A+ T-shirts for A+ Teachers!

 

We at Freebielicious are so excited to announce teaming up with teachershirts.com (the greatest t-shirt company for teachers and more, in case you haven't heard of them!). We all received the fanciest custom designed t-shirt we've ever owned AND now we can give a t-shirt of the winner's choice from each of our individual blogs.

I just love my t-shirt because it is so much more than just a shirt.  It represents friendships, fun, and business relations (oh wait and STYLE, of course!) all in one "blinging" design.  Where else could you get all that from one t-shirt?  A  special thanks goes out to Doug from A+ Images.  He worked with us to make just the right shirt to represent our company and is still giving us a shirt to give one lucky winner for each of our blogs!

We have made this giveaway super easy for you to have almost 50 chances to win one of 23 t-shirts.  It is a blog hop, so you can enter as many or as few giveaways you would like!  The contest begins Saturday, May 18th, at 8:00 a.m. EST and ends on Sunday, May 19th, at 12:00 a.m. EST.  Winners will be announced on the following Monday.  Easy peasy, lemon-squeezy!  Start by entering my giveaway here:

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Next, you will head over to my friend Mandy's blog A Special Kind of Class and enter there and keep going until your fingers are too tired to hit click (that is how simple we made it for you!).

 For those who can't wait to win one, head over to teachershirts.com and start shopping now!  All Freebielicious followers can use an exclusive discount of 20% off a $20 purchase by using the promo code FREE20 good until June 15th, 2o13.

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I Got 20 Dollas in my Pocket....

 

I just put my entire store on sale for 20% off!  Couple that with TpT's promo code TAD13 and you can get a whopping 28% off.  This only happens a couple of times per year.  Be sure to grab my latest products.  When you purchase my bundled products, you get really deep discounts!  So stock up on

Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business's signature EASY TO PREPARE, IMPLEMENT AND USE in your classroom CENTERS and classroom projects. 

Here are some of my newer products and some oldie, but goodies:

 

 

 

Here are just some of the goodies I am looking forward to getting during the sale tomorrow:

Love me some Differentiated Kindergarten and my kiddos are so ready for dolch phrases! Bring it on!

I am so excited to use this kit to give my students a better understanding of grammar AT THEIR LEVEL!  Everything by Kreative in Kinder is awesome!

Seriously the easiest way to get kinders writing research papers!  Kindergarten Lifestyle really gets how to scaffold the youngest learners!  Can't wait to use it!

 Also, be on the look out because later this week my pals and I from Freebielicious are having a really fun giveaway to show our appreciation for our readers!
 

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Poppin" Words are in my Kinders Writing! Come Find Out How You Can Make it Happen in Your Room!

Did you read my post about Poppin' Words?  I just wanted to share a picture of my life sized Poppin' Word Chart that we use on a regular basis.  I just blew up the poster I created (free here), laminated it, and attached it to a black foam board.  My favorite part of this anchor chart is that it is reusable (time and time again!).  We choose about one poppin' word from each story we read and once the stars are all full, I start erasing and adding new ones.  My objective is just to get the kids thinking about, finding and using great word choices and it is WORKING. 
Take note of the word awesome being crossed out.  My students and I are in an agree-to-disagree agreement that awesome is an okay word choice, so long as it only shows up in a story one (or, preferably, less) time.  Even with the big x on it, my students continue to want to use awesome...but, hey, at least they are spelling it right now! Beggars can't be choosers and I stepped back on this one with them.  Ha ha!

Oh yeah, and don't forget to give sprinkles of the Pop Rocks candy on their mouth when their writing is POPPIN', it is very motivating for them.  The first time, they all got a little sprinkle so they could experience pop rocks...now it is only going for the students who really focus on word choice in their writing!  I found them at  the Dollar Store 3 for a dollar and 3 packs go a LONG way when you are just giving out a little sprinkle on their tongues! 


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My Students Newest, Favorite Go To Center (EASY, Ready to Go Set Up=true MMMB style!)

I am always so excited to inspire my students to do more reading, more writing, more learning!  So, you can imagine my excitement when an center just flew together, easy peasy in my classroom and my students beg to do it all day long!  I introduced the Draw It Now as basket work (my students' must do center for the day) and they loved it and continue to do better and better every time it is available.  I always make extra copies and so I started saving the extras and putting them aside.  Then, I decided to put them in a center with some other How to Draw books I've collected over the years and shrunken, laminated copies of each letter picture from my Draw it Now set.  Needless to say, the kiddos LOOOVVVVEEE it!  My only guideline for the center is that there must be some form of writing involved in the drawing, whether they are adding speech bubbles, writing a story or even just a sentence with some POPPIN" words will do for this purpose.  (I find writing lessons in anything and everything my students write!).

 The story about this elephant was just as good as the drawing.  It was about "the elephant staring at the sun."  (Check out the red eyes! ha ha--so cute!).

Click here or on the picture above to grab the Draw it Now chick freebie so you can have your students try this center FREE.

 

It is so fun to see what they will come up with next.  This alligator has been drawn by just about every child in my class in some form and they all look different (but great, of course!). 

If you are interested in trying this center, I have a couple of free sets at my TpT Store or you can check out my Draw it Now Center Kit that has a step by step pictorial guide for students as well as as added writing component for every letter of the alphabet.  An upcoming product will be a kit for digraphs and blends!  Can't wait to have this available for the Draw it WRITE Now center in my own classroom!

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