Sale and my TpT FREE Item Today!

I can't wait to go shopping later on today for the great sales at TpT and Teacher's Notebook... and for the wonderful freebies everyone is sharing on TpT today!

I'm having a 20% off sale at both TpT and Teacher's Notebook and you can get an additional 10% off at TpT by using the code TAD12 when you check out!

My FREE item that I'm sharing on TpT for today only is my Strega Nona Mini-Unit.  I love this because it's great for a Tomie dePaola author study, just a plain old fun day, OR emergency sub plans!

I'm going to direct you back to another post to get the link only because that post also has the links to get to all of the other great freebies that generous teachers are sharing today.

JUST CLICK HERE!

 

 

Bubble Bubble Blog of Mine... Give Me Some Winners, Nice and Fine!

Hip Hip Hooray! After two nights of parent-teacher conferences (which went super well, I might add!), I am so happy to say that today was a half day and tomorrow we have no school!

I am beside myself with glee as my yearly trip to Frankenmuth with my friends is Saturday! If you don't live in Michigan or haven't heard of Frankenmuth, it's just the most magical place on earth! Ok. Fine. Maybe 2nd to Disney! It has the world's largest Christmas store, the tastiest chicken you can imagine, and just tons of shopping and fun!

But enough about that.

Today is the day my giveaway for my Strega Nona unit ends and I have two winners! My students did the activities for the unit on Monday and Tuesday and LOOOOOOVED them. My favorite is the "Go Fish" style reading game where students make pairs of story elements and then talk about the elements as they play the game. I was in Teacher Heaven when they were playing!

So... by random number generator the winners are...

Ali and Kelly please e-mail me at christina4062@hotmail.com ASAP so I can get this out to you! I'm not sure when it will be available on The Teaching Oasis, but if you need a copy, just shoot me an e-mail and we'll figure it out!

Attention Pinners: I need help!

Update: It's working now! But if you'd like to see my problem from earlier, read on!

Update on the update! I just went to start looking for some things on Pinterest and now the search box is gone AGAIN! So do feel free to continue reading at this time! I'll continue to do updates on my updates if it starts working again!

Ok. I'm no Pinterest Expert so I need help!

For some reason, I can't search for anything today! What am I doing wrong?! I want to look up some Thanksgiving projects to go with a writing for next week and there's no SEARCH box!

Also... if you didn't enter my Strega Nona giveaway or share your ideas for my Christmas Around the World unit, please do! :)

If you want to follow me on Pinterest, you can click below!

Thanks for your tech support!

Strega Nona Giveaway!

This is conference week and I know it's gonna be crazy!

On Tuesday, we're going to see the play "Strega Nona" and I am so excited! The group that does the play is fantastic... if you're a Michigan teacher, you've got to find a way to get the Wild Swan Theater to come to your area. They come to a neighboring community every year and area schools are invited to come for free and they always put on SUCH a great show!

Anywho... today is "Strega Nona" day ay school in Room 10 and I have some great activities planned including some ABC order fun, spaghetti and mathballs game (where you can type in your own math to make it appropriate for your kiddos!), character point of view, a smidge of writing, a "Go Fish" style story elements game, and eating this awesome Pinterest find...

Chocolate cupcakes, cream cheese "spaghetti" frosting, malted milkballs "meatballs", and strawberry ice cream "spaghetti sauce"!

So... I'd like to give you the opportunity to win this set before it's available for purchase at The Teaching Oasis. All you have to do is make sure you've liked my blog and The Teaching Oasis on Facebook and leave me a comment to let me know! I'm thinking this would be an excellent "emergency sub" kit too! Just pre-copy the activities for your class and pop it into a folder with a copy of the book and... no driving in to work at 6am to write sub plans for an unexpected sick-day!

I'll choose a few winners at random on Thursday! I have a half-day that day (and no school on Friday!)... so since I'll be celebrating, I'll just lump in the winnings that day too!

Here's a sneak peek at some of the items in the 21-page pack!