300 Follower Giveaway!!

     The last three months have included a lot of personal milestones for me including:

- Obtaining my 1st teaching job

- Graduating with my Bachelor of Education Degree

- Being appointed to the ManACE Board

- Getting married

     I realize that, at times, this has meant that my blogging frequency has dropped and/or been a bit sporadic. I promise that this is not permanent, however, and will be back into a regular routine again starting TODAY! In fact, the past few weeks specifically have also marked some exciting blogging milestones as well! I am so happy to announce that I have reached my personal goal of gaining:

300 FOLLOWERS by my 300th Post!!

     as well as passing the

200,000 PAGE VIEW Mark!

     

     In less than two months I will be starting my journey in my first classroom and I am so excited to share this new journey through my blog! It means so much to have so much support and encouragement and look forward to not only sharing my experiences, but learning from your comments and questions as well.

    To celebrate this milestone I am pleased to announced that I have teamed up with some incredibly supportive teacher bloggers to offer an amazing giveaway!

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Whole Brain Teaching (WBT) Super Improvers Wall Kit 

AND 

Your Choice of Item from Her Store

courtesy of Liann (Pinetreelia) at My Whole Brain Teaching Blog

This Super Improvers Wall Kit is a wonderful way to track and recognize your students improvements - all students improve on a daily basis and this Whole Brain Teaching method puts all students, no matter their ability, on an equal playing field!! This kit includes:

* Explanations on how to use the kit
* Printable Wall Poster
* 10 Adorable Ocean Friend Levels
* 3 choices for tracking student improvement using math skills
- recognizing number patterns of 10
- 10 frames
- teacher/student choice
* Super Secret Crazy Level
* Printable Certificate Awards

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Back to School Bash Activity Package

courtesy of the Amazing Teachers at Lesson Plan SOS

This file has a cute and creative way to display student birthdays, a transportation list, and your specials schedule. These new files are a POWERPOINT file, which means that you can edit your own text, however you can't edit/change any of the graphics and clipart. 
The files listed below are all part of a PDF:

-Let's get acquianted forms, letters, and ideas to establish a home/school connection with your families

-Student surveys
-Several interactive bulletin board ideas
-Celebrity of the day lesson, where students interview each other to learn more about each other
-Writing activities for summer
-Friendship themed worksheets
-Activities that help foster a comfortable classroom environment
-An interactive teacher/student Venn diagram
-An interactive lesson on the multiple intelligences 
-Lots of pictures!

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Fakebook Character Study Activity

courtesy of Tyler at ICTyler

Use the incredibly popular social media site, Facebook, as inspiration for this Character Study Activity. This file has a student-relevant and creative way to display student understanding of characters in various pieces of literature. The kit is predesigned for Shakespeare's Macbeth but can be edited to fit any type of literary study at any age level.

This package includes

- Fakebook Character Study Assignment
- Activity Assessment Rubric
- JPG File Examples to Showcase to Students
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Penniman Chart - Teacher Planning Graphic Organizer

courtesy of Emily at The Absolutely True Blog of an Almost Teacher

Based on the model by Bruce Penniman, this graphic organizer allows teachers to quickly and easily plan out their lessons and classroom activities. This is the perfect organizational strategy to keep yourself organized and/or provide to your administration when handing in planning forms! This basic, but extremely effective, chart features places to document:

- Classroom Activities for various classes

- Homework or enrichment plans

- Standard/outcome focus for the week/day

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Backwards by Design/Understanding by Design Planning Template

courtesy of Mary at Prairie Inspiration

The Backwards by Design method of planning, developed by Wiggins and McTighe, 

has been growing in popularity and is becoming mandatory in many school divisions. 

This planning template is the perfect tool for teachers first using this method as well as 

seasoned veterans. This planning template package includes:

- A 3-Stage Approach

- Graphic organization for essential questions, goals, knowledge & skills

- Graphic organization of required student evidence

- Graphic organization for appropriate learning experiences

- Calendar planner

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Decorate Like a Pro the Schoolgirl Style Way E-Book

courtesy of Melanie at Schoolgirl Style

Do you love looking at my classroom photos, but wonder how you can make your own classroom look like a Schoolgirl Style room?

I've included my most frequently asked questions, numerous decorating tips, my important DO's and DONT's of classroom decorating, an explanation of how you can keep your room from becoming too stimulating, AND I've even included a detailed explanation of how to get that "WOW!" factor in your own classroom!
I've created an 89 page resource with numerous photos that will take you through my entire process of decorating a classroom starting with color choice, to the final stage of entering student names on nameplates. 
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A BIG, gigantic, THANK-YOU is going out to all of the wonderful blogs sponsoring this giveaway, as well as everyone who has followed and supported me through my blogging journey.

Contest closes Thursday, July 18th and the winner will be announced on Friday.
Good luck! 

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