Summer Planning Scavenger Hunt Giveaway!

 

Happy Saturday, Everybody!  Have you joined in the Summer Planning Giveaway Scavenger hunt for awesome freebie prizes?  If not, be sure to grab my secret word button below (and be sure to follow my blog with Bloglovin' by clicking the heart-shaped button to the left)!   Everybody wins prizes in this one!  If this is your first stop on the Summer Planning Scavenger Hunt, be sure to visit Erin, our scavenger hunt hostess at I'm Lovin' Lit for more details and links to the other stops in the hunt.   Here is the item I've donated to the giveaway: Hollywood Star of the Week

 In case you missed the post telling how I use these in class, here it is.  I send home the parent letter with one boy and girl who will be the Stars the following week. I have new students go earlier in the year so we can get to know them. Then, I "randomly" choose students for the rest of the year (but I have my shy kids and kids who need to make new friends go first--don't tell!). On Mondays, the Stars share their posters that they worked on over the previous weekend. They are also allowed to bring a special item for sharing. This is a big deal because the kids don't get to share toys or things like that normally—only items related to what we're learning in class. Each day of the week the kids have the option to share other items or stories about their hobbies, families, etc... On Thursday, the class writes a page to go in a book that each Star gets. Usually, kids write compliments or tell why they like the Star. The writing is just priceless.“Hanna, I thenk yu are beeyutifol.” Then, at the end of the week, the stories are collected and bound into a book for each Star to take home. The kids LOVE this! Even the shy kids want to talk about themselves! I laminate the posters, 3-hole punch them, and bind them with binder rings. The Star of the Week big book is by far the favorite buddy reading choice in class! 

In addition to the Hollywood Star of the Week pack, I also have created an Ocean/Beach themed Oceanographer of the Week (it includes some variations--Sea Star of the Week and Big Fish of the Week).

You may also be interested in my Jungle themed Explorer of the Week Packet.

Have fun planning for your school year, and thanks for stopping by!   Be sure to hop through all of the blogs to get your scavenger hunt words for free goodies!  Leave a little love in the comment section if you like your freebies!  Have a great weekend! 

♥Corinna

300 Follower Giveaway! Woo-hoo!

I'm having a huge 300 Follower Giveaway!  Seventy fabulous Bloggers/TpT Stores have shared items to give away to you!  It is easy to win.  Just click on the link and follow these Bloggers/TpT Stores, then click on Rafflecopter to enter for your chance to win. You only have until June 24th, so enter now.   Good luck!

THE GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED! 

THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

Corinna Woita’s TpT store

Classroom Friendly Supplies

Cara’s Clips

The Dancing Crayon

Whimsy Workshop

 

Liv to Teach

The Groovy Teacher

Mrs. Jones’ Junction

The Resourceful Apple

Science for Kids

Blooming in First 

The Teacher Gene

Teacher Treasure Hunter

The Reinspired Teacher

Laura Bogush

Mrs. Beattie’s Classroom

Mizell Multiage

Reading and Writing Redhead

Common Core Connection

Lessons4Now

I’m Lovin’ Lit

The Teaching Treehouse

Common Core Galore and More
 



Students of History

Evil Math Wizard

Teacher’s Take-Out

Fishy’s Teacher Store

Always a Teacher & Forever a Mom

The Elementary Math Maniac blog

Amy Cahill’s TpT store

Tammy Ferrell’s store

Christine Maxwell’s store

The Crazy Pre-K Classroom blog

Mrs. Nutter’s Ready Readers blog

 



Lucky to Be In First

K is for Kinderrific

Alissa-Manning Telisak

Happy Teacher Heaven

Blair Turner 
Shelley Rolston
 

 

For the Love of First

Second Grade Snickerdoodles

Lisa Lilienthal

Nicole Rios

SSS Teaching

Courtney Eller

  Hippo Hurray for Second Grade

Curriculum to the Core

I Heart Literacy

Making Model Students

KTPonTpT

180 Days And Counting

Susan Mescall

Trillium Montessori

Primary Playground
The Winged One

SLPrunner

Steeles Stars

The Teacher’s Aide

We Heart Edu

Janet Rainey

MJ Creations

Blair Turner

Teaching and Tapas

PrepToon’s

Always Learning

Sparkles, Smiles, and Successful Students

K. Holmquist

Keep Me Thinking

Diving Into Learning

Primary Essentials

Tiffany Teaches

Mrs. Payton’s Precious Kindergartener

 

Thanks to all of my awesome TpT friends for donating such wonderful resources!

♥Corinna

Springing Into Nonstandard Measurement & My 300 Follower Celebration!

My "Springing Into Nonstandard Measurement" is now available at my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  I'm a little late announcing it because real life keeps getting in the way of my fun.  J Doesn't it seem like time is moving really fast now that school is winding down?  Does your To-Do list seem to get bigger by the minute?  I know mine sure does.  So, without further ado, here it is!  My kids loved this!  The pack includes color and black & white versions in case you don't have an unlimited color ink supply (wouldn't that be wonderful?).  Click on the picture below to visit my TpT store and get more information.



I can't believe I'm getting ready for my 300+ Follower Giveaway!  I've got some great prizes to give away, plus donations from talented TpT buddies!  

If you would like to join in, please click on the GoogleDoc link below.
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 I have some copies of my measurement pack for the first three followers who comment!  Have a restful weekend! Happy Teaching!
♥Corinna 

Diving Into Number and Operations in Base Ten!

Finally!  My Diving Into Number and Operations in Base Ten Common Core Mega Pack is finished and is up on Teachers Pay Teachers!  It was a BIG project and I'm glad it is done and ready for other people to enjoy it.

I hope you will visit my TpT store and take a look at it.  On Sunday night, I will choose one follower that leaves a comment here to win a free copy!  Thanks so much for reading and following my blog.
♥Corinna

Giveaways Galore!

Hi Friends!  It is report card and parent conference time, so I have to be brief!  Of course, I spent my "report card" day cleaning and organizing my classroom.  I had a pile on my desk that just never got organized because there were millions of other things that were more important!  I'll post some before and after pictures once I get my report cards done...
Here's a peek at my latest TpT item:

I am forcing myself not to post it until I've finished my report cards.

Lots of Bloggy Buddies are having fun giveaways with lots of great prizes!  Angela at Hippo Hooray for Second Grade is celebrating her 200th follower! Forty bloggers (including myself) donated products!  Head over before Sunday to enter to win!

Also, Cynthia at All Things Teachery is celebrating her 200th follower!  She has a ton of different bloggers' products (including mine) available to win!

Have a wonderful day, Everybody!  Is anyone else working on report cards and/or preparing for parent conferences?

Fabulicious Freebies on the First

I'm hooking up with Freebielicious for Fabulicious Freebies on the First (or in my case on the Second!).  I recently finished my latest Teachers Pay Teachers product, "Going Buggy for Operations & Algebraic Thinking Math Mega Pack." 

So, I created a little sampler pack for you for Fabulicious Freebies on the first.  If you download and like what you see, I'd love to hear from you!  Thanks!  Click HERE to get your sampler pack! 

 

Have a lovely week!

♥Corinna

P.S.  I'm sneaking up on 300 followers!  How does a BIG giveaway sound?  Anyone want to join in?

 

 



Sweet Treats Math!

Now that my kids are rocking their Associative and Commutative Property CCSS', I've decided we need some work on the related addition and subtraction (1.OA.6) area.  So, since I was home sick today, I worked on my Sweet Treats pack on "Using the Relationship Between Addition and Subtraction to Solve Equations within 20" (I know!  Catchy, right?!?).  Once again, as I create new things to use to fill in the gaps between Common Core and our non-existent math program, I get REALLY in touch with the requirements of CCSS!  Here are a few quick peeks at my work in progress.

I am in love with Pauly the Polar Bear's clip art from Scrappin' Doodles!  The kids seem to love him, too!  He also looks cute when printed in black and white (just in case you aren't independently wealthy with an endless supply of color ink)! 

If you haven't already been to Liv to Teach to enter her huge giveaway,  you'd better get over there now!  68 bloggers have donated prizes, so it is pretty amazing!





Have a great end of week!  Yay!

Corinna ♥