Five For Friday Four & Give-A-Way!

Thanks to all who have stopped by my blog to check out the give-a-way I am having.  And, a special thanks to Nichole from The Craft of Teaching and Heather from Kickin' It With Class for being supportive in my quest for 100 followers, as well as all the bloggers who joined up.  I am so close, and am really hoping to make my goal before the give-a-way ends on Saturday evening.

Here is this week's version of Five For Friday:

1. On Mondays we do a PBIS activity.  This week my third graders were asked to think of a classmate that they could show more respect and consideration.  They wrote about things they could do to show that person more respect.  We then put everyone's slip of paper into a box that was visible in the room.  Luckily a coop student I had years ago gave me this very appropriate box.  I encouraged the students to look at the box each day and think of how they could be more respectful to their selected person.

One boy's secret note for being respectful

2. One of the small group activities my students had to do this week was sequence the lines in our weekly poem. This week's poem was about the seven continents.  I cut the poems apart differently for each student  - trying to match the difficulty of the sequencing to the student.  Here is the copy of our poem, as well as a student's final copy after sequencing.

 

3. This is one of the products you could win if you enter my give-a-way!  It's from Lakeshore Learning, and my students used it a station this week. It's called "Can Do" and includes a card game review of contractions, compound words, and multi-syllabic words. All the supplies are stored in the can, and the directions are on the side.  The spinner is on top.  This is a fun learning game that can be stored easily!

4. My students need so many reminders to capitalize letters correctly!  I decided to do an M&M challenge to encourage them to step it up with capitals.  I gave them a bag of snack size M&Ms on Monday, and said I would be watching to see if they used capital letters correctly.  If they didn't, I was going to record it, and on Friday they would have to give the same number of M&Ms back to me from their bag.  They were all for it at the beginning of the week, but of course there were tears later in the week when I pointed out to some that they had forgotten capitals. They all seemed to be aware of proper use of capitals for most of the week, though!

5. Today we had a PBIS celebration.  The students in our K-6 school were mixed, and went to different rooms for Minute-to-Win-It activities.  The challenge in my room was to build a tower of paper plates and cups.  The kids loved it, and our PBIS team did a great job with the organization of it all.

 

Here are the details on my 100 Followers Give-A-Way.  For entering you are getting a chance to win:

 

$25 Lakeshore Learning Gift Card

$10 Starbucks Gift Card

Nichole's Quadrilaterals 2-D Shape Sort Unit

Heather's Snow Your Multiplication Facts Unit

Click this link to enter before Saturday eveing at midnight.

Fabulous Finds in 2013, and 100 Followers Give-A-Way

My friends in Fluttering Through First Grade are having a Fabulous Finds in 2013 Linky.

I just scored these beauties on Friday.  I was looking for a nice pair of comfy boots at a reasonable price, and Macy's answered my prayers.  They were on sale for about $80, and I was lucky to find a pair in my size.  The cute ones are really picked over.  I wore them most of the day yesterday.  Ahhh...

 



I'm trying not to spend too much money on school stuff, but did find some really nice holiday borders that I bought on TPT from Anna Robertson yesterday.  Here's a link!

I hope you'll check out my 100 Followers Give-A-Way that is going on this week.  There are some great prizes you don't want to miss!

100 Followers Give-A-Way! NICE prizes!

Hello Blogging Friends!

I am so thankful for all the help you've provided me since I started blogging.  I have learned so much through you, and as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I would like to offer some great prizes as we sit down at the computer of teacher sisterhood (and brotherhood for all those male teacher bloggers out there).

For becoming a follwer of my site you could win:
 

$25 Lakeshore Learning gift card

$10 Starbucks gift card from The Craft of Teaching

The unit "Quadrilaterals - 2D Shape Sort" from The Craft of Teaching

The unit "Snow Your Multiplication Facts"  at Kickin' It With Class

A big thank you to Nichole from The Craft of Teaching, and Heather from Kickin' It With Class for supporting me in this Give-A-Way.  You are the the greatest!

 

To enter this give-a-way you must become a follower on my blog.  For more entries, leave a comment on my blog, as well as Nichole and Heather's blogs.  Thank you!

 

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Entries will be accepted until Saturday, January 26, at midnight.  Winners will be notified on that Sunday.