Happy New Year 2018 top 10 Dollar Sale

Happy New Year! I wish the best year ever for you, your students, and your own children.

I am once again placing my top 10 TPT products on sale January 1st and 2nd, 2018 for only a Dollar! You can grab them on TPT, Teacher's Dojo, and if they are uploaded on Teacher's Notebook. Teacher's Notebook I have not updated the covers but they are the same great products! Who can beat products for a buck that typically cost $2 to $6?

Addition and Subtraction Regrouping Word Problem Task Cards -  TPT, TN, Dojo

I Have, Who Has Suffixes - TPT, TN, Dojo

Input Output Task Cards - TPT, Dojo

Elapsed Time Word Problem Task Cards - TPT, TN, Dojo

Phonics Word Sort Mega Packet - TPT, TN, Dojo

Linking Verbs Task Cards - TPT, Dojo

Common Core Reading Essential Questions for 2nd Grade - TPT, TN, Dojo

I Have, Who Has Prefixes - TPT, TN, Dojo

Zombie War Multiplication 2 Digit by 1 Digit  - TPT, Dojo

Addition and Subtraction Fraction Problem Solving Task Cards - TPT, TN, Dojo

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Featured Freebie Fridays - August 4th, 2017

Happy Friday! Teachers are back to work here in the county I live in and kids return on August 10th. I think the soon to be 2nd grader who I tutor starts on August 9th. So I know many of you are returning to the classroom soon if you haven't already. I wish you a wonderful year!!!

Before I get to my freebie this week I did not post one last week because I have been working on setting up a new store! I currently have 777 products up there as I write this. Kind of funny it wound up all 7's but it did. Maybe it's lucky right? I will have the ability soon to give coupons and also you get reward points for leaving feedback (including on freebies) and sharing the products. That part is in the works. Come be one of my first followers!!! Click HERE. You will need to register an account to even download freebies and get the rewards.

I used this game the first day of Kindergarten a few years ago when I last taught. ABC Race is a game where students pick a card and name the capital letter. They then roll one die (dice) and move that many spaces on the game board. The first to the finish wins. Very simple game that is easy for Kindergarten students. You can differentiate by having the student tell what sound the letter they pick makes or name something that begins with that letter. Grab it on TPT by clicking the pictures or on Teacher's Dojo by clicking HERE.

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Back To School Sale 2017

I am happy to announce that TPT is having their Back To School sale on August 1st and 2nd. There is a change for all future sales. Before most sellers including myself put everything on sale for 20% off and then with the code TPT took off 10% after the 20% was taken off thus you saved 28% (more off bundles). Now most of us including myself will still put everything on sale for 20% off, but TPT's code will get you 5% which is added on to the 20% so you will save 25% off everything. Bundles you can save more on at least in my store as they are already heavily discounted! Use code BTS2017 to save 25%. I will keep my store on sale on Thursday. Click the picture to head to my store!

I have many bundles that will help you save a ton of money! Clip It Phonics, Word Boxes, Kindergarten Math Interactive Student Notebooks, Primary Math Task Card Bundle, Place Value to 1 Million Task Cards, Place Value to 1,000 Task Cards, Place Value to 120 Task Cards, Fractions Task Cards, and more! Be sure to also check out my Back To School centers and games!

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Featured Freebie Fridays - July 21st, 2017

Happy Friday! Keep enjoying every day of your summer as I know many of you head back in a week or two. Enjoy every minute you have left!!!

This week's Featured Friday Freebie is my Apple Au and Aw Word Sorts. Children sort the apples by the spellings of the au/aw sound into the correct basket. Please show your kindness by leaving positive feedback if you download it. Click on any of the pictures to grab it free and follow my store so you don't miss any more!

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Featured Freebie Fridays - July 14th, 2017

Happy Friday! I hope that everyone is enjoying their summer! Some of you go back in just a week or two. Time sure is flying by!

This week's featured freebie is a new one. Write The Room Fruits Beginning Sounds is a fun literacy center that gets your students up and moving. When I taught  Kindergarten, Write The Room was my students favorite center. There are eight pictures of fruit that you can hang up anywhere in the room and children search for the fruit and write the beginning sound or the whole word (your choice) on the recording sheet. Please show your kindness by leaving positive feedback and check out the 83 FREEBIES in my store! Be sure to follow me so you don't miss out on anything else great in my store.

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Featured Freebie Fridays - June 30th, 2017

Wow, half the year has already gone. Where in the world did time go? I wish each of you a great 4th of July weekend if you celebrate here in the United States!


This week's featured freebie is a blast from the past. Insects I Have Who Has CVC Short A Real Words and Nonsense Words is a fun game that makes your students listen carefully to their fellow students as well as focusing on sounding out words. You will know if they truly understand how to read CVC words and not just memorize because on some of them they have to decode the nonsense or silly made up words! If you enjoy the game please leave a perfect rating and kind feedback. If you find an error please email me and give me the opportunity to fix it before giving a rating. Thank you!

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Featured Freebie Fridays - June 23rd, 2017

Happy Friday! I hope everyone is enjoying their summer whether you are doing a lot of reading and relaxing, going to the beach, or going on a fun trip!

This week's freebie is a simple list of 220 Sight Words. These are the sight words that are most often used in books. If children can read all of these and learn their phonics skills they read about anything! Use them for your own cards or check out all my sight word games. Many of them contain all of these words! Look for the ones that say 220 words and you'll know they are all of these. Great to use for an assessment checklist as well. Click the picture to grab it for free and leave a perfect rating for my work. Thank you!

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Featured Freebie Fridays - June 16th, 2017

Happy Friday! I hope each of you are finally out on summer break! I know those on the other part of the world are starting your second semester though.

This week's freebie is a blast back from last summer. Your students will enjoy the L Blends Sunshine Puzzles. I suggest printing on cardstock for durability and then laminating them so they last longer. Children love reading the word and putting together the puzzle. If you download please leave positive feedback.

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Featured Freebie Fridays - June 2nd, 2017

Happy Friday!!! I wish each of you a terrific weekend!

This week's freebie is a blast from the past, but a favorite of many children called Fishy Sight Word Blast. Children will enjoy reading a sight word and then picking a starfish to see how many points they get. They can stop there or pick another starfish and add the number to the last starfish number. They can keep going as many times as they want, but if they get a zero they lose all their points including from previous rounds! Don't forget to show your kindness by leaving positive feedback. Follow my store to not miss any other freebies or teaching resources.

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Featured Freebie Fridays - May 19th, 2017

Happy Friday!!! The year is winding down. Some of you may already be out. The county I live in their last day of school is next Wednesday for the kiddos.

This week's featured Freebie is a freebie I put out last year when I practiced silent letters with the girl I tutor. She loves hot air balloons. So I created Hot Air Balloon Silent Letter Bump. There are two different games. The sounds included are wr, mb, kn, and gn. Please remember to leave positive feedback for my hard work if you decide to download it. It also cost me money to create these free for you. After downloading it click the back button to go back to the product to leave a perfect rating. If you find an error you can always contact me and I will correct it quickly and you can redownload it for free.

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Featured Freebie Fridays - May 5th, 2017

Happy Friday! I am sorry that I am a bit later getting this up today. I completely forgot to make a blog post for Featured Freebie Fridays!

Today's featured freebie is an older one but perfect for spring! Chick Sight Word Race is a fun game where your students read a sight word and race around the board game trying to be the first to the finish line. There are some fun cards that will tell your student to go back to start or to go again! If your students love this game be sure to check out my other race games in my store. They have been a hit with many classrooms and all the kids that I tutor. Click the picture to grab it for FREE! Don't forget to leave positive feedback as it cost me money to make these free for you and only takes a minute of your time. Follow my store to not miss any more freebies or other great products!

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Featured Freebie Fridays - April 21st, 2017

Easter may be over, but many teachers teach about animals as the year comes to a close so I thought this week I would share one of my very first FREEBIES "All About Rabbits" task cards. These cards are great for learning about Rabbits. Have your students go on the web and search for the answers to the task cards as they learn all about rabbits!

You can also read them some books on rabbits and then play Scoot, Quiz, Quiz trade, place at a literacy or science center, station, or rotation or play any other cooperative group activity. Another favorite way to use task cards is to use them with any game boards. Click on the picture to grab it for free and be sure to leave positive feedback. Follow my store so you are notified of more freebies and other great teaching resources! Sometime in the next several days I will be posting a new freebie!

Share in the comments or on my FB page how do you use task cards? What are you working on that you would like to see me make task cards for? Any specific themes? I am happy to create things that meet your needs! I do not write stories so comprehension is not an option.

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Freebie Fridays - April 7th, 2017

Happy Friday!

Only a week until Good Friday and Easter weekend! This will be last Freebie Fridays Linky Party for awhile anyway. I will continue to post a featured Freebie every Friday. Feel free to make your way through my previous blog posts to grab all the freebies that have been posted in previous Freebie Fridays.

My featured freebie this week is new one I plan to use in tutoring Easter Baskets Subtracting From 10 Bump. Children will love playing this fun engaging game. Each child only needs 10 counters or cubes of the same color and a paper clip and pencil to go with the spinner. Perfect for early finishers, math groups, math centers, rotations, stations, RTI, partners, or even for homework! Please leave positive feedback if you decide to download it to show your kindness. Check out the other 75 FREEBIES HERE and follow my store so you don't miss any more.

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Freebie Fridays - March 31st, 2017

The last Friday and last day of the month! Many of you are coming back from spring break and others are heading on break. I wish you a great last quarter of the school year! There will likely only be one more linky Freebie Friday linky party so link up and grab the freebies!

Today's featured freebie is a new one! Easter Egg Telling Time to the 5 Minutes Puzzles has children matching the analog clock with the digital time. Children will love putting the puzzles together. There are 24 in all in color and also in black and white. You can print the black and white ones on colored card stock to save ink and still make them colorful! If you download this please leave positive feedback for my hard work. Consider following the store as well so you know when more freebies are available. I now have 75 freebies. Wow! Click on either picture to grab it for FREE.

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Where The Wild Things Are Book, Song, and Video

One of the most popular classic children's books is "Where The Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. This great book helps spark children's imagination.

Did you know that this classic book is a song and now has a music video for it? That's right The Learning Station just released a video for their internationally hit song "Wild Things". This is a fun brain break song with incredible graphics. Children will love doing the fun movements that the wild thing makes. Children absolutely love Freeze Dance songs and this is a freeze dance song! The song is featured on the hit CD "Literacy In Motion" by The Learning Station. The hit CD also includes songs like "Five Little Monkeys", "I Know An Old Lady", "Green Eggs and Ham", and many more!



"Where The Wild Things Are" is also now a movie! It would be great to have children read the book, watch the movie, and listen to the song and then compare and contrast them!



There are affiliate links included for the movie and book. It doesn't cost you a penny more.

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Freebie Fridays - March 24th, 2017

My first Friday as a 38 year old! If you entered to win my giveaway please check your email after 10am Eastern to see if you are a winner. Don't miss another giveaway by subscribing to my blog or Facebook page. If you do on Facebook be sure to click Get Notifications so you don't miss it as Facebook doesn't show you everything otherwise. Now on with the freebies!

Today's freebie is an old one but one your students will surely love. Easter Addition and Subtraction Board Games. These are no prep games. Give students a die (dice) and pieces to move around the board. That's it!

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