Teacher Appreciation

Welcome back to my blog friends! Today I am sharing a quick idea for teacher appreciation and FREE gift tags in English/Spanish.

First, I'd like to begin by thanking each and everyone of you for all that you do for your students day in and day out. At this time of the year, we are exhausted and any little handwritten note reminds us of our daily impact on our students lives. I cherish each coloring picture, each "I love you, teacher", and each day with my students.

I have created a free gift tag you can share with your child's teacher. Just grab some sweet snacks, print this out in either color or black/white, sign child's name, and attach. Your child's teacher will love the thoughtfulness.

Click HERE or the pictures to download.

ALSO, with Teacher Appreciation Week right around the corner, my friends and I have joined to give one lucky reader an amazing prize pack! Just look at all the goodies you could win!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:  

Prize: 10 Teacher "Must Haves" prize pack including: Mr. Sketch Markers, Flair Markers, Personal Laminator, Dry Erase Pockets, Dry Erase Markers, Astrobrights Paper, Sharpies, Ticonderoga Pencils, a Wall Calendar, and a $50 Teachers pay Teachers gift card.

Giveaway Organized by: Kelly Malloy (An Apple for the Teacher)

Co-hosts:   An Apple for the Teacher,  MM Bilingual, Debora Marines TeachMagically, Cara's Creative Playground, Amanda's Little Learners, The Craft of Teaching, Jackie Crews, Sugar Cube Learning Resources, Stephanie Rye-Forever in Fifth Grade, Teach with Hope, 180 Days of Reading, The Literacy Garden, Sandra Naufal, Teacher Jeanell, Sliding into 1st, Teacher Mama School, Tried and True Teaching Tools, Third Grade Giggles, The Chocolate Teacher, Sarah Griffin, Peas In A Pod, Heart 2 Heart Teaching, It's a Teacher Thing, Teacher Gameroom, Save the Teacher, A Plus Kids, Digging Deep to Soar Beyond the Text, It Happened in 3rd, The Literacy Garden, A Place of Story, Kindergarten Is Crazy, and Knowledge Mobile.

Rules: Use the Rafflecopter to enter. Giveaway ends 5/8/17 and is open worldwide.

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Spanish Teachers on TpT GIVEAWAY!!!

Welcome back to my blog, friends! Today we have a fabulous giveaway opportunity just to say THANK YOU for all that you do in and out of the classroom! 

Also, make sure to subscribe to my email newsletter HERE. You will receive a FREE prefixes unit just for signing up and joining my email club!

So let's get to it! Hop to Win! $100 and $20 TpT credit giveaway!

Spanish teachers on TpT have teamed up to offer you a fun & fabulous giveaway as our way of saying THANK YOU to our followers!

We have 2 thank you prizes for our followers:

-       $100 TpT gift card

-       $20 TpT gift card

WWhat to do:

1.   Visit MY STORE to start hopping! ~ We love followers!  ;)

2.   Write down the Secret Letter hidden in the banner of my store.

3.   Click on the BANNER of each store to hop to the next store! Collect the secret letters hidden in each banner!

4.   Unscramble the letters to reveal the Secret Message.

5.   Head back HERE to my blog and enter the Secret Message into the Giveaway!

Here’s what you’re looking for in my store:

Once you have all of the letters, unscramble them to reveal the secret message!  Come back and enter the secret message in the giveaway widget here:

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The following fun & fabulous Spanish sellers are participating in the blog hop! You can also visit each store by clicking on the image of their store below!

1.  Monarca Language
2.  Fun Monkey Bars
3.  Brinca Into Bilingual
4.  MM Bilingual
5.  Mundo de Pepita
6.  Fun for Spanish Teachers
7.  Profe Emily
8.  Lectura Para Ninos
9.  Educando Einsteins
10.  Silvia Schavz
11.  Speech is Beautiful
12.  Sra Casado

Have fun and good luck, friends! Until next time :) 

What Works: Successful Teachers Share Secrets from their Classrooms

Thank you for joining me as I partner up with Lisa from PAWSitively Teaching and Marissa from Inspired Owl's Corner as we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week with a fantastic G.I.V.E.A.W.A.Y and L.I.N.K.Y! Make sure to subscribe to my email newsletter HERE. You will receive a FREE SPANISH prefixes unit just for signing up and joining my email club!

I will be sharing 3 secrets from my classroom that I hope you can benefit from! Read, enjoy, and scroll on down to discover more secrets and . . . . . an AMAZING giveaway!!!

Currently, I am team teaching which means I see my class for Reading/Language Arts half a day, then teach do it all over with my partner's class for the other half of the day. A secret I have for avoiding messy desk is using these plastic milk crates found here. This eliminates the cramped desks and saves space. I wish I could do the Pinterest idea where there's drawers in the middle, but the crates work just as fine for basal books, binders, and school boxes. Another tiny thing that makes a HUGE difference is the duct tape down the middle of the desk. At the beginning of the year, I color coded the class books by AM-blue/PM-orange. Students keep their practice books and journals on their respective side. Easy Peasy :)

I was always struggling to keep a list of brain breaks in the classroom without being repetitive. Then, along came GoNoodle. Do you use GoNoodle in the classroom? I GoNoodle, my kids GoNoodle, and we will never go back! Our favorite right now is of course Pop See Ko 2.0. I find it so cute when they ask, "If we behave, can we play a brain break?" Check it out and I am sure you will love it!

Last but not least, I created these little gems (Interactive Reading Flaps in Spanish) to keep my kiddos engaged when responding to books in the classroom. They love cutting, pasting, answering, sharing, and the retention of skills is higher after the activities are presented in a meaningful way. I have recently bundled the four seasons to make it easier for teachers to save $$$ on the resource for the entire year. Feel free to share my page with any bilingual teacher that might benefit from these! 

So now ..... time for the giveaway and the fabulous prizes you could win! Make sure to enter BOTH Rafflecopters and complete as many entries as you can, so that you can have MORE opportunities to win these A.M.A.Z.I.N.G bundles!!!!

Just take a look at everything you could win...One lucky reader will win this entire prize package!!!

Prize Bundle #1 Includes

Mountain Math/Language Resource of your Choice (up to $99.95)

$100 Gift Card to Teachers Pay Teachers

$50 Amazon Gift Card

Smart Class Website Designed by Flapjack Educational Resources

Pencil Sharpener by Classroom Friendly Supplies

Year-Long Writing Prompts by Mrs. D's Corner

Mentor Sentences Unit by Jivey

Dealing with Math Homework by Teacher's Clubhouse

Your Choice of Melonheadz Graphics (up to $7.00)

Growing Bundle Purposeful Problem Solving by Pawsitively Teaching

Pop Art Coloring Page for Seasons and Holidays by Art by Jenny K

Game Pack from Flap Jack Educational Resources

PLUS....$140 Gift Box of Fabulous Teacher Supplies sent to you from Amazon

We aren't finished yet....take a look at everything a second lucky winner will win!!!

Prize Bundle #2 Includes

Mountain Math/Language Resource of your Choice (up to $99.95)

$100 Gift Card to Teachers Pay Teachers

$50 Amazon Gift Card

Smart Class Website Designed by Flapjack Educational Resources

Pencil Sharpener by Classroom Friendly Supplies

Year-Long Writing Prompts by Mrs. D's Corner

Mentor Sentences Unit by Jivey

Dealing with Math Homework by Teacher's Clubhouse

Your Choice of Melonheadz Graphics (up to $7.00)

Growing Bundle Purposeful Problem Solving by Pawsitively Teaching

Pop Art InteractiveColoring Page for Seasons and Holidays by Art by Jenny K

Mega Task Card Bundle from Flap Jack Educational Resources

PLUS....$140 Gift Box of Fabulous Teacher Supplies sent to you from Amazon

Be sure to enter both rafflecopters for a better chance at winning one of these amazing prize bundles!

Enter to Win Prize Bundle #1 Here

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Enter to Win Prize Bundle #2 Here

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You won't want to miss out on all the other great secrets being shared by successful teachers!  Be sure to check out all the other great posts below.

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Teachers are Heroes Sale & Linky

Have you heard?!? TpT is having a SALE!!! For all my teacher heroes...go take advantage of this awesome SALE starting tomorrow. My entire store will be 20% OFF and if you use the code HEROES, you can get an extra 8% off for a total savings of 28%!

Check out the newest BUNDLE I added just in time for the SALE!!!! Trabajando con Prefijos!!! I am loving this resource. It has interactive notebook pages, memory/matching game, and an assessment for each Spanish prefix in the bundle. Check it out by clicking on the picture. You can also grab a FREE unit ---> Make sure to subscribe to my email newsletter HERE. You will receive a FREE prefixes unit just for signing up and joining my email club!

I will also be doing some shopping. I am linking up with Stories and Songs in Second to bring you "What's in my Cart?"

This has been on my wishlist for forever! I have read the reviews and I know this will definitely help my seconds in going back to look for text evidence. I had been debating on buying the Winter Edition, but when I heard about the sale, I thought I might as well get the BUNDLE!!! Yay!!

Have you seen the cuteness Amy Lemons just posted. I saw her post this and immediately knew I needed this! Poetry + Cute Crafts = Happy Teacher!!! 

Of course, a purchase can't be complete without clipart from the amazing Krista Wallden! I will definitely be purchasing these and the summer papers! 

To all my colleague Teacher Heroes, thank you for all you do and let's keep being A.m.a.z.i.n.g.!!!!

Until next time XOXO!