Happy New Year Sale, Freebies and More!

I've got a great new Freebie up for 2013. It has some writing prompts, an acrostic poem, and how many words can you make with.....

Goodbye 2012!  
I'm having a sale from 12/30/12-1/1/13.  
20% off my TpT Store!  Stop in and Stock up!

I have a great new Literacy/Math Center pack for Winter --Arctic Adventure! It's full of cute graphics and great activities, to keep your student's engaged and learning in 2013!

Last but not least are some fun Literacy games and activities to keep you warm, because
Baby, It's Cold Outside

I really thought I would have this finished, but I am fighting the flu and it will have to wait a little while longer. Wishing you all a very happy and healthy New Year!

My Favorite Things... Holly Bloggy Christmas

Ask and you shall receive...



These are a few of my favorite things....

Owl from Pier 1

Smile plaque from Pier 1

My Mom's name is Merry...So I had to get this for her. From Michaels.

Owl Stamp from Michaels.

My new favorite Shirt from Old Navy

I got these last year

but I want these--much cozier!

Love this outfit...from Target!

I love pretty and lightweight scarves, since it's so warm where I live.
This is one of the items I sent to my Bloggy Pal for Christmas.
Jennifer from Rowdy in First Grade. I hope you like it. I thought it would go with your love of pink and warm Texas from weather.

And a Starbucks Giftcard

Dangly Earrings (My Bloggy pal, also received these beauties)
I was excited to open my gift as well. It turns out Chrissy from First Grade Found me was my partner.  We actually "know" eachother already.  So cool. I participated in her alphabet exchange this fall. It was great.  She sent me....

Thanks so much Chrissy---I love salt on my chocolate!!
 

Christmas freebie

I made this for My Sunday school Class I am teaching tomorrow.
All graphics are from D.J. Inkers

Christmas Freebie


Merry Christmas!!

Sentiments from Vacation

This is my first Blog post since the tragedy on Friday in CT.
It has been an extremely busy week, between school activities, and my own children, not to mention I find it difficult to put into words my feelings on what happened. I've had to deal with so much since then... but I am thankful, that although there is so much going on, my children are safe in my arms.

I pray continually for the families who lost their babies. Our school got right into action selling green and white ribbons in honor of Sandy Hook. We raised quite a bit of money and will be sending it up to the families. When we got home Friday afternoon, this is what we saw over our house.

On Friday, my son also broke his Femur while at recess.  I was sitting about 2 feet away from him, when another student accidentally ran into him. He fell down hard and had cuts and bruises on both elbows and knees as well as his head.  His left knee was the worst, with the largest and deepest scrape.
Thank fully I was there with him, because he was real upset.  I took him to the nurse, and he limped the whole way.  Over the weekend, he hopped everywhere, and refused to put weight on his foot. We took him to the emergency care center, where they told us they thought it was broken. On Monday, we went to the orthopedic doctor--and it was indeed broken. It's called a Salter-Harris Fracture. It is a fracture in the growth are of the bone. 

Well, he has mastered the crutches and is still faster than his big sister!  I can't slow my 6 year old down. and he hasn't complained a bit.  I've been so stressed out, but at the same time I know how blessed I am. It's not Thanksgiving, but I am so Thankful for all my abundant blessings.
Between then and today, we've had a chorus concert, cookie baking, present wrapping and a dance recital.

Here are just a few more pics, of what we did this week in school. We made these ornaments out of crafts sticks paint, sequins and paisley cut-outs from Creative Teaching Press. I added paper to the back, a picture of the child and a magnet to the back.

They got to choose what color nose they would like and the type of googly eyes. The girls liked the eyes with lashes.

Reindeer stories told from the Point of View of the Reindeer.

Grinchy Crinkle Cookies.

Christmas presents for my students

Every student got a copy of this book.

A brand new box of crayons.

A snowman pencil.

And a new bottle of glue.

We also made this Grinch--I adapted it from my colleagues regular Santa. We added a green head and yellow eyes. We wrote words around The Grinch to describe him. Not pictured here

Silence for Sandy Hook Elementary

A Freebie and shoutouts!

My Friend Tammy over at The Resourceful Apple is having a giveaway. Be sure to stop by--She has 12 great prizes for 12-12-12 to giveaway!

A couple of weeks ago, I won Time for Sight words from the Moffatt Girls

My kids love them!!! I gave them Know first.  They kept walking around pointing at their watches saying "Do you KNOW what time it is?"  It was really cute.  They love when ever they get to make a new word. Not to mention all my teacher pals were like "I love that! Where'd you get them?"

Next week I am having a milk and cookies party with my class. I had so much fun on Fall Fun Day, that I am planning on doing something similar for the Holidays. The first activity we are going to do is Cookie graphing. You can pick up my new Cookie Graphing Freebie  Here:
I've linked this up with Freebie-licious and Teaching Blog Addict. So Thanks to them for sharing great Freebies.