An Apple For The Teacher

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

June Pinterest Pick 3

I always love the ideas I get from the monthly Pick 3 Linky hosted by Pawsitively Teaching and the Inspired Owl! Here are three of my favorite June related pins:

My absolute favorite summer drink of choice is an iced chai latte from Starbucks. I love this copycat version to help me save a little money!

My summer drink of choice is an iced chai latter from Starbucks - this version will save me some money!

To find original pin, click here.

If you are still in the classroom this time of year, you might like to have your kiddos make these adorable Father's Day gifts. I think I might have Luke make one at home for his Daddy!

To find original pin, click here.

This looks like a yummy option for summer lunches. Super easy too!

Perfect Summer Lunch: Easy Avocado and Provolone Turkey Wraps. These Can Be Made In Under 10 Minutes! They Are Healthy, Simple, And SOO Delicious. I Prepare These For Lunch Every Week And My Kids Never Complain!

To find original pin, click here.

If you are looking for more great summer ideas, be sure to follow my Pinterest account!

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Follow along with these other bloggers for some more June Pinspiration, and link up to share your own as well!

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Woo Hoo! Today is my first official day of summer! I was very sad to see my kiddos go on Friday, but I am happy for the break and happy that I will see them again in the fall as I am looping with them to 4th grade! I appreciated the gifts and love they poured on me as well!

It is also the first day of June, which means it is time to link up with Farley for Currently!

My 19 year old (who moved to Los Angeles last fall) came to visit for graduation. We were so excited to see him, and Tyler was especially excited to show off how much he had grown since Palmer left.

When I went into my classroom today, I found these laptops on one of the tables. Another teacher who has been using them is getting iPads, so we now have a class set. I am excited for the possibilities! Any suggestions?

And speaking of iPads, I decided to get a new one and pass my old one down to my boys. I am so excited!

Be sure to head over to her blog to share what you are Currently doing, and to make a donation to Wimberley!

Monday, May 25, 2015

Splish Splash It's a Summertime Blog Bash! Summer Blog Hop

The countdown to summer is in full force in my neck of the woods! Our last day of school is Friday, and I can't wait to enjoy a little R&R. Rachel from The Classroom Game Nook Blog has gathered together 50 teacher bloggers to celebrate summertime with a Giant Blog Bash! We are each hosting a FREEBIE (for a limited time) and a GIVEAWAY! Grab your freebie, enter my giveaway, and then hop along and collect all of the goodies we have in store for you!

My Limited time freebie for you is my Water Fight Multiplication Game. It is a great way to review math facts with your students (or perhaps your own children this summer).

Math Facts Review Game -Multiplication - Water Fight

My students absolutely LOVE this game! Look at those smiles as they practice their math facts!

I am also offering a giveaway!

You can enter to win your choice of my Kicking It Math Facts Addition and Subtraction Bundle or my Kicking It Math Facts Multiplication and Division Bundle.

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My favorite things about summer are:

Hanging with these guys:

and hanging out at the lake!

http://thechocolateteacher.blogspot.com/2015/05/splish-splash-its-summer-time-blog-bash.html

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Monthly $25 Teachers pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway - May 2015!

Teacher Appreciation Week is a perfect time to share my monthly giveaway for a $25 TpT gift card. Maybe you still have a few things in your cart or wishlist after the big sale, wouldn't a $25 gift card come in handy?!

All you need to do is enter the Rafflecoptor below:

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Monday, May 4, 2015

What Works Teacher Appreciation Giveaway

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, several of my blogging friends have gotten together to share some of our best teaching secrets as well as two AMAZING prize bundles.

The work we do in our classrooms, while sometimes unappreciated, is so, so important to the future of our communities!

While I am not a pack rat or into hard-core recycling by any means, I hate throwing away things that can be re-used. My first tip involves those extras that sometimes come with various TpT products.

For example, the picture above is a laminated sheet of some Fly Guy sight word flash cards I made for some of my students. See those 4 empty cards?? I hate throwing away the card stock and laminate. So... I use them!

They are already laminated, so they make a perfect dry-erase surface for extra problems for my students. I will often write problems on them to use with my small groups. Sometimes I give each student a problem to solve independently, and other times they all solve the same problem. I can quickly erase them and re-use them over and over again. They can easily be adapted for differentiation as well.

I have also used them as reminders or scaffolds for skills we are working on, such as having a beginning, middle, and end when we retell a story.

My second tip involves one of my favorite office supplies - book rings. When I was in high school and college I used these to make my own flash cards for studying. Now I use them in my classroom for just about everything!

I use them to label my book boxes.

For Sight Words.

For math facts.

I also use them to keep sample problems and lesson plans close at hand.

And now... time for the giveaway!!!

We have two amazing prize bundles valued at $475!!!! Remember, the more entries that you have on the Rafflecopter the more chances you have to win! And believe me, you will want to win these packages! Check them out below!