I am so excited to be writing this blog post!! You have a chance to win a $250 gift card to purchase supplies of your choice from Oriental Trading!!! This give away will run from July 16 to July 30, 2018. Now, I am sure you understand my excitement!!!
Just think what could you buy for your classroom with $250! Oriental Trading and Learn365 have so many amazing products to choose from!!! Just click the picture above to go explore and start making your wish list!!!
I personally love all the items that are stem related as well as all the awesome materials to use during your guided reading groups!!!
As most of you already know, I absolutely love Hue products. I learned about them from the very first French Lick Teacher Blogger Retreat I attended 3 years ago! Their products are amazing!! The first product I ever used was the Hue Projector Camera. It is a document camera! I love it and I use it when I Skype. It is flexible, easy to use and the picture is so clear. I love how easy it is to use! Here I am using it to Skype with my dear friend, Rocking Dan in Australia.
The next camera I used and am absolutely in love with is the Hue Animation Camera! This camera is amazing! It comes with a great book to read and become familiar with your camera as well as the process!
Here is what you will get in your box!!!!!!
After I read the book and I suggest reading the book beforehand because it is a great resource, I searched youtube to see what others have done just to get an idea and to make sure I truly understand the process myself. Then I made a smart board presentation to share with my kids! This is a great tool to teach adults as well. My student teacher used this as a guide for her project!
The smart board and the power point presentation (in case you do not have a smart board) are below! Just click on the pics below for the presentation to download and use in your class room!
1. I went through the smart board presentation! We reviewed all the parts of the camera, the different roles that they would have , all expectations of behavior and how to properly treat the camera, and we watched a video (included in the presentation) on how to take pictures.
2. After we went over the presentation and reviewed all the different roles they will have, my kiddos split into production teams and began their journey into making a movie about their why they love their family! They were given charts to fill out and share their reasons with their table mates.
3. Then they got together as a class and took all their materials (notes, pictures, etc) and put it in the order they wanted their movie to be in. Now I have first graders and they just loved this activity!!!!
4. Once they had everything the way they wanted it, the movie production began. They set up the camera and had the view they liked. They took the pictures and they did the narrating. All we did was assist when they asked for help and made sure things ran smoothly!
5. When we have our movie completed and we have exported it, we have three choices: Creatubbles, YouTube and QuickTime.
Creatubbles is an awesome new site that have partnered with HUE. It allows us to upload our Hue Animation Movies to a site that is safe for our kids to use and upload their creations to. It will give their creation a link to share with their friends and family so they can all enjoy their creations!
Here are just a few things we found to be helpful when making the movies:
- take several pictures of the different objects or drawings- this will give you a good amount of space to add narration. We found that it is best to take about 11 different pictures and set them at 1.00.
- make sure it is really quiet around the camera and computer. It does pick up other noises.
- save it as you go along.
- If they are going to use illustrations, we found that the brighter the pictures the more vibrant their movie is! My kiddos used Kwik Stix paint sticks!
Here is the movie they made! I love this for their first one! They are going to make another one this semester and I will post it for you when they do! Click here for the link to their movie!
Here is a video of me teaching one of my classes about how to use this awesome camera!
The last product I want to share with you is the tablet stand! This is amazing! It attaches to your small group table (any table really I just use it at my small group table) and holds your tablet. The arm is movable so you can show your tablet in a variety of positions. It can also be used with your students so they do not have to hold the tablet while they are using it. I love this. It makes my sight word review during small groups more efficient!
Here is what it looks like!
I love these products and I have an exciting giveaway to share with you! Hue has given me all three of these products to giveaway to one of my lucky readers!!! So please enter the rafflecopter below to enter and win this tech pack!!!
Have you ever heard about Love Your Melon? This company is absolutely amazing!!!!
I love children and I love any company that shares this love! And if there is one thing I totally support is any company that supports pediatric cancer!
Love Your Melon is a company that has a mission that is unlike any other! They donate beanies to children with cancer. For every hat sold they donate a hat! Click here to check out their mission!
Their hats are gorgeous! Here is their beanie!!! I love it!!’
It is soft and comfortable! My favorite hat by far!!! Of course it is also my favorite hat because it helps children!
They also give 50 percent of all profits of all Love Your Melon products to their partners to help childhood cancer!!! This just brings tears to my eyes!!!!
Love Your Melon was a class project created by two friends in an entrepreneur class in Minnesota at the University of St. Thomas in 2012! They have been working to find a cure and to help childhood cancer since 2012! They have donated over 4.3 million dollars and have given over 132,000 hats!
Please check them out and please help this awesome company to find a cure or to help them help children fight childhood cancer!! Click here to check them out!
Here is something else that is amazing!! I have a beanie to giveaway to one of my lucky readers!! Just enter below to win an amazing beanie like mine!!!
As you all know, I absolutely love Kwik Stix!! These are amazing paint sticks that dry in 90 seconds!! The pictures that your kid make are amazing! So bright and colorful and the best part is they do not make a mess!!! No water needed!!!!!!
Aren't the colors amazing!!! So bright!
The best thing is they are now available at Toys R Us!!!!!
So one lucky reader will win a set of these amazing paint stix! Just enter by commenting below to win a set of these amazing paint stix!!!! I will choose a random winner on May 9.
Classroom Faces shirts are great for field trips, kindergarten graduations, preschool/pre-k graduations, school plays, staff shirts, and much more! They feature drawings made by your students. They have a variety of templates to choose from. These are class created TShirts!
Here is a sample template!
Wouldn't this make a cute shirt for your kids to wear!!
They are created by A+ Images!! If you have not checked out their website or if you have never heard of them please click on their name or on the button on the side of my blog!!!
Well, I have teamed up with them to give you, my readers, an amazing opportunity!!! I am giving away a class set of these shirts!!! Yes, I am. One lucky winner will receive up to 24 free shirts. More shirts can be ordered (if needed) at the standard price.
For the rest of Mrs. Price’s Kindergators Readers: Save $1 per shirt AND receive a FREE TEACHER SHIRT with your minimum order of 15 paid shirts. All other instructions apply, including minimums listed here. Orders must be postmarked by April 15th, 2017. New orders only (no price adjustments on previous orders). Use promo code MPK17 on your order form. As an added bonus, you will receive a coupon code for 20% off orders at aplusimages.com when your Classroom Faces order ships! Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello, everyone! I can not believe that it is already February!! And with February comes a contest!!! I love Mrs. Wishy Washy and I am so excited to be able to bring this opportunity to all of you!!
The Joy Cowley Classroom Giveaway by Hameray Publishing is here! One lucky classroom will win an entire set of Joy Cowley Collection leveled readers (60 books), Joy Cowley Early Birds lower-leveled readers (45 books), all of her newest big books (34 big books), a set of finger puppets, and more!
These books pull in even the most reluctant readers with their humor and whimsy. Your students will clamor to keep reading about their new friends: Mrs. Wishy-Washy, Hungry Giant, the Meanies, and more. Recurring characters make them reach for the next book, and playful storylines lead them to finish it. All books in this package are written at guided reading levels C–I. Read more about the books included here.
This contest is closing February 28, so enter now! Winners will be announced March 1.
I first learned about this amazing product at the French Lick Teacher Blogger Meet Up (click on link to see my post about this awesome event)! I was like paint stix what are these!! So of course, I had to try them and do a review on them (click on the link to read my review)! This was on the primary color stix. Click on their logo to check them out!!!!
Then I was given the opportunity to try and blog about the NEON paint stix! OMG!!!! These are amazing!!! They are so bright and colorful! My kiddos loved them.
Now for those of you who are not familiar with paint stix. These are tempera paint stix. They look like glue sticks but they are tempera paint! The kids just take the cap off and paint! There is no water needed! No mess! Doesn't spill or get all over everything! And it dries in 90 seconds!!!! YES! 90 SECONDS!!!!!! My kiddos loved these!!!!
Look how bright these are!!!!
My kids used these when we did directed drawing lessons in ELA!!!! This is the lesson we did on Snappsy the Alligator for point of view!!!! Click on link to buy the book!!!!!
Look how bright green the alligators are!! No smudges or paint all over their hands!!!!!!
Then they used them during quiet time!!!!
They used them during social studies when they had to draw maps and pictures of their families!!
These paint stix are amazing if you have the HUe Animation Camera!!! They are so bright and they look amazing in the videos that your kids create!! We used them for our rainforest videos. Here is one of their pictures!!!
There are so many ways to use these in your classroom!!
Now how about a giveaway???
The Pencil Grip have given me a six pack of primary and a 6 pack of neon paint stix to give away to one of my lucky readers!!! Enter using the rafflecopter below!!!!!
Light boxes in the classroom! I never would have thought I would have a light box in my classroom! When I bought this in April, I bought it on a whim! I thought ooh a new toy for my room! Well this is more then a toy, It is a growth Mindset necessity!!! I am able to post messages to my students that start their day off with such a happy feeling. I changed this every day and my kids looked forward to reading their message every morning! Here are just a few messages:
But not only is it good for messages but you could:
1. post announcements (students of the month, birthdays)
2. Curriculum info- standards, book studies, sight words, concepts
3. Schedules- special time, special events
The possibilities are endless!!!
The light box comes by itself but you can accessorize it with letters, emojis and awesome glitter tape. There are also phrases you can purchase as well!!!
Here are just some of the accessories you can purchase!
Michaels and Joann Fabrics have these with their accessories!
So how would you like to win one?????? Just enter the rafflecopter below to win a light box of your own!!!!!
As you know, I was lucky enough to receive a Hue Animation Camera when I attended the French Lick Bloggers Retreat in March! I used it with my kiddos and did a review on it. Click here to visit my previous post on this amazing camera!!! I mentioned in that post that the awesome people from +HUE were going to provide me with another camera to give away to one of my lucky readers, well guess what, THEY HAVE!!!!! So now here is your chance to win this amazing camera!!
I absolutely love this camera!
My first graders love this camera!!!
Here is another video they made!!!
To win this awesome camera please enter the Rafflecopter below!!!!
