Springing into Learning Blog Hop

I'm so excited to join Elementary Antics for a spring time blog hop! Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. Flowers are blooming, the weather is warmer, and the clear blue skies are beautiful.

When spring comes around, it's one of the best time for students to learn about plants. During my student teaching, I did a fun plants unit. Students learned about plants.

I had students decorate Styrofoam cups to look like vases. Then they got to choose what flower they wanted to grow. Later, they would take them home and give them to their moms for Mother's day. =)

Most of them grew slowly. There was one that grew very well. So much so that the vine wrapped around my desk.

Here's a wonderful freebie to use with your older students. Task cards are a big hit, but not one has time to print and cut them out. These digital task cut the work in half. All you have to do is print the recording sheet.

All you need is a tablet or iPad. You could even use your interactive board and play as a whole class. You can get this freebie here, but only for a limited time!

Subtraction Across Zeros Digital Task Cards

Don't forget to check out these other wonderful teacher bloggers for more ideas and freebies!

An InLinkz Link-up

Featured Game: Making 10

Each month, I will feature a new product that is great for the classroom. This month: Making 10.

Practicing addition is a basic skill for kindergartners. This games reinforces those skills in a fun, interactive way.

This game is a teacher versus student game. The students answer all the questions and if they get the answer correct, they get the points, but if they get it wrong, I get the points! Great motivator!

Students are given an addition problem with an addend and a missing addend that equals to 10.

Students work out the problems and give their answer. They click on the "Answer Button" to see if they are correct. Then, they click on "Scoreboard" to choose another question to answer.

There are 20 questions in all. It even includes a type-in scoreboard that is used while in "Slideshow Mode."

You can get this game here: Making Ten Powerpoint Game. Makes a great whole class activity, whether you're there or the substitute is there! Here what other teachers are saying:
"My students LOVE this game! They beg to play every day. Thanks so much!" - Donnalyn T.

"Great resource to practice this standard. Perfect for leaving for a sub."  -Kendria M.

Don't forget to check out my other "Making 10" games including seasonal and holiday themed games.

A special thank you to Mercedes for taking these wonderful pictures for me!

Thanksgiving Blog Hop 2015

      The Classroom clique proudly presents our Thanksgiving hop! Jump from blog to blog and gather some wonderful Thanksgiving traditions, recipes, and freebies.

    
     I have so much to be thankful for! Over this past year has been a real struggle for me. Doing TPT full time, helping my sister take care of her 3 beautiful children, and managing my seizures has made me strong and so thankful for every thing I have. I thank my family, especially my mother who was always there for me. My friends who still put up with me and antics. My friends in the Classroom Clique. Lastly, I thank my followers. You guys keep me running and motivated, especially through the exciting moments and the toughs moments. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

      As is tradition in our house, I do the baking. It's mostly desserts. A few years ago, I challenged myself to make an apple pie from scratch (minus the pie dough). I have to say it was the most delicious pie we ever had. It was gone the next day. The recipe is very simple. I found it online at Pilsbury.com for Perfect Apple Pie. I added some a little powder sugar and apple juice to the filling to sweeten up the Granny Smith apples I used.

    I figured out how to do the Lattice topping for the pie crust. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I used eggs whites as a glaze for the top and covered the edges with foil (to stop the burnt edges).

     It came out beautifully and served with vanilla ice cream, it was the best dessert I had ever made.

Each year at Thanksgiving I make a new dessert so my sister asked me to make peach pie. I'm up for the challenge! =)

     I don't have many Thanksgiving games in my store, but I made new a freebie just for this blog hop. Moreover, it's a forever freebie!

In this game, students use dry erase boards to write the lower case letter that matches the capital letter.

This game covers all 26 letters of the alphabet. It's a perfect game to review to check for understanding.

Students are given the capital letter and on their dry-erase boards, write the lowercase letter. Great for the entire class or in small groups. Students can also practice individually on the iPad.

You can grab this game here:

Letter Matching Thanksgiving Powerpoint Game

Thank you for stopping by. Be sure to stop by other teacher bloggers for more recipes, traditions, and freebies!

An InLinkz Link-up

Football Freebie Frenzy - Week #3

Welcome to Week #3 of my weekly Football Freebie Frenzy! All Football season long, you can linky up freebies for your Favorite sports team's victory. You can check out previous weeks here:

Week #1
Week #2

My Carolina Panthers are on fire! They're 3-0,  beating the Saints. I bet Erin from Lovin Lit is pretty anger. I know my friend Teresa is equally so. She actually went to the game! Because of their victory, you get a freebie!




A companion to the Letter's Race, this space themed game practice counting to 20 using flash cards.

This game includes numbers 1 to 20 and includes a space theme with rocket ships, aliens, and planet. Your students will love practicing with this set. You can get this set here.


Don't forget to stop by other blogs and grab some other freebies.

An InLinkz Link-up

Football Freebie Frenzy - Week #2

Welcome to Week #2 of my weekly Football Freebie Frenzy! All Football season long, you can linky up freebies for your Favorite sports team's victory. You can check out Week #1's freebies here.

I'm so proud of my Carolina Panthers. Although it was a slow start, they managed to pull out a victory against Houston. The last 30 seconds of the game had me (and my family) on the edge of out seats!

This week's freebie is Tally Marks Powerpoint Game!

In this game, students answer questions about two tally mark graphs: Favorite Pizza Toppings and Afterschool Activities.

There are 21 questions in all, including a tie breaker question. There are 10 questions per graph.

You can get this freebie here. Don't forget to leave some feedback! Don't forget to check out some more freebies from other teachers!

An InLinkz Link-up

Teaching Blog Addiction ~ Freebie Friday Link - Up

So glad to be linking up with Teaching Blog Addiction. Here's a Forever Freebie your students will love!

Working with place value can be loads of fun, especially if your students play against one another.In this game, boys play against girls as they making numbers using Base Ten Blocks. There's even a type-in scoreboard for you to keep track of the score. The scoreboard can be used in slideshow mode.

There are 20 questions in all (just about enough for a class of 20). Students can take turns answering the questions individually for their team or they can work together to find the answer.

The answers range from 100 to 999, making all the answer 3 digit numbers. Students are given base ten blocks and they must figure out what number it makes.

A few teachers have used this in their classrooms and their students love it! Just look at what they said.

You can get this forever freebie in my TPT store. I hope you enjoy it!