Another First Giveaway!

Annie, the author of an incredible blog called The Moffatt Girls, is holding her first giveaway!

Go and enter her giveaway and take time to look through her posts.

They are AMAZING and I promise, will be well worth your time!!

Fun in the Sun!

Want to have some fun in the sun?  

Here is another game board I created to help reinforce letters, sight words, sounds, etc... as you help the puppy escape the danger of the crabs to get to his lounge chair!

Now my question for you, are you sick of these yet??

Thanks and enjoy!

The Winner...

Hi all!  Wow, I can't believe the number of responses!

Because I had over 200 comments, I decided it was best to use the Random Number Generator, only to find out that my comments were not numbered!  Yikes! 

Luckily I remembered how Kristen from Ladybug's Teacher Files posted a tutorial on how to number comments. 

Thanks for saving me, yet again Kristen!!  

(If you are just starting out blogging, you really need to check her out.  She has wonderful, easy to follow tutorials and I have learned so much for her.) 

And now for the winners...

The winner for the gift card of choice to Target, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon is Amanda Phillips!

The winner of a little, something special because I reached (and surpassed) 300 followers is Heidi Samuelson!

Ladies, please contact me via email so that I can get your information:

jujulynn66@msn.com

Thank you to everyone who posted for and about my first giveaway.  I had a lot of fun and can't wait to check out all of your blogs!

Have a blessed day!

Just a little bit longer...CLOSED

Just a couple more hours to enter my first giveaway!  You have 10 pm to enter.  Remember to leave a separate post for each entry.

Also, I see that I am now close to 300 followers!  Wow!!  If I hit 300 followers before 10 pm, I will choose a second person to receive a little, special something.  

In the meantime, enjoy a picture from this morning of my little drummer girl.  

(You can click on her to enter the giveaway if you haven't entered yet!)

Thank you!

My First Giveaway! CLOSED

I thrilled to have over 200 followers and am celebrating with my first giveaway! When I began blogging a few months ago, I was so nervous that no one would find my posts valuable!  I appreciate all of your comments and feedback and have such a great time going through all of your wonderful blogs!

Since most of my materials are free, I am going to give away a gift card for either Target, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon (the winner's choice)!!

You can enter 4 different ways:

1.  Become a follower my blog, or let me know you are currently one.

2. Follow my TPT store (which is newly created and I hope to expand).

3. Post about my giveaway on your blog, and leave a link back to your blog so I will know.
4. Add my button or blog to your blog roll.


Please leave a separate comment for each entry.
The winner will be chosen on Monday!!
And again, THANK YOU!!!

Woooo hoooo!

I am so excited to have almost 200 followers!!

Things have been on the busy side here, plus Blogger has been giving me some trouble, so I haven't been able to post much.

Please keep your eye out for an upcoming giveaway!  (My first!)

Thank you all!!

Double Dog Dare

Do you have a Borders nearby?  They are double-dog daring children 12 and under to read 10 books.  If they can meet the challenge, the child will then be able to receive a FREE BOOK!
Click on the picture below for more information!

Go Take a Hike!

Do you like to take hikes in the great outdoors?  Well, here is a game I am calling, "Take a hike!"   As the child takes a hike through the forest, you can help reinforce fluency with letters, sounds, sight words, numbers, etc...!
Click on the picture below for a link to the files I created using graphics from Scrappin Doodles.

To play, you simply write whatever you would like the child to practice in the empty boxes on the game board and also create matching flash cards.  Mix the cards up and have the child read through each until they get to the first word on the board.  Continue this until you get to the finish. 

This game played the same way as Race the Road, (which in case you missed it, is a game I posted about here).

I hope you enjoy!!

I Have, Who Has Inferencing

 Here is another "I have, Who has" game to help your students practice making basic inferences.  Just like the rhyming game I posted here, this game creates a circle or loop, so the last question is answered by the first answer set on the table.  The students are encouraged to work together to determine the correct answers.  Directions are included! 

Click on the picture to download.

Thank you!

Reading and Writing Sight Words

End of the year assessment time is upon us.  So while I complete my assessments with one student from the small groups of kindergarten students I pull, the other students will be practicing the 50 sight words they need to know by the end of the year,. 

I fell in love with the "Popcorn Word Hunt" I saw a couple months ago on Mrs. Morrow's Kindergarten blog.  So just as she did, I filled a little bottle with popcorn kernels and filled them with the sight words printed on the little pieces of popcorn. 

If you click on the picture to the left, you can access the little pieces of popcorn for the bottle and the pages the students will write on. I will print the first two pages front-to-back.  The students will write the first 12 words they see and then read the words to a friend.  (Each piece of popcorn has two lines because my district uses Handwriting Without Tears.) 

Another activity the students will do is very similar, (but not quite as cute).  I created sight word cards with the HWT lines on each word.  I then printed and laminated them and will have the students select six cards.  They will practice writing each word three times and then choose one word to include in a sentence with an illustration.
You can click on the links below for the files:
Sight Word Cards with HWT Lines
Sight Word Writing

Thanks!