Aww!! Someone loves me :)

I just recieved an email that my blog was nominated for the Really Good Stuff Blog Contest! How exciting!! Thank you to the person that nominated my blog!! It is so amazing to know that someone out there thinks my little old blog is helpful :)

 

Giveaway at Step Into 2nd Grade

As I get prepared for an awesome new school year in second grade, I came across this super cute blog! Ms. Lemons has some great ideas that you are going to love. One of my favorite posts was her phonogram cards.....W.O.W! These are so cute and would be a great learning resource for kiddos.

   

 

and I also love her alphabet letters too!



Ms. Lemons is having a giveaway to celebrate her first 100 followers. She is giving away the most A.DOR.A.BLE shirts ever!! Go check out her blog, become a follower and enter her giveaway for a chance to win one of her super cute shirt!

{Click Here to Enter}



Literacy Bags for Parents at Reading Rockets

I absolutely love the websites Reading Rockets and Colorin Colorado! They are full of wonderful information for teachers, parents and students on a wide variety of language acquisition and reading development skills. As I was looking through their site, I found a wonderful idea for parents to keep their students engaged in reading over the summer. Reading Rockets has a series of themed literacy bags complete with book suggestions, a list of materials  and ideas for each theme. You have got to check these out....they have done a great job in helping parents battle those dread summer blues and have fun reading as well!!

Themed Literacy Book Bags

ELL Learning

These are two of my favorite websites and I know that you will love them too!!

TBA Authors Hosting a New Book Study

I have had a fabulous time reading all the great posts on Debbie Diller's Math Workstations! Everyone is doing such a great job with the book but I was a little sad. I won't be able to use any of the wonderful ideas next year.

When we return to school, I will be teaching second grade and we will be departmentalized.I will be teaching ELAR (which I absolutely adore). So when I heard about a book study that was about inspiring the inner reader in children...I was totally in!!

Thinking of Teaching is hosting a book study on the book The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller. Several TBA authors will be hosting chapters from the book, including your's truly! I will be hosting chapter 4: Reading Freedom with Mandy from A Special Kind of Class.

Are you totally excited?!? Want to join in?!? Hop on over to Thinking of Teaching! There you will find a schedule for the book study and also enter to win a fabulous prize in a giveway to kick off our book study!

Grab our button, blog about the book study and then make sure to blog hop your way through an AWESOME book!!

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My Favorite Things Linky Party

I love a linky party and Ms. Coe at Little Miss Kindergarten is having one! I always love to read through linkies, especially  ones about FAVORITES :)

So, here are a few of my favorite things.....

Starbucks

Oh, how I love Starbucks! I am absolutely in love with the Coconut Mocha Frappacino that they have now. So yummy!!

Office supplies

Oh my word, if I go to Office Depot, I could be there for hours and spend way to much money!! Especially on pens!! My favorite pen right now is the Uniball Jetstream 101. I have been a fan of Jetstream for a while but this one is FABULOUS!

I can't help myself! There are so many wonderful products from creative and talented teachers!

I have been following a very high profile case on Tru TV and love to see the justice system at work. It really is quite fascinating!

Making Plans

Summer is my time to organize my thoughts for the next year and start making plans for things that I want to try the next school year (and read some great professional books too) . This Summer, it is really on my mind because I will be moving to a new grade!

Thanks Mrs. Coe for a fun opportunity to share some fun favorites!!

A great internet resource...... WOW!

Have you heard of Kahn Academy?

It is an amazing (and absolutely free) resource for students, teachers, parents, and home school students on a variety of math and science skills. There are videos, tutorials and practice for math and science skills from basic addition and subtraction for elementary students to high school and college level math and science. I first saw this website while watching the news and immediately went to check it out. It is provided by Bill Gates and Google and I was amazed by the amount of material that was covered through the tutorials. It is a perfect summer resource for students (and your own little ones- I know I plan to share it with my daughter) and would make a wonderful addition to any classroom for additional support in math and science.

Go check it out and enjoy!

And the winner is.....

The time has come to announce the bigger winner of the Fairy Tale Giveaway!! Thank you to everyone that participated and took the time to show your support for Ms. Magee, Mrs. Tabb, Brooke Perry and yours truly!

The winner of our Fairy Tale Giveaway is.....

Mrs. MsHaffie!!

Congratulations and please leave your email so that I can send you your fabulous prize!!