Hello Sunshine Blog Launch and HUGE Giveaways!

Here in Arizona, the sun shines 296 days a year.  A few months ago, some Arizona teachers got together and decided that we had enough sunny days to share with you all!  These women are some of the most creative and inspiring women I have met and I was so blessed to have the opportunity to be part of this collaboration.





Our hope is to share our love of teaching, some creative ideas, and a whole lot of sunshine!  Today is the big launch of our new blog, Hello Sunshine and we are having a HUGE giveaway that you will not want to miss!  The grand prize is a $100 gift certificate to TpT!

In addition to the big giveaway, each of the Hello Sunshine bloggers is having their own giveaway on their own blog.  Be sure to enter my giveaway to win $10 to spend in my TpT store and a $10 Amazon gift card.  Then, hop on over to my friend Caitlin’s blog The Kinder Garden to enter her giveaway!






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We can't wait to share the sunshine with you!

I’m Happy, Happy, Happy…a GIVEAWAY...and Visual Plans!

If you have been following my blog for a bit then you know that my family LOVES Duck Dynasty.  So, when the time came to make some new math workstations for an upcoming rotation I just new that they needed to be Duck Dynasty themed.  I have plenty of fellow fans in my class!  They are going to go crazy over these!  It’s on like bing bong! Click on the picture to check them out!

 

 

I’m also happy, happy, happy to report that The Blessed Teacher can now be found on Twitter.  You can follow me at @TheBlessedTeach .  I am still figuring out how this whole Twitter thing works with lots of help from my hubby.

 

I am going to giveaway my Math Makes Me Happy, Happy, Happy to one random new Twitter follower!  I will announce the winner tomorrow night so head on over and follow for your chance to win this Robertson filled pack!

 

I’ve been checking out visual plans on other blogs for a while now and I’ve been wanting to give it a try!  So, here goes.  You can click on the pics to download the pdf from Google Docs.  Once they are downloaded the links are clickable. 

 

 

 

This is going to be another crazy week!  As if ending last week with a candy crazy parade wasn’t enough, this week we have no school Monday and then two 2 hour days for parent/teacher conferences!

 

Thank goodness for one more day off!  I still have lots of conference prepping to do! 

 

Good Night Everyone! 

 

100 Followers Back to School Blowout!

 

I am so excited to have reached this milestone on my blog, TpT, and Instagram all in the same week!  To celebrate, I will be giving away freebies, having items on sale throughout the week, and having giveaways!

Here is the first giveaway and some freebies!  I just finished updating all of my parent and student beginning of the year forms and all of my first week back activities. 

 

 

Click here or on the picture to download my parent and student forms for free!

I also finished my Welcome Back Activities Pack.  It includes a Fan-n-Pick getting to know you activity, a time capsule activity, Find Someone Who, “This is Me….,” file folder project, and a class banner activity.  These activities are a great way to get to know your students and start building a classroom community.

 

 

To celebrate my 100 followers, this pack will be on sale for 50% in my store today and tomorrow, click here or on the picture to grab yours now!  It will also be part of the giveaway so make sure you keep reading until the end and enter!

 

Okay, hang in there, this is a long post but it’ll be worth it…promise! 

 

I have been planning for the first few weeks like crazy and updated my “Table Talk,” file AGAIN!  If you’ve already purchased it make sure you go download the updates.  If you haven’t gotten a copy yet, now is your chance!  “Table Talk,” will be part of my giveaway and will also be on sale in my TpT store until Sunday!  I added a few flap books since I will be using interactive reading notebooks this year.

 

 

Flap Book #1

 

 

Flap Book #2

 

 

Flap Book #3

 

I also made Table Talk questions to go with the story First Day Jitters.  I decided that I want the first attempt at Table Talk to be focused on having a conversation, looking at the speaker, and really listening to each other.  Not about trying to come up with questions to ask.  So, I made questions ahead of time for the students to use.  They will also serve a second purpose.  When we learn about the difference between “book questions,” and “brain questions,” we will go back to the First Day Jitters questions and sort them.  You can download the questions for First Day Jitters to use with “Table Talk,” here for FREE!

 

Now, here is your chance to enter to win your own copy of my Welcome Back Activities Pack, Table Talk, and any item of your choice from my TpT store!  The giveaway will end on Sunday so that I can get everything out to the winner before we go hang out with the cast of Dance Moms!  (more to come on that later!)

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Thanks everyone for all of your love and support over the last almost year!  Love you guys!