Giveaway Winner, Thanksgiving Picture, TPT Sale..Oh,my!

Drum roll please.........We have a winner! Katie Smith from I Want to be a Super Teacher is the winner of the FANTASTIC  prizes from me and my blogging friends.  Katie, be on the look out of an email from all these wonderful bloggers.  Please leave your email below!

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Thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway.  The comments were so sweet.  I truly am thankful for each and every one of you.  You've all made me such a better teacher! :-)

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  My family sure did! Brayden enjoyed Thanksgiving.  Cranberry sauch was not a hit but pumpkin pie sure was! :-)

My muchkin' loves to eat! I'm going to be busy searching all over for good deals on TOYS and books for my munchkin' on Monday.  It is his first Christmas.  I'm so excited to see his face on Christmas day.  I can't believe his first birthday is approaching so fast.  He'll be 1 in January.  Where did the time go? :-(

Now for some exciting news...

Thank you to Ashley for the SUPER CUTE button!

I decided to go ahead and start my sale TODAY so that people who are looking for activites for tomorrow can get ahead start on the sale.  EVERYTHING in my store is 20% off.  TPT is having an ENORMOUS sale on Monday and Tuesday.  If you're like me and wait until Cyber Monday to get started, then you need to listen up.  Everything in my store is 20% off AND (here's the exciting part) TPT is also giving an extra 10% off at checkout WHEN you enter the code CMT12.  My shopping cart is already full of goodies.  I love sales!

Here are some of my best sellers:

Here are some new/recently added items in my store:

I hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday.  Happy Shopping this week!

Lots of love,

Non-Fiction Blues

Happy turkey week, friends!

I am SO, SO excited that tomorrow is Thanksgiving.  The one day of the year when I feel that it is okay to eat and eat and eat.  I am lucky enough to have had today off from work (we go back on Monday) and was thinking about my kiddos.  In my reading center, I had them doing a non-fiction scavnger hunt. Needless to say, I realized we have A LOT of work to do on understanding non-fiction text features.  The week after next, I will be reading only non-fiction texts during Interactive Read Aloud and really focusing on that non-fiction standard.  From what I've heard about the Smarter Balanced tests that will be coming to my state very soon, there is a lot of non-fiction reading involved.  To help them remember the text features, I made some colorful posters.  I can't wait to hang them in my room for my kiddos to use.  We will be doing another non-fiction scavenger hunt and I am hoping that they really start to understand the non-fiction text features.  Click on the picture below to download the non-fiction text features posters that I created.  I hope you can use them with your kiddos!  I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving tomorrow!

Don't forget to enter my giveaway to win tons and tons of great prizes from my blogger friends. Click here to go back to that post. 

Lots of love,

100 Follower Giveaway

I am so lucky to have such amazing followers.  I feel blessed to have people that care about what I have to say.  You have all made me be a better teacher.  To celebrate 100 followers, I am having a HUGE giveaway.  I have some fabulous blogger friends that have teamed up with me to give away some amazing products.  You definitely need to follow all of these amazing bloggers if you are not already. 

And the super, fabulous, amazing bloggers are:

Adventures of a Third Grade Teacher is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.

  Teacher to the Core is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.     Lanier's Lions is giving away 1 item from her TPT store. 

Peace, Love, and First Grade is giving away 1 item from her TPT store. 

Fabulously in First is giving away her Second Grade Math Vocabulary Posters

Ginger Snaps is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.

  Smedley's Smorgasboard of Kindgergarten is giving away his ADORABLE Gingerbread Man packet.

  Polka Dots & Pencils is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.    Joy in 6th is giving away a $10 gift certificate to Starbucks. 

Elementary Matters is donating 1 item from her TPT store.

  Kinder Craze is giving away her Number Word Book Emergent Reader.   Smiling in Second Grade is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.   

Reading Olympians is giving away 1 item from their TPT store.

HoJo's Teaching Adventures is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.

Small Types is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.

The Convenient Teacher is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.

Second Grade Spin is giving away $10 worth of amazing products for the winner to choose.

Simple Steps to Sentence Sense is giving away a grading scale .

Beach Sands and Lesson Plans is giving away 1 item from her TPT Store.

  Kindger Glynn is giving away 1 item from her TPT store.

  And...ME!!! I will be giving away 3 itmes from my TPT store!

    What a giveaway!  Enter below to win these AmAzInG products from these FANTASTIC bloggers! Good luck!  The winner will be announced on Sunday.     

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I'm Thankful for You!

Happy Saturday, friends!

To celebrate how thankful I am for all of my followers, I have created a Thanksgiving freebie for you.  This past week in my classroom, students learned how to mentally add 10 and 100 to numbers.  So, I created a cute turkey match up to help them review next week in their math centers while having fun before Thanksgiving.  Click on the picture below to download your FREE copy.

Other news, my blog friend Amber from Adventures of a Third Grade Teacher is having a 700 follower giveaway and I am giving away 1 item from my TPT store to celebrate her big achievement.  Click on the picture below to enter her giveaway and win TONS of fabulous prizes.

BIG NEWS: I reached 100 followers here on my blog!!!! To celebrate, I have asked some SUPER blogger friends to dontate to celebrate.  Check back Sunday, to enter my giveaway to celebrate my huge milestone.  I AM TRULY THANKFUL FOR ALL OF YOU!

Have a great weekend, dear friends!

Lots of love,

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Hello, dear friends!

I LOVE ADORE Christmas and everything associated with it.  I decided to go ahead and start creating my Elf on the Shelf packet and I finally finished today.  Even though I teach 2nd grade, I still do Elf on the Shelf with them.  They love it!  My school is doing a Polar Express Day that I get to help set up and I am ESTATIC about it.  I love seeing the student's faces light up.  I'm going to introduce our class elf after Thanksgiving break. That's when Christmas starts for me at school and at home.  My hubby makes me wait until the day after Thanksgiving before I can start to decorate for Christmas.  Which is a good thing because I could have Christmas decoration up all year.  No, I'm not kidding either! :-) Take a look at the preview to see everything that is included.  There's a lot! :-) One thing that I added that I haven't done in the past is Mystery Pictures.  Students will look at the pictures and put them together to figure out the elf's message for the day.

The packet includes:
A hello/goodbye letter
Calendar of Ideas for teachers November-December
My Elf Journal (one template with box for picture, one template with lines)
10 Mystery Pictures for students to solve (answer to mystery pictures included)
Behavior Chart (one in color, one in black/white)
3 Writing Prompts with graphic organizers for each and writing paper (1 template with box for drawing, 1 template with just lines)
*I Want to be an Elf because...
*If I Were an Elf
*Santa Should Choose me to be an Elf because...
20 notes from "your elf" to give to students when they are caught doing something that the elf notices (helping teacher, helping others, being good, following directions, raising their hand, etc)

Click on the picture below to download your copy.



The first two people to tell me what you do to bring Christmas into your classroom will get my packet for free.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, friends!

I'm Done, Mrs. Hunter...Now What?!?!

Happy Election Day, friends!

My school is a voting center, so my district is closed today!  Woohooo!  Which means, that I've had time to work on a few projects.  I finished my writing posters for all of my fantastic followers. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the phrase, "Mrs. Hunter...I'm done, what do I do now."  I decided this year to place some writing posters on my wall that have different things that my students can write about.  Now, they go to the writing center and choose a template and get to writing.  They love it!  Take a look at the preview of everything that's inlcuded!

 

                                          Isn't Jessica Standford's digital paper just ADORABLE!

Click on the picture below to go to my TPT store and download your copy.

As always, the first 2 people to comment will receive my writing posters for free! :-)

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble!

Happy Saturday, friends!

It's been a CrAzY week!  The week of Halloween at school is always crazy!  I have two pictures to share with yall!  My 2nd grade team dressed up as characters from Winnie the Pooh.  I was Tigger. And...my sweet little munchkin' was the cutest frog I've ever seen. :-)

Thanksgiving is right around the corner! :-)

I finally finished my Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Packet.  Students will be writing about whether or not they should eat or not eat turkey for Thanksgiving.  Click on the picture below to go to my TPT store. The packet includes:

Persuasive Writing Poster
Bubble Map to list reasons for eating or not eating turkey
Writing Plan Organizer for eating or not eating turkey
4 Writing Pages-2 with pictures and dotted lines for print, 2 with lines to write
Thanksgiving Facts

I hope yall enjoy the rest of your weekend! 

The first 3 people to tell me their FAVORITE Thanksgving food will be my packet for free. :-)