifications so you will be notified of the FLASH FREEBIES:) Thanks!

Thank you so much for watching and helping us to meet our goal! The funding ends on Feb.15- Brittany's due date! I would love to tell Alathea that we were successful on her birthday:) You can bet there will be a great celebration with lots of deals, FREEBIES and Giveaways!:)

Another first: We just bundled all our economic units together. You will get Community Helpers, Goods and Services and Wants and Needs. They all have a lesson plan to follow and we have included all 3 fun songs and books about each unit.  Just click on the picture below to purchase:)

You will also get 9 community helper finger puppets.

 You will get these sheets that you can use as a matching activity-matching the community helper to the correct setting. As ya'll can see, my kiddos used these pictures for scenery for their puppet show. They were so cute dancing their puppets to the community helper song.

You will get little books like this.

 Another one of my students got very creative and made this to go with her puppets- I just love this!:)

 This is just one of the no prep sheets that you will get in this pack.

I had my students write a page for our class book on community helpers.

This is another little book that comes with this large bundle!

You also get pages like this. I glued it on larger paper and made a big book so my kiddos could go back and read it later. The words are from our song.

After we did our unit on goods and services, we became producers and made our own products and wrote about them. The students loved doing this!:)

We also bundled our popular Winter Scoot Games together and ya'll can get them 50% off through Jan. 25!
These fun winter task cards have cute manipulatives included. There are cards that cover addition 1-10, subtraction 1-10, addition 11-20 and subtraction 11-20. Just click on the picture to check them out:)

We wanted to share one of our fun and upbeat songs with ya'll so you could get a sample of our songs. It also has a cute little piggy template for your kiddos to write on.

Just click on the picture to download. We would appreciate a nice comment after you download.

Here are a few examples from my kiddos:)

We hope ya'll enjoy it!

We also have our Quality Student Song for FREE!  This song has helped with the behavior in my class:)

We really appreciate ya'll taking the time to view our video!

God Bless You!

We would love to see what your new beginnings for 2015 are! Leave us a comment about them:)

January Activities!

I was so excited about what the ELL teacher told me today about what one of my ELL students said to her in group time with her! She came to me and asked, "Pam, what in the  world did you say to Juan!" "He told me that he wanted to be "positive" Juan in the "New Year" and have a good "attitude."  I was thrilled to tell her he was using words from our January Calendar. Now the cool part about all of this is Juan has been crying a lot and having a bad attitude.
  Now, I did some role play about being negative and crying, saying things like,"I don't want to do that, It is too hard, I don't like it" Then I showed them being positive, "I am going to do my best, I can do this" I told them that it also helped their friends when they were positive to them: like smiling at them and encouraging them when they were having a difficult time.
  I was happy to see my students starting to apply what they learned!:)

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 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 25% off at a special discount  when you buy them in the bundle.

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 what the task cards look like.

You can get the entire bundle at over 25% discount when you buy this bundle! Just click on the picture to check it out:)

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.

This is our January Word Order where the kiddos can manipulate the words on snowballs to put in sentence order, glue, copy the sentence, illustrate and answer a bonus question.

These are a few samples of how my kiddos answered the bonus question.

This is a fun game or center where the students can find word chunks in these Jan. calendar words.

We added magnifying glasses and told the students that they were "word detectives" They loved it!

This is a memory game that the kiddos play finding pairs of our Jan. calendar words. Ya'll can grab this for a $1.

We hope that ya'll will try some or all these Word of the Day activities and that your kiddos will learn great vocabulary and these words will give them confidence in their writings.:)

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this blog! We would love some comments from ya'll!