Sunday Freebie

Totally Tulips Sorting Task

The Totally Tulips Sorting task is a four column sorting activity.  In this May flowers themed activity, students sort tulips by color. This is mainly for Pre-K and Kindergarten. 

Mother's Day Freebie

From Amanda's Parties to Go:

After a bit of a break I'm back today with some news and a FABULOUS new FREEBIE! You may have noticed the new logo and the new name..... Amanda's Parties To Go. I'm excited about the change and am working hard to re-establish a good Facebook following with brand new Facebook fan page.

Going from 12,000 fans to 0 was quite a change!

So today, I'm asking you all to

pretty please with a cherry on top

head on over to my new Facebook page and

become a FAN by clicking "LIKE" --- that's all folks!

And look at what you get in return.....

A beautiful, very FULL collection for hosting a wonderful Mother's Day celebration! Can you believe it? It's already time to plan a special day for those wonderful mom's in our lives... Sunday, May 13th is the day.

Lakeshore Giveaway

Head over and click on the “Like” button on the Lakeshore Learning Facebook Page. When they reach 50,000 Facebook followers, they’ve promised to give a free educational software download to all of their Facebook followers.
Thanks, Motherhood on a Dime and MoneySavingMom!

Freebie: Printable Zoo Preschool Pack

Sorry I missed my Sunday Freebie... As a result, I have posted 2 tonight.


Download a free printable Zoo Preschool Pack from 3 Dinosaurs.

These Zoo printables are to be used with children from 2 to 7. These can be used with various Zoo books. They include many different animals and areas: safari, tropical, arctic, Alaskan, pond, outback, and woodland.

Enjoy,
Emily:)

Free Britannica Kids Rainforest iPhone/iPad app

Download the Britannica Kids Rainforest app for free right now for your iPhone or iPad.
Thanks, My Frugal Adventures! and MoneySavingMom.com

TCAP Motivation

We will be starting our state testing on Tuesday. This is the best video to get student motivated for the TCAP.  

Here is a gift to the students from FESRO (Frederick Elementary Staff Rocks Out) in honor of the TCAP. A follow up to the smash hit "BieberSAP" from 2011.

Free Clorox Wipes

Two free canisters of Clorox Wipes for teachers

Teachers can get two free canisters of Clorox Wipes if they submit their Back-To-School List on the Clorox site and it contains Clorox Wipes.
This is available to the first 25,000 teachers who submit a qualified list.
Thanks,
from Crystal at Money Saving Mom

Math Monday: Money

Money Time: With state assessment happening next week, we have been in review mode for about 2 weeks now. Our Kindergarten Teacher, Caleb Shehane, who blogs at Man Can Teach Kindergarten found a couple of songs on You Tube. One of our Math interventionist created a simple Market to Market Activity in order to practice money skills.
Smile,
Emily

Earth Day Freebies

Earth Day Freebies

Check out this great article for 11 Earth Day Freebies

1. Target Re-useable Bag

2. Free Origins Cleanser 

3. Free Re-useable Bag from the Disney Store

4. Free Packet of Sunflower Seed from Pottery Barn Kids

5. Free Tote Bag from Jo-Anns

6. Free H-E-B Earth Day Bag Giveaway

7. Free Entrance into National Parks all week

8. Free Earth Day Coloring Pages

9. Earth Day Word Searches

10. Online Earth Day Games

11. Earth Day Worksheets

Word Wednesdays

Bookmarks with Comprehension Strategies. I like to give each student a bookmark for their own book. (These are very helpful during literature circles.) Sometimes I have the students pair up and ask a question about a specific strategy, such as to inform. I find it very helpful to have them with the student as they are reading.

Free Breakfast Coupons

TCAP Free Breakfast Coupons

During the week of the state assessment, we offer our students FREE breakfast. To encourage all students to participate each student receives a coupon to be punched as they go through the breakfast line. On the last day of the assessment, we allow Kindergarten-3rd grade receive a prize, 4th-5th grade a movie, and 6th-8th get to spend the afternoon at the "Technology Cafe" (room with video games and cell phones allowed.

Free Samples

I  know this has nothing to do with teaching (except that teachers always need more energy), but click on this link and get a free sample of Stimulant Energy. Choose from four different free Athletic Xtreme samples.

Want Power & Energy? Gives you the energy to play harder, train longer, run faster, lift heavier, think sharper, look leaner, feel better, and run up hill both ways in the snow. Power Up with Stimulant X™.

"Fill the Bill" Animal Adaptations

Are you students getting restless with all the warm weather? Mine are.

This is a fun activity that will keep the students busy for a hour. "Fill the Bill" Animal Adaptation Stations is 8 different stations to show students in 3rd - 8th grade how animals have adapted to their environments.

The packet includes directions, center cards, and record sheet for 8 Animal Adaptation Stations using simple tools for students to explore what is best for animals to use. For example, a log with rice on it, to represent bugs. Students have 3 tools (tweezers, fishnet, nutcracker/pliers). They must determine which tool is the best and which animal has a similar beak. Very fun and engaging experiment.

Math Mondays

Math Mondays are Here!!
Check out this fun website with great math games to teach the common core standards.
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This website has some great lower primary math games. Worth a look!

Horton Hatches the Egg for Easter

Enjoy a creative thinking, rhyming and cooking activity to go along with Dr. Seuss' Horton Hatches the Egg. These would be great to do at Easter and focus on different types of eggs.

Enjoy,
Emily

Math Monday

Tonight I would like to share some of the best Easter Math Activities I have found.

4th & 5th Grade

I found these great Easter Math Mazes on TPT to review multipiclation and division facts.

2nd & 3rd Grade

From The First Grade Parade, I found the above adoreable bunny idea with a word problem in the middle. My idea is to use the word problems from Arlenes and Berg, the Easter Bunny is Hopping for Addition and Subtraction Word Problem on TPT, to make these.

Kindergarten & 1st Grade

Jelly Beans Math Activities from Jeannie Seymour

 

There are 6 pages of jelly bean math activities included in this packet:
*jelly bean sorting page
*jelly bean graph
*jelly bean tally table
*jelly bean addition sheet
*jelly bean comparing numbers
*jelly bean measurement page

Enjoy:)

Emily

Easter Freebie

If you follow my blog or know me personally you will quickly realize I love holidays. I enjoy decorating and celebrating with simple gifts. I found this idea last year about this time and wanted to share it. It is from the website Organized Christmas (I know Christmas in April.:) It is Easter Bunny S'mores in a jar. There is a cute printable with a recipe that could be added to the top of the jar.

What a Great Gift for a Special Friend, Teacher or Just Because!

Enjoy,
Emily

Sunday Freebie

Since this will be my first week as a blog writer, I would like to start with a link to a website which has a lot of free preschool and kindergarten freebies. It is File Folder Heaven Today, this website has a free  Mammal/Reptile Clothespin Task Cards Have fun exploring free file folder games, task cards, behavior prompts and more. This website even has an autism link.