The Day That A Ran Away - Book Review and Giveaway

I was asked if I would like to review a new book called "The Day That A Ran Away" and after looking at the information about the book, I jumped at the chance!

"The Day That A Ran Away" by B. C. R. Fegan is a hilarious story where the teacher, Mrs. May ask a student Jet, why he didn't write down the alphabet? He goes on to tell her why each letter of the alphabet left his page while he was walking to school that day! You'll have to read on to see what happens to Jet after giving her his clever excuse!

The beautiful illustrations by Lenny Wen have things on each page that start with the letter. This is a great book to teach the order of the alphabet, letter identification, beginning sounds, rhyming words, and predicting.

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to give a book to one lucky reader thanks to Arielle at TaleBlade Press. This giveaway will start on Sunday and end at 11:59pm on Wednesday. Enter below using Rafflecopter. By sharing the giveaway you can come back and enter daily. Click on the above picture if you would like to purchase the book. You will have 48 hours to respond to my email with your mailing address so I can send it to the publisher or I will select another winner.

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Mr. Fegan is also the author of the book I gave away earlier this year called "Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32." 

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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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St. Patrick's Day Linky Party

The next holiday that will be here before we know it is St. Patrick's Day! It is the perfect time to study and learn about Ireland and tie it in with some fun St. Patrick's Day games, centers, and activities.

My newest creation is for St. Patrick's Day focusing on addition facts to 10. There is a fun game board included where the student goes back to start if they land on the leprechaun. You can also just use the cards as flash cards, to play Scoot, Quiz, Quiz Trade or any other cooperative learning game.

I have also added beginning sound puzzles to my fun St. Patrick's Day Kindergarten Puzzles. This puzzle set also include alphabet matching, cvc words, counting to 20, and number words.

Check out the linky party to see more of my St. Patrick's Day products including some freebies. Many of mine I created as far back as 2012! I also have some friends who have linked up some of their fun St. Patrick's Day creations!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Phonics Clip It!

One of my most popular sets of products this year has been my Clip Its.  This is a fun hands on center where children find the vowel sound (word for CVC) that matches the picture.  By using a clothespin students are working on fine motor skills.  Other teachers put these into plastic sleeves or laminate and use a dry erase marker to circle the answer.  Another alternative is to play the popular game "Scoot" with them.A recording sheet and answer key are also included.  Click on the pictures or links to check them out.

This is the bundle, which will save you the most money if you are interested in each of the sets.  Perfect for 1st and 2nd grade teachers who go through all of the basic phonics sounds.

 Beginning Sounds Clip It

CVCe Clip It

Vowel Pairs/Teams Clip It

Silent Letter Clip It

R-Controlled Vowel Clip It

I also have CVC, Digraph, L Blends, R Blends, S Blends, and Dipthongs available!

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Back To School Kindergarten Fun!

Are you a Kindergarten teacher who is getting ready to head back to school?  Do you need some EASY centers that your students can do that won't take much explaining on how to do them?  If so check out some of my latest Kindergarten centers.

One other note before I show you my center creations be sure to follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers as I'm getting closer to 1,000 Followers.  There will be something special for followers after I hit that number!  My store is Pre-K through 6th grade. 

My Back To School August Kindergarten Centers contains 13 different centers, most are very low to no prep other than one die (dice) or a spinner.  Some of the skills including: rhyming, beginning sounds, sight words, counting to 5, counting to 10, identifying numbers to 5, identifying numbers to 10, 2D and 3D Shapes, etc.  Click the picture to check it out.

My very newest center is my Back To School 10 Frame Puzzles.  There are puzzles in both color and black and white for numbers 0 to 20! Click on the picture to check it out!

Here are my fun Beginning Sounds Popsicle Puzzles.

I also highly suggest playing this fun video from The Learning Station.  

 
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Happy New Year! Day 5: Sounds Snowflake Set

Happy New Year!  I wish 2013 to be very kind to each and everyone of you.  My goal is to continue to spread kindness each and every day and smile as much as possible.  It's the little things that make the difference in life and if model these things to children they are bound to catch on and be kind to others and smile more as well!

Now to today's freebie!  Today's freebie comes from Christina who is a Kindergarten teacher.  Her blog is Krazy In Love With Kindergarten.  Hop on over and join her fairly new blog and say hello to her by clicking "HERE."

Christina's freebie is called Sounds Snowflake Set.  It is 3 different games all zipped together!  2 of the 3 centers also come with worksheets.  This is perfect for Kindergarten, high level Pre-K students, or low level 1st graders.  Click on the picture to get your copy for free today only!  

Don't forget to follow Christina's blog and TPT store and thank her for the freebie.  Be sure to leave us a comment on the blog so we know that you downloaded it.  We have no other way to keep track of how many downloads.

Tomorrow's freebie comes from Kim and is a fun Multiplication freebie that your students are sure to love!  Kim doesn't have a blog or FB page yet, but you can stop on over at her store and become a follower today!  Click "HERE." 

Thanks for ringing in the new year with me at Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings.  Keep on smiling!