Winners, Pass the Turkey locked and loaded, and a some FREEBIES of course!

Happy Sunday, Peeps! Kerri here...
This Sunday is even more glorious because we have Monday off!! WHOO HOO!! What am I going to do with all of my free time tomorrow?? Let's see...watch my stories, online shop all the good Veteran's Day sales, see if I can coax my hubs into going out to eat. Yup! Sounds like an AWESOME Veteran's Day to me!

We have winners, Peeps!! Here they are, courtesy of Rafflecopter!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I will be emailing you girls today so you can choose your Writing Pack! YAY!

In other news, I have my Pass the Turkey! Thanksgiving Centers locked and loaded and ready to roll for the next 2ish weeks. Well, ALMOST completely ready to go, except that we ran out of laminate on Friday at school (I HATE it when that happens! And this was NOT my fault. Yes, I am the laminating queen, but I haven't laminated anything for at least a week!) so let's just say I am 2/3 ready to go!
My hand had a wicked cramp in it yesterday after cutting out all the centers, but it will be soooo worth it when my little babies get their hands on these beauties. Check them out!

Thankful Noun Sort

Pass the Turkey Sentence Scramble

Give Thanks! ABC Order

Plymouth Rock Digraph Sort

Wampanoag Making Words

Let's Eat Bar Graph

This one's a two-fer! Turkey Lurkey Number Order AND Turkey Lurkey Odd/Even Sort

Thanksgiving Number Sentence Match

It's Turkey Telling Time (sad...printer running out of ink!)

Thankful Part/Part/Whole Addition AND Subtraction (my printer ran out of ink on the recording sheets-darn!)

If you are intrigued and would like to learn more about all of this Thanksgiving Goodness (which is in a week and a half-YIKES!! I'm NOT READY!) then click here!

Finally, here is a little freebie for all of you, our faithful followers who we love and appreciate so much! I was inspired by Christy at First Grade Fever, who makes the cutest Sight Word Scrambler worksheets, so I made a few for Thanksgiving using Thanksgiving vocabulary words, specifically Turkey, Pilgrims, and Wampanoag. I do these every week with my kidlets in centers and they LOVE them! Click on the Turkey Lurkey below to download your own set! ) 

Welp, that's all I got today, friends! I am off to shower and get ready for church, followed by Target, Trader Joes, Petco, blah blah blah. You know, the usual Sunday drill! What are YOU all doing tomorrow?? You have it off right?

XOXO Kerri 

Gobble, Graving and Giving Thanks - Math and Literacy Centers for November

Happy Tuesday folks!  Lindsay here . . .

Well, I have been experiencing some major technical difficulties over here on the Mrs. Messyhair side of Teacher Bits and Bobs and I have been SO frustrated to not be able to share with you all the things we have been doing in Room 17!  (Darn you Google for not letting me upload pictures and documents!! - insert angry shaking fist here . . .)

Soooooooooo . . . today I will be brief.  You will just have to take my word for it that October was amazing, that my kids and I did a unit of study on bats culminating in them filling out a bat outline and presenting their "research" to our neighboring kindergarten class, that we had so much fun with our Haunted House art and writing about our field trip to the farm.  Cuz it happened.

But alas, October is over, and I wanted to share with you some Thanksgiving goodness for you and your chitlens before its too late!  Hot off the press, I give you GOBBLE, GRAVY AND GIVING THANKS - Math and Literacy Centers for November (click on the image to check it out in my TPT store):

Your students will GOBBLE up these math and literacy centers for the month of November! Included in these centers are:

1. Giving Thanks Graph (sorting, counting, graphing, comparing numbers)
2. Turkey 10s (Writing, counting and sequencing by 10s)
3. Mashed Potatoes Measuring (measuring to the closest inch; recording data)
4. Gravy and Gibblets Sentence Scramble (write, cut and glue scrambled up Thanksgiving sentence)
5. Pumpkin Pie and Picture Puzzles (building Thanksgiving words)
6. Ten Little Turkeys reader (original text reader that will help students practice counting down from 10 to 0, numbers/number words, reading)

I used the Giving Thanks Graph, Picture Puzzles and Turkey 10s today in centers and they were such a hit!  Easy to follow directions, but the classroom was SO QUIET (as often happens when their little brains are being put to good use!!) 

Here are Pumpkin Pie and Picture Puzzles - building words...

 

Here is our Giving Thanks Graph: sorting the pictures, counting, graphing and answering questions about our data....

And last of all, the completed Turkey 10s!  I was so proud at my kiddos for getting this by themselves!  I had a volunteer mom cancel for centers at the last minute, but I explained to my kiddos what they were to do, and left them with some 100 charts (just in case!) and they did great!

Sorry that is it for now!  Hopefully I can figure out the problem with Google (maybe it just hates me?) and will be back with more soon!

Have fun watching the election results tonight!

Lindsay

Pass the Turkey, Y'all!!

Happy Saturday, Peeps! Kerri here...
Well, it's come full circle. First, my daughter asked for Doc Martens for her 13th birthday, and it made me remember when I got my first pair. I was 15, and they were black and AWESOME. I had to drive to some obscure hole in the wall in Whittier to find mine, but I found Sarah's bright purple ones online in about 30 seconds! Oh, how the times have changed!

Tonight,  we were at the mall and I found myself buying her a sweater at Wet Seal. Anyone out there in blogging land ever shop there in high school? I know I did. That store and Charlotte Russe were the bees-nees back in the late 80's-early 90's. Oh wait, did I just date myself? How is it possible I was in high school in the 90's when I am only 28?? :)

Anyway, back to full circle. I can't believe that A-I am the mother of a teenager, and B-I can't believe she is shopping at the same stores I used to shop in! It is totally surreal!

But, back to the subject at hand...Pass the Turkey! I finished up my latest set of centers this morning, because I hate to remind everyone, but Thanksgiving is in 3 weeks. HOLY GUACAMOLE, I say! How on Earth is that possible?? I feel like it was just 90 degrees and the first day of school, and yet here I sit, wearing a sweatshirt and blogging about turkey!

Take a look at these cutesy cute centers... (click on each pic to go to my TPT shop)

This month there are 11, count them, 11 centers for your kidlets' learning pleasure! Because my kids and I have been doing these types of centers each month since September, they are becoming such independent learners! Since they know the format, they are able to focus on the learning objectives and content standards without asking "What do I do again?" a million times. It is heavenly!!

We will also be starting our November Words Writing Center this week. Here is a sneak peek...

Here are some pictures of my kids using the October Words writing pack, so you can see the format. Their writing is REALLY coming along using these mats every month, and they LOVE it when I pull out the new mat! Lots of ooh's and aah's. It makes me feel so accomplished!

Well, that's all I got tonight. I have 23 report cards hanging over my head that I have not even started yet, and Conference week starts on Monday. I know, I know, but don't judge, peeps! This is how I roll. Procrastinate until the situation becomes dire, and then bust a move and get 'er done! Works every time!

I leave you with these 3 questions...
1. Did you wear Doc Martens in high school?
2. Did you shop at Wet Seal?
3. Are any of you obsessed with the show Gold Rush like I am?

I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to know! 

Wish me luck, I'm gonna go show those report cards who's boss!
XOXO Kerri B