Versatile Blogger Award and the Giveaway!

Jody over at Camp Kindergarten has nominted my blog for a Versatile Blogger Award!!!  I am so honored and appreciate this recognition!

So, with this there are some things to do!  First, thank the blogger who awarded you and include a link.  Second, list 7 things about you and then nominate 15 other blogs!

Here are my 7!

1.  I love to camp with my family!

2.  I have taught for 14 years, with 10 in Kindergarten.

3.  I have my Masters in Elementary Education.

4.  I live on a farm.

5.  I LOVE my job!!!!

6. I have only flown twice in my life. 

7.  I love to be as creative as possible in my teaching.  Pinterest has been a great resource to help this!!!

Now, for my nominations!

1.  Kindergarten Crayons

2.  Mrs. Jump's Class

3.  Chalk Talk

4.  Can Do Kinders

5.  Castles and Crayons

6.  Fairy Dust Teaching

7.  Heather's Heart

8.  Hello Literacy

9.  In the Teacher's Lounge

10.  Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten

11.  Mrs. Miners Kindergarten Monkey Business

12.  The Moffatt Girls

13.  The Weekly Hive

14.  The Shroeder Page

15.  The Teacher Wife

ALSO, TOMORROW is the last day to enter for my giveaway!  Hurry and don't miss out!

Writers Workshop

Our school uses Write Steps  Writing Program.  We have been VERY happy with this program in Kindergarten and have been impressed with the students' growth every year.  This program provides a pacing guide as well as DVD's that has lessons in action in classrooms.  The company has been busy updating the program to match the Core Standards.  We will be getting updated material very soon! 
We also turn to the book, Teaching Writing in Kindergarten by Randee Bergen in the beginning of the year to help with the very basic drawing and writing skills that we deal with very early on.  This helps build their confidence in their drawings as well.  After just a few weeks, we will be well on our way! 

Here is a sample of one of our first entries in our Writing Notebooks.  I forgot to take a picture of my shared writing piece!  We begin with a few entries done whole group as I write on the board and they write in their notebooks.  They have their sound cards to refer to.

Please don't forget to enter my giveaway!  You have until Thursday to enter!

101 Followers and a GIVEAWAY!

101 Followers!  Wooohooo!  I am so excited!  I am also so proud to be a part of this teaching blog community.  I have truely grown as a professional because of all you and your inspiring words and sharing.  I love that I can see what other teachers are doing across the country and use that to reflect on my own teaching.

                 

On to the giveaway!  I will be giving away a $15 gift card to Target or the Dollar Tree (winner's choice)!  Here is how to enter:
1.  Follow my blog and leave a comment.
2.  Grab my button and leave a comment with a link to your blog.  (I will be sure to grab your button too!)
3.  Blog about this giveaway and leave a comment with a link to your post.

You will have until Thursday, September 22nd to enter and I will announce the winner on Friday the 23rd!  I can't wait to see who wins!
Have a great Friday!

Two Giveaways!

There is an awesome giveaway going on at Kreative in Kinder where EVERYONe can win!!!  Hurry and check it out!

Also, I am super close to 100 followers!!!  A giveaway is near! 

Almost to 100 and the Common Core!

I was working on an assessment to use for a pretest, progress monitoring and post-test for the Math Common Core Standards!  I came across this awesome assessment over at Teachers Notebook!  The best part is that it was on sale for only $2.70!!!  Check it out!

                                           

WOW!  I am almost to 100 followers!!  I am so excited!!!  I sense a giveaway coming!!!!!

Another AWESOME GIVEAWAY!!!

The Moffat Girls are having another awesome giveaway!!  She will be giving away 3 Printable Reader Sets for Beginning Readers!!!  These sets were created by Teacher Tam! 
These readers would be PERFECT for the classroom!!
There are three ways to enter by Friday, so hurry!

A Giveaway...Go Check it Out!!

Jackie over at Here We Go Lootpy Loo is having a giveaway!  She will be giving away an item from Mrs. Wills awesome tpt store!  That is not all! She will also give away a new copy of: 

  You will have 4 ways to enter and the contest ends on Monday, August 8th!  So, hurry over there and enter!

Giveaway Winner!

Today is the day to announce the winner of my first giveaway!  The winner gets a $10 gift certificate to The Dollar Tree! PLUS since I reached 50 (51 followers actually) I am also giving away a Guided Reading Ball!  I used Random.org  to generate our winner!

I was unable to get the actual box from the site placed onto my post...any help on this for further use would be appreciated!!!

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1

Max: 18

Result: 7

Powered by RANDOM.ORG

Without further delay, the winner is Cindy, #7!

Cindy said...

I follow your blog! :o)

Cindy
ccfirstteacher@gmail.com

July 14, 2011 3:07 PM

Cindy, I will contact you through email to make arrangements to send you your prizes!!!!

Thank you everyone for joining in on my first giveaway!!!!

My Giveaway and 50 Followers!

Don't forget to enter for my giveaway!  I will accept entries until  July 20th and then announce the winner on the 21st!  Since I am so close to 50 followers (only one more to go), I am adding to my giveaway!  If I reach 50 followers by the end of this contest I will add a Guided Reading Ball to the $10 Dollar Tree gift card!  So, please click here and add a comment to win!  ALSO, please read the whole post to see how to add a bonus entry!  Good luck!

Check out the Great Giveaway at 1st Grade with Miss Snowden!

Miss Snowden is having an awesome giveaway to celebrate 400 followers!  She will give 4 winners a personalized blog design!  Be sure to hop on over and enter to win!  I think this is so exciting!

                                           http://1stgradewithmisssnowden.blogspot.com/

I WON!

OK, so I NEVER win anything!  So, imagine my excitement when I learned that I had won the giveaway at In the Teacher's Lounge!  Cindy' giveaway was a gift certificate to the TBA Shop!  I loved looking over everything!  I chose to get the water bottle as it will be perfect for me to use each day as I teach my little kinders!  It will also make me smile as I think about the community of caring and sharing teachers there are!
Thanks again Cindy!
If you haven't checked out In the Teacher's Lounge please do so soon!
Holly

Moffatt Girls Giveaway!!!

Annie over at her Moffatt Girls Blog is having a giveaway!  Click here to join in on the fun!