Extreme Blog Makeover!

Welcome to my BRAND NEW blog!!!  I was lucky enough to have my blog completely redone by Designs by Kassie!!  Did she not do an AMAZING job!?!  I am totally in love with my blog's new look, and I just LOVE how it fits my theme!!  Have you seen the 'Pin Me' button she created??  It's a DRAGON!!!  :-)  It was an investment well spent!!

I am also celebrating a personal milestone!  Back in June, I set a goal for myself.  This morning, that goal was FINALLY achieved!!  

My original idea was to have 100 items posted in my TPT store by the end of the summer.  At the time, I had 75 items in my store.  I thought it'd be easy-peasy to get 25 items done over the summer months.  Wellll.........life happened and most of my summer was spent exactly as it should be, with family and friends!  :-)  So by the time school started up again, I had only been able to raise my total activities posted to 90.  Not too shabby, but still not the original goal. I wasn't able to meet my original deadline, but I have finally gotten 100 products listed in my TPT store!  I thought it fitting that the 100th product should be a FREEBIE for all of you wonderful folks who have inspired me to keep creating!!

This little freebie is a Write the Room activity created around smiley spiders.  This activity focuses on the numerals 1-10, the number words 1-10, and the colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, brown, and gray.

Each poster has a different number represented by a set of same-colored spiders.  The matching number words are also on the posters, done up with spider-web letters.

There are two different types of recording sheets.  The first type focuses on the numbers 1-10 and matching those numerals to a set.  

Students must identify the number and find the spider set that matches.  They then write the number word on the line next to the numeral, and color the numeral to match the color of the spiders.  There are two sheets, one for the numerals 1-5 and another for the numerals 6-10.  You could either use these to differentiate for students in your room, or copy them back to back and have the students work on all of the numbers. 

The next recording sheet has students reading the given color word and then finding the set of spiders that matches that color.

When students find the matching poster, they are to draw the amount of spiders in the set.  Since the black spider poster has ten spiders on it, students would draw ten black spiders in the box labeled with the black crayon.  You could also have them write the matching numeral inside the box, if you wish.

I hope that you enjoy this freebie, and that you help my celebrate this milestone!!  I am going to be throwing a SALE in my TPT store, where every single product will be listed at 10% OFF!!  Stock up on all your favorites!!  Check back tomorrow to see which products I mark down EVEN FURTHER!!!

Weekend Wonders - I have 10 FOLLOWERS!!!

This is the first weekend of my blogging schedules, which I've decided to call Weekend Wonders!!  Yesterday my little blog officially had 10 followers!!!  That's pretty wonderful and I couldn't wait to celebrate!!

As a huge THANK-YOU to the fabulous folks who follow my blog, I crated some note cards you could use to welcome your students next year.  There are 5 different designs and phrases, and each card comes on a sheet of two that can be cut apart and folded into a card.  The cards can then be placed into a small white envelope and addressed to the littles who will be entering your room next year.

Each year, I have sent little notes to each of my students before they start their first day of kindergarten.  I try to send them the same day that the entry conference letters go home.  Every year during the parent/teacher entry conferences, I have had at least one family say how touched they were when the little note came in the mail.  it's such a simple gesture on my part, that takes minimal time and effort, yet it is such a HUGE thrill to my kinders when they get one in the mail!!  Click on the picture above for a copy!!

Since becoming a member of Krista Wallden's Summer VIP Club, I have gotten so many wonderful ideas to try out!!  She sends out an informative newsletter full of tips and tricks on how to make your creations pop using the awesome clip art that she sends out each week!!  This clip art is exclusive to members, she won't have it up in her store for at least another three months.  Click the picture below to go check it out on TPT!!  I'm really learning a lot of cool ideas, and getting some one of a kind clip art at the same time!!  It's awesome!!

Another wonderful thing I'd like to share with you is that I found an AMAZING deal being offered by Jennifer from Simply Kinder. This is part of her BOGO Sale.

For the AMAZINGLY LOW price of $5.00, I got the pre-primer AND the primer sight word set!!  I am SO EXCITED for my kinders to practice their sight words this way during the Word Work portion of our Daily 5 time.  I'll make sure to blog all about how it's going in my classroom, as soon as I get to use it!!  Please click {here} to go to Jennifer's TPT store and snag a copy for yourself.  HURRY, her BOGO sale ends tomorrow night!!