Blog Hop

Christina from Bunting, Books, and Bainbridge found a little blog hop at Grade 3 Is the Place for Me and I'm joining. 

1.  What state are you in?     Florida

2.   What is your current teaching position?  1st grade

3. What is your teaching experience?  1 year title one, 2 years 3rd grade, 5 years 2nd grade (2 of those looping up with my firsties), 10 years 1st grade.

4.  When did you start blogging?  September 2011

5.  Share some blogging tips or a resource... Read lots of other blogs and comment, comment, comment, also joining a linky party and have give aways or contribute to them. 

Enjoy
Tammy

Space Shuttle Craftivity Unit Finally Finished

Thank you so much for all of your sweet comments about my Shuttle Craftivity.   I finally finished the whole unit.  It is a 51 page unit that includes

• Ten Frame Game
• Space Adventues Patterning
• Goldfish Space Adventures Graph
• Space Word Search
• Lost Vowels cut and paste
• Space Syllables flip page sort
• SPACE SHUTTLE Craftivity
• Kid Lands on the Moon Newspaper Article Activity
• Blast Off Book with cut out sentences
• Race to Space and Up, Up We Go Poem
• Alien Elixir and Astronaut Elixir Drink Comparison
• Astronaut ABC Order
• Neptune's Nouns and Venus' Verbs Sort

It is currently available on TPT or Teachers Notebook for $4.00.  Click on either link to go take a peek. 

A Few Good Finds and A Freebie

Happy Saturday everybody.  Just wanted to share a few deals I came across.  I've been wanting a nice easel for a very long time.  Been eyeing the $300 one over at Lakeshore, but just couldn't bring myself to pay the price.  Then my dear sweet friend Kim went to an inservice and received a brand new one...lucky girl  She already had the same one and didn't need two, and guess who is getting her old one.  Of course, I will be giving her some $$$ for it, but no where near 300 bucks.  So excited.  Now my hubby is going to add casters.  Can't wait to get started on those anchor charts.   I have been using a little tykes easel.  I had to cut down the regular size easel pads to fit, so my anchor charts were smaller. 

 



Then my next little find was this at Staples today. 

Went in for ink cartridges and came out with a little more.  My daughter and I always head straight for the clearance section. She needs notebooks and comp books for next year and all of these pretty ones were on clearance for a dollar.  Then the box of labels you see in the back were laying there, but no price.  Went to check out..did a price check and these puppies were 50 cents.  He said do you still want them....OF COURSE.  They are the tiny 1 3/4" size but are great for labeling little projects. 8,000 labels total in the box.

Then for my next little deal for you.  I will be posting my shuttle craftivity soon (sorry it has taken so long) and wanted to have more fiction space book activities for you.  So I have posted a writing activity for this little ol book...  FREE!  Just click on the picture below for your copy. 

If you don't have a TPT account and need it emailed to you just let me know.  Hope you enjoy it.

Tammy 

Birthday Giveaway!

No I'm not turning 28 today.   Or anyday for that matter.  I can't even count how many years ago that has been.  I'm participating in a fabulous birthday blog giveaway.  Christina from Mrs. Bainbridge's Class is having a birthday. A one year birthday.  Her blog is so jam packed with fun I can't believe she's only been doing this a year.    Grab the button below to join.  Many great items that I know you will love.

This is the item I'm giving away.  My little firsties love it.



TPT Sale

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week Everybody.  I am participating in TPT's Sale.  All of my items are 20% through May 10th.  TPT is offering an additional 10% for a total savings of 28% until May 8th.  Just remember to use their code  TAD12.    Click HERE to go to my TPT store.   Happy Shopping and I hope everyone has a very enjoyable week.

  

What a Way to Start Your Morning

I have always loved living in Florida.   No snow days, sandals year round, beaches close by...what could be better?  Well this is what flew over my house this morning.

The Space Shuttle Discovery

I am fortunate enough to have grown up near Kennedy Space Center.  Whenever a rocket would go off or a Space Shuttle would launch, we would head out to our front yard to watch.  I can't tell you what an amazing sight and privilege this is to see.  Today the Space Shuttle Discovery was being flown to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. on the back of a 747.  It started out with a sunrise as the back drop...

Then it started flying closer and closer toward us.  It was amazing to look up and see it from my driveway.  How spectacular is this? 

It was perfect timing because we just finished up our Space Unit with a Space Shuttle Craftivity.  I will have more posts and info about this soon.
Happy Tuesday!

A Teacher's Dream

I was fortunate enough to receive this amazing pencil sharpener from Classroom Friendly Supplies.  I had read so many positive things on several blogs about this quiet little thing and I knew I had to try it.  We were having so many problems with lead falling out of our pencils.  I really thought it was the pencils until I read others were having the same problems using electric sharpeners.  My kids were so excited because we were all so frustrated with leads falling out.   Then it arrived!

When the kids saw it they gathered around the table bringing me pencils from all over the room.  I guess my love of office supplies has rubbed off!!  So the pencil sharpening began... I was in AWE!  Look at the point on this guy.  AMAZING!!!!  Even better the leads DO NOT fall out.  It's so sharp and it lasts so long. 

When my daughter arrived in my classroom after school she sharpened this entire tub in less than 10 minutes. 

I wasn't so sure about a "crank" style sharpener since my original antique crank literally takes the muscle power of the Incredible Hulk to get a semi sharp pencil.   My entire team was so impressed we ordered one for each 1st grade teacher.  Our fourth grade team was at recess one day and I told my daughter's teacher I had a pack of pencils for her, ready for FCAT.  I had my daughter go inside and bring out my little blue baby.  You should have seen all of these teachers huddled around the bench taking turns sharpening pencils.   Too funny.    Try it.  You will love it.   Classroom Friendly Supplies