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!!

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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!!

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*Carrie and Caitlin

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 & carrie *

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!  

TpT *Reading Activity* Best Seller Linky and Giveaway

Hi Everybody!  We hope you are off to a wonderful start to a new school year!  We still can't believe that we have already been in school for over four weeks...It truly doesn't feel like we had much of a summer, but we are soo happy to be blogging again and sharing with you what we've been up to this year.  We are very excited to host this really fun linky for TpT sellers to showcase their best seller *reading activity* products!   

Carrie and I thought it would be fun to host a linky party and giveaway that showcases all of your hard work and dedication that you have put into your TpT products so that they are meaningful and engaging for your students.
  

The best part is that we have many generous TpT Sellers who have donated their best *reading 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 reading product!

"A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon is a fantastic book! It teaches students that it's okay to be yourself! It's a great book to teach summarizing, retelling, cause and effect and to use for many different writing activities. This unit includes the following activities - 

cause and effect sort, organizer, QR Code Activity, posters, acrostic poem, adjective activity, retelling organizer, can has is organizer, face to create camilla (or student) with a bad case of stripes, stripes medicine activity, several writing prompts and pages, writing rubric, and character organizer

This packet was created with different comprehension categories and questions that fall under each category for students to think more deeply about text, understand more about a book’s characteristics, and enjoy reading for it’s literary value. It includes a set of prompting cards and  3 TIC-TAC-TOE boards. Questioning Prompts Focus On:Connections, Characters, Plot, Theme, Language, Illustrations and Genre.  The TIC-TAC-TOE boards can be used for discussion questions about the books you're reading in guided reading or you can use them during Read Alouds. The TIC-TAC-TOE activity is a great way to help your students begin to have a new understanding for reading and broaden their thinking processes about books! All questioning skills are adapted from Guided Reading and Writers Grades 3-6By Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell

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

     

    

    

  

   

    

    

Starting today, you will have a chance to share your best reading activity seller and enter the rafflecopter to have a chance to win all the "BEST SELLING READING 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 "reading " related product.

3. Link up your "BEST SELLING READING ACTIVITY."  

4. Enter the giveaway for a chance to win a *FREE* best selling reading activity!

5. Spread the word about the linky and giveaway through all your social media!! (grab the button from below!!)

The *best selling reading 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! 

******Check back with us next week so you can share your "Best TpT Writing Activity Seller!"****

* caitlin & carrie * a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tardy *Freebie* Friday & Best TpT Seller Giveaway And Linky!!

Linking up with Teaching Blog Addict for *Freebie Friday!*( A day late! : ))  Our first math unit has been a review of some 1st grade place value skills.  Now that our district is fully implementing Common Core we had to start our math curriculum with some 1st grade common core skills to make sure our little 2nd graders had all of their basic number sense in place before they start learning the expected 2nd grade place value standards.

This week we finished up comparing two digit by two digit numbers using greater than, less than, and equal to.  In the middle of the week we started reviewing 10 more, 10 less, 1 more, 1 less.

  To help our little 2nd graders visually make sense of this concept I created some *pretty* 100s charts for our students.  Some charts are 8.5x11 and others are half the size so that students can keep a copy in their math folder and use it whenever we are working on place value and number sense skills. 

This year I am working with a student who is severally delayed in math concepts and digs her heels in when it's math time. To help her enjoy math, I wanted to make math as fun and engaging for her as possible.  She loves all things *girly and beautiful* so you will be seeing a lot of colorful activities this year! : )  I am excited for my new adventure of making products all bright and beautiful!  (I will be making products both boy and girl appealing products to help out those struggling boy learners too!)

I hope you enjoy this freebie! 

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*Best seller tpt Linky coming right Up!*

Carrie and I thought it would be fun to host a linky party and giveaway that showcases all of your hard work and dedication to making your products meaningful and engaging for your students.  We all know how crazy we all are about blogging and TpT product making that we wanted to celebrate all your hard work and accomplishments as a TpT seller.  The countless hours of creativity you put into these beautifully and thoughtfully made products deserve a little bit more love!  Why not celebrate them right here, right now?!?! Who's with us?  

Here's how it's going to work.  Starting tomorrow, 9/15/13, we will be hosting our first linky which includes your "BEST SELLING READING ACTIVITY LINKY!" 

1. Take a look through your TpT Store and sort your products by "Best Sellers."  

2. Find the product that is "reading" related and post that product to our linky party!  

3. Link up your "BEST SELLING READING ACTIVITY."  

4. Then enter the giveaway for a chance to win a *FREE* best selling reading activity from many awesome TpT seller's stores!

The *best selling reading 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! 

We are still looking for donations!! So if you have a best selling reading activity that you would like to donate to the giveaway we would love to have you join us!  Please just lease your email in the comments section below and you will be receiving an email about how to get started!

We hope you will all join us and we celebrate the hard work, creativity, and countless hours that we have put into making teaching and learning more fun and engaging!! :)

* caitlin & carrie *