Fall 2-day Sale Linky Party!

Over at Second Grade Math Maniac, a Fall TPT Sale link-up is being hosted, and I am thrilled to be a part of it. It is a great chance to pick up discounted products from over 50 sellers and to celebrate the best season of the year (my opinion of course)! Many items in  my store will be 20% off beginning tonight at midnight and ending Sunday. Check out the link to see the other bloggers and sellers who are a part of the sale (remember it begins at Midnight and ends Sunday)! Here is my store where you will find my sale at midnight! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Dannerk

10 Weekly Teacher Finds

common core vocab cards with science and social studies vocab too!

It's time again for another dose of Taking a Walk on the Teaching Side's 10 Weekly Teacher Finds. As a reminder, this is not a top 10 list..but just a list of items I have found and think readers may find useful from fellow bloggers and TPT sellers. Some of these items are from my followers, and some are not, and I always post one by me. Browse this week's 10 finds, follow, link, pin, buy, and enjoy! Come back Wednesday for my BIG 100 followers giveaway! Continue below!

HUGE FALL GIVEAWAY!

Update! I just hit 100 followers, so my own big giveaway will go live Wendesday. Thanks for your support! Until then, check out this awesome giveaway.

Diving into Learning is having a huge rafflecopter giveaway! There are 12 different chances to win..and my fall borders are part of one of the raffles! Check out her blog and the rules there to be a part of the free fall themed giveaway!

 

 CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

Check out my 40 affordable common core-aligned fall themed (Halloween, fall, and Thanksgiving) writing prompts. You will love them! I also have writing prompts for all throughout the year in my TPT store :) I have a new freebie that you should check out in my store too. I will feature it in my blog next week.



40 fall writing prompts

Stay tuned tomorrow for 10 weekly Teacher Finds...and I will have my own huge 100 followers giveaway posted hopefully by the end of next week (so long as I have 100 followers by then!).

Thanks!
-Kristin



10 weekly Teacher Finds

It's that time again...time for another weekly roundup of 10 items I've found on Teachers Pay Teachers, Pinterest, and other teachers' blogs. As a reminder, this is not a top 10 list; there are too many amazing items to rank them in a particular order. This is just a list of 10 items that I love and want to share with you!  Some are items that you pay for (but are well worth it) and some are free. Remember, about 1/4 to 1/2 of my finds come from people who are followers or pinners of my blog, so be sure to follow my blog if you are not already, so that I become aware of your blog and your items! You will also be the first to find out about my newest freebies and products for various grade levels and subjects! Feel free to pin as well! Lastly, I am 20 followers away from a big giveaway..so stay tuned! :) Thanks for your support. Here are the 10 items:

1.) Happy Homophones by Cynthia at 2nd Grade Pad- This pack has 30 pages to teach a homophones unit in a fun and engaging way! There are lots of activities and games that can be used with various instructional models.
 

2.) My First Writing Journal by Mechelle at Ms. G's Kindergarten in Heels- This Journal is 27 pages and is for beginning writers. It has a topic sentence that the students finish by using 4 picture prompts on the same page. They trace the rest of the sentence, and color a picture too. It is really cute, clever, and a good price.     

 

 

3.) Respect Classroom Posters Freebie by Leah at Learning 4 Keeps- I featured this bloggers Autumn Pack (check it out here) a few days ago in a teacher swap blog post (here), but wanted to feature these adorable FREE classroom posters today. There are 6 free posters that help teach your students respect using statements and cute visual cues.

 

4.) Editable Teacher Plan Book Freebie from Leanne Baurs Creative Classroom - 7 powerpoint pages for you to type your plans in and print, all wrapped up in a cute and useful template!

 

5.) Reading Response Questions Freebie from Fourth and Ten - This is a reading response questions freebie that students can use with the majority of books. There are a lot of response questions for students to choose from on this 4-page free product!

 

 

6.) Substitute Binder Kit from Kristin at Taking a Walk on the Teaching Side (me) - Yes, I usually throw in one of my products in this list. Well, hopefully some of you will find it useful! This editable, cute, polka-dot themed 28-page substitute binder kit has all of the forms, templates, organizers, behavior tools and more that you will need to have a stress free day away from the class, and for your sub to have a successful day as well!  In addition to the above, there are activities, worksheets, a certificate for good students, a poster for the sub and lots of extra neat goodies!

 

7.) Common Core grammar practice (2nd grade) by Second Grade Smartypants -  The is a set of 30 grammar practice sheets that would be great for morning work, assessments, homework, review, you name it! It's only $1.50 too!  

 

8.) Word Endings Unit (-ed, -ing) by The Teacher Wife - This 33 page pack includes 2 posters, 2 art activities, and 4 games to help students learn word endings. It was also a best seller! 

 

9.) Everyday Heroes Craftivity ( A September 11, Memorial Day, Veteran's Craftivity) from Michaela at I heart Edu. Create adorable military people, firefighters, or police officers with this set of hero craft templates. The firefighter craftivity will make a neat supplementary activity to do with students to teach about September 11, which is tomorrow, but maybe you will see this last minute. There are also writing prompt to go with each.

10.) Water Cycle Book Graphic Organizer by Cutesy Clickables - Just another reason I knew about Teachers Pay Teachers last year when I was teaching 4th grade and the water cycle. This cute little book has useful graphic organizers and makes a neat study guide/water cycle book. Plus it's very affordable!

I hope you found some of these useful. Pin and share away!

Stay tuned for next week's weekly 10 !
-Kristin

Featured Find! Letter School Handwriting APP!

check back tomorrow for my 10 weekly teacher finds!

Letter School Handwriting APP!

While on Pinterest, I came across an amazing app available for Iphones and Ipads. If your school has Ipads, then this would be a great app to add to your Ipad. If not, then maybe you have kids that could benefit from this app. It is $2.99 and from LetterSchool . They have a free version that has a portion of the full app for you to test. What exactly is this app and what does it do?

Letter school describes their app as:

"An amazing, intuitive game to learn all about letters and numbers: writing, counting, phonics and more"

For each letter and number, children can tap, trace, and eventually write the letters and numbers as they fade. It also tells the letter's name, the sound and words it goes with. How cool, huh?

  

The letters and numbers are in really cute graphics, and come in upper and lower case letters, and numbers 1-10.

For more information or to purchase the app or download the lite free app, click here for the letter school web site.

Don't forget to follow my blog for 10 weekly teacher finds, freebies, and more featured products and tips! I am 25 followers away from a big giveaway!

Follow my Teachers Pay Teachers Store for freebies, lessons, units, common core resources, clip art, decor, and more! See products you like there or on this blog? PIN THEM, and spread the love! :)

My Favorite Teacher- created Freebies

While I love all of the teacher-created products and resources, and find most of them worth every penny that the seller asks, it is always nice to stumble upon a truly useful freebie; and there are many! In this post, I am going to share with you some teacher-created freebies that I have found useful. There are hundreds, thousands, possibly hundred of thousands of great freebies, so this is just a miniscule dose for you to browse! Feel free to pin , save, and link to this site.

I am also part of a Teaching Freebie Link-up From Blog Hopper..so check out the blogs in this linky link for freebies.




comprehension graphic organizer free

 Also, be sure to check out Manic Mondays at Classroom Freebies to link up your freebies and see other links on Monday. I am linking up my Classroom Labels set, so check it out this coming Monday!

In addition, I have been adding many new FREE products to my store. I have added 30 items to my store in just 3 weeks, so you know it will really be growing, and I have added a lot of freebies as well! My goal is to offer one freebie every week or two at my store, so please take the time to follow the store so you will be posted on all new and free products. Please leave feedback if you can on the freebies also. While you are there, check out my other items, including lesson plans, units, unit supplements, activities, Guided Reading sets, Behavior Management sets, borders, clip art, decorations, word wall cards and flash cards, and much more for various grade levels (k-12, but mostly primary and middle grades).


Without further ado, here are the freebies!:

Our Classroom Schedule Routine Cards by Clever Classroom - This resource has been downloaded over 9,000 times so apparently I am not the only one who sees the usefulness of this freebie. It has cute clip art cards with labels for routines; 96 cards- free!


Descriptive Paragraph Starters by Shari Bithell- 9 sheets to help your students come up with great descriptive writing papers.

Cute Classroom Signs Set - by me(Dannerk)- 3 blue themed signs to use in your classroom, including a class schedule sign, a "welcome to our class" sign, and a "who is in our class?" sign- coordinates with other products , like the Behavior Management Resource packet, in the store.

My First Giveaway Winners Announced !

In order to be fair...I put everyones names into a raffle generator. The three winners of my giveaway, who will each receive two items of their choice from my Teachers Pay Teachers Store or my Etsy Shop . The winners are:

Leslie at The Groovy Teacher

Megan at I Teach: What's Your Superpower?

and

Mrs. Hoang at Mrs. Hoang's Kindergarten

Congratulations. I plan on having a BIG collaborative giveaway when I do reach 100 followers..so be on the lookout for that and in the meantime thanks for everyone's support!

Winners: Be on the look out for an email from me.

Review Games Ideas and Link for Fun and Learning!

Bring Bingo to the Classroom

Reviewing covered material before a test in a fun format is a great way  for students to see what they learned, and what they still need to work on (this is useful for the teacher also). Below I will describe my favorite 5 review games that I know about. Please comment with any review games and links that I do not mention.

1- Jeopardy ! Jeopardy review games are fun and easy to make. You can split the students in teams and keep track manually of points earned, or use an online template.
There are a lot of powerpoint templates you can download, but what I love is the online web site Jeopardy Labs. You enter the questions and answers, and it saves the link online for you to bookmark and retrieve whenever.  It's easy, check it out! In addition, this site has some pre-made templates you may be able to use as well. Wonderful!
Jeopardy Labs