Day 2 ~ Flash Freebie & Dollar Deal

Today is Day #2 of my Fab 500 Follower Appreciation deals!

  

First, I will have a Flash Freebie daily. It will only last for 24 hours, then it will go back to the regular price in my store. 

Here is the Flash Freebie for today. 

Friendly Letter Writing {August edition}

Note: This page has a writing response prompt 
for use with the book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Next, I have a Daily Dollar Deal! It will be $1.00 for 24 hours then I will put a different resource on sale for one dollar. Hopefully I will have a new item or two by Day 4 and 5. Here's hoping!!  Today's deal is...

Write It! 3 Ways in 3 Days ~ {3-Digits}

Social Media Links

If you want to be sure not to miss a deal, then consider following me on Instagram and TpT as well as Facebook. I will write a blog post each day, but depending on your settings, you may hear about the post sooner through a different source.

Have a great weekend!
Carrie

Clip Art Credits: Celebration Sign ~ Creative Clips

Day 1.5 of Dollar Deals and 50% Discount Deals

Yes, indeed...I am celebrating my birthday by having 3 days of deals in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. 

However...
            I was trying to kick this off with my "Note to Followers" and, lo and behold, it has not been approved and released yet. (Sometimes the timing is hard to nail down.) 

Soooo, "Day 2" of Day 1 will be Monday, March 23rd. We will go from there and hope for the best. Nothing wrong with extending the celebration a bit more!

~ Today will be the first round of special deals.

Day 1 -

               50% off Deal –

Easter Writing Bundle with Two Crafts


              Dollar Deal – 

Spring Friendly Letter Writing Templates

Day 2 - TBA

Day 3 - TBA

{You will find the Daily Deals in the “Featured Items” section of my store. I will switch them out each day so that you won’t have to search high and low for them.}

The deals for Monday will be the same as Sunday. I will switch out the deals at 10:00pm EST of each day. 

If you wold like to see other Spring resources from my store, please see this post. 

Have a great week!!
Carrie

Daily Dollar Deals Start Today!

Hi Awesome Followers!

Thank you for your support and for your enthusiastic comments and feedback. It truly means so much to me!

I am celebrating my recent birthday by having 3 days of special deals. I need to keep the celebration going! Each day, I will have a new dollar deal and a new 50% off deal.

~ Today will be the first round of special deals.

Day 1 -

                       Dollar Deal – 

Spring Friendly Letter Writing Templates

                        50% off Deal –

Easter Writing Bundle with Two Crafts


Day 2 - TBA

Day 3 - TBA

{You will find the Daily Deals in the “Featured Items” section of my store. I will switch them out each day so that you won’t have to search high and low for them.}

~ Here are some spring and summer things that I have available if you are interested.

Easter Eggs ~ Craft with Opinion Writing Resources

Easter ~ Small Moment Writing {The Thrill of the Hunt}

Easter: How to be an Egg-spert at an Egg Hunt ~ Craft with a Writing Activity

{These 3 resources can be found in the bundle listed above.}

Easter Friendly Writing Templates

Easter Egg Scoot! ~ Math Task Cards {4-Digit Representations}

Friendly Letter Writing BUNDLED {Summer Months/Back-to-School}

Write an App for That!

The Eagle Cam: Keeping an Eagle Eye on the Eagle Nest ~ Writing Activities

Here is a pic of one of the coolest birthday cards that I have ever gotten from a student. Isn't that so adorable?

Have a great week!

Carrie Jones

The Think Aloud Cloud

Warm Up with a Sale {& a Freebie}

Tired of the snow? Warm up with a SALE! 

Teachers Pay Teachers is having a "Teachers Are Heroes" Sale! {Isn't it the truth?!}

It is time to stock up on the things that you have been "eye"-ing. (Is that really a word? My mother used to say that all of the time...so it must be a real word!)

Here are some things that I will be using in my classroom over the next couple of months. 

FREE!

FUN!

Super Fun!

More Fun Than You Would Think!

If you would like to check them out, then click HERE and HERE.

For the sale, everything in my store will be 20% off and you will be able to get an extra 10% off from TpT using the special code: HEROES. That will bring the total percentage off to 28%. What a deal!!

If you can't wait until Wednesday to shop, my store will be 20% off starting on Tuesday, February, 24th. 

I will be back tomorrow to update you on our very exciting Science observations. You will want to join in too!

Have a great day! 

Carrie

Two for Tuesday Linky! Wk 4 and Freebie

It's TWO for TUESDAY!

Hi!
I am linking up with The Teaching Tribune for their Two For Tuesday Linky - Week 4

That means...

  2 items
from my store will be 50% off today!!!

Here are the items that I have on sale:

Write It! 3 Ways in 3 Days

Need a fun way to help your students practice writing different forms of number representation? This may be the resource for you!

To read more about it, see this post.
To check it out in my TpT store, please click here. 



My other sale item:

Friendly Letter Writing ~  Bundle

{Summer and Back-to-School}

Please see the previews of each pack below.

The June Pack

The July Pack

The July Pack

These would be a great resource for now, for Back-to-School, or for anytime during the year as they fit your topics of study.

If you would like to check it out, today is the day! Click here to see it in my store.

Also, I have a freebie sample set from this pack so that you an get an idea of what is included.

If you would like to check out the freebie, then click here. The pictures below show what is included in the sample.

Hop on over to The Teaching Tribune for their Two For Tuesday Linky and see what kind of exciting deals you can find from other bloggers!

Have an awesome day!
Carrie

Two for Tuesday Linky

Hi!
I am linking up with The Teaching Tribune for their Two For Tuesday Linky.

That means that

  2 items 

from my store will be 50% off today!!!

Here are previews of the items I have on sale:

The Silly Bear Hunt

Need a fun way to teach map skills WITH WRITING?

Wait...what?!

Start with a silly version of the bear hunt song with the ever-enthusiastic Dr. Jean. It is called "The Cool Bear Hunt" on her CD, "Dr. Jean Sings Silly Songs."

The Plan

Play the song and...
                             Act it out.
                                        Map it out.
                                                     Write it out...on a flap book,
                                                                           on scaffolded pages, and then
                                                                           on a "final piece" page.
                                                                    {Complete with cute bear clip art.}
These resources are in two forms:
      one for writing a narrative and
      one for writing an opinion piece.

They both include anchor charts for the transition words that we would like for our students to use.

The kids love it! Also, the lesson flows very nicely.

Below is a preview. If you would like to check it out, today is the day! Click here to see it in my store.

My other sale item:

Friendly Letter Writing Templates BUNDLE {Summer / Back-to-School Edition}

The lost art of friendly letter writing...

But wait...it is one of our standards. So, let's do this thing with style!

This bundle includes 3 sets of friendly letter writing templates for practice and for fun!

These pages have cute summer-y clipart images that are as fun to color as they are to send. Each set includes scaffolded pages with clue words to help the students to be successful. They also include pages without the scaffolding for students who are ready for the challenge of writing a letter on their own.

If you would like to check it out, today is the day! Click here to see it in my store.

{Note: I have fall and winter versions on my To Do List. For those of you in the winter months, I can speed up the process if you are interested in those now.}

Hop on over to The Teaching Tribune for their Two For Tuesday Linky and see what kind of exciting deals you can find from other bloggers!

Have an awesome day!
Carrie

Sunday Smorgasbord and Freebie

This Sunday Smorgasbord is brought to you by Michelle at Fabulous in First. I will add the link at the bottom so that you can link up too!

1 - In Case You Ever Forget...
You have an influence that could last for years.

Here is a pic of my daughter (on the right) with her two dearest friends on graduation day a couple of weeks ago. The matching adorable necklaces that they are wearing were given to them by their former 5th grade teacher the night before. She told them to wear it at their first job interview.

Love her!! I tear up every time I think about the "Mutual Admiration Society" that has formed amongst them.

That 5th grade year was the only year that all three girls were in the same class for all of grade school. LOVE.THOSE.GIRLS!

As a matter of fact several of their elementary teachers came to their graduation parties. It meant so much to the girls and to me as a mom. This 5th grade teacher certainly had a long-lasting influence on the girls' lives. Thank you Elena Kaye! Also, thank you to all of their other teachers as well. I would have to dedicate an entire post to her High School Band Directors and their staff...truly wonderful people! They GREATLY influenced my daughter in many positive ways.

Thank you to ALL of you teachers out there who truly want to make a difference in the students' lives! Your dedication does not go unnoticed.


2 - "Not-So-Random" Acts of Kindness
In order to thank teachers in our school, I had my students write letters to them during "Valentine's Day Season" (It is a season, right?) to be sent through our in-school mailing system. So I made some friendly letter templates to help them out with the format. Don't they look nice?

You can grab a copy of the FREEBIE sample here if you would like.

The kids wrote the nicest letters to the teachers. Some of the sweetest were to our specials teachers. It was heart-warming!

My plan was to do some "Not-So-Random" Acts of Kindness for teachers and for students. There are also some quick notes for the students to send each other as well in the full pack. You can check it out here.

Note: After I posted this, I found a great blog that suggested a mentor text titled, Sincerely Yours: Writing Your Own Letter. I'm so glad that I found it to go along with my Friendly Letter Templates. Check out the post at the blog, Hoot N' Hollers, by Courtney and Sarah.


Speaking of random...here are my next three things in this smorgasbord line-up.


3 - My Favorite Restaurant
My husband's family introduced me to Longhorn years ago and it has been a favorite since then. Who knew that you could get a steak salad?! Look what my students gave me!

4 - My Favorite Songs 
In general, most songs from Journey. I particularly like "Forever" by Randy Travis. Of course, I love Phil Collins as well.

I can't decide...

5 - Favorite Yogurt
Coconut on granola cereal. It is my latest comfort food every day after school. Love that stuff! (Trying to only eat half at a time.) :-)

Eat a few mini saltines afterward and you truly have the taste of macaroons going!

Well that is it for my random Sunday Smorgasbord. Thank you, Michelle for the inspiration!
You can link up here to join the fun!

Have a great Sunday!

Carrie

Ten Things I Want to do This Summer and Freebie

Ten Things I Want to Do this Summer

I am linking up with that cute Deanna Jump to list my top ten things that I want to do this summer. Don't we always have ten thousand things on our lists and we hope to get to 4 of them? Nevertheless, here goes...

1. Take time for a hobby. My new favorite hobby is finding a use for all of that CUTE new clip art that I have bought in the last 6 months. Since I have ideas for worksheets, booklets, and anchor charts for my students, I thought that I would combine the two and then it doesn't feel like work at all! Here are some of the sets. Maybe I am addicted! Just maybe...

I am even a VIP Member of Krista Wallden's Clip art summer club. Is that sad...or exciting?! I think it is exciting!

2. Clean out drawers and cabinets at home. I used to love watching Peter Walsh's show, "Clean Sweep." We used to call it, "What Not to Keep," because we also liked the show, "What Not to Wear." I need to keep his show in mind whilst cleaning out.

Peter Walsh

3. Clean out my school files. They are bugging me!

I don't know about you, but I have so many cool new resources from TpT that I really don't need lots of those old files that I have just hanging around. Those "just in case" files. 

I am not naturally an organized person, so I have a hard time thinking about things in an orderly way sometimes. I organize my files, then I don't remember where I filed them. Does that ever happen to you? However, the top of my desk looks neat and clean!

That leads me to the next thing on my list...

(Was that a good transition? My students would be proud!)

4. Decide on a system to organize my electronic files as well as my paper files. I have so many great resources and I find my self spending WAY TOO MUCH time looking for them. Maybe Ashley Schroeder's notebook organizers will help.

I bought them a few weeks ago and have not gotten the chance to put them in motion. 

5. Work on my to do list for my TpT store. I have lots of ideas in my head, products that need to be completed, some that need facelifts, etc. I added some summer things yesterday including a freebie. The preview of the freebie is the fifth picture down.

Friendly Letter Writing Bundle {Summer / Back-to-School}

June Set

July Set

August / Back-to-School Set

Free Sample from the July set. Click here to get it from TpT.

Here are some pages from the FREEBIE Letter Writing Sample {July} ~ Templates:

6. Spanish 1 classes, here I come! I am thinking that if I can begin to understand the structure and syntax of Spanish, then I may be able to help my ELLs translate their thoughts into the correct English syntax. I took the ESOL Endorsement classes last summer and fall. It was so helpful to me to have an explanation of the common mistakes of ELLs in their speaking and writing. 

7. Time at the pool. A pool. We do not have one in our neighborhood, so it is a little tricky for us.
At least 2 times a week. Is that too much to ask?

8. Go to my daughter's musical performances with Atlanta CV Marching Band. Atlanta Corps Vets. It started as Veterans to the Drum and Bugle Corps. Now the members don't even have to be veterans. My daughter is so EXCITED to be a part of this marching band. Since she has graduated from high school a few weeks ago, this will be her marching band connection. She has loved her four years in the high school marching band. It has been a fabulous experience for her. She plays the marimba.  

Warming up before a performance on the football field.

"Her" marimba.
Actually it is the property of her high school band,
but this is the one that she played regularly. 

9. Try a new recipe a week. I have several Rachel Ray cookbooks. I need to crack them open.

10. Jazz up the look of my blog. I like the clean lines, but truly it needs a bit of pizzazz! I think if I use some of Krista's clipart, it will have plenty of pizzazz.

Thank you to Krista Wallden's Creative Clips for the clipart on this post that was not labeled.

I am glad to have the time to focus on those things. What will you be working on? Or will you just try to relax? Relaxing is hard to do after a whole school year of running about. Can I get an amen to that?

Have a great weekend!

Carrie