So In Love With Books Giveaway

Good morning! There is an awesome group of teacher bloggers doing another book giveaway like we did at Christmas time! This time, it's all VALENTINE'S DAY and LOVE! What could be better?

So, we are calling this the SO IN LOVE WITH BOOKS Giveaway. Here's how it works, check out the book that I am sharing below. Download my freebie if you'd like it, collect the number at the bottom of my post (Don't enter the rafflecopter until you have all of the numbers!), then hop over to the next teacher blog that I have indicated at the bottom. Continue to go through all of the blogs and collect all of the numbers, add them up, and THAT is the number that you enter in drawing. You could win ALL 12 of the books that are shared in this giveaway! Plus you get 12 freebies no matter what! Let's get started!

Second graders love Pete the Cat! There is just something WAY COOL about this cat that they all seem to love. Well the book starts out with Pete being "TOO COOL" for Valentine's Day, which his feline friend Callie then persuades him into realizing Valentine's Day IS cool. I think a lot of boys, especially at the 2nd grade up level, can relate to this. Is it really cool to like girly hearts and words like LOVE!? I love reading books that relate to my kids and that they can connect with. For me, boys seem to be the focus that I'm trying to connect with, that's why I like this book! 

If you already own this book, or plan on trying to read it this Valentine's Day season, download my freebie below for a few graphic organizers to go along with it, plus a written response page. Just click the picture below to download it from TPT! 

Now is the fun part, it's time to COLLECT MY NUMBER BELOW, write it down, and click on the image below to head over to the next blog! 

Don't forget, you can enter to win AFTER you have visited all 12 blogs! The rafflecopter will only let you enter the number once, so you don't want to mess up! Visit all 12 before entering the number! GOOD LUCK! 

If you are coming back to my blog for the 2nd time (meaning you have been through all 12 blogs already), add up all of the numbers that you collected and enter the SUM of the numbers in the rafflecopter below!

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12 Books of Christmas

I'm excited to be teaming up with 11 other AMAZING bloggers to share some of our favorite Christmas and holiday books in a fun 12 Books of Christmas Blog Hop!

Along with FREEBIES for each book, we are also giving away a copy of each book. Make sure you read all the way to the end of this post to find out how to WIN!

For my book, I chose The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish. Love all of the Pout Pout Fish books and I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one!

I have created a packet of activities to go with it. I have a variety of activities to choose from to use after reading the book as a read aloud with my class! Please download the freebie below to use a few of my activities after you read the book. Remember, if you don't own the book yet, you'll want to enter the raffle for a chance to win ALL of the books above! What could be more fun than that?

Thanks so much for stopping by! Before you hop onto see my sweet friend, Abbie over at Tales From the First Grade, don't forget to grab my number! Each blogger will have a number at the end of his/her post. Collect all the numbers along the way, and when you're done, add them all up and enter the total number in the Rafflecopter below!

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Happy hopping!

Awesome Fall Giveaway

Head on over to Facebook to see the great Fall Giveaway that I'm doing with Abbie at Tales from the First Grade!

We are giving away two awesome fall wreaths, made by Abbie Jinnings! The winners will be chosen on  Sunday night! I will have one winner from my post and Abbie will have one from her post. Each winner will win the following:

GORGEOUS fall wreath
$10 Starbucks Card
One fall product from each of our TPT stores

TWO people will win ALL of the above! We have TWO wreaths up for grabs! Plus, that person will win a Starbucks gift card and TPT products!!!


Look for this post on our Facebook page! Be sure to LIKE the Facebook post, then comment and tag three friends in the post. Encourage your friends to "like" our Facebook pages and TPT pages! You will see the links in the comments for our TPT stores. Mine is STUCKEY IN SECOND and Tales from the First Grade's TPT store is ABBIE JINNINGS.

Good luck everyone!!! We can't wait to share these awesome giveaway prizes with two lucky winners!

Spring Blogger Meet-Up Blog Hop

 

I've already posted about the awesome Spring Teacher Blogger Meet-Up that we had in March in French Lick, Indiana. Now, for even more details and chances for you to join in on the fun we had! Plus, you can see EVERYONE that was included by joining this amazing Blog Hop that Mrs. Pauley and Holly Ehle have put together! You are not going to be believe all of the amazing teachers that you are going to find through this Blog Hop!

 

 

One of the fun activities that we did at the Meet-Up was that we brought a favorite teacher tool that we love to use in our own classroom and we'd like to share/swap with another teacher. We had a ton of fun with this. After passing and swapping the wrapped gifts over and over, I'd like to share the teacher tool that I ended up with.

 Dorothy Wilson over at Twenty-Something Teacher Tales put together this adorable little bucket of "Tools for Teaching." You can see the full description below. Who doesn't love Expo markers, hand santizer, and Starbucks!?! Oh wait....and CHOCOLATE. Notice, there aren't any pictures of the chocolate. You can see them at the very bottom of the bucket, if you look closely.

 

Dorothy's Tools for Teaching were such a creative idea and a good reminder to take care of myself, spoil my students, and coffee is for teachers!!! (Love Starbucks!) Thank you Dorothy!

 

 

 

Also, due to all of Holly's hard work, there were tons of great door prizes! Look what I won!

$25 to Teachers Pay Teachers! (I've already spent it of course! Thank you, thank you, thank you!)

Now, although there were a lot of prizes at this EPIC Meet-Up, we did learn a few things! It was a pretty open session and there weren't any scheduled or planned speakers, but instead, anyone who wanted to share tips and tricks, could do just that. I loved this social, meet-up type format because you know how teachers always sit and talk anyway! Well, we were allowed to!

My three biggest Take-Aways from this Meet-Up:

1. NEW FRIENDS! Meeting new people and taking a fresh look at teaching. I loved hearing about another school, what they are doing there, and how some things are the same as ours, but some things are much different. It was a breath of fresh air! I traveled to the Meet-Up with Abbie (who teaches in the classroom next door to me), but we met these lovely ladies from Terra Haute!

Allison (Me!) and Abbie (Tales From the First Grade) from Fort Wayne, Kelsey (Aloha to Kindergarten), Stephanie, Sierra, and Haley from Terra Haute.

Since being back, I have already networked with these sweet ladies! Can't wait for the next meet-up!

2. ORGANIZING tips from Dana Lester (Common to the Core)  and Greg...the infamous Kindergarten Smorgasbord! They helped me get motivated with blogging again. Gave me tips on organization of my clipart, and also just tips on trying to make time each day to blog about something useful. Greg is right, we really do useful things everyday that others would love to hear about (okay, maybe some would like to hear about it more than others.) I LOVE blogging and creating products for TPT, so I truly need to find more time to blog and share my creativity and fun. That's what keeps me going in teaching, having these fun things to look forward to!! I love collaborating with teachers from all over the place and the wonderful teachers at this meet-up reminded me that I need to continue to network and blog! I love it!

3. UPCOMING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES. I was happy to hear some ladies from Scottsburg, Indiana announce they have a Technology conference coming up that sounded very interesting to me because it sounds like I could learn even more that could help me with blogging and creating things for TPT! I love learning new things and meeting new people!!!

It's called Digi-Palooza and it's in Scottsburg, Indiana.

Okay, if you have made it this far, you are ready for an awesome giveaway! Believe me, all of this reading will be worth it! As you have already heard, we received some awesome gifts from some AMAZING sponsors! By entering our rafflecopter giveaway in this Blog Hop, you can win:

ALL OF THESE PRIZES AND MORE!

How can you win these prizes? Well, just KEEP ON HOPPING through this Blog Hop, and be on the lookout for the Rafflecopter! Good luck!

 

   

Now, onto the next FABULOUS teacher in this Blog Hop!!

Click here to visit Marissa at First Grade Stars!

 
     

TPT Blog Debut & Facebook FREEBIE Hop! PLUS A GIVEAWAY!

Well friends, I saw a familiar face on the TpT blog today! Check it out here. Be on the lookout this coming week for something in my store that has been marked down to free. TpT will announce it on Facebook & share the link. Hint....

Okay, the other exciting news. Starting Saturday morning, you can go through this Fantastic-Facebook-Hop! :) It's being put on by a group of 30 second grade teachers and it should be full of lots of useful goodies! PLUS---there's more news...we are even doing a giveaway! See the bottom of this blog post to enter!

 

Start at Tori's Teacher Tips and look for this tab:

 

Tori has a map with a link to all 30 teachers involved in the HOP. When you get to each teacher's Facebook page, look for that same cute little penguin tab! Also, be sure to share this Facebook hop with your other teacher friends on Facebook. We are all posting the advertisement pictures on our Facebook pages, so be sure to just "share" that with your teacher friends so they can join in the fun too!

 

ENJOY! Let me know what your favorites are!

Here is all of the info on our awesome giveaway!

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