Valentine's Day Flash Freebie!

No school for me today! The wind chill is expected to be around -30* today so most schools in the area are closed! I'm going to be going to school into June, but right now I'm just excited to be able to stay home another day!

Valentine's Day is right around the corner so I have a math freebie for you! This is my Rounding Heart's game. This two player game reviews the skill of rounding numbers to the millions. Click on the picture below to download the game from my TPT store. It will be free for the next couple of hours :)

Scentsy Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Doreen V.! You are the winner of my ABC Scentsy warmer! An email has been sent to you. Please reply with your address and I will put your warmer in the mail!

Hope everyone had a wonderful New Years! I hope to be back with a post soon that is actually helpful :)

New Year's Giveaway!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! It's hard to believe it's all over already. I'm so glad to still have another week of vacation!

Do any of you love Scentsy as much as I do?? I received two of the same warmers from students this year and I would love to give one away to one of my readers! Fill out the Rafflecopter below to enter!

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Holiday Minute to Win It Games-Freebie!

I have been a pathetic blogger lately. I can't even remember the last time I posted. This whole coaching and teaching thing is kicking my butt! 

I went to a cookie exchange today and the host had us play a bunch of really fun Minute To Win It Games and I think they would be great to play with the kids this week. The week before Christmas break is always a struggle to get though, so maybe these games will help! I wish I had pictures of us girls completing these games because it was hilarious!

1. Christmas Ball: use a gift box to fan a Christmas ball ornament onto a piece of wrapping paper.

2. Snowball Toss: throw marshmallows through a wreath and into a bucket.

3. Jingle in the Trunk: attach a tissue box to a belt. Strap the belt around your waste. Put 12 ping pong balls in the tissue box and shake your body to get the ping pong balls out of the box. (This was hilarious to watch!)

4. Face the Gingerbread Man: put a gingerbread cookie on your forehead and try to move it to your mouth without using your hands. 

5. Christmas Nutstacker: build a tower with 8 hexagonal nuts

6. Do you hear what I hear? Fill 6 different gift boxes with a different amount of jingle bells. Shake the boxes to put the boxes in order with the least amount of bells to the most amount of bells. 

These ideas all came from Laughter and Love. My friend typed up all of the directions, so if you are interested in a copy leave a comment with your email and I'll send you a copy!

Campfire Craftivity Freebie!

One of my favorite fall writing projects is Creekside Teacher Tale's' Campfire Craftivity. Tracy at Creekside Teacher Tales has sooooo many great products! I wish I would have posted this earlier, but one of my favorite and the students' favorite Halloween writing projects is the campfire writing. We have been working a lot on descriptive writing and this is the perfect writing project for that. We brainstormed a list of spooky words to include in our writing and also worked on using problem and solution in our writing. Here are some pictures of the final project. 

Click on the image below to download this great freebie!

Write and Compare Larger Numbers Task Cards Flash Freebie

I have another flash freebie for you all! Head over to my TpT store to pick up my newest math task cards. These cards cover C.C. 4.NBT.2, write and compare larger numbers. Click on the picture below to download them :) They will be free in my store for the next few hours!

Place Value Task Cards Flash Freebie

This Common Core math stuff is killlllllling me! Does anyone else have parents constantly calling saying they don't understand the math and want you to explain it to them? So now, not only am I teaching the students, but I'm teaching the parents too! Ughhhhh! It has got to get easier at some point..... right??

We have moved onto multiplying bigger numbers and teaching the different strategies and it is going ok, but I decided to do a review of some place value on Friday and YIKES! Half of my students don't remember how to compare place values. So I created some task cards that we will be working on this coming week. They are up in my TpT for free for the next few hours. Feel free to snatch them up now :) If you download them, I would love for you to leave me some feedback on TpT. Thanks!