Sunday, September 29, 2013

Best Selling Math Linky, Giveaway, and Writing Winner

Wow!!  What a week!!!  We are overwhelmed by the turnout we had for our Best Selling TPT Writing Activity Linky and Giveaway!!  If you didn't have a chance to check out the links for some fantastic writing units, click HERE.  We would also like to send out a huge THANK YOU to all the wonderful bloggers and teachers who donated their fabulous units for our giveaway!

Now, on to our winner for the Writing giveaway . . . . Congratulations to Laurie Schacter!!  You should be receiving these fabulous units this week!


Onto this week's linky and giveaway.  We are very excited to share our Best Selling TPT Math Activities.   We have some wonderful units for you to check out and enter to win.  


Here's how it's going to work.  
1. Take a look through your TpT Store and sort your products by "Best Sellers."  
2. Find the product that is your best selling "math " related product.
3. Link up your "BEST SELLING MATH ACTIVITY" below.  
4. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a *FREE* best selling math activity!
5. Spread the word about the linky and giveaway through all your social media!!
 (grab the button from above!!)

*The linky and giveaway will be up for one week!  

Since we have so many generous TPT sellers with fantastic units to share with you this week, we have broken up the rafflecopter into TWO GIVEAWAYS!!!  Yes, you heard that right - 2 giveaways!!

Our first giveaway will feature the following activities -


This Geometry Unit is Common Core Aligned. It can be used to teach polygons, 2-D and 3-D shapes. Each math activity can be used with 2-D shapes, 3-D shapes, or a combination of both types. Games can be used whole class or as a math center. Real world 3-D examples are included in all activities. Posters and activities are in color and black and white.

It includes the following: 2-D and 3-D posters, Vocabulary Cards, KWL Chart, Venn Diagrams, Concept Maps, Memory Games for 2-D and 3-D shapes, along with a mixed game, I Spy Games for 2-D and 3-D shapes, along with a mixed game, Flip Books, Activities with QR Codes for both 2-D and 3-D shapes, Student Recording Sheets for all games, and Various Assessments


Use these coin cards to play two different games.  Students can play "Go Money!" (similar concept to Go Fish!) and Money War (similar concept to War) Directions included for both games.  Values up to $1.00 Students will play both games in pairs. Make 1 set, 3 sets, 5 sets, or however many sets you feel works for your class!  Simple and Easy! Just laminate and you are ready to go! All of the values are amounts under $1.00. For each value of money there is one other match using different coins. There are a total of 16 matches.  This is a great activity to use as part of your math centers for a money unit. 

Click on each picture below to learn more about each of these best selling math activities donated by some fantastic teachers and to visit their TPT stores!

      

    

     

    

    

    


So fill out the rafflecopter below and then continue down for our SECOND GIVEAWAY!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Since we have so many generous donations, here is the second giveaway you can enter to win.  Be sure to click on each picture to find out more about these fantastic activities and to visit their TPT stores.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

So fill out the rafflecopter below and then continue down for our LINKY!!  Be sure to link up your best selling math activity!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Carrie and Caitlin

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Giveaway Winner and Best Selling Writing Activity Giveaway and Linky!

Hi Everybody!  Carrie and I are so happy to announce our first rafflecopter giveaway winner for our Best Selling Reading Activity Giveaway!  We had an excellent turnout in people who participated and we are so happy you all were apart of it!!  Ok, let's announce our winner!!!  Drum roll please!!!!  And the winner is - 
Congratulations Tyfannie!! We can't thank our donators enough for their generosity in giving away their top selling reading activity.  

We had so much fun hosting the reading linky party and giveaway that this week we are showcasing top selling TPT writing products!   

The best part is that we have many generous TpT Sellers who have donated their best *writing activity* seller item and we want you to enter to win them!!!  Enter the rafflecopter for a chance to win these FREE Top Seller's TpT Products!  You will get to win all of the fabulous donations from the sellers who donated their top selling TpT writing products!

This packet is filled with over 60 writing prompts for the month of October and over 50 different themed writing papers to go with each prompt. Writing prompts are written on task cards - perfect for using in a writing center!

Writing prompts include - 
*24 Halloween Prompts, Fall, Columbus Day, Fire Safety, Telling Time, Bats, Field Trips, Pizza, Sweetest Person, Knock-Knock Jokes, Reptiles, Being grouchy, Lightbulbs, Principal for the Day, What you are afraid of

One critical part to Writer's Workshop is learning about how author's write for different purposes. One way to help students become more familiar with "HOW TO" Books is to put it into action! Students can create there own "How To" Instructional Books. This product offers additional resources for students to continue practicing a different text structure than fiction writing. 
HOW TO USE IN YOUR CLASSROOM:
You can cut out all of the different "HOW TO" cards and laminate them. Place them at a center on a ring, in a box, or post them on chart paper to let students choose their "How To" writing task for the day. This is a great writing center that offers student choice within the text structure writing focus. If students don't like what they see, let them make up their own "How TO" topic to write about. 
INCLUDES
-20 "How To" Cards
-2 graphic organizers (One with simple lines and one with dotted lines)
-1 final writing page of "How To" (Includes: drawing a picture, check off writing rubric, transition words, space to write steps for "How To"
-2 "How To" flip books (One with simple lines and one with dotted lines) Students will also get to draw a picture for each stage of the "How To" Process


Click on each picture below to learn more about each of these best selling writing products donated by some fabulous teachers!

     

     

    

   

    

   

    

  

Starting today, you will have a chance to share your best writing activity seller and enter the rafflecopter to have a chance to win all the "BEST SELLING WRITING ACTIVITIES!" from all of our generous blogger donators!! 

Here's how it's going to work.  
1. Take a look through your TpT Store and sort your products by "Best Sellers."  
2. Find the product that is your best selling "writing " related product.
3. Link up your "BEST SELLING WRITING ACTIVITY" below.  
4. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a *FREE* best selling writing activity!
5. Spread the word about the linky and giveaway through all your social media!! (grab the button from below!!)


The *best selling writing activity* linky will be up for one week and then we will share the winner from the rafflecopter!  The schedule for the linkys are below! 



* caitlin & carri*
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Link up your *Best Selling Writing Activity* Below!  Write the name of the activity where it says "NAME" and post a picture of the product.  This will help viewers get a better idea of what your product entails!