Brrr.. It's cold outside!

It is a very dreary, cold day here in Texas. Hopefully, being true to crazy Texas weather, it will be nice and warm tomorrow! I hope everyone is enjoying the last bit of their holiday break! I also hope everyone enjoyed the time spent with friends and family during the holidays and getting geared up for the new year! I can't believe 2014 is almost here! AAH! Are you ready?

2013 was such a great year, I lived in my very first big-girl apartment, I celebrated my 23rd birthday, and got engaged to my best friend! I also have the best class ever this year! I sure do love breaks but I'm starting to miss my kinderbabies. Today I started laminating and prepping January centers. I even started on my lesson plans for when we go back ANDD I don't even really like lesson planning all that much :]

I'm working on a pack of January literacy whole group activities and centers! Hopefully (keep your fingers crossed) I will have this done and ready to go by the new year!

But for now, because I know you can't wait, here is a freebie :] SNEAKY PEEKY FREEBIE! This a sneak peek of the pack above. I hope you enjoy! 

Cyber Monday TPT sale!

Ok, you had 2 whole days to recover from Black Friday, now get ready for CYBER MONDAY!

If you LOVE sales like I do you are in luck! TPT is having a great Cyber Monday (and Tuesday) sale! My ENTIRE store will be 15% off on those days! You will also get another 10% off by using the Promo Code: CYBER. Get your wishlists ready!

ANDDD if you spend at least $5.00 in my store I will send you a product of your choice from my store for FREE!! YAY! I love FREE! All you have to do is spend up to $5 dollars in my store and then email your TPT username and the name of the item you would like for free to rjmartin0704@gmail.com. It's that easy!

Something you might want to add to your wishlist is my NEW Gingerbread Literacy and math unit! Shout out to Deanna Jump for the CA-UTE title!

 

This unit includes 5 literacy activities and 3 math activities! Most activities can be used wither whole group or in a center. As always all activities are aligned to the TEKS and CCSS! You can grab this product HERE!

Happy Shopping!

Thanksgiving Fun!

I love the holidays! Im the kind of person who, if not supervised by someone at the store, will buy every thanksgiving and Christmas decoration. I LOVE decorating my house, I LOVE shopping and buying gifts for people, I LOVE baking and cooking all the yummy holiday food, I LOVE holiday music and will never tire it! Most of all I LOVE being with my family and friends and slowing down our busy lives to catch up and spend time with each other. OMG I am getting so excited just thinking about it! 

In our class we are gearing up for thanksgiving and learning all about the Pilgrims, Native Americans, and Turkeys. They are really when we learn about how these people used to live. They are very surprised these people couldn't go to Walmart and get whatever they needed or order Pizza on their Iphones and have someone bring it to you. It just blows their little minds! 

So here are my few of my fave units for this month!

1. November NO PREP just print by Time4Kindergarten: I love this unit because well let's be real, who has the time to prep every activity for your classroom. This unit makes it easy to just print and go. I like to use these for early finishers, morning work, and sub work. You can find it HERE

2.  November Early Finishers tub by KreativeinKinder: I have some kids that get done with their work very quickly and need something to do while the other students are still working. These are fun, educational activities that students can grab and work on quietly while others are working. Love her work! You can find it HERE

3. Thanksgiving Math and Literacy Fun by Deanna Jump: There is no explanation necessary! You just CAN NOT go wrong with Deanna Jump! She is absolutely awesome:] You can find it HERE

4. Time for Turkey-Literacy and Math centers for kinder by Kindergarten Lifestyle: I love center time and so do my kinderbabies. They think they are just playing by they are really learning! I love all of her center activities:] She is amazing! You can find it HERE

5. Thanksgiving math and literacy activities by ME!: This is my new unit! It includes beginning sound, sight word, ten frames, numbers 10-20, and 2D shapes activities. It also includes my cute little shape turkey craft that I posted on Facebook earlier this week. Today (11/10) only is 50% off in my store! You can find it HERE 

Here is a picture of  the shape turkeys we made last week! I just love them!

Hopefully you can use some of these activities in the next few weeks with your kinders! I know they will love them! Have a great week!

Yes I am alive...

So sorry I haven't been around lately, it's been a little cray cray around here! It's review week in my room we are getting ready to switch into a new 9 weeks. My babies are doing great! They are some very smart and quick learners! I have a good chunk of kids that have not EVER been to school before but yet 10 of them already know their letters and sounds! Happy teacher dance! I am super proud of them!

We are starting a review week this week so teachers can review and assess for report cards. For the next two week we will be doing Pumpkin/Halloween themed activities. I don't know about you but every day my kids come in and ask me if it is Halloween yet.. they are so excited! In my store right now you can go grab my new pumpkin literacy mini-unit call Pumpkin Palooza! It is aligned to the TEKS(for all my Texas buddies) as well as CCSS. Visit my TPT store to get it!

 

Hopefully I will have more picture next week of my kids doing our fun pumpkin activities for you! I am the worst at remembering to take picture until the activity is all done! Well, gotta get back to lesson plans and Cowboys football :] Have a great week!

OH and one more thing! I have a facebook page now:]. YAY ME!! If you are on facebook search Kindergarten Sparkle and Shine and like my page! There is a new fan freebie posted you can grab, but you have to like my page first :]

September Apple Unit Ideas

IM BACKKKK! I have been MIA these past couple of weeks. I started school on August 26th with 26 cute, sweet kinderbabies. Its been a little crazy in our hallway because this is unusually large group of kinders. We have the largest grade level in the whole district!! We have been having so much fun learning and getting to know everybody in our classroom family.

This week we are starting our apple unit! In ELAR we are working on letters and sounds, syllables,and rhyming words and I have created a mini apple literacy center pack that focuses on those skills. In this pack is a uppercase and lowercase letter match/memory game, a syallble sort, and a rhyming word go-fish game. You can find this pack HERE and for today only it is FREE!!

I am loving these apple anchor charts from Kaci at Mrs. Hoffer's Spot. I love graphing and making anchor charts with my kids and these are AWESOME for that! Grab it HERE

I also LOVE the apple morning work and homework pack from Danielle at Kroger's Kindergarten

It's an awesome resource and you can find it HERE and HERE!

Also hop on over to to Jeannie Partin's TPT store she has a GREAT Apple Five senses pack that will go great with my science unit coming up next week and for my science center! CLICK HERE! to grab it.

What are you planning on doing this week? Are you doing apples or something different? I would love to hear your ideas! Just leave a comment below!

School, School, Back to School!!!

I am a little excited to start school next Monday! I can't wait to meet my new kinders and love them and teach them all sorts of things!! This week I am finishing up my classroom, and planning my first week. Our school is starting some new changes which I am very excited about and I hope that this year is AWESOME!

Teachers Pay Teachers is having an awesome back to school sale today and tomorrow only! My small, little store is 20% off and if you use the promo code BTS13 and get an extra 10% off your purchase!!! CLICK HERE to go to my store.

I'm off to spend some money and clear my TPT wishlist!! Have a great rest of the weekend!

Freebie :]

Hi yall! So teachers have to report back on Monday. I always stress out around this time and its I am stressing a little more because I have a whole new team this year. I am the only returning Kindergarten teacher at my school and they will be looking to me to remember what we did last year. Did I mention I have a HORRIBLE memory, I would forget my head if it wasn't screwed on.  So anyway you are probably here for the freebie so CLICK HERE to get it. I hope you like it! Im off to make a million to do list and hopefully hangout with the fiance before he goes to work:]

Happy last Saturday of summer!!