Winners x 3

Here are the winners. I'll be emailing you shortly. 

3 Items from my Store (Seeing Dots post)- Susie Q

Candy Student Awards- Rachel

Vocabulary Packet- Liz

Candy Student Awards Giveaway

I've never really done awards in the past but I'm SOOO excited this year. I found Reagan's Candy Student Awards and boy are they perfect. I went shopping on Saturday and went to three stores to find all the candy. I hit up the Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and Target. I probably could have gotten most at Dollar General but I had a gift card to Target. Each candy was about $1. It was so fun figuring out which award fit perfectly for each student. Even those few students who might push your buttons will still have an award to fit their personality to a T. Reagan has graciously donated one packet to a lucky winner. To enter you must follow both of our blogs and TPT stores. Leave one comment saying you follow us and tell us your favorite candy. I'll announce the winner tomorrow at 5 pm central so hurry and enter!
Reagan's Blog
Reagan's Store
My store

Seeing Dots

I've been busy getting ready for next year. I'm trying to keep things cohesive and less cluttered. I also need your help. I just set up shop at Teacher's Notebook. Follow my new Teacher's Notebook shop and tell me your theme for next year and you may just win any 3 packs from my TPT or TN store.
If you haven't entered the vocabulary giveaway you have 14 more hours. Be sure to check back tomorrow to see if you're the lucky winner.

Happy Memorial Day!

I am linking up with Kindergarten Lifestyle and having a Memorial Day SALE!! My sale starts today and runs throughout Monday! Everything will be 20% off! Happy Shopping!!

Enjoy your Holiday Weekend!!

Bee Promises

My kids loved coming up with our Bee Promises this year. This packet was used as a reminder of our promises. The first three people to leave feedback to my Getting to Know you sheets will receive this packet for FREE! Leave me a comment with your email stating you left feedback.

Look what arrived

I was so excited to check the door today! Look what arrived... my new teacher's planner, notepads, and notebook. I just love Erin Condren's products. I also purchased a $50 gift card to Erin Condren's site to giveaway once I hit 300 followers. Hopefully that will be before school starts back up. Here are some parties I have going on so link up and you may just win a cool gift.

My store is 15% off until Friday!

YouTube Linky Party

I believe that learning should be active, exciting, and engaging.  Part of the problem with engaging and motivating students, is that we continue to give them old-fashioned paper and pencil work, while they are craving a medium that speaks their language - technology. I would be lost without technology. One source I use daily is YouTube. I’m lucky to not have this site blocked at y school. YouTube is one of the biggest resources for educational content. Whenever I’m in need of a song, video, or book I search YouTube. You can find videos that make the subject of your lesson more applicable to students’ everyday lives. There are a tons of reasons YouTube should be a part of most classrooms:

·         Engage your students by captivating their attention

·         Provide real-world context for lessons.

·         Help provide cultural relevance for your students.

·         Provide remediation for concepts yet mastered.

·         Provide visual aides
I'd love for you to join my linky party. I might even have a great prize for one lucky person who links up.

Here are 3 of my  favorites :

Manic Monday Freebie

It's never too early to start planning for next year! Right? Or am I the only one who is getting excited for a fresh start. I am linking up with Classroom Freebies Manic Mondays with my Getting to Know You Sheets. 

Thanks for posting about your reading series! The winner of the free packets is 

❤ Sandra

Sweet Times in First

sweettimesinfirst@gmail.com

I'll be emailing Sandra now!

Most Memorable Moment

I'm linking up with My (Not So) Elementary Life's first linky party titled My Most Memorable Moment.
My most memorable event this school year would be my Surprise Birthday party given to me by my students and their parents. They had my room decked out with balloons, decor, cupcakes, presents and more. I loved reading each and every card from my students. It was my best birthday ever! What was your most memorable event from this school year? I'd love to know.

Good thing I have parents who also follow my pinterest boards.

This was something I had pinned earlier in the year.

Reading Series

Just wondering what reading program your school uses? Leave me a comment and you could possibly win 3 packets from my store! We use Storytown.

Flash Sale and FREEBIE

You have TWO more hours to get my packets for a buck each! Leave feedback and I'll send you a FREE packet of your choice. All you need to do is send me an email at missnelsonattpt@yahoo.com saying you left feedback.

Top 10 Pins- Linky Party

What a fun linky party! I'm joining Views from 205's The Best of Pinterest Linky PARTY.
Here are my top ten pins that I've enjoyed making or implementing this year. Click on the picture to take you there.

What are your favorite pins?

$1 Sale

I'll have my entire TPT store on SALE today! All items are on sale for just a buck!

End of the Year Memory Book

FREE

TGIF! Only a couple of more days for me. My kids have been super busy completing an end of the year memory book. We've also been talking about facebook. I did a little questioning to see if my students were familiar with facebook. To my surprise, each and everyone of my students could tell me ALL about facebook. We then made our own walls and posted our picture in the left hand corner. Each student went around the room and asked their friends to post comments on their wall. This was great for the students who didn't purchase yearbooks. They had a blast!!!You can grab it by clicking on the picture.

$1.75

TIER II WORDS

Have you signed up to win a set of vocabulary cards from the most popular read alouds? I love vocabulary time because I get to use great literature to teach tier II words.
Click here to sign up.
TGIF!

Flash Freebie

This is for all the late night owls! I am putting my Father's Day packet for free until 12:00 p.m tonight!!!

The grandfather and uncle version is free as well! Hurry!

Another One Bites the Dust

I'm joining Amber at Adventures of a Third GradeTeacher for her very first linky party.  This linky party is all about reflecting on your year.  Click on the link below to join this reflective Linky Party.

What went well:
1.  Parent Communication- I am pretty good about updating my classroom website and posting a newsletter weekly but this year I took parent communication to another level. I  sent out text reminders using REMIND 101. You must check out this awesome site. I had parents either sign up using their phone number or email address at the very beginning of the year. Anytime I had an important event, reminder or assignment due, I sent a quick text. The best part about Remind 101 is parents never have your cell number. Check it out if you want a really cool way of keeping in touch with your parents. Your parents will thank you!

2. Classroom Design- I found Melanie at Schoolgirl Style around October. I learned some great tips about sticking with a few colors, doubling up borders and finding a focal point in your room. I decided to go with the yellow and black /white polka dots. I spray painted most of my bookshelves and ditched containers that were various colors. My new and improved classroom décor is clean, bright and cheery. I love the way it looks and feels. Thanks Melanie!

inspiration

3. Organizing my files thanks to Pinterest, TPT, and blogging- This year I decided to get really organized. Anytime I found a cute worksheet or idea I put it in a page protector. I managed to fill huge 3-ring binders for every month. I am so excited to have my filing cabinet all organized instead of in folders getting wrinkled. This system has worked out perfectly. I am a very visual learner so this fits my learning style much better than shoved into a cabinet that I  never opened. I will actually be able to use these fun lessons that I’ve found from other fabulous teachers. Thanks guys!

The Not so Great:

1. Not having enough time for Math-Our district stresses a 90 minute reading block so sometimes other subjects get brushed aside. Next year I want to devote at least an hour a day in math. Especially since we have 2 more chapters in our math series and only 2 weeks left of school. I want to be consistent with math stations just as I am with guided reading. I have a plan but I just need to be consistent.

2. Grading: I am such a procrastinator when it comes to grading papers and averaging grades. I want to utilize our online gradebook next year. I would like to have my grades in at least a couple days before they are due instead of staying up til midnight the night before they are due. Does anyone hate report cards as much as me?

3. RTI: My R.T.I. progress monitoring needs a little work. I had many students in tier II and tier III. I sometimes would forget to graph their latest DIBELS oral reading fluency or nonsense word fluency. I am serving on our RTI committee next year so hopefully this will keep me on top of my game. Don’t get me wrong, I did provide the interventions every day- I just have a hard time recording their progress and attendance. 

Good Reads

Come check out Mrs. Stanford's Class and  Clutter-Free Classroom's Summer Reading linky parties to get great ideas for summer reading. This is a list of What I'll be READING this summer.
I'm going to The Sisters'  The Daily 5 and Cafe conference this summer. I'm super excited!!! I've already read both of these wonderful books but now I need a refresher before I attend their conference. I will also be doing book studies on these books.

I also plan on reading through the common core standards. 

I won't have time for reading too many books because I'll be reorganizing my classroom library. 

LINKY PARTY GIVEAWAY!

I am linking up with Maria Dismondy -  one of my favorite new children's authors for Make a Difference Monday. Maria's books have wonderful lessons to be learned.This month's character word for Make a Difference Monday is RESPECT. How do you teach respect to your students? In my class I read a lot of books about respecting each other's differences. The first book I usually start out with is Have You Filled a Bucket Today? It teaches children that everyone including pets have invisible buckets. Throughout the day kind words and actions can fill your bucket and hurtful words can dip into your bucket.  At the beginning of this year we also made this chart from The First Grade Parade.

 I think it's really important for students to see the beauty in diversity. Here are some of my favorite books to teach RESPECT. I'm also having a All-Time Favorite Read-Alouds linky party if you'd like to link up. If you link up to both linky parties you may win fabulous prizes donated by Maria and myself. Maria has graciously donated her book Pink Tiara Cookies for Three along with a cute cookie cutter set.  Remember you must link up to both linky parties to be entered into the contest!

TPT unit on Sale for $1