To Pick a Pope and Caring for Cole

As you probably know, the papal conclave begins tomorrow to pick a new pope.  I have created this free resource to use with your class to explain how the cardinals go through the process of picking a pope.

 Click here to get your copy of Picking a Pope

Even if you aren't in a religious setting,  it is still a historical event that you can discuss with your class.

Also, a  bloggy friend has put together an incredible package of tried and true resources resources to help raise money for the son of one of her teacher friends.  Her son, Cole, was diagnosed with an aggressive and rare (in children) type of brain cancer.

The package has over $160.00 worth of resources, all yours for a minimum donation of $25.00.  Please head over to Life in Special Education and read Karla's post about Caring for Cole.

Click here to see how you can help Care for Cole.

Have a great Monday evening.

Numbers and Operations in Base 10 Flash Freebie is ON!

** UPDATE to the update**  The flash freebie is over, as is the half-off sale.  But, since I see new pins today, for the next four days, I am knocking $2.00 off the regular price of $5.00.  So you can get this item for only $3.00 from now until Saturday, March 16 until 11:59 PM EST.

UPDATE**The Flash Freebie has ended!  If you missed it, you can still get this item 50% off the regular price for the rest of the evening until tomorrow morning.**

From now until 6:30 PM EST, my newest product, Numbers and Operations in Base 10 Common Core Braintwisters;  Springy Thingies will be FREE!  Click the picture below to claim yours from my TPT store.

Click the pic to download your flash freebie!

Hope you get yours!

New Fan Freebie Up on Facebook!

In case you don't follow my Facebook page, I just wanted to let you know I

posted a new Fan Freebie.

Click here visit my Facebook page and claim your freebie. Be sure to click on the Free for Fans Only Tab!

It's a sample page from the newest resource I'm working on using the Numbers and Operations  in Base Ten standards 1.NBT.1 and 1.NBT.5.  I hope you and your students enjoy it.  When I finish the product later today,  look for a flash freebie on the product!  I'll be sure to let you know here and on Facebook.

Also, don't forgot our blog hop!  It is still going on all this week, so if you haven't followed the rainbow buttons, be sure to do so this week.  Click the link below to see the original post and start your hop!

Click here to view the original post and start your hop around the rainbow trail to TPT gold - a chance to win a $100.00 TPT gift certificate!

Enjoy your shortened Sunday!

Happy Saturday Morning (and a 50% off sale on Spanish resources)!

Good morning!  I love Saturday morning.  I've got a cup of coffee, I read the paper front to back, and now I'm putting in some computer time while SpongeBob plays in the background.  What's not to love, especially when the sun is shining!  Don't forget to set your clocks forward tonight!  Back to driving to work in the dark, BUT extra daylight in the evening when we are home!

I've got a few things for you this morning you might like.  First of all, if any of you  teach Spanish, you'll want to check out this old post of mine.  I've updated it with some links, there are a few freebies offered, and I'm throwing a 50% sale off of all my Spanish resources for the next three days.  What a deal!

Click here to see my old post, claim your freebies, and check out my other Spanish resources on sale for 50% off March 9 - 11, 2013!

Second thing is it is Saturday, and you know what that means!  Primary Paradises Top 5 Freebies of the Week!  Head over to her blog to see what great offerings she has for you this week!

Have a wonderful Saturday, everyone!

Welcome to Stop 13 on the Find the Leprechaun's Gold Blog Hop

Click this picture to download Leaping Leprechauns. I hope you enjoy the game and the blog hop!

What do you find at the end of a bloggy rainbow?  TPT gold, of course!  How much gold you ask?  Well, how does $100.00 in TPT gold (in the form of a $100.00 TPT gift certificate) sound to you?  It sounds awesome to me!

Together with 15 other dear bloggy friends, we are bringing you the most exciting treasure we could think of!  More exciting than that green frothy beverage some people partake of on St. Patrick's Day.  More exciting than finding a four leaf clover.  More exciting than dancing an Irish jig!  Here's what you have to do.  Follow the rainbow buttons to each blog.  It doesn't matter where you start, just be sure to complete the circle.  Visit each blog, download the freebie offered from wherever it is housed, and look for the gold coin hidden (kind of) in each freebie.  Collect (write down) the word written in each coin, put them into order, and figure out the secret message.  Once you've done that, head on over to Mrs. Fultz's Corner to enter the Rafflecopter.  You will have to enter the secret phrase.  That's it. No liking everyone and everything under the sun.  No promising your first born into indentured servitude.  Just enter the secret 16-word phrase and you are entered into the giveaway!  The prize will be given away on March 17th.

click here to find the rafflecopter and enter the secret phrase

So, once you've downloaded the freebie I have for you, head over to stop 14, Life in Special Education, where Karla has a wonderful freebie for you.

click here to visit Life in Special Education and claim your next freebie!

 

May the Luck O' the Irish be with you!

Less than 24 Hours to Go!

Trust me, you do NOT want to miss this event.  You WILL get a whole lot of quality freebies you will want to use in the next few weeks  AND a chance for a really BIG prize - the TPT pot of gold, if you will.  At 7:00 AM tomorrow morning, the event will go LIVE on this blog.  Be sure to check back early tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, I've got a new freebie for you.  You may have already found it on my TPT page, but if not, here it is.  I've been sadly lacking in getting spelling practice in each day, and it shows in my kids' writing.  Words they should be spelling correctly, a  lot of them are not.  There is just not enough time in the day to squeeze in spelling lessons -- or so I thought.  Until I put my mind to the problem and the little light bulb went off in an ah-ha moment.  Morning work time.  Most of my kids are whipping through the proofreading practice and spiral review math sheet they already do before the bell to begin the day even rings.  So why not add a spelling component to their morning work.  There were some groans, until Friday morning, when I told them as  a reward for their hard work on the spelling sheets during the week, on Fridays they would play a spelling game!  Well, that changed everyone's attitude about morning spelling work.

Yesterday, they played the spelling games in groups of two or three.  They used their spelling notebooks to give each other words from their spelling list, and it was so cute to here them say I'm sorry that is not correct.  Could is spelled c-0-U-l-d (with extra emphasis on the missed U).  Or that is correct!  Good job!  And, something I never thought off, but THEY asked me,"If we finish all our words from this week, can we go back to the old lists?"  ABSOLUTELY!

So if you're struggling to get some spelling time in, you might want to try this packet of spelling activities as well.  Click on the picture to download it free from my TPT store.

Click the picture to visit my TPT store and download your free spelling activities. Four activities to use during morning work time or as homework to squeeze spelling practice into your day.

Have a happy Saturday!

Oh, Boy, Have We got a Surprise for You!

But you'll have to wait until Sunday to find out!

Here's a clue.  If you follow the rainbow, you're going to find the leprechaun's treasure!

To make the waiting a bit easier, enjoy this paragraph puzzle  from my How to Writing February/March edition.

Be sure to check back Sunday for the exciting announcement!