WINNER WEDNESDAY: KinderFarm

Winner, winner, chicken dinner! 

Welcome to Winner Wednesday!

We are so excited to be linking up with A Dab of Glue Will Do for these giveaways!
Stop by on the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month for your chance to win!



This month, we are thrilled to be giving away our "KinderFarm" unit!  For us, this is a class favorite!  These simple centers are perfect for the first of the year, with lots of easy, traceable activities!

Check out the preview on TPT!

Enter to win!
 

The winner will be chosen and announced tomorrow morning!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Congratulations, Tiffany!!!! We just sent you the prize!  Thank you so much to everyone who entered!!!!

Head over to A Dab of Glue Will Do to enter to win other amazing products!

 

 

 

Teacher Appreciation Blog Hop

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we wanted to share an Emergent Reader Freebie!  We hope this "Hodge Podge" of readers is useful to you and your students.  Thank you for the hard job you do, and the sacrifices you make every day for your kiddos!

If you like these, be sure to check out our other Emergent Readers!

Be sure to head over to LiveLoveServeTeach to grab the next freebie!

Also, we will be celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week, by holding a sale in our TPT store.  Our entire store will be 20% off, on May 5th and 6th!  Stop by and shop around.

Again, Happy Teacher Appreciation Week.  We hope you know the incredible impact you make by choosing to be an educator.  Here's a little "funny" to kick off your celebration week. 

Research Doesn't BUG Us!

 Learning about bugs doesn't BUG us.  We are having an absolute blast learning all about bugs and insects.



Our Kinders just LOVE to research on the internet.  However, we were uncomfortable allowing them on the internet without us sitting right next to them (and let's be honest, who can do that?)  That is, until we discovered the wonderful world of Symbaloo!!  It is an amazing website where you can gather your websites!  Kind of like a Pinterest board for websites!  We got right to work, and put a little insect Symbaloo page together for our kiddos to research!

If you are interested in having your students collect research in a similar way, head over to our TPT store to pick up this "buggy writing pack"!  *Click on the picture to take you there!

One of the greatest things about teaching kindergarten is our freedom to theme-teach.  Our students enjoy connecting with our theme, through math and literacy centers designed around it!  Our newest favorite activity is "This OR That?".  We needed a new way to check their learning, and a sweet friend suggested we create something where they have to read the word and identify it in pictures.  Our students have LOVED this new way of reading CVC words.  

If you are looking for supplemental math and reading activities, check out our "Don't BUG Me…" pack!  It's packed with fun, engaging activities.

This freebie has become an instant class favorite!  Maybe it's the slapping (with a fly swatter) the cards in a pocket chart, or maybe- the challenging their partner…either way, our students are loving this.  Stop by and pick up this freebie.  Let us know how you use it, if you grab it!

These readers are a fun, age-appropriate way to challenge students.  In this set, there are varied levels of readers; as well as, variations in the sight words to be practiced.  If you haven't checked out our Emergent Readers, take a minute to read the reviews to see if you think they may beneficial to you and your students.  

Thank you so much for stopping by our little blog!  Leave us a comment and share, with us, your favorite "bug" activity!

 

ZOO BUNDLE WINNERS!

Congrats to these ladies!  You ALL have won, and will receive our Zoo Bundle for FREE!!! 

Ladies, be sure to email us at markersandmascara@gmail.com so we can reply with your Zoo Bundle.

Thank you for your support and we hope this bundle will be useful to you and your students.  

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

ZOO GIVEAWAY!!!

 

 

 

 Grab a little "Luck of the Irish," and enter our giveaway for our ZOO Bundle! Check out the details above!  All you have to do is leave a comment!    



 You can enter on our blog, on facebook, on instagram, or on all three!!!!

Tag a friend, and they can win it with you!!!!

  Check out the products included in the giveaway!

 

 

 

We are heading to the ZOO for our Spring Field Trip in TWO weeks!!  Our kiddos LOVE to research zoo animals.  We spend time researching on the internet, through books, and with pictures! 

 

 

 

They also enjoy ZOO themed reading and math centers. They get so excited when they find their animal in the middle of a math center!

 

 

 

 

We are so excited to hear all of your ZOO themed ideas and look forward to announcing our winners next week!  

Happy 2015!

We are excited to be returning to work on Monday.  Our kinders don't come in until Wednesday, but we are ready to see their faces and start back with our daily routines.  We have been working hard to create tools that will help us prepare them for first grade…and we've decided to share two of our ActivInspire flip charts- for FREE!  

Click on the pictures to take you to our TPT store, where you can pick up our January MATH Whole Group Flip Chart and our Reading Whole Group Flipchart.

Our students love whole group time…almost as much as they love centers; so we thought your students may enjoy them, too.  *Our hope is that they help you cover many standards, and keep your students engaged.

We also are giving you one of our Writing centers for free!

If you download, and use, any of these three- please rate the product and leave us feedback.  If you enjoyed these freebies, and would like more- please take a look at these products we have for purchase in our store.

We have been talking about what a blessing you all (our blogging buddies) and TPT have done for us.  We never thought…in our wildest dreams…we would have met (well, seen on IG and FB) such kind, supportive friends.  We wish you all a ton of success this 2015 year.

Much love,

Holly Jolly Giftaway

Be sure to stop by our TPT store for the next seven days to pick up a Math or Literacy center each day!  We want to thank you for your support by giving away seven activities to help you make it through December, with ease!  Aiming to make your job easier and striving to provide you with engaging activities is very important to us.  We hope these seven freebies give your children fun ways to practice what they are learning! 

We're also participating in the Cyber Sale; so, take a look at our products before you miss the discounts!

We wish you happy holiday season!  Merry Christmas!