The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

Tonight I reached 500 followers on TpT! I am super excited so I am throwing a Valentine's Day Giveaway to thank all of you for your support! Enter below as many times as you'd like for a chance to win my Valentine's Math and Literacy unit , Valentine's Print and Go Worksheets and my Dollar Store Valentine's Centers unit ! Check them out in my store for more details! The winner will be chosen by rafflecopter on Monday, February 10th! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Hello All, I am holding a short giveaway (9/14-9/16) for my newest unit: Scissor Skills: teacher book, cutting practice+. Please visit the giveaway section at www.teachersnotebook.com to enter and while you are there please check out all of the new items in my store! Check out the following pictures to see a sampling of what is in my Scissor Skills Unit Thank you for being loyal followers, good luck! Christine

I don't know if you have heard but Teachers Notebook has decided to create bundles of products for a back to school promotion this week. Let me tell you the bundles are awesome, each one is around $20 and includes 15-20 different products. I have gone through all of the pre-K to 2nd bundles and there are some great resources in them. My Frog Fun Unit is featured in Bundle #9. There is so much great stuff in this bundle that I might just have to buy it even though it has my own product, that is how good the deals are! I want to buy all of the bundles but have decided to limit my budget to $60. That will get me three great bundles worth over $400.00. Hop on over as soon as you can to get your bundles.....I will be hard to choose just one! TEACHERS NOOTEBOOK HOMEPAGE And..... to add to all of the back to school fun over there at Teachers notebook I have put my entire store on sale for 20% off and am hosting a giveaway of my Volcano Adventure Word Work Center! The start of this yea...

Hello All, I have just posted a FREE set of 1-10 posters from the jungle. Be sure to hop on over to TpT to grab your copy. Use this link: FREE Jungle 1-10 posters And don't forget to scroll down to enter this weeks giveaway!!!!!

Hello All, I am now back to working on my goal of organization this year after a 2 week whirlwind vacation. While away I was able to create 2 differentiated spelling centers that I am focusing on organizing this week. I have organized these centers for those who do not have the money to invest in all of the fancy organizing tools that I have been gotten for this upcoming year. This weeks drawer is simple using plastic bags and binder rings. The real organization comes in differentiating these two centers. Lets start with The Jungle Drop , this is a CVC word practice center. I have placed all of the working mats, bags of pictures, bags of letters and flashcards in the drawer. I have printed all of these on cardstock and laminated each. The flashcards will eventually make their way onto a binder ring for easy self checking. To start differentiating these units have the children match the lowercase letters to a print out of the uppercase letters. For those that are ready give a bag of pi...

In my quest to get organized this summer I am working on a blog post series called, Organization for Differentiation. This is the 2nd post in the series, you will want to make sure and read the first post so you can see where this started. I have begun to fill several more drawers with differentiated centers, recording sheets, manipulatives and the like. Here is what I have been up to: This is my Sunflower Literacy Unit which I will be using at the very beginning of the year to help with visual discrimination, identifying uppercase/lowercase, vowel/consonant identification and critical thinking. The first activity asks the child to separate the vowels from the consonants and then there is a practice sheet inside a dry erase pocket. The second activity involves building words with the sunflowers to match the flower pot by picture and by word. The third activity has several dry erase protected practice sheets for the children to complete and the fourth activity has the child picking th...

In my quest to get organized for next year I have devised a system for differrentiation that I believe will work for me and my kiddos. (If you know me this is a huge step, I am a very disorganized ADHD person!) I am calling this series of blog posts "Organization for Differentiation." I hope you can gleam some insight and share some of your experiences along the way. Also, to kick off this series I will be giving away the biggest piece of the puzzle for me, the drawer tower! This is a $50.00 piece and I will have it sent straight from Amazon to the winner! See the pictures and make sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post. So, here is the first step for "Organtization for Differentiation" The Tools: 2 drawer towers, dollar store drawer organizers, target dollar spot book bins and center supplies. This is in the very beginning staes and I will be updating you every step of the way. So to begin I have started by deciding what type of books I want on each c...

There is a GIANT giveaway going on over at Teaching Special Thinkers, there are 100 prizes including my Passport to the next grade in the 3-5th grade section. Click this link to enter: http://teachingspecialthinkers.blogspot.com/2013/04/final-countdown-giveaway-over-100.html I am also collecting donations for my next giveaway as well, I only need 5 more blog followers to go live with it! To contribute either see my post on the teachers pay teachers sellers forum or email me at christine_odonnell@earthlink.net

hello All, We have a winner of the giveaway....Stephanie louise has just won my read the room mega pack. Congratulations! Thank you to all who entered and all who contributed a freebie. be on the lookout for my next huge giveaway, I am close to 200 followers on my blogandI amgoing to do a large collection giveaway. Send your friends over to follow my blog so I can give more to you.... my loyal followers! Thank you!

Hello All, I am so excited to say that I have met my sales goal this month for the first time! I am so excited that I have decided to giveaway my Read the Room Mega Pack! I also thought this might be a great time to collect some free resources while you are entering the giveaway. I will announce the winner on Sunday evening 4/28! Good Luck! a Rafflecopter giveaway List and download as many freebies as you like! Enjoy, Christine

Doreen van cott Bednarski! Congratulations Doreen you have a huge amount of free learning resources coming your way!I want to say a great big thank you to all of those who donated to this giveaway and all of those who took the time to enter. If you didn't win this time don't fret I will host another soon! Christine

Hello Everyone, I am celebrating my biggest milestone on TpT, breaking $5000.00!!!! To celebrate I am giving away a $25.00 gift certificate to my TpT store and a huge bundle of products from some very generous teachers who have donated some of their best products. These teachers are so talented that I hope you take a few minutes to visit each one of them after you have entered the giveaway. Entries will be accepted from now until Wednesday, March 26th at midnight. I will announce the winner on Wednesday afternoon. Also, the bundle of products will keep growing throughout the weekend as more fantastic teachers donate their wonderful products. If you wish to donate a product link it below. 32. Telling time to rhyme:hickory dickory dock a Rafflecopter giveaway Best of luck! Christine

Thank you to everyone who participated in my Linky Giveaway! Here are the winners: (1)Habitat Unit: Simon Perkin of Oddball Science (2)Shamrock Shenannigans: Heather Nance of Heathers Heart (3)Insect Invasion: Erin Blecki of Creating and teaching Congratulations!!!!

Hello All, I was so excited to recieve an email this morning with a nomination for the most fascinating blog of 2012! How amazing! This is so great, I am honored and hope that you will take a moment to vote for me! And just a reminder.... I only need 14 more followers before the big giveaway, a TpT unit for every member!!!!! I am planning on doing this giveaway for every 100 members on my blog so spread the word! Till next time, Christine

Hello Followers, So the business of this week has me spinning in circles, enough so that I totally forgot to post the winner of this month's giveaway. The winner of my Under-the-Sea-Ocean-Themed-Math-and-Literacy-Unit  is Connie Jeppesin over at Creating Kinders. Congratulations Connie!

     Tomorrow is the big day! I will be giving away another free unit to one of my lucky members! I have decided to change the unit to my new Under-the-Sea-Ocean-Themed-Math-and-Literacy-Unit  (you can preview this 132 page unit by clicking on the link)      Not only does it fit well with the end of the year but I am so proud of how it turned out that I just have to share it!      Thank you for being fantastic teachers, spread the word about my monthly giveaway and my 100th member giveaway where EVERYONE will recieve a free unit!

Now that I am more than half way to 100 followers I figure it is about time to announce my giveaway! Now brace yourselves this is going to be HUGE! Once I have 100 followers who leave their email address in a comment attached to this post I will email EVERYMEMBER a unit from my TpT store. As a default I will send my Insect Invasion unit, however if this is not a unit you could use or you already own it leave a note of which unit you would like. If you are already a member please leave your email in a comment linked to this post!!! So now you are wondering what the catch is (at least I would be at this point): 1. Leave your email, blog address and name in a comment on this post with your desired TpT Unit 2. Follow me here and on TPT 3. Download a free TpT file and leave a comment 3. Post on your blog about this giveaway, spread the word to coworkers, homeschoolers and Moms of Pre-K kiddos That's it, this is my way of saying Thank You for being wonderful followe...

Hello Everyone,      It is giveaway time again, this month's prize goes to Christi Squires. She has won my Bug-Jar-Math Unit from TpT. She will enjoy 39 pages of bug themed counting activities including 1-10 bug jars for counting and one to one coorespondence, worksheets, sorting mats and more. Thank you all for being followers! Next months giveaway is: Frog-Fun-Math-Centers  (I changed it to a larger and more recent unit!) Frog fun math centers contains nine printable centers and practice worksheets for your pre-k to 1st grade students. Included centers teach and review: time, number words to 50, patterns, addition, subtraction, greater than, less than and equal to,non-satndard measurement and more. You can view some of my students work from this unit here on my blog under the posts: Tips for teaching number word recognition Clothespin color matching, counting and addition center Why teach non-standard measurement? Teaching time and clock concepts in Pr...

This months giveaway is my Bug-Jar-Math  unit from TpT! Currently my best seller! Join my blog for a chance to win! Below are details of what is included in the great unit: This is a set of Math Mats that help kids learn numbers, counting, one to one correspondence, patterning, sorting, colors, number recognition and order, visual discrimination, math vocabulary and various other math concepts. Use groups of bugs to teach skip counting. Use the sorting mats to assess sorting skills. Use the skills worksheets for extra practice. This set includes everything you need to do a unit on numbers 1-10 with insects/ bugs. Included are: 10 jar mats with 1-10 bugs inside for counting and matching (one to one coorespondence) 10 jar mats with the number above for counting 3 pages of bugs for completing everything in the packet 1 page of extension ideas 5 sorting mats with 4 jars each with 1 bug in each jar 1 matching worksheet, cut and paste the correct bug 1 size order works...

Teacher Tam is the winner of this month's TpT unit giveaway. She has won my Woodland Winter Math and Literacy Unit. This unit is filled with ideas for math and literacy centers as well as printables and a shared reader. Check it out on TpT at Woodland Winter Unit