Stop, Swap, & Roll with a Giveaway!

I am so excited this morning to be linking up with Melissa at Jungle Learners!  She graciously put together this wonderful product swap. I can't imagine how much work went into it. Thanks again Melissa.

 

I had the pleasure of swapping with Christin at Shifting Teacher K-2. Her blog and store name are just as they suggest. Christin has experience teaching K, 1, & 2. Her store has tons of great and very reasonably priced products. I especially love the math games. She uses Debbie Diller's philosophy when it comes to math stations so she has no shortage of meaningful math games for sale. 

In the end I decided to use her Sight Word No Prep Pack. (Score on the no-prep!) Click on the image below to be taken to this item in her store. 

I have a three students who have just recently mastered their letter names and sounds. These kiddos all have different circumstances surrounding them in regards to why they have just now learned their alphabet in first grade. But I am so proud! You know what they say - better late than never. In any event, they are happily sounding out words like a pro. My new goal for them is to ramp up their sight word base. Cue Christin's sight word pack. 

I think that this in conjunction with her other product, Sight Word Sentence Practice, will help me get them in good shape by the end of the year. 

Like I said before, the products for sale at the Shifting Teacher K-2 TPT store are SO reasonably priced! Despite this Christin has offered to let me give one away for free. Check out the Rafflecopter below to win! 

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* Update: Congratulations Mary. The Sight Word No-Prep Packet has been emailed to you! Thank you to everyone who entered! Happy Friday!

It's hereeeeee! (And...I am alive!)

Wowza! I am still alive. This blogging, teaching, TPTing, taking 2 graduate level classes after school, etc. all at once is a lot harder than I thought! In any event, tomorrow is a big day. For the next 2 days (December 1st and 2nd) TPT is having a sale. In addition, my entire store is 20% off. That's a 28% savings tomorrow!

Thank you to the 3AM Teacher for the absolutely adorable sale banner. Click on the banner to go to my TPT store!

This year one of my goals was to find better ways to make sure my students were learning sight words. One life saver has been Heidi Songs. I'll reserve that for an entire post because she/it deserves it! Another great, yet slightly less exciting improvement that I've made this year is individual sight word flashcard rings. If you teach first grade and use Storytown this could really save your life. For only $3.00 (and much less for the next two days) you can have this and start implementing it in your classroom the next day.

First Grade Friendly:
*Easy to read font
*Lesson number at the bottom of each card
*Circle on each card showing students where to put the hole punch
*Dotted lines showing where to cut
*Paper saving options

Each week simply print out onto card stock or construction paper in black and white or color for each student. Students cut and hole punch and add to their D-ring. 

I quiz my kiddos every Thursday on their sight words and this has been a tremendous help to them --- practice right at their finger tips!

Happy shopping and I PROMISE to do a better job of blogging!