What Works: Teacher Appreciation Linky and Huge Giveaway

Hello, Everyone!! I am linking up with some amazing educators to share some classroom secrets and to host a huge giveaway!

Being a teacher and a parent of a First Grader, I know how hard you all work to provide your students with the best learning environment possible. You instill qualities in your students that provide them the framework to be successful in all that they do and to become high functioning, higher order thinking, successful citizens in society! For this I thank you not only as a fellow educator but as a parent as well.

Don't be afraid to try new things! That one thing that you think will be a disaster may just turn out to be the best idea you have ever had!

Mine was group my desks and turn them into dry erase tables! I wanted to do this for years and then I finally said I am going to do it and it has been the best thing I could have done! Student engagement soared!

Make learning fun and interactive! They need to be engaged! 

Love your kids! Participate in activities with them! Let them see the human you as well! They will strive to meet your expectations even more!

Here is the part you have all been waiting for.... The Giveaway! There are pencil sharpeners, gift cards, class website and much more so when I say it is amazing, I mean it is amazing! The prize bundles that you could win are huge, useful and awesome. There are two prize bundles and don't forget the more entries you have on rafflecopter the more chances you have to win! 

Just take a look at everything you could win...One lucky reader will win this entire prize package!!!

Prize Bundle #1 Includes

Mountain Math/Language Resource of your Choice (up to $99.95)

$100 Gift Card to Teachers Pay Teachers

$50 Amazon Gift Card

Smart Class Website Designed by Flapjack Educational Resources

Pencil Sharpener by Classroom Friendly Supplies

Year-Long Writing Prompts by Mrs. D's Corner

Mentor Sentences Unit by Jivey

Dealing with Math Homework by Teacher's Clubhouse

Your Choice of Melonheadz Graphics (up to $7.00)

Growing Bundle Purposeful Problem Solving by Pawsitively Teaching

Pop Art Coloring Page for Seasons and Holidays by Art by Jenny K

Game Pack from Flap Jack Educational Resources

PLUS....$140 Gift Box of Fabulous Teacher Supplies sent to you from Amazon

We aren't finished yet....take a look at everything a second lucky winner will win!!!

Prize Bundle #2 Includes

Mountain Math/Language Resource of your Choice (up to $99.95)

$100 Gift Card to Teachers Pay Teachers

$50 Amazon Gift Card

Smart Class Website Designed by Flapjack Educational Resources

Pencil Sharpener by Classroom Friendly Supplies

Year-Long Writing Prompts by Mrs. D's Corner

Mentor Sentences Unit by Jivey

Dealing with Math Homework by Teacher's Clubhouse

Your Choice of Melonheadz Graphics (up to $7.00)

Growing Bundle Purposeful Problem Solving by Pawsitively Teaching

Pop Art InteractiveColoring Page for Seasons and Holidays by Art by Jenny K

Mega Task Card Bundle from Flap Jack Educational Resources

PLUS....$140 Gift Box of Fabulous Teacher Supplies sent to you from Amazon

Be sure to enter both rafflecopters for a better chance at winning one of these amazing prize bundles!

Enter to Win Prize Bundle #1 Here

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Enter to Win Prize Bundle #2 Here

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You won't want to miss out on all the other great secrets being shared by successful teachers!  Be sure to check out all the other great posts below.

An InLinkz Link-up

May Pinterest Pick 3

I am linking up with Inspired owl and Pawsitively Teaching for their May Pinterest Pick 3 Linky! This is a linky where we go on Pinterest and find 3 activities for the month that we want to do in our classroom and shre with other educators.

Here are my three picks for the month of May!!!

I love all of these ideas on different ways to make flowers!!!

Great for Math and tweak it a little by adding the labels for parts of a plant and you incorporate Science. Add a little writing and there is a little more integration of curriculum!!!

Making Lemon Scrub for Mother's day! Never did this before but there's a first time for everything!!

So there are my 3 picks for May. Click below to see some ideas from other educators!!!

An InLinkz Link-up

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May Currently

I am linking up with Farley of Oh Boy 4th grade for her Monthly Currently Linky!

So here is my Currently for May:

Listening: I am listening to the News and can I tell you, it is so depressing. Only pleasant story was that the Royal Baby was born and it is a girl!

Loving: Having a student teacher! She is awesome and loves the idea of being a teacher! She has also taught me a few things about technology!! She has made this year a little more stress free! 

Thinking: Mother's Day is next Sunday and I have to come up with a new idea since I had most of my kids last year and then I need to get whatever I think of done!!!! No Stress!!

Wanting: A quiet, productive Weekend! 

Needing: More time- It seems I never have enough time to get anything done! More and more ideas and tasks come up but there is never an increase in the time to get them done!!!

Summer: Yes: Vegas- I am signed up!! I am excited!! I am ready!!! I can't wait to meet all of the amazing bloggers I interact with online!!!!

Summer: Hope: Vegas- I hope nothing happens and I can not go! That would be devastating!!! 

Summer: Dream: That next school year will be less stressful! 

So there was my May Currently! Click on Farley's button below to see what other educators are currently doing!

Book Study: Chapter 17 Visualization

I am linking up with Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for Chapter 17 of the Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites Book Study.

For visualization, I love to use these books! My students enjoy having to listen and draw what I ask.

The monster in the Woods is about a group of animals sitting together in a storm. They hear noises and know that the Monster in the Woods is out there. I read right up until the monster is revealed and I have them go back to their seats to draw and write about why they drew what they did. Then we get back together, talk about what they drew and thought and then we finish the book. Then we have a discussion about the real monster in the woods.

 

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I love this book! I first read it in college (many, many, many years ago. LOL!)

This is about a little boy who finds an aminal in the woods. he brings the aminal home but along the way he meets a friend. he tells them about the aminal and goes on his way. Well, this is like the game, Telephone, as each friend sees another, the description of the aminal grows. I stop reading right before the aminal is revealed and then I have them go back and draw what they think the aminal is and write why.

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The last book I love to use is The Book With No Pictures! This book is awesome! There are no pictures so the kids must visualize everything the reader says! I will choose different parts and ask them to visualize what the author is saying. They then share this with a partner and then we discuss it as a class. I will also have them draw what I said and then we share the pictures on the ELMO!

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So click on the picture below to see what some other educators thought about and use this strategy!