TPT sale

It's that time folks---the back to school sale at TPT is happening now! Many teachers are offering up to 20% off of their items at their TPT store and then you use the code BTS12 to add an additional 10% off!!! Click on the button to head on over to my store.

I'm offering up to 15% off of items at my store. Some of them include the following:

There are a few more not listed--so head on over and fill up your cart with items from everyone's store!! I know my cart has been full for a little while! 

Happy shopping everyone!

I won!, birthday, and TPT sale (linky party)

So I woke up this morning to find an email stating that I won a giveaway! My first one! I'm so excited and it's my birthday (hmmm 31---wow) so that made it even more special! :) 

Erica over at Sprinkles to Kindergarten was giving away some awesome glue caps that will help from those pesky glue bottles from getting clogged. Click on her link to hop over to read about them. And I won them! Now my assistant and I won't have to find a paperclip to jam into the lid to unclog them!  

She also gave away 2 items from her TPT store and I won those as well!

I'm so excited. 

Being that it is my birthday I'm offering up a little freebie for you today! :)

Click the picture to go grab it from my TPT store.

Graphics by Trina Clark at Dollar Graphics Depot

And lastly---TPT is having a huge Back to School Sale on August 12-13. Lots of awesome bloggers are adding an extra 20% off of their store plus what TPT is offering. So that's a huge savings! I know my wishlist keeps getting bigger and bigger. I'll be putting my stuff on sale as well so use this link to head on over to my TPT store and find some goodies. (I'm adding more and more stuff while I'm trying to finish this post as well because I don't have that many items yet--I'm new to this! :) 

                 

Also First Grade Garden is having a linky party for bloggers who are offering up items for sale. Click here to go check it out. (She is the one who did the awesome graphic promoting the sale--thanks for letting me use it!)

Currently...and some other goodies

So I've been seeing the Currently stuff by Farley over at Oh' Boy Fourth Grade and thought..why not?! 

 Click on her button to find out more about it!

So I've been working on my Open House stuff and trying to get back in the swing of things---all though I'm having sort of a hard time with that. I decided I'd put some stuff together and see how it goes. 

First I wanted a welcome banner but didn't want anything too big to hang, so I made this Owl Welcome sign to hang and attached ribbon to make it more fun! 

                                           (yes that's my shower curtain--:) the lighting is terrible)

Sorry about the lighting...I was trying to find the best place in the house but hmm...oh well. The owls are blue if you can't see them very well (courtesy of the3amteacher) and I attached ribbon in the middle of each to tie them together. 

I also made some pencil toppers to put on pencils that I'll give the students at open house night. I teach K but I made them for Pre-K, K, First, and Second Grades.

I continued on and made a variety of open house items to put in this packet such as:

As well as the pencil toppers, sign in sheets, welcome signs (print and fold), a class wish list and other items.

Head on over to my TPT store and grab your Open House packet. 

Another giveaway!

Hey all! I wanted to tell you about another giveaway at First Grade O.W.L.S!

 In honor of her birthday she is giving away her Everything Owl Classroom Bundle. And the awesome DeeDee Wills is throwing in her Writing Work Stations bundle. I mean really--how awesome is this giveaway! 

          

Go over to  to enter for a chance to win. I sure hope I do! :)

Blog giveaways and other cool stuff

I'm looking around in blog land and there are so many awesome things out there by some amazing teachers. Stop on over at Primary Pizzazz and check out her great giveaway!

                                     


One winner will receive a $25 gift card to TPT and a $25 gift card to Amazon! 


Also--over at Fancy Free in Fourth an amazing giveaway is taking place. Lots of bloggers are involved and there is so much cool stuff I can't even begin to name it all! So head over there and check that out as well.
                     

Over at Rulin' The Roost she is giving away $80 to VistaPrint! :)  
              

There is so much cool stuff going on out there in blog land. Have fun blog stalking watching! :)

Crate seats, pen pals, and new finds

So I finally finished my crate seats a couple of days ago. I only have 4 right now, but I'm going to make 2 more next week. Very little cost b/c I already had the crates and my dad had the wood laying around. I bought 4 pieces of fabric at $.97 each and it was $7 total for all 4 pieces of foam. 

Excuse my dog in the corner of one of the pics. He couldn't figure out what was going on. The grey fabric has small polka dots and the green fabric has little bright flowers. I can't wait to use these for more storage and seating! :)

Ok--new stuff. It's tax free weekend here in NC so a few of us decided to hit up a school supply store about an hour from where we live. It's huge..and overwhelming awesome! :) I could probably spend all day in there but it was only about an hour and half.

I went with finding a number line and a pocket chart for a calendar in mind. I found both and a few other items.

I forgot to take a picture of the pocket chart but oh well. I wanted a calendar pocket chart to hang instead of always trying to use bulletin board space or any other little wall space I have. I think it'll be easier this way. 

I found the big number line to display and then ran across a set of 30 individual number lines which I thought would be great for small group practice or even whole group and the students can have their own number line.

I HEART owls so I bought owl name plates, a notepad (will use this for a bulletin board) and an owl pointer. :)   The blue border will be used for the bulletin board. (It will go outside my room---hopefully I can get into school soon to take pictures.)

The little cube with the orange square is a foam dice that has pattern block shapes on it. I will use that in some of my math center activities. 

Sorry this is such a long post but I'm trying to get everything in that I can think of.

 I just saw on The Teacher Idea Factory about a great Pen Pal exchange that she is hosting. I signed up because I think that it's an awesome way for students to share and learn from other kids their age that are not necessarily always in their own school. 

You do not have to have your own blog to participate. It is open to all teachers so head on over to Kelley's blog and sign up!

I think that's it for today...thanks for reading all the way down! :)   Headed to the beach this weekend----gotta enjoy every last free moment!

Back to School Giveaway Linky Party

Mrs. Saoud over at Primary Graffiti has been hosting a Back to School week of giveaways and freebies. I thought I'd link up today for her Alphabet giveaway (she had to switch Tuesday and Wednesday just for clarification). 

I made the Alphabet Upper and Lower case match a couple of weeks ago so I thought I'd offer that up for a freebie. 

Click here to go to my TPT store to get it for free. It has two sets of alphabet cards in the packet.