Freebie! Spring 100s Charts

One of my favorite freebies in my TpT store is my Spring 100s Charts Freebie! It has been downloaded  over 3, 500 times over the past year and it's a great resource to have on hand for any lower grade teacher or home schooler.  In case you haven't seen it before here's a quick preview and the link!

If you teach First Grade, my Numbers to 120 Printables is one of my top sellers! 

How many of you are on Spring Break already? I have to wait until April for mine, (20 more days…but who's counting, right??) My adorable step-children have theirs in one week and I can't wait to see them and have them with us for the week! It stinks living two states away from them!!  

When is your Spring Break? What are your big plans?? Are you going on a trip anywhere fun? Or, are you hanging around home and working on a project or relaxing? I'm excited to hear what everyone is planning!

Winners of My Yearly Review Packet!

It's time to announce my three random winners of my 2nd Grade Yearly Review Packet!!! 

(Sample pages)

Congratulations to Sarah Abner, Janae, 

and Kristi Smith!!!

Thank you to everyone who spread the word about my give away and who joined in the fun! 

Now, if you didn't win, please know that this 125 page time-saving resource is only $7.50. (Most packets this size sell for $10.00 on average.) I hope you'll check it out!

I'm also linking up with Farley over at Oh'Boy 4th Grade for this month's Currently!

Remember, stay positive! You are what you think! Count your blessings and look for the good in every situation you find yourself in. 

There is only Love,

Non-fiction Books on Animals

Just one more day to enter my give away!!   If you are getting ready to review for testing in 2nd grade, this is a great review of all the common core standards. The winners will be announced tomorrow night!

We have been writing informational stories in my class for the last few weeks. We have been going through all the different habitats. Our library has some books on animals, but not a ton.

I love using NationalGeographicKids.com as one of my go-to sources for my students to gather information on a wide range of animals. But, I was looking for kid-friendly non-fiction books that were on my second grader's reading level. I really wanted them to have something they could hold in their hands that they could read and reread. After a searching for awhile on Amazon.com I hit the jackpot!

I absolutely LOVE these books!!! I've collected almost all of them!! (Being the children's book-aholic that I am!) Not only do I love these, but my students love them as well! These books are always the first ones to leave the bookshelf and as soon as they return another child is waiting to snatch it!

I use these books along with a fabulous resource by Caitlin Hynst, from Simply Second! I absolutely love her Animal Habitats packet! It has adorable posters for the habitats and a research and writing page for animals from each habitat.

I'm noticing a pattern…and End of the Year Review Math Packet GIVE AWAY!

Hi everyone! I am seriously noticing a major pattern here with my blogging! I don't know if my stress level gets higher during the winter months…(uh, yah!)…or if teaching just get so crazy busy…(double yah…), or if maybe I just like to hibernate from blogging over the winter months….but what's the deal with me going a-Wall with blogging every year during the winter months???

How's everyone doing?? How's the stress going knowing that the end of the year testing is just around the corner? How's your teaching with "rigor" going? And teacher evaluations?? Yah…it's that time of year when the stress levels start to get me. I noticed that my back is aching and my shoulders are tight with stress…So, I'm devoting myself to deep breathing and positive affirmations more than ever!

Well, I've spent the last three weeks creating a review packet for 2nd grade math for my kiddos. It's finally done and we've been using it in class to review the entire year of math, and to help teach the math skills for term 3 and 4. If you are on a tight printing budget, you can do what I did and take a screen shot of the page you need and project it on your white board. I just have my students answer each question one at a time on dry erase boards or on scratch paper if I need an exit ticket.

I'm giving this 125 page packet away to three lucky followers!! Please leave me a comment below with your email address for a chance to win!

I'm also giving it away to three lucky Facebook followers, so you have double the chances to win! My Facebook winners will be announced Sunday night and my blog winners will be announced on Wednesday night, so spread the word!

Hugs and love!!

Winners of my Winter Packets!

Wowy! I apologize for the delay in announcing the three winners of my winter packets give away. My computer went on the fritz Sunday night and I just got it working again this afternoon! So glad to have it back and working!! There's nothing worse on a Mac than that perpetual "wheel of death" that just keeps spinning and getting you nowhere! Now…on to the winners!!

I am super excited to announce the THREE winners of my THREE winter packets!!  I will be emailing these to you shortly!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered my winter packets give away! I loved reading your resolutions for this year! {Lots of great ideas!!} My resolutions are to 1.) Put more faith in my Savior 2.) Balance my family life with school much better  and 3.) Flip my negative thinking into positive thoughts….

Here's to a fabulous 2014!!

There is only Love! 

Happy New Year Sale and Give Away!

Happy, Haaaaaappy New Year!! I hope everyone had a peaceful holiday season and a fun New Year's eve! The hubs and I had a low-key New Year's Eve playing some intense rounds of Operation (the board game) and watching tv.

My highlight for this week was the small little meet up some of the Utah Bloggers had at the Cheesecake Factory in Salt Lake City! Nikki from Melonheadz Illustration, Krystal Plott, Natalie Kay Crockett, Rachelle Gunderson Smith, and Lori Bryson Evans and I had a wonderful time eating great food, yummy cheesecake (I tried the S'mores Cheesecake and it was to die for!!!) and talking teacher stuff! I have followed these girls on their blogs and chatted with them on Facebook for a couple of years now, so it was great to finally put the face to the name. I feel incredibly blessed to know these amazingly talented and giving women.

To celebrate the New Year, I am having a huge 20% off sale at both my Teachers Notebook and my Teachers Pay Teachers stores. 

I am also giving away my Penguin Packet, my Penguin Informational Writing Packet, and my newest packet, Winter Print 'N Go! Math for 2nd Grade Common Core. 

I will choose three winners on Sunday night and announce the winners on Monday!

Thank you all for a wonderful 2013 and for all your support over the 2 1/2 years I've been a blogger!

Love and Hugs for a Happy 2014!

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