1000 Followers Giveaway!

I'm so grateful for all of my followers!  I've learned so much from other bloggers and my followers.  I have to say that the blogging community has made me a much better teacher.  I'm super excited that I have reached 1000 followers on my blog and my TpT store.  And I'm even more excited to announce my 1000 Follower Giveaway with some awesome products by my awesome friends.  This giveaway will run from today until Saturday at midnight.

From my store you can win these 3 things!

    

And you can win these awesome products!

 So you can complete as many entries as you would like.  Do them all or just a few.  But the more you do, the more chances you have to win.  I'll be announcing the winner on Sunday.  Thanks so much for following!

Rafflecopter

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Show Us What You Bought!

I don't know about you guys but I just LOVE a Teachers Pay Teachers sale!  Sunday was no different and it took all I could do not spend a small fortune.  

I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin' to show you guys what I bought.

Here's some of the awesome things I purchased!

My favorite thing is Katie Knight's Print Like a Jedi Master.  

We started using it today!!  

My kiddos need a lot of practice writing their numbers and counting.  Kinder Craze's Count and Write to 100 (one decade at a time) will be perfect for giving them more practice.

We'll be starting a shapes unit soon and Kim Adsit's Shapes Galore for the Common Core is a nice supplement.

Phonemic awareness is a really, really tough skill for my students.  Julie's Phonemic Awareness Activity Pack has a lot of activities that we'll be using frequently in small group.

I've noticed that many of my special education students have a difficult time with drawing.  I'm excited to start using Krissy's Guided Drawing Literacy Centers with them.

Did you get anything good?

Five for Friday, February Currently and a Sale!

I love Friday, because well it's Friday!  And because I get to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday.  Even better is that it's also time for Oh' Farley's February Currently.  Seriously, both on the same day?  Loooooove!

1.  Last Sunday, I went to Whole Foods to pick up a quick dinner.  After I got there, I realized my "slippers" (what Hawaiians call flip flops) were 2 different shoes.  :/

2.  One day this week, I walked by my 7-year-olds room and saw this......her staring at herself in the mirror for an EXTENDED period of time.  Seriously, she didn't even know I was there while I took the pic and watched her.  I'm beginning to be concerned about her teenage years.

3.  One of our chrysalis finally turned into a butterfly!  We got to release this one on Wednesday.  I have more chrysalis left.  I hope the rest of them turn.  I have 2 possibles for the weekend.

4.  This is my crazy Great Dane, Harley, in her stand-off with a HUGE snail.  This was as close as she would get to the snail but was having a fit.  I do believe the snail won the round since Harley was terrified.

5.  These AWESOME social story books by Julia Cook came this week.  I read about them on The Lower Elementary Cottage's blog and knew I had to have them.  We already read The Worst Day of my Life EVER!  I seriously love them!!  They go along perfectly with the rules and skills I'm trying to teach all day.

Now onto the February Currently.  I so look forward to them every month!  I love reading what others put on their Currently's.

Is anyone else as exhausted as I am?  By Friday evening, I don't want to do ANYTHING.  But somebody really needs to do some laundry around here.  I guess that someone is me but I just don't wanna!  

Let's talk about pet peeves.  One thing that drives me BONKERS is when kids put their arms in their sleeves and/or stick their knees in their shirts.  Does this drive anyone else crazy?  I feel like the this pet peeve may not even be rational, but it is soooooo annoying to me!

I'm also excited to announce that on Sunday my TpT store will be 20% off all day.  If you use the code SUPER, TpT will give you another 10% off for a total of 28% off!  I'm really excited about this big sale, because that means I can stock up on a ton of things on my wishlist.  Shhhh....don't tell my husband but I have over 100 things on that list.

Thanks to Ashley Hughes for this adorable graphic.