January 2016 Monthly Newsletter

Happy New Year, everyone! I can't believe it's 2016! This is going to be a great year! I can feel it! Welcome to all my new followers! Here's what's going on this month!

My goFundme project!

I have started a gofundme project to purchase a projector and portable Interactive Whiteboard. You can also donate on my official goFundme page. If you donate $5, you can get any bundle from my TPT Store. If you donate $10, you can choose any 3 bundles in my TPT store. You can get theses perks on my official goFundme page. You can also donate $1 by purchasing a $1 donation on in my TPT store. My goal is to reach $700 by the end of the school year! A big shout out to Kelly Malloy and Kathy Illington for making my first two donations!

Annual Monthly Sale

Mark your calendars for my weekend sale. It begins January 16, 2016 through January 19, 2016. Take advantage of some great products at a reduced price. Get some fun winter games and Valentine's Day activities!

New Years Resolution Blog Hop!

Hop on over to my Blog on January 9 for The Classroom Clique's New Years Resolution Blog Hop! Check out some wonderful goals for the new year!

Upcoming Changes!

This is most important! I'm currently updating my entire store so please excuse the mess! I hope to have it done before the end of the year. I plan to increase the princes of my PowerPoint games only. My yearly license will still be $25 a year. As I am approaching 300 PowerPoint games, the permanent license will increase to $150. Now's a great time to get it before the prices increase.

Monthly FreebieI didn't have a chance to complete last month's set of freebies so here they all are! Enjoy!

3 Digit Addition Worksheets
3 Digit Subtraction Worksheets

       

Thanks for reading. Have a wonderful New Year and see you next month!

Christmas Advent Week 2 in Review and New Giveaways!

 

It's been a fantastic week! Every day a new prize and a new winner! I've added 7 more games and 7 more winners. The winner of my first giveaway was announced and another giveaway has started!

 

 

Day 8 - Subtraction Bingo

Winner: Lori Raines

 

Bingo! Use those subtraction skills to cover the right number to win!

 

Day 9 - Buying Christmas Presents

Winner: Susan Zink Katt

 

How much did each child spend on a Christmas present? Practice counting money when given the number of each coin.

 

 Day 10 -Subtraction within 1000

Winner: Susan Zink Katt

 

Compete in teams against each other while practicing subtraction.

 

Day 11 - Boys vs. Girls Rounding Numbers

Winner:Joanne Alderete

 

Boys vs Girls! This game pits boys against girls as students practice rounding numbers up to the hundred thousands.

Day 12 - Parenthesis Practice

Winner: Mary Love Strange

 

Santa vs Elf vs Reindeer! Who's the best magical creature? Find out and practice problems with parenthesis at the same time.

 

Day 13 - Counting Candy Canes

Winner: Kathy Illington

 

Do you like candy canes? Reinforce student's counting skills with this fun counting game.

 

Day 14 - True or False Math Facts

Winner: Free your Heart-graphics

 

Practice identifying math facts that are true or false.

 

 

Week #2 prize has been award! I planned to giveaway one $25 TPT gift card. I reached 500 followers on TPT so I gave away 2 TPT gift cards.

 

Winners: Callie W. and Kristine D.

 

Week #3's prize is a handmade tie fleece blanket made by yours truly. I've made tie blankets for every member of my family including my 2 nephews and niece. They're very easy to do (just 2 fleece and scissors).

 

 

 

You can win this blanket as well a $20 Shopping spree in my TPT Store. You can enter below. This giveaway ends Dec.22.

 

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

Be sure to check my Facebook page every night around 7 PM EST for a chance to win a new game every night. If you don't win, you can purchase the game at 50% off in my TPT store!

 

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Christmas Advent Week 1 in Review and New Giveaways!

  

My Christmas Advent is in full swing! I've already had 9 winners including a winner for my movie pack. Here are the games that Santa has given away! You can click on the games to learn more about them.

 

 

 

 Day 1 - Kindergarten

Winner: Kathy Illington

 

Practice counting with your students in this fun Teacher vs. Student Powerpoint Game.

Day 2 - 1st Grade

Winner: Kristine Dawson Stewart

 

Can you find the Snowman? Practice identifying missing numbers in equations in one of my newest games.

Day 3 - 2nd Grade

Winner: Mary Love Strange

 

It's Christmas Time. Identify what time each child does their Christmas activity in the this fun game.

Day 4 - 3rd Grade

Winner: Mary Love Strange

 

Find that missing multiplication number in this fun Elf vs. Elf math competition game.

 Day 5 - 4th Grade

Winner: Natalie Gunderson

 

How much for that Christmas candy? Comparing the prices of Christmas candy in this Tic-Tac-Toe game.

 Day 6 - 5th Grade

Winner: Michelle Fasbender

 

Ah, the smell of freshly baked cookies! Practice adding fractions in this fun, engaging game!

 Day 7 - Kindergarten

Winner: Kathy Bowman

 

How many to 10? Help these penguins figure out how to make 10 using ten  frames in this fun game!

Day 8 - 1st Grade

Winner: Winner Selected Tonight.

 

 Bingo! Use those subtraction skills to cover the right number to win! .Click here to enter to win!

 

 

 

We have a winner for the first Weekly Prize Pack which included 4 movies, popcorn, popcorn bags, and a $5 Gift Card for soda and candy.

 

Winner: MM Bilingual Vasquez

 

Week 2 Prize has already started. This week, you can win $25 TPT Gift Card. Since I'm close to 500 followers on TPT, if I can make it there before the end of the giveaway, I'll make it 2 gift cards!

 

 

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Be sure to check my Facebook page ever night around 7 PM EST for a chance to win a new game every night. If you don't win, you can purchase the game at 50% off in my TPT store!

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Christmas Advent Event!

The Christmas season is upon us! To celebrate, I am hosting a "Christmas Advent" Event!

 

Christmas is one of my favorite times of year! In my house, I decorate everything! I put up the tree, decorate it, put the lights up outside, and decorate the entire house. Once, when I was in high school, I decorated my entire house, inside and outside, before my mom came home from work.  

 

This year, I wanted to do something different for Christmas. I did a Christmas Advent with my students last year. Why not try it out in my store!

 

Each day leading up to Christmas Day, I will post a new Christmas or Winter themed Math game. I will give one away each night. Afterwards, it will be on sale for 48 hours. On Christmas Day, the last game will be free for everyone! Make sure you get it before the end of the year when it goes on sale.

 

I will also be giving away 4 prize packs each week. Each giveaway begins on Monday and ends the follow Sunday, with the exception of the last giveaway. Here are the prizes for each giveaway.

• Prize Pack #1 - Movie Night Pack - 4 Blu-ray Movies including "Happy Feet", "Happy Feet 2", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", and "The Wizard of Oz", a box of Popcorn, Popcorn bags, and a $5 gift card to buy soda and candy.

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

• Prize Pack #2 - TPT Gift Card - Get a $25 TPT gift card to spend anywhere in TeacherspayTeachers.

• Prize Pack #3 - A Winter/Christmas Fleece Tie Blanket - Get a handmade Winter/Christmas themed Tie blanket as well as a nifty Santa hat.

• Prize Pack #4 - A $25 Visa Gift Card - That's right! A visa gift card to use anywhere Visa is accepted.

Lastly, there's a special product you can get but only by getting all 25 clues. It's a Christmas treasure hunt! Get all the clues and it will take you to where this special product is. The first clue was already posted on my Facebook page. Be sure to keep watch for more clues each day.

 

This will be oodles of fun! I can't wait to see how it turns out!

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First time Promo, Stupendous Story Elements, and PPT Games

First time Promo!

I've been on TpT since 2011. 2 years since I found this wonderful website. Today, I tried something risky but in the end, I think it was worth it. On TpT, you can promote your products and was always anxious. It seemed like a long shot. What if it doesn't pay off? What if you don't make any sales?

I'm glad I waited til now.

I waited until I had a good enough product to attract sellers. Boy, did I score with this one. I made a Kindergarten bundle that includes over 100 worksheets and a few games. I based everything on the common core and looking at examples from a pdf our state gave us. I was impressed with myself  when it was finished.

Kindergarten Math Winter Packet

I decided it would be good to promote my first grade-level appropriate bundle. I posted my product and it was slowly viewed. Within a week, someone wish listed it, which made me smile. When the first teacher purchased it, I was overjoyed. When another person purchased, I was relieved. It decided: let's promote it!

There were many reasons why I waited to so long to promote something on TpT was: 1.) I didn't know how, 2.)I didn't think I had a really good product worth promoting yet, 3.) I was scared and nervous, and 4.) I didn't have a lot on income from the products on TpT.

Now it's up and teachers are purchasing it left and right! Very please with myself that I'm currently working on 2nd grade math. I completed 1st Grade a few days ago and its up and available.

Great Finds-Stupendous Story Elements

Switching from Non-fiction or fiction is an easy task. Finding worksheets and organizers for them, not so much. There are a lot of websites that offer free organizers that are plain and simple. I came across this while searching for some new organizers. This 34 page pdf includes worksheets, templates, posters, even a game for students to play during snack time. These worksheets are more appeasing to the eyes than traditional organizers. Anything to keep students engaged. Best of all: its free!

My featured Product - 3rd Grade Fraction Jeopardy-Like PowerPoint Game

My best seller! This PowerPoint game I created while I was a 3-5 tutor. It's a jeopardy review game that covers all areas of fractions for 3rd grade including identifying fractions, fraction of a set, equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, ordering fractions, and add/subtract fractions. There's even a type in scoreboard for you to keep while in "Slideshow Mode". The boxes disappear after you've click on them to eliminate repeat questions. 30 questions in all. Perfect for review. All this for only $1.



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Obsessions, clipart, covers, pencils, and more

Fighting Obsession

Recently, I looked at the TpT Forum and someone asked how do you fight obsession? I completely understood what they meant. Last night, I stayed up for a good while just making covers for my Pinterest boards. When you think about it, that's a lot of boards. I have 24. First it started with 3 or four. You know, that basics: math, reading, science, and social studies, but my OCD dictated that EVERYONE LOOK SIMILAR. So making only 4 turned into 24.

　

Making covers for my Pinterest Board lead me to a website, mycutegraphics.com. This site has amazing clip art. Now don't get me wrong. I love making my own clip art, but this way much faster and it wasn't for sale so why not. If you haven't checked it out, please do so.

 

The backgrounds I made also gave me another obsession. I haven't put them up for sale yet, but rest assured, when I come up with at least 20 design, they will be available to buy and customize.


 

Great Finds - Winning the Pencil War - An Effective Management System

 

While pinning, I came across this classroom management technique that I am dying to try. Every teacher has that issue with pencils. Either not enough, they're not sharpened, students lose them, or finding them on the floor. This system can eliminate that problems.

It requires a pencil pouch or box and 8 pencils. Basically, students get 8 pencils a week. If all 8 pencils are in the box, students get a prize. If not, no prize. Each students has a pouch/box.

This product is available on TPT and best of all : FREE!

Here's the link:Winning the Pencil War - An Effective Management System

My Featured Product-Snowball Mini Math Pack

 

This Mini Math pack has math worksheets that include counting to 20, numbers before, after, and in between, and even or odd numbers. It's a simple math pack that's great for substitute. Works with grades K through 2 and is common core aligned.

 Here's the link:Snowball Mini Math Pack

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