One Little Word {Resolution Linky}

Well it's that time again, time to make resolutions for the new year. Some you will keep, some you won't. So why don't you just choose 1? Choose 1 that you can focus completely on and make it happen!

I am joining my superhero gal pals over at Primary Powers for a Resolution Linky. Here is my resolution for the year.

My word is really contentment, but I couldn't fit it because it was too long :) This past year has been a year of ups and downs. We were finally pregnant with our sweet Raegan and I was content with where I was. Then she was born and we found out she had a cleft palate and being content with where we were with her became a daily struggle for me. I struggled with the fact that she couldn't breastfeed. I struggled with the fact that she would be developing the same as her peers. I wasn't content with the fact that she was going to have to have to have surgery at such a young age. Then the lack of contentment started overflowing into other parts of my life as well. I wasn't content with the fact that I couldn't be creating fun and exciting resources for my wonderful followers to use in their classrooms. I wasn't content with a lot of things, but think I realized, I needed to be thankful and content with where God has me in my life right now. So every time things aren't going my way, I'm just going to say "content, content" over and over in my head.

Want to join? Head over to Primary Power and read all about everyone's resolutions and come link up with us as well!

Hope you have a great new YEAR!!

Fa la la la freebies

This time of year is so hectic and you are literally trying to just keep your head above water until Christmas break.

So my friends and I over at Primary Power have put together a freebie linky to help get you through the last few weeks before the break!

Here are a few of my holiday freebies I have floating around my TpT store! One is academic and one is just for fun!

 click on the image to check out this freebie!

 click on the image to check out this freebie!

Want to link up and join the fun? 

1. Grab the button! 

2. Add it to your blog post.

3. Link to your Holiday freebie to help make everyone's Holiday a little more cheerful! 

4. Add your link to the linky on the Primary Power blog post.

Be sure to check out the many other Holiday FREEBIES and leave some love, too!

Cyber Monday Blog Hop Stop #17

Primary Powers and GoNoodle have created the dynamic duo! We are sharing all of our best ideas of using GoNoodle. You have landed at stop #17.

Or if you'd like, you can hop over to Molly's blog and start from the beginning.

For my tip I want to talk about using GoNoodle to satisfy your PE minutes. I know that in some districts your class has PE during their specials, but sometimes even though your students go to PE, there isn't enough time in the day to satisfy the amount of minutes that the state requires your students to be active.

Well why not incorporate GoNoodle? It allows your students to be active and dancing to songs that they know and love!

Choose a time throughout the week (maybe Friday afternoon) that you will do a few songs from GoNoodle and VOILA! You have met your PE minutes for the week! Easy right?

Well, so is signing up. Just go to www.gonoodle.com and take less than a minute and you're in!

And wouldn't it be so impressive to have an answer to the "How will you incorporate PE into your classroom?" for that job interview?! SHA-BAM!

Starting on Cyber Monday, GoNoodle is also offering all Primary Powers readers 30% off purchases from GoNoodle Shop through December 8! Use the code POWERS30 at checkout to receive the discount PLUS a special gift from GoNoodle and Primary Powers. In addition to new t-shirts, tumblers, and other goodies for GoNoodling teachers, you can purchase affordable, pre-wrapped gift packs for students to bring a little GoNoodle love to your classroom this holiday.

You can also enter to win a set of GoNoodle tattoos for your whole class!

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Keep hopping! More great tips, free swag giveaways on every page, and a great last stop! Your next stop is the lovely Latoya Reed from Flying Into First Grade.

Happy GoNoodling!

Veteran's Day FREEBIE

I know it's been awhile since I've checked in, but this little miss has been occupying LOTS of my time!

And when she doesn't like to take naps during the day, the poor little blog gets pushed to the back burner.

But I'm here while she's taking a short nap to let you know about a Veteran's Day freebie I have! It's a great activity for students to practice a little research and writing facts about some of the amazing symbols that we have in our history because of the veterans who fought for those freedoms!

And if you are looking for a great past and present unit, this is your unit! My students always LOVE hearing about how things were in the past. They can't believe there were no cell phones back then :)

And if you need a fun Thanksgiving craftivity, I've gotcha back for that too!

Enjoy!

NEW Collaborative Blog and SUPER Giveaway

I am so excited to announce that I am working with some amazing other bloggers and have started a new blog called Primary Powers!

It's a collaboration of everything primary! And to celebrate the launch of our new website we are having a giveaway! An AMAZING giveaway!

How do you enter this amazing giveaway? Head over to our new blog and get entered right away!

And the news gets even better because we are celebrating the launch of Primary Powers with an exclusive deal with Educents!  

21 instant downloads, over 1,000 pages of materials that are ready to use, and variety of topics to pull your through months of teaching!  $100.75 retail value available for a limited time for $29.99 which is 70% off!  Extreme value alert!

Concepts covered are:  addition, subtraction, graphing, time, money, reading, fluency, spelling, writing, close reading, grammar, story element in fiction and nonfiction, and much, much more!  

Products are thematically correct for the upcoming seasons!  

- spiders and camping for October

- turkeys, Thanksgiving, scarecrows for November

- winter, penguins, the holidays, and New Years for December

Other great items include:

- a calendar that could be used as a parent gift

- a data folder to track student growth

- literacy and math centers

- printables

- units of study

Check out the previews below...