50th Day Photo Dump...and more Magic Elf Madness! Plus. some FREEBIES!

Happy Sunday, Peeps! Kerri here...
2 more days and I am one free lady!! We have to school Monday and Tuesday, and then we get 5 glorious days off! I CANNOT wait! 

Here are a couple of fun pics from our 50th day of school, which was last Thursday!

We drew ourselves as 50's kids...

We wore our 50's outfits...

Mini Danny Zuko

Mini Sandra Dee

This one was my favorite of all. She kept asking me all day if her lipstick was still on! A girl after my own heart!!

We also had rootbeer floats (yumminess!), listened to 50's music (which invoked lots of giggles from the children), and did lots of activities from Cara Carroll's 50th Day of School Unit (LOVE LOVE LOVE!!)

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In other news, my Merry Christmas, Magic Elf! Christmas Math and Literacy Centers Unit is finally posted and ready to roll! I know what I'm going to be doing over Thanksgiving Break (cutting out laminate and watching my stories~Can I get a what what!!)

Here's a little sneak peek...

These centers are perfect for the month of December, and can be used alone or in conjunction with my Magic Elf Writing and Activity Pack. While you are visiting my TPT shop, you can also pick up this Magic Elf FREEBIE...

AND, I made a cutesy little poster to display that shows Magic Elf and some of the words he is going to teach my children about during the month of December. Click on the picture to download your own copy via Google Docs!

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
XOXO Kerri B

Awesome Giveaway, 50's Day faces, and Vote for MEEE!!

Hi Again! Kerri here...
Here are some pictures from our 50's kids direct draw that we were working on today...One of my little guys exclaimed, "WOW! I looked so different in the 50's!" Hilariousness, I tell you! Pure Comedy!

                                 

                                 


I just love kid drawing...it melts my heart every time!!


ALSO...


I wrote a grant to get Leapfrog TAG READERS in my classroom and the top five vote getters will win! I would SO SO SO appreciate it if you would click on the link below and take a quick second to vote for my project! Please click here to go to my project's page:


http://www.weareteachers.com/ideas/partnerask/teachingidea?app=20776&grantId=67


Thank you friends! I appreciate you helping out my classroom by voting!


ALSO...
I am uber-excited to announce a SUPER AMAZING, EXCELLENT, AWESOME giveaway that my friend Karen has asked me to help her out with. She is a truly talented artist extraordinaire with a flair for all things vintage, and well, just down right cool! You should see her son's bedroom...TO DIE FOR CUTE!
She has just recently opened up her own little Etsy shop, which is called "Wishing You Happiness"-check it out here.

Isn't her logo soooo sweet??


Here is a little blurb about her shop and philosophy:


"We celebrate happiness, and strive to make you smile! If you are looking for a gift to brighten someones day, fill a child's room with love, or celebrate a special event, we are the place to find it. We also donate a percentage of our sales to charities close to our heart in hopes of bringing a little happiness to people or animals that could really use a little extra happiness. Enjoy!"


Check these out:

She is offering to give away one of these beauties to one of you, our faithful followers! Your choice! How cool is that! These are PERFECT for kids' bedrooms and even classrooms! (I want the You are Smart one....it is precious!) 


Here's how it works...You can enter 5, count 'em, 5 ways:


1. Become a follower of our blog and leave a comment below, or leave a comment if you already are a follower!


2. Follow my TPT store and leave a comment below that you are a follower!


3. Add Karen's ETSY shop to your favorites and leave us a comment below.


4. Pin Karen's Logo and/or pictures above to your Pinterest and leave us a comment. 


5. VOTE for my grant project (click here) and leave a comment that you voted!!


That's it!! Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy!! I'll even throw in your choice of teaching product from my TPT store to the lucky winner! 2 prizes in one!! BONUS!


We'll keep the giveaway open until Tuesday evening, so get those comments in! Of course, random number generator will pick the lucky winner and we'll announce the winner on Wednesday!!


As always, thank you for your support, kind words, and encouragement! I am constantly blessed by all of my blogging buddies!! :)

Math freebie, contraction flip book, and the 50th day!

Hiya Peeps!! Kerri here...
The 50th day was today! (Well, actually it is Thursday, but we have soooo many GOBs of activities to do that we are celebrating it over 2 days!) Of course, I purchased Cara Carroll's FANTASTIC 50th day unit, which is all kinds of Wonderful! The kids had so much fun today doing all of her cutesy cute (and totally appropriate for what we are learning right now) activities. Here are some pictures of them counting out sets of 50...

We also started learning about contractions today. To help with the learning, we made our handy, dandy contraction flip books. Seriously, flip books are my go to activity for all kinds of learning. I love the visual and the kids think they're neat!

And...here is a little math freebie for you. I call it the "Number Machine" and I got the idea from my mom who used it years ago in her classroom, except she used manila graph paper with hand-drawn numbers (kickin' it old school!) HA!


I give the kids a strip of numbers (whatever numbers you are working on. So far, we have practiced writing our numbers by 10's and 5's. We will be moving on to 2's next, but I included numbers 1-100 grouped 10 per strip as well, which I used when I taught Kinder) and a writing worksheet. They basically have to cut out the numbers, glue them in order down the left side of the paper, and practice writing them 5 times. When we practiced our 5's, we practiced 5-50 one day and 55-100 the next. 


This center is PERFECT for when you have 15 minutes you did not account for, OR when your SMART Board (a.k.a. Enemy Board, Wonky Board, Ridiculous Board, and on some days WTH Board!) won't turn on and you can't do your math lesson properly. Grrrr! (Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me??) The kids get to practice their number recognition, ordering, and writing all in one swoop, and they just LOVE this activity!!
Click on the picture below to download your very own set!!

Number Machine

Finally, A big old THANK YOU to those of you who are purchasing my Monthly Writing Packs! I hope your kiddos love them as much as mine do. They are going to be soooo excited to see the December ones!! Click on the picture to check it out!

I'll be back in a couple of days with a FANTASTIC giveaway!! You won't want to miss this one!! See ya!