Day 29 Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten

Whoa...put on the hopping brakes!  I was getting lost in today's blogger.  Julie's kindergarten blog is full of great ideas.  I got so into reading through her posts and ideas that I forgot what I was doing...posting about her blog!

Here is the first thing to distract me.  These are those jumbo lip smackers.  First I flashed back to junior high when the Bonnie Bell ones were so popular.  There were coupons in all the magazines for getting free ones.  They had quite the marketing strategy going because everybody had them.  Well, now here is a new use for all those lip smackers...

Use them to make smelly stickers!  

This is an awesome idea!  Thanks Julie!

Then with 100th day on the brain...I saw this cute idea she used on the 100th day of school.      They counted by 10's to 100.  But with first graders and counting dimes, I will make it 10 cents a scoop and a $1.00.  

Here is a subtraction center.  Awesome cute idea for finding the missing addend of 10.   I was trying to figure out where she got the link for the flowers/suns when I got further down her page...

And I realized it was part of her weather unit!  lol...I was thinking math and flowers....not weather and suns.  Here is her link to this unit:  What's the Weather?....perhaps it would be a great thing to look for during the big sale this weekend on TpT.

Day 16 Teacher Treasure Hunter

Day 16...The Teacher Treasure Hunter is Melissa.  She is from just down the road from me, in Pasco, Washington.  I promise not to get into a hockey debate with her.  Though, I do know who has the better hockey team.  Go Chiefs Go.....er...sorry...your team does have pretty colored jerseys though....tee hee.

Melissa sure has found a lot of treasures...just visit her blog.  She has all sorts of links, contests, prizes, pins, and other finds that she posts regularly.  She also has a monthly giveaway for her followers...so her blog would be a very good one to go follow....if you like winning things that is!

Day 7 Sugar and Spice

What better way to start the work week than with a little Sugar and Spice.  Christina is celebrating her blog's 1st birthday this week. Congratulations!! And to celebrate she is having a HUGE give-away -- with some help from her friends!

Hurry on over and you have a chance to win lots of amazing activities that she -- and her blog friends -- have created.  You have to be entered by January 8th!  I have yet to win any of these contests...so since I entered,  your odds of winning are even better!!  :) tee hee

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Day 2 of My Challenge

Day #2 

I discovered this blog just last week.  I found it as part of Google+.  I have no idea how I became part of it...other than the fact that Google Chrome or Google+ or some googly thing invited me.  But there is a huge network of teachers on there.  And +Sarah Winchell is one of the teachers I found.  (Isn't it cool how if I just put a plus in front of her name it just directs you right to her Google profile :)  

The first thing that drew me to her blog was the title!  Yup, I eat, sleep and dream first grade.  I even got to the point where I keep notepads everywhere...like on the bathroom counter...because when I'm in the shower cool ideas pop into my head and I have to write them down right away or I will forget them! lol

Sarah has LOTS of experience.  She teaches 1st grade in North Carolina.  She has been teaching for 27 years!  Wow!  Her blog, I Dream of First Grade, is full of great ideas and advice from a veteran who absolutely loves teaching the little ones!

Pop on over for a visit!

Discovering Pinterest

I have just figured out this Pinterest thing.  It is the current rage!  For each holiday or season or topic I have a Pinterest Board and I'm posting fun stuff on it that I find on the internet.  I figured this could be a useful way to find a lot of things quickly, plus it's a better way for me to keep track of what I found online and where.

I don't know about you, but I get so lost blog hopping and I have no idea where I started and where I'm trying to go.  Then I find some really cool idea and I can't find it again!  So Pinterest is helping me out...hope it helps you too!

Here is my Pinterest Board:  Life in Idaho

Summer Plans

--Welcome summer!

--Welcome to evenings not filled with homework!

--Welcome to waking up without an alarm clock!

--Welcome to seeing friends and talking about non-school stuff!

--Welcome to time spent with the family...sort of...they are teenagers you know and have much busier lives than I do!

--Welcome to date nights with my husband!

--Welcome to my camera and the time to spend taking pictures of anything and everything!

--Welcome to the casual clothes in my closet and the occasional day when I don't get dressed until 1:00 in the afternoon!

--Welcome to my garden and the time to get my hands dirty!

--Welcome to my closet, the garage, the home office, the kitchen pantry and the pile in the corner of my bedroom...all the places that need cleaning! (honey, the shop is all yours!)

--Welcome to finally starting my teacher blog!