Winners & a Freebie...What?!?!

Happy Sunday, friends!!

I have one more week, 5 days, 45-ish working hours until I am on SPRING BREEEEAAAAKKKK!!!

Woo-hoo...2 weeks of NO SCHOOL for this girl!

Can you tell that I am a wee bit ready for it?! Ha!

Anyway...the winner of the kindergarten April math journals is

 Jolene White!

The winner of the 1st grade April math journals is

Erin Vaughn!

Congrats to both of you!!

Check your emails!

 

 

There is a FREEBIE today on my Facebook page.

Be sure to click over there & snatch it up!! :)



Math Journals & a Giveaway!! :)

Hello bloggy friends!!

I have finished these...Yay!!

The good news is that they are on sale in my store for the Spring Cleaning Sale... So you can get 20% off of everything!

Yippie!

This is my 1st grade set...my firsties L-O-V-E these!!

 

 

Here is my kindergarten set. It is one of my best sellers!

Thank you for that!! :)

 

 

I am going to give away one of the kindergarten sets & one of the first grade sets TONITE!

All you have to do is follow my TpT store & leave me a comment here with your email addy & which set you would like (K or 1)!

I will choose a winner tonight before I go to bed!

Good luck, friends!! 

1000 & Going Strong!!

Thank you soooo much for following me on my Teachers Pay Teachers adventure!

Thanks to you I have reached the 1000 follower benchmark & I am super happy about it!

As a little appreciation gift I have put a freebie on my Facebook page that you are more than welcomed to snag up for your very own!! :)

While you're there please click like so that you won't miss any of the goodies that I post there!

 

Have a super day!!

300th Post!

Wow!

I can't believe that this is my 300th post!

Anywho~

I haven't posted classroom pics in a while so I thought -eh why not?

So, brace yourself...let me remind you that I am teaching first grade this year so you won't see any cutesy station areas.

Here we go.....

Here's where the magic happens...my small group table.

It also doubles as my desk area because I finally bit the bullet & got rid of that monster!

I am soooooo happy I did! I'm never going back to desk life!

:)

This is my word wall. I know, you're thinking that it is a hot mess.

Yes, it is, but it is a working word wall. The kiddos use this thing like crazy & I wouldn't want it any other way. The words & letters are all on magnets so that things can be taken down, moved, manipulated...

It is perfect! Not pretty...perfect!

This is my most, most, most favorite part of my room!

I love the timeline! We have been doing it since the beginning of the year & the kids look forward to adding on to it each month. They seriously take ownership of this thing. It is completely student created...all I do is staple the thing up!

Another timeline shot!

Seriously.love.it!

Here is a pic from the door of my room. Above each table group there is a colored pom. The poms coordinate with the colors on the rug. 

Why, you say? 

I like for everything to be organized & simple. When it's time for the red team to come to the carpet they push in their chairs & take a seat on a red square. Then the orange team comes & they sit in the orange section, and so on & so forth. This takes any argument away from where everyone sits & is supposed to be.

Kids like to know EXACTLY what to do & where to be!

Here is my whole group teaching area...sorry the pic is kinda blah! 

This is my writing table. 

This is my back wall. Right now we are learning economics & the posters are wants/ needs/ goods/ services. 

The Australian flags are there because each class is assigned a country & we teach about it as part of our globalization objectives.

Remember what I said about the colored poms & special carpet spots?

Well, the same thing goes for center work. 

These are my math tubs & they go on the corresponding table colors so there is NO confusion about who is doing what! 

Keep it SIMPLE!!

Right now we are working on our book club & research units....sooo, once again, colored book bins so there is no question about which club you are in & where it is! 

Are you about to throw up with all these colored bins? I know....but when something works, it works! These are our literacy center tubs and, well, you know the deal...

Picture from the side of the room.

See that cute timeline up there?! 

Jobs board...nothin' fancy, but it works the way it needs to!

Daily schedule. 

And, yes, we have a different schedule everyday!

 It blows....I still have to refer to this chart to make sure that I am not off task! 

Counter area

Again...organization & keeping things simple!

This is a shot from the back of the classroom...ignore the little guy on the rug! <3

Here is my sink area...

This is the display I have in the hallway.

Very patriotic, huh?!

So~ there you have it...my second home! 

Leave me some links so I can peek at your classroom! 

Measurement Fun

Hi everybody!

Here's a peek at our math today...nothing fancy just some good old

 non-standard measuring fun!

 

First, we measured the tools that we use everyday....

 Then, we measured our shoes...for some reason this was hilarious??

Not sure why.

Last, we documented all of our findings.

Here is how the math journals looked today.

(Don't you just love the sweet message?)

So, what fun stuff did you do in math today?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

President's Day

Hi friends!

I'm just posting quickly to let you know that I put a tiny little President's Day freebie on my Facebook page for you!

It is tiny, but good! :)

Don't forget to like the page for all the awesome freebies!

 

 

Winter Math Centers

 Wowza!

Look at me blogging 2 days in a row!

Well, yesterday I told you that I would give you a little peeky pie at my math centers this week.

I kept my promise!

Give this teacher a gold star! Ha!

Anyway~ here ya go...

 

This roll & color was definitely a favorite today. They hardly knew that they were learning to add 10 quickly. It also helped that I let them use the treasured Twistables! Oooohhh!

 

This is always one of my top picks. I LOVE to get them up & moving. They especially love that I try to hide the cards in tricky places. This was a great center because they had to pay attention to the number sentence on all the cards. I used many different types of equations!

 

 

The centers above came from this fun little winter math packet. You can check it out for yourself by clicking on the picture.

 

This is a cute little adding & graphing game. The students had to pick 2 cards out of a bag, add them together, & then graph them! I just love when multiple standards are hit!

 

Here was a tricky little center. They thought that they would be so quick & smart with this one & just add the 2 numbers together...oh, no...I nipped that one in the bud real quick. Once I did a couple with the group, they were completely independent. I made them write all of their equations in their math journals. Sorry my picture is a little wonky & you can't see her equations very well...trust me, she did a fabulous job!

 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/January-Write-OnWipe-Off-Math-Games-Common-Core-Correlated-1024273

The two games above came from my sweet friend, Christina DeCarbo. Ya'll she makes some really awesome stuff! Click the link to see this packet & the rest of her super stuff!

 

 

Of course, one of my centers is always First in Math. The kids like it okay, but they are getting a little tired of it. I wish I could find another math site to alternate with. Any suggestions?? Please??

 

Oh yeah, in case you missed it I posted a little Super Bowl Freebie in my TpT store. Don't forget to go & download it!

 

Happy Monday!

We are doing the snow dance here in NC!

I know, most of you are sick of the snow, but we haven't gotten any yet!