A new MALE Primary Teacher Blogger!

I guess that sounds "sexist", doesn't it?  But I don't mean it that way.  I am always astounded when I see a male teacher in the primary grades.  They are few and far between!   They all seem to go for either intermediate grades, jr. high, or high school.  So many of our little ones NEED a male figure in their lives and it just makes my heart feel so good when a man will give his heart to the little ones.

Welcome, First Upon a Time!  I hope you all will check out his blog and give him a warm bloggers welcome!

P.S.  He's got such a great game for a freebie, too!
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I Have....Who Has... New games!

It's SPRING BREAK!!! Whoo hoo!  I spent my first day staying in my p.j.'s and just trying to recuperate from doing report cards AND our Spring into Excellence Day (Fun Day outside with bouncy houses, games, snow cones, etc.!). Then, because my brain STILL hadn't slowed down, I spent the next day going through my school tubs, organizing my St. Paddy's Day and Dr. Seuss tubs for next  year and getting out my April tubs! 

I did finally start getting into the spirit of the "holiday" and my husband, son, and I went to the port to have some great seafood and watch the boats coming and going!  Soooo relaxing. 

Today....lunch with a bunch of teacher friends and planting a garden with my hubby.  We have tomatoes, beans, eggplant, broccoli, cucumbers, squash, corn, and herbs!  But my favorite.....SUNFLOWERS!  I am hooked on sunflowers ever since seeing them in Europe everywhere.  I even have some students hooked on them!

And tonight, I sat down with my laptop with plans to work on plans....and said, "Naaahh."  Instead, I have created a couple "I Have....Who Has...? games".  Such fun when I have time to "play"!  One game is for helping students subitize the numbers 0-20 and the other is for reinforcing geometric shapes, both requirements in our district.

Spring colored "I Have, Who Has...?" 2D and 3D Geometric Shapes

To go along with my Space Unit, I created two games.  This one uses ten frames.

This variation of the games uses dots for subitizing quantities to 20.


The first three people who comment on this post, follow me, and follow my Tpt store will receive both games for free!  Be sure to include your email address in your comment!

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Going Eggy Over Dominoes!

Your kids will LOVE the graphics on these dominoes!  Michelle over at The 3am Teacher really had kids' interests in mind when she designed these graphics!  Take some of the work out of number recognition with this domino game.  Here are pictures of 3 of the 8 slides:

You can grab these freebies at my Tpt store. 

 Then hop on over to The 3amTeacher because she is having a GIVEAWAY! 

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Just in time for Easter!

Just in time for Easter and springtime - a rabbit-themed version of the "I Have....Who Has...? Numbers 0-50.  The graphics on the cover are from The 3amTeacher and the font came from Free Fonts, if I remember correctly.   (I will be creating some other activities to use in the classroom with the Easter packet I bought from 3am Teacher, just....as....soon....as...Spring.... Break...arrives....<gasp> <gasp> and I catch up on some much-needed rest!!!)  But hop, hop, hop on over to my Tpt store to download this freebie!  And be sure to check out The 3am Teacher, too!

 

Grab This Freebie Here!

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Teachers Helping Teachers

Crystal over at Kreative in Kindergarten is organizing assistance and donations to teachers who who touched by the devastation of the tornadoes in the past couple weeks.  Click on the heart above to learn more about how you can help.  Thanks, Crystal, for organizing this assistance.  When I see how policemen/sheriffs/firemen take care of their own, (we lost one of our localdeputies last week and enforcement officers came to Florida from as far away as Chicago  to the funeral) I am inspired.  I agree with your sentiments, Crystal.  Bless you and Anne.

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Wowie, wow, wow!

Barb, over at Meet me at the Kinderzoo, just awarded me with this award:

I'm so excited, I just can't hide it.....Thanks so much, Barb! You really made my day!

The Rules...

* Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them.

* Pass the award on to 15 other bloggers.

* Follow the person who nominated you.

This is the button for Barb's adorable blog!  NOW, to nominate MY 15 bloggers...

Ooohhh, decisions, decision!  Do I have to?!  They are all soooo good!  I am humbled every time I look at a new blog.  They are all unique, and when I see what all these teachers are doing on their blogs, I think, "I want to be in that classroom!"....But I diverge.... Okay, here are 15.  But it could easily have been 150.  I didn't add some of the more well-known blogs that I follow, because I know they already have a lot of traffic.  But I do want them to know I still love their blogs: Deanna Jump, Kim Adsit....Okay, I better stop or I will leave somebody out!

 

1.  The Teaching Bug

2.  Growing Kinders

3.  The 3a.m. Teacher

4.  The Alphabet Garden

5.  Mrs. Saylor's Log

6.  Peace, Love, and Kindergarten

7. Kleinspiration

8.  Criss Cross Applesauce

9.  Chalk Talk

10.  Technology Rocks, Seriously

11.  KPM Doodles

12. First Grade a la Carte

13. A Place Called Kindergarten

14. The Teacher's Cauldron

15. Work Smart, Not Hard Kindergarten

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It's time to flit on over to

 to see the pot of gold treasures she has on her blog FOR FREE for St. Patrick's Day!  What a talented lady and blogger!   Now, fly on over to  for her Roll and Color a Rainbow.

Or just slide on over to my March Pinterest Page to see a whole field of St. Patrick's Day ideas I've pinned from creative bloggers and teachers like you!

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