Twins Mac & Madi's Birthday Book Review and Giveaway!

It's been awhile since I've blogged, but I was asked if I would review the book Twins Mac & Madi's Birthday by Linda Herron! So I was given a copy of the book to review and I also giving away a copy as well! Keep reading to find out how to win a copy!

 

Twins Mac and Madi is a series of picture books geared mostly to children up to 2nd grade. I was given the chance to review the book is the series about their birthday! The twins usually dress alike, want to eat the same things, have the same colors, etc. for their birthday party. This year the twins decided to do everything different for their birthday party by wearing different clothes, colors, different things to eat, etc. Read this book to see how their family and friends treat them after they decided to be different!

This book is filled with sight words and has some repetitive phrases that are perfect for younger readers. The author, Linda Herron, herself is a twin. After the story she even includes some great tips for parents on how to handle twins based on her own experience! I absolutely enjoyed this book and I am sure you and your children or students will as well!

You can enter to win a copy of the physical book if you are in the United States or Canada. Otherwise, if she has a digital copy I'll ask her to send that to someone internationally. The giveaway starts August 28th, 2021 at 12:01am and ends at 11:59pm on September 2nd. The winner will have 24 hours to claim their prize once I have emailed him or her. If the winner does not respond to the email with their mailing address that I can give to the author I will select a new winner.  If you don't win you can purchase the book on Amazon by clicking HERE.

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Chickadees, Bumbelbeez, Pussy-Willow Trees and Two-And-A-Half Book Giveaway and Review

A couple of months ago, I was contacted by Book Publicity Services to review the book "Chickadees, Bumbelbeez, Pussy-Willow Trees and Two-And-A-Half by Jeffrey M. Politsky.  She also allowed me to give away a hardcover book to one lucky winner!  United States residents can win the hardcover, but if you are international you can still win a PDF copy.  If you are not a winner and would like to purchase the book click on the picture below. 
Fifty percent of the proceeds of the sale of each book will be donated equally to research programs dedicated to the study of dementia and memory dysfunction, and to the study of breast cancer. 

This story is about a monkey who wants go on an adventure and meet different creatures, experience different cultures, and learn another language.  The money meets a cat and a pelican who are also looking for the same kind of adventure.  They develop a friendship and set off to explore together and meet a dog in a private piece of land who takes them on an incredible adventure.

I love that this book has a theme of respecting other cultures, languages, and lifestyles.  This book is perfect for a read aloud for 4 year old through 9 years old.  For younger children you will want to read a chapter or two at a time to hold their attention.  It is also a terrific beginning chapter book for children who may be skeptical of long chapter books that don't have any or many pictures.  This book has absolutely beautiful pictures on each page that children are sure to enjoy!  It's also a great book to work on prediction skills! 

This giveaway will end on Wednesday, October 28th at 11:59pm Eastern time.  The winner will have 48 hours to reply to my e-mail with their address if in the United States with their mailing address or a new winner will be chosen.

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I'm Back With Cooperative Learning Activities

Wow, it has been a full month since I last blogged.  I was really hoping to at least keep going with my Positive Fridays, but I have been so very busy.  The hour trip to work and back takes extra time from me especially when I have an inservice.  I am not complaining though as it is so worth it to work in an incredible school with amazing students, administrators, fellow teachers, office staff, custodians, etc.  Next Thursday night I will be staying for a parent after school thing, where I am in charge of helping out at child care until 7pm.

Anyway here are some cooperative learning ideas that I learned at inservices lately that will help keep your children engaged.  You can use them as formative assessments.  I will try to do another blog post with some more of these ideas in the future!

Inside Outside Circle - Divide up your class evenly.  Have half of your class get into a circle and then turn around.  The other children find a partner and face them in a circle so they are on the outside.  Call out a question from any subject or a get to know you question and have either the inside or outside give the answer.  The other side can either praise/coach their partner or add on to the answer.  Then give the other side a question.  Next call out a number and have everyone on the outside move that many partners over. For example move 3 partners.  So they would move over to the 3rd new partner!  Then do it again.  I gave mine each a lowercase letter and they had to give the name of the letter and the sound.  Share in the comments how this could be used in your classroom.

4 Corners - Put a different concept or answer on 4 different posters and put them on each corner of the wall.  Give a question that can be answered going to one of the 4 places on the wall and students move there.  I have done this by putting 4 letters on the wall and giving a word and they have to move to the correct place.  You could do it with Seasons of the Year, 4 numbers and give a math problem, cardinal directions, etc. Share in the comments your grade and how you could use this your classroom or have used it?

Commit and Toss - In this activity students write the answer to an open ended question on a piece of paper or draw it and crumble it without their name on it.  Then they toss it around at each other for a few minutes. When you tell them time is up they each pick up a paper.  Everybody stands up.  Call on one student. Anyone with that answer or close to it sits down.  Keep going until you have gone through everyone.  This is great to get background knowledge or find out if part of a lesson your students didn't quite get.  I'm trying to figure out a way to use it in Kindergarten as I have heard this is a one popular activity.  If you have an idea send it to me in the comments!

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Giveaways, Winter Products, and More

Wow, how would like to win a flash drive full of teaching materials?  The awesome thing is each flash drive is specific to that grade level!  Click the picture to hop on over to Hilary's giveaway and enter to win one yourself.  My new Decimal Winter Centers are included in the 4th and 5th grade flash drives.

Teacher's Notebook is having an awesome giveaway where you can win a tablet of your choice: Kindle Fire HD, Nook HD, or an Ipad mini your choice, which one if you are the winner.  Click the picture to check it out and enter.  You can enter once daily!



I also have a couple of brand new products that many of you have not seen unless you follow my TPT store.

Winter Decimal Fun has comparing decimals, ordering decimals, and fractions converted to decimals.  It is perfect for 4th and 5th grade!  It goes up to the thousandths place.  4th grade teachers can just use the tenths and hundredths!  Click the picture to check it out in my store.

Next up is my fun Color by Code packet, which is perfect for 1st and 2nd graders.  The skills include Odd and Even, Between numbers to 120, cvc words, and cvce words.  Click the picture to check it out in my store.

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