Winners!

Thank you so much for all the happy birthday wishes! I had a wonderful birthday yesterday with my family! We enjoyed going out for breakfast, playing hard all day, and ending the day with a date with my husband to the Cheesecake Factory!

And here's a huge thank you to everyone for entering my giveaway last week! With it being my birthday I didn't get to posting my winners until tonight! Here are the three lucky winners of my end of the year Yearbook:

Winners, be sure to check your email for your prize! 

If you are interested in purchasing this little packet, just click on the image below! My Firsties have been working on this this week and they are turning out super cute!

And lastly, my heart breaks for the people of Oklahoma tonight. From a midwesterner who grew up around tornados, I cannot believe the devastation I have seen on tv the last few hours. Sending my prayers of love and support, and praying for angels to surround you and protect your hearts....

Hugs and Love,

Class Yearbook Give Away!

Hello, my friends! Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers, aunts, grandmothers, sisters, and teachers! We all contribute to "mothering" the children around us and I hope no one feels left out of today's celebration of motherhood!

I am just getting ready for our end of the year district testing for first grade. It is hard to believe in just a little over two weeks we will be out of school for the summer. We are going full-throttle with reviewing and testing right to the end! To give my students a little break from all the reviewing and testing, I updated my end of the year yearbook! I just barely uploaded it to TpT for sale tonight. 

It is a 26 page packet full of fun and cute ways to remember the past year!

In celebration of my birthday this Saturday I am giving this yearbook away to three lucky winners!! Entering will end Thursday at midnight and the winners will be announced Friday! I hope you'll spread the word and enter to win!

Happy Mother's day and here's to a wonderful week ahead for all of us!

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Sprout Houses, Mother's Day and Owls!

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Tonight is the last night of the big Teacher Appreciation Sale over at TpT! I've loaded my cart up (a second time!!) and I'm ready to make my purchases! 

We did the sprout houses from my Plant and Flower's packet last week. They are hanging up in our window and the roots are just beginning to show! 

You can check out my top selling Plant and Flower's packet here.

If you are still looking for ideas for Mother's Day, yesterday I posted about my Mother's Day Top 10 book available on sale over at my TpT store. 

Here are some sample pages from the one's my students have been working on this week!

You can check out my Mother's Day book here.

We finished up my Moon Unit last week by making these adorable owls! I got the idea from Deep Space Sparkle. She had this idea as a torn paper art lesson. We used oil pastels instead and had just as cute results!

You can check out my Moon Packet here.

Happy shopping!! Ends tonight so hurry on over!

Teacher Appreciation Sale!

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You don't want to miss this sale!! I've already purchased some things over at Teachers Pay Teachers and my cart is already full again with round two! Don't miss out on 28% off EVERYTHING in my store if you use the code TAD13 at checkout!

Here's a couple of new products that I have in my store:

And for Mother's Day, my class is making this cute Top 10 count down book, only $1.25 right now!

Happy shopping!!

Power of Positive Thoughts

Congratulations to Kelly from First Grade Fairytales and Lori Rosenberg from Teaching With Love and Laughter! You two guessed the closest to how many days of school I have left! I get out on May 30 at noon, so technically, I have 32.5 days left of school. Since no one guessed that, I'm giving my plant unit to the people who guessed closest! {Kelly and Lori, I will send you your packets via email today!}

I've been noticing a upsurge in my stress level the past few weeks and I totally believe in the power of positive affirmations to help change my life. I started doing my positive affirmations again and noticed such a difference in my life. So, I wondered what would happen if I did positive affirmations with my students at school. I noticed a huge change in the atmosphere in my classroom the past two weeks I've been doing them with my students. And, I've noticed a change in their scores on spelling tests and math tests. Of course, this isn't scientific but there are many books and articles out there that support the power of positive thinking.

Here are just a few of the positive affirmations I have my students say each day with me. I say them and just have them repeat them back to me:

I tape positive affirmations to my mirrors, I put them in my car, I say them when I get any sort of fear in my heart. Another thing I do when I am under stress is send love to people and to the situation around me. I just say in my mind "I bless this person with love. I bless this person to be surrounded by love." I even do that with my classroom! I'll say "I bless this classroom with love. I bless everyone who enters into my classroom to feel love." And so on. The sky is the limit! You can bless anything and anyone with love and the great thing about it, is that as you do this, your own heart begins to fill with love and to soften.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week this week! And if things start to get negative or stressful in your life, I encourage you to try using positive thoughts and affirmations to help bring peace and love into your life. If you do try it, I'd love to hear back from you on how it went!

There is Only Love,

Winners!!! and Five For Friday!

 

Congratulations to my three winners!!! Each of these gals have won my top selling product that was spotlighted in this last Sunday's TpT newsletter: Money For Young Learners. They also get my two newest packets, Mixed Addition and Subtraction Timed Tests and my OU & OW Word Work packets!! Thanks so much to everyone who entered my giveaway!! I absolutely loved reading how everyone spent their Spring Break!!  If you'd like a chance to win my top selling Plants and Flowers for Young Learners Packet, read on!

On another note, T.G.I.F!!! How many of you felt like this week just went on and on? I think this week seemed slower than normal after coming off of Spring Break last week. I've definitely been bitten by the Summer bug and can't wait for those warmer days of sunny weather!!

Anyone besides me started counting down the days until Summer break??  Want to take a guess at how many days I have left??? If you guess correctly, I'll send you my Plant and Flowers for Young Learners Packet!! Just leave me a comment below with your guess! I'll announce the winners Saturday night (April 13th).  We are starting this packet this week in my class and I'm super excited!!

And now, it's time for Five For Friday!! I love reading about everyone's week in review on Doodle Bugs Teaching's linkup! Here's a look back at my week:

1.) This is Bella Roo! She's my cutie patootie and cuddle bug! She used to look like a little poodle puff ball last week!! {I should have taken a before photo of her!!} I tried my hand at grooming her for the first time ever!! It took me two hours!!! {I have a new-found appreciation for dog groomers!!} It took the first hour to groom her body and the second hour to groom just her face!! Not perfect, but I was pretty dang proud of my first attempt! At least I kept her ears in tact!

2.) My students had a fun time working on my new OU and OW Word Work packet this week!  Here are just a couple of sample pages of their work. Almost every single student got 100% on their ou/ow spelling test today! Yeee haaaw!!

 

3. I have a new love!! It's my Aveda Brilliant Spray-On Shine!!! I love how it makes my hair shine with a natural shimmer! It makes my thick and slightly coarse hair look so healthy!!! And I absolutely LOVE how it smells!!! 

4.) I started a new craft this week!! I found this awesome book at Michael's on how to knit a baby project in a day...{Ummm...well for me, more like a month!} It has the cutest projects in it! And since my dear sister-in-law is having a baby girl in May I thought I would try to knit her something cute! Here are the two projects I just love! {Say a prayer for me that they turn out looking like these! Ha!}

5.) Every now and then I go out and buy myself something that connects me to my inner child. This week I bought myself a new coloring book and a new box of crayons, and I bought a jar of Super Hot jaw breakers from Cracker Barrell!!  There's just nothing like the smell of a new box of crayons!! And I just love coloring in a coloring book! It totally reminds me of my grandma because she would always color with me when I was a little girl. These little things just make me smile!

I sure hope you had a wonderful week! Remember to love yourself and be kind to yourself! Go out and do something to connect to your inner child this weekend! You'll be glad you did!

There is only Love,

 

P.S.

Thanks again to everyone who has linked up with my April Freebies linky party this month! Go check out some of the amazing freebies my friends have posted! And link up your own amazing April freebies throughout this month. Just follow the button below: