Sunday, August 18, 2013

Back to School/ 100+ Followers Giveaway

Woo Hoo!  I can FINALLY get into my classroom.  I was the VERY last classroom to be cleaned at my school.  I am so nervous and excited to get started!
I also noticed I have 100+ followers on Bloglovin!  Woo Hoo!
To celebrate, I am grateful that Classroom Friendly Supplies is allowing me to give away one of their very popular quietest pencil sharpeners! 
They come it four fabulous colors and you will even get to choose your favorite!  Groovy Green, Cool Blue, Firehouse Red or Midnight Blue.  To make this giveaway even sweeter, I am adding 2 dozen of my favorite pencils.  Ticonderoga #2! 

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Thank you for following me and please share the love by sharing about this giveaway! 
Thanks! 
Cindy

Friday, August 2, 2013

Meet a new friend and get a gift.

I LOVE doing exchanges, buying presents, getting presents and meeting new friends.  I  found an activity I'm going to try and you could try it too! 


The SLANT Box Exchange
Click on the button and check it out.  You have to sign up by the 3rd of each month, you are matched up by the 5th and you send out your package by the 20th.  Can't wait to get my match!




Thursday, August 1, 2013

Two for Tuesday...A day or two late.

Sorry, I'm late. I've been squeezing in all the doctor's appointments I can since summer is fading away so fast. Here are my latest picture book finds.


 
Boot and Shoe were born into the same litter, and now they live in the same house. They eat out of the same bowl, pee on the same tree, and sleep in the same bed. But they spend their days apart—Boot on the back porch because he’s a back porch kind of dog, and Shoe on the front porch because he’s a front porch kind of dog. This is exactly perfect for them. But then a crazy neighborhood squirrel arrives . . . and everything goes topsy-turvy!  I am going to use this book during my reading block.  I will read about half the book and have the children predict what will happen to Boot and Shoe during the rest of the story.  I will then read the rest of the book and we will check our predictions. 


 
When a little boy’s of prized toy airplane lands on a rooftop, he makes several rescue attempts before devising an unexpected solution.
This is a wordless book that would be an awesome book to teach predictions.  I will show my class the book up to the page where the airplane lands on the roof and then ask them to predict how the boy will get his airplane off the roof. 
 
I start teaching prediction early in the school year, so I start off having my kinders draw a picture to show their predictions and then I write a short sentence under their prediction for them.  Later in the year, they write their own sentence. 
The summaries are from Amazon you and  click on the links to purchase the books for your own copies!
 
Just a reminder....only a few more hours for you to enter my giveaway on my science blog.  It easy---peezy to enter.  Click on my button...HERE.






Monday, July 29, 2013

New Blog and a GIVEAWAY!

I have a new blog!  Check it out and enter the giveaway! 

Scientifically Science FUN
CLICK on the button to visit Scientifically Science Fun. You can win this awesome science kit. 
 

 


Saturday, July 27, 2013

The Virginia Meet-Up and a GIVEAWAY!

What a day! 
I met some great new Virginia blogging friends on Thursday during the Virginia Blogger Meet-UP
hosted by the wonderful
Karen at Mrs. Stamp's Kindergarten and Kelly at From Kindergarten With Love.

 I had a fabulous time and came home with a bag full of goodies!  The amazing Heidi at Heidi Songs sent gifts for everyone.  I came home with Jumpin Numbers 11-30. I am very excited to use this DVD to help my kinders with their tricky teens! 
Thanks Heidi! 

Lucky for you... Heidi also sent enough for us to give YOU a chance to win a CD too!!  LOVE ya, Heidi! Just follow my new friends and VA bloggers from the meet-up for additional chances to win the Singable Songs for Letters and Sounds CD!


To enter....you need to visit Mrs. Stamp's Kindergarten Blog for all the details. 
CLICK HERE!





Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Two for Tuesday...

I always have lots of good intentions to post more often, but I don't know what to post and I have lots of trouble committing to a subject.    So, I am going to put myself on a schedule.  Every Tuesday I am going to post two new picture book titles that I LOVE.  Here are the first two titles. 

I found these two new books that I am adding to my Science class library!  Click on the captions to go to Barnes and Noble and order your own copy!


Dirty Gert
                                                                        Dirty Gert
Little Gert loves to play in the dirt so much that she turns into a tree. Gert loves dirt. She plays in it and even tastes it. One day Gert is delighted to discover that she is becoming a tree. I'm  going to use this book while teaching the needs of a plant.  Dirty Gert by Tedd Arnold

999 Frogs Wake up
                                                                  999 Frogs Wake Up
Wake up—it’s springtime in the swamp! As 999 young frogs awaken, they panic to find that all of the other animals are still asleep. First they wake the biggest frog… then the tortoise, the lizard, and the ladybugs. But when they hop down a hole and all pull together, they find someone they don’t want to wake—a big, long snake. Don’t wake him up!  I am going to use this book while teaching about hibernation..  999 Frogs Wake Up by Ken Kimura

The summaries are from Bibliocommons and Barnes and Noble. 




Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Virginia is for Bloggers!

I don't know about you, but my school year seemed very stressful.  We got new reading curriculum this year, new math curriculum last year and the whole standard 7/ data collection thing started for us this past year too.  Change is a good thing, but that much change all at once made for a stressful year. 

I felt like I just kept my head above water.  Something had to give and it was the blog.  But I'm BACK baby!  I resolve to post more this year.  I love my little blog and it and all of you make me happy!  
Now for the FUN!  I am linking with up Fifth in the Middle with her blogs by state. Virginia is for blog lovers baby! 


AND I am happy to share that Karen and Kelly are celebrating Christmas in July with a Virginia Blogger Meet-up.  Woo Who!