Classroom Tshirts and a Giveaway!!

Do you take field trips? Have field day? Celebrate any special occasions where you want your kids to all have the same shirts? 

How many of you have spent hours trying to design a shirt, print out all the tshirt Transfer sheets, and then trimmed and ironed a class set? Losing hours of your life! 

I was once one of those teachers until I learned about APlus images! They have an amazing product for teachers!!!

Classroom Faces tshirts!!!!!!!!!

These shirts are so cute and they look amazing! Your kids artwork and handwriting are the focus of these shirts!!!

Here is our shirt from last year!!!

Look at how cute their drawings are!!!

There are two styles that you can choose from! Click on the two styles below to visit the website!!

            

You can also choose from dozens of t-shirt colors and ink combinations!!! These make amazing keepsakes! 

Aren't these shirts awesome? Intrigued yet! Well how would you like to win a free class set??? Yes, I am serious!!! One of my lucky readers will win a class set of these amazing t-shirts!! All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter below!!!!!

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Groovy Joe: A new book by Eric Litwin

I absolutely love all the books written by Eric Litwin! 

For those of you who are not familiar with this amazing author, Eric Litwin is a song singing, guitar strumming, # 1 New York Times Best Selling author who brings early literacy and music together. He is the original author of the Pete the Cat series as well as the author of The Nuts and Groovy Joe. Eric's books have sold over 10 million copies, been translated into 15 languages, and won 19 literacy awards including a Theodor Geisel Seuss Honor Award.

His views on literacy are amazing. He writes books to get children to read! Reading at all ages and reading at all levels!!!

His new book is the second book in the Groovy Joe series!! It is Groovy Joe: Dance Party Countdown!

It is written in a knock knock joke way which grabs the kids right from the start! This book gets the kids interested and it is interactive!

My kids loved it and they loved yelling who's there whenever Groovy Joe said Knock Knock!!!!

Here is a video about this new amazing book!

Another thing  I love about this book is that you can use it throughout the curriculum! I also love the way it is written! 

During ELA, you can use it for story elements, fluency, and context clues.

For writing, have the kids write invitations to groovy Joe to come visit their classroom or for the principal to come to their room to have a dance party with them and Groovy Joe!

In Math, you can use it for equations, number talks, doubles and word problems.

In Social Studies, you can use this to research Disco Dancing and learn about the world at that time.

You can pre-order your book now by clicking on Groovy Joe Below! It is due out on September 12!!!

You can enter to win a signed copy by clicking Groovy Joe below!

Quietest Pencil Sharpener Ever!

Hello, everyone!

I am posting about an amazing pencil sharpener! How many of you 

have used that wonderful pencil sharpener that by the time you are 

done all you have left is a stub? How about the pencil sharpener that 

sounds like a mac truck is driving through your classroom?

Classroom Friendly Supplies have created the world's quietest pencil 

sharpener. I love it! When you use this sharpener, the noise is 

minimal. Unless you are standing right next to it, you do not hear it!

This sharpener comes in so many colors!!! It goes with literally any 

classroom theme! It comes in red, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink 

and black!!!!

Stubby pencils are no longer a concern for me! This pencil sharpener 

makes my pencils so sharp but takes very little of the pencil away!

I can not believe how sharp the pencils get!!! Check it out below!

This is how you use the sharpener!

I chose the yellow pencil sharpener to review! I love the color and it l

looks amazing in my school tools area!

Here is a video about the pencil sharpener!

Here is the link to the website! This is a must have for all 

classrooms!!!

Click the pencil below for the link to their site!!!

Have you heard........

Guess what you can find at BJS!!!!!!!

Kwik Stix Paint Stix!!! You can get a 24 pack for only 19.99!!! This is an awesome price for these paint stix!!

So when you are out looking for something for your kids (your own or your kiddos in your classroom) go to BJS and get these amazing paint stix. These are Paint in a stick and they dry within 90 seconds! No water needed! No paper towels needed! No paint brushes needed!!! 

All you need is paper and the Stix!! How much easier can a project or activity be?! 

Click here for the link!!! 

Going Back to School with Oriental Trading and Learn365

It is that time of year where all of us, teachers, are running around looking for all of those perfect things that wil help us complete out classroom for the new school year!

But there is one stop, we can make and it has everything! Even better we do not have  to leave our house!!! Oriental Trading has everything we need and even better they have a new site, Learn365! This site has so much curriculum and educational materials you will be on this site for hours!!! 

I love growth mindset and I love anything that will increase my kids self esteem as well as increase their belief in themselves!! So every year I make sure I have special test pencils and smartie beads!! 

Oriental Trading and Learn365

 have such an awesome  selection of pencils! You will surely find some to match your theme! I found these amazing mustache pencils! I mustache you to do your best on your test!!! 

These pencils increase their belief in themselves!!

They love to wear smartie beads! I used to use just plain beads but I found these amazing crayola dog tags that have inspiring words on them. Dream, Inspire, Create!!! I can't wait for them to wear their new smartie beads during assessments!

Speaking of growth mindset, I found these awesome fans for my ceiling that give my kids so many important messages!!

My focus this year, when  setting up my room was my math and number talks area! Oriental Trading and Learn365 have so many math items!!! I had a hard time choosing what to start with!!! I finally chose magnetic ten frames and math strategy posters!

The ten frames are a perfect size for my firsties to manipulate and see! The magnet sticks so well to my chalkboard! The colors are bright!

The math strategy posters are kid friendly! They have both words and pictures for the kids to see and understand the strategy! These are perfect for any math and number talk area!!!

The choices from Oriental Trading and Learn365 are endless and abundant! There is something for every teacher at these sites!!! Please check them out! You won't be sorry!!! 

Disclaimer: I was compensated for my post but these are my own opinions of the products I received!

A Mess Free Paint?!..... Yes Please!!!!

Kids love to paint! Teachers love to paint! What we do not like is the mess that goes along with painting! The nasty dirty water! The brushes to clean! 

Well, those days are over!!! I absolutely love using Kwik Stix Paint Stix. These amazing paint tools are just like a glue stick! They look like a glue stick! They are used like a glue stick! But they are tempera paint!!!!

They come in metallics!

They come in neon!

They come in the original colors!!

They also come in thin Stix!

What is awesome about these paint stix besides no mess is that they dry in 90 seconds!!! Yes 90 seconds!! How awesome is that!!! 

Look how bright and beautiful the kids artwork is using these awesome sticks!!!!!

This is a definite must have for your classroom! The great news is you can buy these on Amazon and at Target!!!!
 

 
 
 
 

 

 

Do you esgi?

 

Do you esgi? 

Oh my if you don't, you must!!!!! This is an amazing program!! It will literally save you hundreds of hours of work!! 

When you hear the word assessments what comes to mind? I know, you groan, your heart skips a beat and it is not a good beat! 

When your kids hear test time, what do they do? Pretty much the same as we do but for a different reason! 

ESGI is amazing! It takes the aw man out of assessing!!! My kids love it! I love it and you will love it too!

You can make your own assessments or use their test explorer to find a test that you need! It is all done on the computer!

 

Here is what your page will look like!

These are all the assessments that I created and my kids took last year for their most common words! I love the pie graphs! This is great data! You can see this for each  child or as a whole class, it is up to you!

Another amazing feature is that you can get flash cards for the words or information that your kids need to work on or you can print out flash cards for all the words that is up to you! I normally print out the flash cards for the words they need to work on!

I absolutely love the fact that it alsonlrints a parent letter! This letter tells them the test they took. The words they got correct! The words they need to work on and what theybsaidnformthe words that they need to work on!

Not only does it do assessment but ESGI also have a classroom management section! You can print off name tags, class lists and much much more! I love the parent teacher conference section where you can schedule conferences, print out parent letters and reminders to send home!!! 

Doesn't this sound amazing!!! So here is some even better news!!! You can try it free for 60 days and if you like it you save 40 dollars off the price!!! 

Click here for your free trial!!!

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