Product Swap: Super Text Detectives

A few of us got together to swap some of our favorite products... and we wanted to share them with you!  Seriously...I'm in LOVE!  Have you seen the Super Text Detectives editions from Luckeyfrog's Lilypad!  Love, love, love!  I tried her November edition with my 4th and 5th grader and they actually asked for more of them to complete!  Super Text Detectives focus on text evidence which you all know is a HUGE skill in Common Core.  The November edition have topics such as Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, football, Native Americans, branches of government, etc.

On each of the skill sheets students have to find and highlight with a specific color within the text.  They have to answer questions such as who, what, where, why and how.  What makes this such a great activity is that the students cannot just guess the answer!  They have to find the proof and highlight it.  One of my girls decided to check off the questions with the different colors as she completed them.  The other one decided to color in the crayons after she answered the question.  Thanks Luckeyfrog's Lilypad!  Here are a few pictures.

                           

                               

So hop on over to the Luckeyfrogs's Lilypad TpT store and check out her Super Text Detectives.  She has the December edition coming very soon!


Click here to check out some other products that we swapped around!  You're bound to find something that you love as well!

It's A FREEBIE Frenzy Going On

I love FREEBIES…Who doesn't?  Well, I've joined a group of Facebook friends and THERE'S A FRENZY GOING ON!!!!!   First of all, some people may not know exactly what a "Frenzy" is!  A Facebook Frenzy is basically when you hop from Facebook page to Facebook page downloading FREEBIES!  Yep, FREEBIES!  December 6th-9th...You will find lots of 3rd grade Math and Science FREEBIES!   Here is a map of the 3rd Grade Math and Science December Frenzy (so you'll know where to start or if you get lost)!  If you're not 3rd grade, NO WORRIES!  Keep scrolling...there are December Frenzies for EVERYONE!  If possible, participate in ALL of the December Frenzies!

3rd Grade Math and Science December Frenzy Order

Start Here…. Evil Math Wizard

Then…

Thinking Out Loud

Momgineer

Investigate, Create, and Differentiate

Diary of a Not So Wimpy Teacher

Mrs. Thompson's Treasures

Mr. Pearson Teaches 3rd Grade

Third Grade Galore

A Series of 3rd Grade Events

School En Casa

The Extra Energetic Educator   (That's Me!)

Cupcakes N Curriculum

Lesson Lady

More Time To Teach

Tina's Teaching Treasures

Check out MORE December Frenzies!

Click the picture below and download the PDF!  After downloading, click on each picture to download ALL of the AMAZING freebies that my friends have to offer!

Thanks to Jennifer from Crayons, Cuties & Common Core for the graphic!

Thanks to Heather over at Creative Castle Resources 

for starting these frenzies!

Back To School {Sale} With TpT!

It's time for Back To School shopping!  I'm linking up  with Christina of Bunting, Books and Bainbridge for the "Best & Most" Linky!  Everyone LOVES Senior Superlatives!  

Check out my 

"TpT Back To School Superlatives"...

Click Here to Find The Products Above

The "Teacher's Pet" is a product that every teacher needs in the classroom.  My "Teacher's Pet" is obviously my Tracking Common Core Checklists!  These checklists will help you stay organized by tracking the standards that you address during instruction.  A checklist is also included to help track student mastery of standards.  This is a great tool for the classroom!

The "Best Couple" is two products that work well together.   My "Best Couple" focuses on kinds of sentences!  This couple is a KaBlooEy Kinds of Sentences game and Kinds of Sentences posters.  Students love the cute troll characters that are on both of the products!  Students can use the KaBlooEy game in centers.  Teachers can provide support to students, especially lower level students, by displaying the Kinds of Sentences posters at the center.  Students love yelling KaBlooEY!  The students will love to learn!






The "Most Likely To Help Your Students Succeed" award goes to my Standards for Mathematical Practice posters!  SMPs are a portion of the math common core standards that a lot of teacher sort of forget about.  These standards are very important!  SMPs describe a variety of skills that teachers should seek to develop in all of their students.  The posters can be displayed as reminders for teachers.  They can be very helpful to students because they are written as "I Can" statements.  These posters are available for primary grades which has lots of cute graphics or for intermediate students which has less graphics.

Be sure to check out all of my "TpT Superlatives" especially from Saturday, August 17th through Tuesday, August 20!  You'll be able to get extra savings on Saturday, August 18 and Sunday 19th!  

Visit my store here!

Also check out one of my newest products!  

Back To School Flip Book

This flip book covers some of the following activities:

Be sure to check out all of these products 

while they're discounted for the next few days!

 Shout out to Krista Walden of Creative Clips for the clip art!

Currently...It's August...ALREADY!!!!

It's back to school season!  I cannot believe that it's already August!  It seems as if we JUST got out of school last week!  So don't forget to enter my pencil sharpener giveaway from Classroom Friendly Supplies.  Click here to enter.  The giveaway ends tomorrow!  Wouldn't you LOVE to win one of these beauties!

Anyway, I'm linking up with Farley over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade to participate in the Currently linky party!  Here's what's Currently going on with me in August...

So hop over to Oh' Boy 4th Grade and let us know what's Currently up with you!

Busy & Happy Kids Linky

So summer is here...how do you keep your kids busy and happy?  I'm linking up with Katie from Teacher to the Core to share my week with you!  I started writing this post last week, but it was interrupted by the 4th of July celebration...We visited my parents for a few days.   Soooo here's a recap...

I surprised my husband, Marrio, with two tickets to WWE as a Father's Day gift.  Yeah, wrestling, ladies & gents!  My husband loves wrestling!  My son,MJ, is OBSESSED!  He sleeps, eat and breathes wrestling!  My family, friends and co-workers know this, and we all joke about it!  Marrio has always wanted to go to a WWE show and most importantly, he has always wanted to take his son.  So I thought that would be the perfect gift for them to ummm...bond?  Lol!  Of course, my son was super, duper excited!  Marrio was pumped too!  While there, Marrio let MJ take pictures.  He loved holding the belts and posing!  Disclaimer:  "The Rock" and "Kofi" are not real in these pics!  But my lil' guy was ECSTATIC!!!  This made my son VERY HAPPY!

So sometimes what our kids might THINK will make them happy...does not always make them happy! The kids wanted to go to the park.  I usually take them to the park at least once a week, but the weather is either way too hot, or it's pouring rain!  On this day I told them that it was too hot, but I decided to take them anyway.  The heat in Georgia ROCKS...it keeps getter hotter and hotter..LOVE IT {insert sarcasm}!  Anyway, anything for our kids, right?  I surprised them and took them to get ice cream, and we headed to the park!  

Arrival....Don't they look happy!

15 minutes later...uh, yeah!

We weren't there for 15 minutes, and they were ready to go!  They were complaining!  This lil guy began crying.  OMG!!!!  It was awful!  I told them to play because this is what they wanted to do.  My 10 year old, Marri, grabbed my keys (totally out of her character), and they started walking towards the truck.  They were leaving me!  Kids!

Swim lessons make me happy :)  They are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and are much needed! The kids are improving!  Yay!  MJ tried on one of the girls' cover ups and said, "Mama, I didn't know that these things are so warm and cozy!"  

After swim lessons on Thursdays, we visit the local library.  They are enrolled in a summer reading program where they can earn prizes for reading.  We check out books and attend the children's show.  The show usually lasts about 45 minutes and ties in reading.  They love the shows because there is always magic or live animals!  Our library visit usually lasts about two hours.

In between library visits and swim lessons we play games, or I place the kids on educational sites like xtramath.org.  I'm definitely not saying that my kids don't play "fun to them" games on their Kindles, but I've always told my husband that kids today do not know how to "play".  When we were younger, we played outdoors all day.  We made up games!  Now technology has taken over!  So we always buy board games and such to let our children know that there is more to playing than spending time on their Kindle Fires.  You can find cheap card games at dollar stores.  I found them oldies at Dollar General for a buck each!  The kids love them!

MJ won his first game of Uno!  I tried to capture his excitement, but I ended up capturing a little more (Check out the girls!)  Lol!

Well, that's a week with my kiddos!  Be sure to check out how other bloggy mommies keep their kids busy and happy over at Teacher to the Core!

Currently...It's May!

It's May ya'll!  That means birds chirping, flowers sprouting...and the last day of school is approaching!  Yay!  If I were counting, I would say that we have 17 days of school left.  Then summer time!

I'm linking up with Farley over at Oh', Boy It's 4th Grade.  This is my first "Currently" post!  Here goes...

Listening...

It's 3:42 AM at home, and it's QUIET!  All that I can hear is the AC blowing!  How many of you have to get up SUPER early in order to get some things done?  I have to!  With kids bouncing balls off the top of my head, the TV blasting and a hubby who can NEVER find anything I have to get up a couple of hours before them in order to get work done or work on TpT products.  I've run into a glitch though...the older I get the harder it is for me to get up!

Loving...

I LOVE MY FAMILY!  Although it gets SUPER CRAZY around my house, I love my crew!  This year has been very hectic!  For years I've always taught summer school.  NOT THIS YEAR!  I'm taking time off to spend time with my family especially my kids.  They are growing so fast!  My oldest will be a senior next year!  Tears!

Thinking...

I think know that I need to exercise!  I purchased a treadmill back in...I don't even remember.  I know it's only been about three months and I've only been on it twice (no longer than 10 minutes each time  Ha!).  So I'm thinking that I need to get back to exercising.  {The treadmill has been helpful in hanging my clothes on it to dry!}

Wanting...

I've been wanting my summer break BADLY!  I've been going nonstop since last summer....kids after school events, work, college classes, tutoring...UGHHHHH!!!!!  I would like to take some time during the summer to create some more TpT products.  Here's the last one that I created.   It's a FREEBIE!

But honestly, I just want to sit on the couch for a change and eat Cheetos!!!  But I guess that will go against me THINKING that I need to exercise!

Needing...

I need a personal assistant!  Okay, I can't afford one, but the thought of having one would be AH-MAZING!!!  If I had one, I think that I would stare at him/her for a while because I would be in shock but after the shock wears off....IT'S ON!  He/she [no gender preference ya know] can begin by organizing my closets and then my cabinets.  Oh yeah then mounds of papers on my desk...Okay, I'm going to stop dreaming because I'm getting excited over the impossible...

Summer Bucket List...

Well, since I will not have that personal assistant, I've got to get organize.  I have file cabinets and boxes filled with papers that need to be organized into folders.  I need to clean out my file cabinets (something that I started two years ago) and get those papers organized.  I also have my TONS and I mean TONS of computer files on my school laptop and external drive that I need to organize.  Heck!  I'm going to need more than a summer to get all of this done!

So, what's up with you Currently!  Let us know by heading over to Oh' Boy, It's 4th Grade and link up!  Thanks for stopping by!

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Five for Friday...My First!

Yay!!!  It's Friday!  I wanted to try something a little new this week so I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs for her weekly linky party!  Here goes...I do hope that I'm following the guidelines of the linky and doing it correctly....

{1} So last week while I was on spring break I attended a cousin's wedding and kind of went crazy with taking pics!  On Sunday I uploaded the pics and it took me A LONG time to upload...145 pictures....and that's not all that I took.  Yep!  I thought that I was the wedding photographer!  I finally stopped uploading!  Here's a favorite pic that my aunt took of me!

{2} I'm a VERY busy woman!  (Who isn't, huh?} Aside from working during the day (and what seems like night) our kids are very active!  This week our oldest, Kiana, had region soccer playoff games!  SN:  They scored 10-0 in one of the games!  Mercy rule...the refs had to call the game!  Anyway, these shots made the newspaper in Augusta which is 45 minutes away from us!  Not exactly our local newspaper, but she was in the news!  Wish I could get my hands on one of the newspapers!  Anyway, one of the team members was able to get me some of the shots that was included in the article.  They've won each game this week which means we continue on next week!  Go Devils!!!!!  I couldn't resist adding both pictures!

She likes headers!  I don't understand why a
person would like hitting a ball with their head!

Kiana in action!

{3} Girls Trip Alert!!!!  My college girlfriends contacted me this week and want to go to Charleston, SC for a long weekend in July!  I'm SUPER pumped...one...the girls and I haven't had a trip together in about 4 years...two...I've never been to Charleston...three...I'm looking forward to relaxing ANYWHERE!  SN:  Ready for summer!  Here is a pic of the apartment that we are renting for the weekend!

Looks comfy!!!

{4}  Earlier this week my son, MJ, and I met Adrian Peterson from the Chicago Bears!  Peterson is a graduate and football legend from our local college Georgia Southern University.  He came to our school to give our students a pep talk before the CRCT.  He also did a book signing for his new book Don't Dis My Abilities!  My son is in PreK so I woke him up from his nap to meet him and for Peterson to autograph his book.  My son was rather grumpy so I'll post a picture of the book instead.   At least he has an autographed book!  The book is definitely on my "To Read Over Summer" book list.  Any other suggestions of books that I can read over the summer?

{5} This week I tried pinning some of my products!  I like LOVE Pinterest...just like everyone else!  I do get caught up in pinning my wants, dreams, etc.  This week I just wanted to see what kind of response that I would get from pinning some of my products.  I received a lot of repins and some Pinterest followers!  That was exciting!  If you're interested in my newest freebie Sweet, Sweet Arrays...check it out!  It focuses on helping students recognize arrays!

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Jennifer