Multiplication Facts Strategies Poster Pack

I finally completed my multiplication poster pack for helping students master their basic math facts! 

It includes posters for facts from 0-12 and then 5 separated posters for solving multiplication problems including:

* drawing arrays

* drawing groups

* drawing pictures

* skip counting

* using repeated addition

To purchase this file, head to either of my shops by clicking the buttons below!

I hope to be back soon with a fun persuasive Christmas writing pack!

I want to include these fun prompts:

* Which reindeer should be first?

* Gingerbread: Please don't eat me, or Please do! haha

* Should Santa or his reindeer take a vacation?

* All I Want for Christmas is...(Reasons why you deserve your present!)

* Santa needs a new outfit!

What do you guys think??

Happy Sunday! Is anyone else bummed that Walking Dead doesn't come back til like February!? Bummer!

A Field Trip and another Freebie!

So we went on our annual Roper Mountain Science Center field trip and it was so  much fun! We got to go to the South Carolina living history farm to see what life was like during the 1800's! We picked cotton, indigo, fed some chickens, and saw a pregnant cow pooping! It was quite the event! We also got to go to the Marine Lab and pet some sting rays and horshoe crabs, hold sea urchins and hermit crabs, all while learning about marine animal adaptations! Here are some pictures! 

Holding a sea urchin!

 Can we just count how many of my students are actually paying attention to the teacher? I swear this picture just captures my class perfectly. This is like my daily struggle! They're all in like a million different directions and the sweet girl in pink with her head in her hands got sent to school that morning with a fever! She said, "It's okay, my daddy gave me some medicine so I could still go!" WHAT!? Nobody wants to catch your sickness!! 

Whoever guesses how many students are paying attention correctly can pick one item from my shop! HAHA

 Tilling the soil!

I just love this picture of her picking cotton!

 I know you wanted to see the cow pooping. lol All of the students, INCLUDING me, were laughing and the instructor was like, "SHHHH!" I mean really!? I was thinking, that cow just took a crap and it's funny!! They're kids and they just think poop is hilarious! Get over it!

More cotton picking! 

And I know many of you loved the trading card idea but don't teach explorers. I made another template that you can edit for any famous person you wish to do! Just click the picture below to download!

I will be back with more stuff later! I'm still working on my Math Early finisher unit and I am going to make some Multiplication Posters to post also! Happy Saturday!

Explorers Trading Cards

Hello blog land! I hope you have all had a fabulous Cyber Monday and Tuesday Sale! I picked up an awesome South Carolina Explorers Trading Cards file from Carrie Whitlock which you can purchase by clicking on the image below!

I am so in love with this idea and we are just finishing this unit so I emailed her and asked if I could create an editable and printable template to post on my blog and she was so kind and generous to say yes! I recommend purchasing her file because it has an example and rubrics for Social Studies and Language Arts!

Here is my editable file. You don't just have to use it on SC explorers. You could adapt it for anything! I inclded two versions. One version you can just print and let students write or draw in or you could let your students edit one on the computer adding pictures and text that you can manipulate any way you like! 

Just click the file above to download your copy! (Clipart is from Melonheadz Illustrations)

On top of my trading card purchase, I also purchased tons of graphics from Ashley Hughes! I just love her cute clip art!! There are other things that made it into my shopping cart as well, but I'll save that for the Blog Hoppin' post!

Happy almost Hump Day!!

I'm Still Alive and a TPT and TN Sale

I want to apologize for taking such a long leave of absence from my blogging duties, but things have been CUH-razy in my life lately. Honestly, my heart just hasn't been in it these last few weeks. I am feeling much more myself and so I am glad to be back in action!! Woot woot! 

But, oh how I have missed you all so much! 

I am here to share a little working with words freebie. We are working on Antonyms next week and so I wanted to share a fun little spin on a homophone hunt I found last year. Just click the picture to download yourself a copy!

I will also be having a sale in both my shops on Monday and Tuesday! See the button below for more details!

Thanks to Ashley Hughes for the adorable button!

I hope to have some new stuff coming soon friends! I just need to get a little more inspiration and motivation and I'll be there!

Go TIGERS!! Beat those Gamecocks! =)

Changes

I recently posted about some issues that my boyfriend and I had been having. Well, things finally came to an end last week and I am hurting inside so much. After four years, I can't seem to figure out how to move on without him in my life. I haven't thought much about school, or my blog, or lesson plans and I really need to! I feel awful for negelecting you all and everything else, but I just need to get myself together before I get myself back on a roll. I just wanted to let you guys know I didn't forget about you. I'm just going through many life changes right now and I haven't had much time for anything else. Hope to be back soon with some things to share. Hope you all have a great Sunday!