AARRGGHH You Ready For Back to School? Blog Hop and Giveaway!!

AARRGGHH You Ready for Back to School?? I know that many of you have already walked the plank and headed back into the classroom! I am headed back to my first official day back on Monday, and my kiddos return on the 25th. So I am in full Back to School mode and in order to celebrate the start of another school year, I have teamed up with some really amazing ladies to bring you all a fun Early Childhood Education blog hop giveaway!!

Each one of us is offering up a prize or two from our TPT stores. These prizes are going to be a HUGE help to all you Early Childhood Peeps out there! And don't worry if you've already started school, these activities will be a huge help for the first few months of school!

Check out some of the amazing products you can win during this blog hop giveaway!! So many incredible resources you can win to help you make it through those first few months of school!

Guess what you can win from my store??

This packet is over 200 pages long!!! It is jam packed full of various math and literacy centers that will allow you to build those incredibly important foundational skills in phonics and number sense. These activities center around the different concepts and skills that we focus on during the first few months of the year, including letter identification, beginning sounds, rhyming words, CVC words, number sense, creating sets, counting sets, and so much more!! You can get a sneak peek into this packet here!

This packet is centered completely around different alphabet activities. Your students will be naming the letters of the alphabet as well as practicing their sounds. Each activity included centers around different animals that start with each letter. Read more about the activities in this packet here!

The last product you can win from my store is the activity I created to introduce my kinders to the rules and procedures of the Write the Room center. We use Write the Room activities A LOT in my room, and during the beginning of the year many of my Dragons can't write yet. This activity has them practicing how to complete Write the Room activities without actually writing anything, but instead coloring pictures in. Click here for a more detailed description of this packet!

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!! If you win my Rafflecopter giveaway, you will get the three products mentioned above PLUS another $10 to spend in my store on whatever you want!!!! All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter below!

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AARRGGHH you ready to start the blog hop?? There are 15 different Early Childhood Educators that are participating in this blog hop giveaway. Each stop on this blog hop will have a different Rafflecopter giveaway for you to enter. If you follow the hop through to the end (you'll end up back here) you will have entered 15 different giveaways. If you should win a giveaway, you will win whatever products or prizes that person had featured. The seller will get in contact with you via email to reward you with your prizes!

*********There are some participants in this blog hop who do not have a blog, so their posts and raffles will be hosted on my blog. There will be pictures of the prizes the seller is giving away as well as a brief description. So even though you may hop back to my blog several times, each Rafflecopter you enter will be for a different set of prizes. Don't stress when you end up back on my blog for several posts. Just check the title of the post to see which TPT Seller is being hosted!!*****************

I wish you the best of luck with our giveaway! I hope you are able to find several different resources that will make heading back to school for you all a little bit easier!!

Now you're off to your first stop, my sweet friend Jill from Chevron and Centers. Click on her button below to head over to her blog and enter her giveaway. Then make sure to hop on to the next blog to enter another giveaway!! When you make it back to my blog, you're all done!! Good luck and happy hopping!!

Teachie Peachie AARRGGHH You Ready for Back to School? Giveaway

I hope you've been having fun on our blog hop giveaway! I've been hosting some ECE peeps on my blog, and this post is from Teachie Peachie. Make sure to read about her giveaway prizes and enter her raffle!

This packet includes five different math center activities geared towards kindergarten. There are activities to practice addition, subtraction, finding more/less/equal, as well as working with ten frames and tally marks. You can enter the Rafflecopter below to win!

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Good luck! Don't forget to hop to the next stop and enter their giveaway! You are headed to Yay for Pre-K, and she has some awesome goodies up for grabs!!

Kindergarten Princess AARRGGHH You Ready for Back to School? Blog Hop and Giveaway

How much fun are you having with this blog hop?? I hope you have been able to learn about and enter to win all sorts of wonderful resources to get your year off to a great start! I have been hosting several amazing creators on my blog for this giveaway, and this post is for Rachael from Kindergarten Princess. Make sure to read about her products and then enter her Rafflecopter giveaway!

This Back to School Bundle is perfect for getting your classroom and kinders ready for the new school year!

With this bundle, you can win labels for your classroom library books PLUS labels for the classroom. What a great way to stay organized as well as to expose your kiddos to the real-world language we use to label different classroom objects.

You can also win an incredible packet of science related vocabulary words for your Word Wall. It's a great way to make sure you have cross-curricular content on your Word Wall!

Finally, you can win my Beginning Blends posters and sorting cards! The posters are perfect for providing visual cues about those tricky blends, and the sorting cards would make a great addition to your Word Work centers!

Make sure to enter the Rafflecopter drawing below! I will get in touch with the winners after Monday! Good luck!!

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Don't forget to keep hopping through our blogs to continue entering the different giveaways! Your next stop on this hop is Lil' Sprouts Pre-K! I know Katie has some really awesome resources to give away!

My Happy Place by Susan Jennings - AARRGGHH You Ready for Back to School? Giveaway and Blog Hop

I hope you're having a great time on our AARRGGHH You Ready for Back to School Giveaway!! 

I am hosting the incredibly wonderful Susan from My Happy Place by Susan Jennings. She has an awesome Facebook page and TPT store but isn't in the blogging world. This is the post where you'll learn about her products for the giveaway and enter her Rafflecopter!!

It’s hard to believe that it’s back to school time already! I hope that you had a restful and energizing  summer. I spent part of my summer creating some new alphabet resources for my kindergarten students. I am excited to give away a copy of this Alphabet Bundle, which is full of activities to help young students develop their beginning phonics and letter recognition skills.

This bundle includes three products: Alphabet Wheels, Alphabet Shape Books, and Alphabet Train Puzzles. Each allows students to strengthen fine motor skills while working independently or in small groups to learn about letters. My new kinders have already been enjoying the alphabet puzzles this year! I printed them on cardstock and laminated them before cutting them into strips. They are perfect for independent centers or for sorting activities in small groups. Additionally, each puzzle is included as a coloring sheet. This is great for extending learning at home. The shape books and alphabet wheels offer opportunities for cutting, handwriting practice, and coloring. The final products are perfect for students to share with parents when talking about their day.

You can win this product by entering the Rafflecopter below. If you win, you will receive the packet featured above PLUS a $10 credit to my TPT store so you can order more incredibly back to school resources! Good luck!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway Don't forget to hop over to the next stop on our AARRGGHH You Ready for Back to School? blog hop! Enter for more incredible resources to use during the beginning of the year!

Lil' Sprouts Pre-K AARRGGHH You Ready for Back to School? Blog Hop and Giveaway

Have you been having fun with our blog hop giveaway? I hope you've been able to enter for some really incredible products that will definitely help you out during the first few months of the school year!

I am hosting some fabulous ladies on my blog for this giveaway. This post is from Krista at Lil' Sprouts Pre-K! Make sure you read about her products and then enter her Rafflecopter giveaway!!

You are going to LOVE this back to school bundle!!  The products included are some of my best sellers!  The Pre-K Assessment Pack includes everything you need for assessing your students.  Perfect for back to school!  Can’t wait to see if you win?  Check out my FREE sampler pack by clicking below!! 

Good luck! Find out if you were the lucky winner on Monday! I hope you have an amazing first few months of school, whether you have headed back already or are still squeezing that last little bit of vacation from your summer!

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Don't forget to keep on hopping through our giveaway!! Your next stop is Mrs. Garcia's Super Scholars!! She is going to have some incredibly amazing kindergarten resources for you to win!

Five for Friday

This is my very last Friday of summer vacation. I head back to school on Monday for a fun-filled three days of meetings and PD.

I'm just hoping for some time in my classroom!! Since I'm still 'on the injured list' I'll need help with the moving and the climbing and the hanging, and it's stressing me out a bit. However, I've decided that what gets done is what gets done, and the rest of it will come along throughout the year as I heal more!

Since it's Friday, that means I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her super-fun 5 for Friday link up! This linky is where we get to share 5 random things from our week. 

Please enjoy some randomness from my week, and then make sure to head over to Doodle Bugs Teaching and see who else linked up!!

I am working with some incredibly fabulous ladies to bring you an Early Childhood Education AARRGGHH You Read for Back to School? blog hop and giveaway!!

These awesome educators have provided some incredible resources that you can use during the first few weeks and months of school. I know that many of you are already back in the swing of things, but you can still enter to win some incredible resources you can use over the next few weeks! There are 15 different giveaways you can enter!

These are just some of the resources that are being raffled off! There is something here for every level of Early Childhood Education! I hope you are able to join us this weekend for the blog hop and enter all of the different giveaways!! The fun starts HERE on my blog tomorrow! Check back tomorrow so you can start your giveaway hop!!

I have been trying to get things together to bring to my classroom next week. My doctor's note said I could return on the first day, so I haven't been able to get into my classroom yet. If I had realized I wouldn't be allowed in the building until the date on my doctor's note, I totally would have asked the doctor to write an earlier date! 

Since I can't work in my classroom yet, I decided to start a few projects at home. One of these projects is something I've been wanting to do all summer. Check this out!

I started with a pack of 24 Sharpies and 5 Oh-Snap Bins from Thirty-one. These bins are perfect for holding all sorts of items that can be found on a teacher's desk, and they even snap together to form a circle! Here's how I transformed the Oh-Snap Bins.

I have been using the Sharpies to color in all of the white patterns on the bins. How awesome are they turning out?? If I didn't know they were colored in, I wouldn't be able to tell! I am having SO MUCH FUN coloring these bins in, even though the marker fumes are filling up the house!! I can't wait to finish coloring all 5 and get them set up in my classroom. I'm hoping to hang them on my bulletin board and use them to hold all my writing utensils!

I've also been working on some of my classroom decor. Did you know there's no dragon-themed classroom decor out there? Guess dragons aren't a popular classroom theme!!
That means that I've been responsible for making everything my classroom could need. I'm okay with that, actually. It's like scrapbooking for me and I find it really fun!! Here are some of the things I've created!
Shape Posters!

How cute are these posters? I wanted to include the shape as well as the shape's name and some real-world objects that were the matching shape!

Alphabet Line!

I wanted to have the vowels in red and consonants in blue, and for the vowel sounds I tried to include images that represented the short and long sounds. I also included images to represent the hard and soft sounds of 'c' and 'g'.

Number Line!

Each number is represented with a numeral as well as a number word, plus a set of gems in a ten-frame. Dragons LOVE gems and jewels!!

Birthday Wall!

Each month is represented by a different cupcake. How much fun are these?

I have SO MUCH MORE that I've made, but I'll save it for a later post!

Have you heard of the #teachertribe movement? It started after Lucky Little Learners and Schroeder's Shenanigans in Second heard about it at the TPT conference and shared it on a Periscope broadcast. Since then, teachers all over the world have been forming their own tribes as a way to show solidarity and support! There are tribes for every grade level, for regular ed and for special ed, even teacher tribes by state and country!
I am a proud member of #kindertribe, which has its own Facebook page and blog.
I thought we needed a tribe that was open to all members of Early Childhood Education, since we have similar experiences. We build the foundation of student learning and are the first school exposure for many kiddos. We deal with everything from potty training to learning and play centers to teaching social emotional skills. I wanted a place where ECE folks could get together, share ideas, and offer support.
Enter the Early Childhood Education Tribe!

This tribe is open to all pre-school, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten peeps! So far we have a Facebook page, which you can find here! I am hoping to have a lot more pre-school and pre-k members, so if you are a teacher of one of those grades PLEASE come join our tribe!

I am still hard at work on my Freebie Feedback Challenge! I've been working all summer on leaving feedback on the hundreds of freebies I have downloaded from TPT. I'm so close to reaching my goal!!

I'm really hoping to leave feedback on my remaining 75 freebies before next week's Five for Friday! I think I can do it!! Oh my gosh, what an amazing feeling it will be to finally get all caught up!!!

Well, that's my 5 for Friday! Swing over to Doodle Bugs Teaching and see who else linked up!

Must Read Monday: Modern Fairy Tale Books

Happy Monday!! Many of you have your first week of kiddos and I wish you well this week! I have a few weeks left before the kiddos return!

Why yes Ryan, I would definitely like your help setting up my classroom this week!! Got the best email ever, the one that says we're allowed to get into our classrooms to start setting things up! I'm not yet sure how I'm going to manage my classroom set up, since I still have a broken ankle and can't lift things or move things or climb up on things.... I'm sure it will all work out the way it needs too, so I'm trying not to freak out too much.....

Anyway, since it's still a Monday in the summer time my favorite link up of all time is happening. My sweet friends from Kindergarten Planet and The Kindergarten Connection are hosting Must Read Monday!

This incredibly wonderful linky party is all about us getting to share our favorite children's literature. Each week we have a topic to talk about, and we get to discuss our favorite books that address that topic. 

This week it's all about Modern Fairy Tales. How fun!! 

Each year I seem to have a large group of students who are obsessed with ninjas and all things martial arts. I was lucky enough to find some awesome fairy tales to feed their ninja obsessions!

Corey Rosen Schwartz is definitely one of the go-to authors for a modern spin on classic fairy tales. In The Three Ninja Pigs, two pig brothers are sick and tired of hearing about this Big Bad Wolf who is going to come and blow all their houses down. The first little pig learns akido and the second little pig learns jujitsu, and they feel they are ready to face the wolf. However, when the Wolf actually shows up the brothers realize they may not be quite ready after all. Luckily for them, their sister has been working on her moves. Will the three ninja pigs be able to save the village from the Big Bad Wolf??

Another awesome gem from Ms. Schwartz is Ninja Red Riding Hood. Wolf just can't seem to catch a break, ever since those troublesome pigs began teaching everyone around their karate moves! He hasn't been able to huff up a decent meal in weeks. Unwilling to give up, Wolf visits a local dojo to improve his skills. He decides that a little girl and her frail old granny will be the perfect targets. Little does he know he is in for quite a surprise!!

Sticking with my ninja theme, The Boy Who Cried Ninja by Alex Latimer is based off of one of my all-time favorite fairy tales. I can remember my parents using the tale 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' to teach me many a lesson as I was growing up, and it's so fun to use these more modern version with my kinders!

Tim is witness to some incredibly strange and unusual things that happen around his house. He tries to tell his parents about what he sees, but they never believe him. Not only do they never believe him, but every time he tries to tell them about what he sees they punish him by giving him chores!! Not a fan of chores, Tim devises a pretty clever scheme to expose the truth to his parents. Will it work, or will he forever be sweeping and mowing and raking??

Another modern fairy tale by Corey Rosen Schwartz is Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears.

Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear definitely know how to rock. Papa is the drummer, Mama is on bass, and Baby tickles the ivories. However, they are missing a lead singer. In their pursuit to find the singer who fits them just right, they audition the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and everyone else who lives in their little corner of the world. However, none of them seemed to fit. They were about to give up their search when they found a little girl sleeping in Baby Bear's bed....

One of my personal favorites appeals to most of the boys in my class each year! The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Ken Geist is such an adorable spin on an old favorite!

"Little fish, little fish, let me come in!"

"Not by the skin of my finny, fin, fin!"

"Then I'll munch, and I'll crunch, and I'll smash your house in!"

When Mama fish tells her three little fish that it's time for them to move out and make their own homes, each little fish chooses a different building material. Jim builds his house out of seaweed, Tim makes his home out of sand, and Kim sets up house in an old sunken ship. Who do you think was successful in keeping out the Big Bad Shark?

I hope you really enjoyed reading about my Modern Fairy Tale book choices! I had a great time sharing them with you! Make sure to swing back over to Must Read Monday and see who else has linked up. If you want to share your favorite books you can link up too!

Here are my prior Must Read Monday Posts, if you want to learn about more of my favorite books!!

Must Read Monday Friendship Books

Must Read Monday Math Books

Must Read Monday Cooperation Books

Must Read Monday Compassion Books

Must Read Monday Rhyming Books

Must Read Monday Just For Fun Books

Must Read Monday Holiday Books

Also, it's not too late to link up for Spotlight Saturday! It's a Teacher's Show and Tell to share our favorite products, activities, resources, ideas, tips, lesson, tricks, and anything else that makes our classroom lives easier and more awesome!