My Personal Side - Favorite Cup Link Up!

What a fun Linky!  This one is hosted by Classroom Confections!  Yay!!  I think it's always fun to find out about the "Friend behind the Blog!" 

Here's a little picture of my current favorite mug!  It's, "Oo-la-la lovely!"  I love the little owls!  Look at them in their sweet berets!  It's so cute!  I do love to have coffee in the morning.  I have about a 40 minute commute to school so it's nice to have something warm to drink on the drive in.  My favorite is Millstone Hazelnut Cream but I also like Starbucks once in a while.  

I haven't always been a coffee drinker because I much prefer a Diet Coke any time of the day!  I'm trying to give up the DC but every now and then I have to get a fountain DC.  Target is a great place to have a DC while I'm shopping.  Way fun!  When I was on vacation I found that Circle K has a VERY large fountain drink cup that I filled with the drink of choice!!  

Yes, it was fabulous!  

Thanks for taking the time to find out a little bit about "My Personal Side!" 

How about you?

Enjoy your day!

Tell All Tuesday Summer Linky Party

Summer is the perfect time to sit back, relax, and enjoy some time to reflect on the previous school year.  It also gives teachers time to daydream and think to the future.  In honor of summer and the time time off we're giving ourselves from our teacher reality we want to know your dreams for your teaching career.  For this Tell All Tuesday we'd love for you to share your "Teacher Bucket List."  What hopes and dreams do you have for your teaching career?  Do you want to go back to school to become a reading specialist?  One day become principal of your school?  Or something else in the realm of teaching?  Dream big and don't hold back!  Share your Teacher Bucket List with us today!

Tell All Tuesday Linky Party

Here's how to join in on the fun:

1. Grab the picture and banner above and use it to link back to this post on your blog.

2. Save the Teacher Bucket list picture to your computer.  Using a tool of your choice (I used Power Point) write your Teacher bucket list and upload it to your blog post.  

2. Write a post about the topic of the week.  
This week is: Teacher Bucket List

3. Add your link below.

4. Advertise your post using any social media of your choice.  

Grow My TpT Store, Blog and Fan Page:  I really enjoy working on my TpT store items and I love to write but the problem I run into is available TIME!  This year I hope to be able to structure my available time a little better.  I have a full time Kindergarten classroom, a part-time job and with all the other things, it's a bit hectic at times.  My plan is to set aside specific times dedicated to working on my store, blog and fan page because I'm going back to school in the fall!

Complete My Principal's License:  This summer I have applied to attend an elementary Principal's license program.  I love being a Kindergarten teacher and I also love mentoring, guiding and helping new teachers!  I am looking forward to going back to school when we go back to school!

PhD in Early Childhood Education:  Someday, I want to finish my PhD.  It's a long term goal but every step I take leads me closer to that goal.  Over the years I have obtained my Masters and enough additional credit hours to probably have another Masters!  It just shows that I am a life long learner!  I learn something new every single day and certainly enjoy gaining knowledge in our field!

Presenting Workshops In The Future:  Presenting at the ITeachK! National Kindergarten Teachers Conference in 2013 was AWESOME!  It was interesting and I certainly learned so much!  It's my dream to continue to present at workshops and conferences all over the country!

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog post!  I hope you'll take the time to link up so that I can read yours too!  

Thank you to Diana at My Day In K! for creating this fun Linky Party!

April Homework Packet Is Up and Ready!

April Homework Packet on TpT

I hope you're having a good spring!  It's been raining again today,

so, just in time for April, I've finished my April Homework Packet and posted it on TpT!  Yeah!  Rainy days are sometimes very productive!

 There are activities for each day with two additional reading bonus activities for you to use!

 *Calendar to show activities at a glance

 *Language Arts and Math activities for each day

 *Practice with rhyming, syllabication, beginning and ending sounds

 *CVC word practice

 *Fill in the missing middle vowel sound

*Sentence Scrambles and Word Scrambles

*Creative Response and Explanatory Writing

 *Practice with common sight words

 *Practice with writing word families

 *Book response activities

 *Practice with adding -s and -es to create plurals

 *Identifying numbers, writing numbers from 0-20

 *Skip counting by 10's and 5's

 *Counting to 100

 *Addition and Subtraction to 5 as well as challenge addition and subtraction for your Smarties!

*A Number Bond Activity

*Decomposing Number Activities

I hope you'll jump over and check it out on TpT!  I've been working on some other activities for my kiddies.  I should have those ready sometime this week so watch for additional posting this coming week!

If you've already had a little Spring Break, I hope it was enjoyable and if you have time to enjoy this week, please do something fun!

Have a great week!

Time for a Super Sale!

There's a sweet SALE going on over at TpT!  Tomorrow is the last day so jump on over and check it out!  All the things in my store are on sale because I appreciate all my teacher friends! 

Pick up some great resources at a discounted price!  

Have fun over at the store and shop it up! 

Time for the March Homework Packet!

It's finished!  And it's finished before March has even started!  I have to laugh a little because sometimes my world is so busy that I just get things done right before I need them.  I know no one else is like that but it does happen to me!  So here is the latest addition to the Homework Packet Line Up!

March Homework on TpT

Here's what you'll find in this packet! 

There are activities for each day with two additional bonus activities for you to use!

*Calendar to show activities at a glance

*Language Arts and Math activities for each day

*Practice with rhyming, syllabication, beginning and ending sounds, opposites

*CVC word practice

*Fill in the missing middle vowel sound

*Practice with common sight words

*Practice with writing word families

*Book response activities, characters, setting and main idea

*Practice with adding -s and -es to create plurals

*Identifying numbers, writing numbers from 0-20

*Skip counting by 10's and 5's

*Counting to 100

*Addition and Subtraction to 5

I hope you find this as helpful as I do and as fun as my kiddies do each month! 

Have a great week!

Cool Valentine Technology Links!

Hey all!  If you're looking for some computer games that are fun and educational for this week and Valentine's Day, check out these suggestions!

How about www.pbskids.org for some great activities? 

   

Curious George - I Love Shapes Game

Here are a couple other suggestions for computer games to use this week at www.nickjr.com!

Dora and the Lost Valentine

This is a website that will read "Arthur's Valentine" by Mark Brown out loud! 

That's pretty fun!

Arthur's Story Online 

Don't forget about one of our favs sites, Starfall!

There are so many great games and activities for the kiddies, it's sometimes hard to redirect them to a different site!

Connection Words Mini-Book

There's a mini book listed on this site called,  "Make A Valentine" that teaches connecting words, such as and, and because.

We use Starfall and PBSkids in our rooms often!

I hope you can find something helpful and useful for the kiddies in your clasroom this week!  

Happy Valentine's Day!

                     

February Homework Activities!

Hi!
I just wanted to share my new February Homework Packet!  I just finished it and it's ready to go on TpT!  It's loaded with daily homework activities for Kindergarten Kiddies!  There's a wide range of activities for the kiddies to work on and most can be done independently at this time of year!

February Homework Packet for Kindergarten Kiddies

Here are some of the activities that I've included.  I hope you find them helpful and useful for your classroom kiddies too.

*Calendar to show activities at a glance

*Language Arts and Math activities for each day

*Practice with rhyming, syllabication, beginning, middle and ending sounds, opposites

*Practice with common sight words

*Practice with writing word families

*Book response activities, characters, setting, retelling

*Practice with adding -s and -es to create plurals

*Identifying numbers, writing numbers from 0-20, skip counting by 10's

*Addition and Subtraction to 5

It's just in time for a great start to your February Homework activities!

Have a great week!