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I'm starting to go through my plans for the beginning of the year and I found a bunch of things that I want to add to my blog... and many of them I'll be adding as freebies!  Soo... here's the first freebie!  Years ago I learned the first verse of this song from a preschool teacher at my previous job.  So, my first year teaching Kindergarten, I obviously used it a LOT with my kiddos.  I was absolutely amazed when my students added new verses to the song!  That's right... my students wrote the second and third verses of this song !  I absolutely love how creative they were and I use all three verses with my students nowadays!  I added this file to TPT as a PowerPoint file so you can insert your own name into it, and I even embedded the font into the document so it should load up on your computer perfectly.  I haven't actually done the embedding before so I hope it works! Click the picture below to download the song! How do you get your kiddos to re...

I'm getting geared up for the beginning of the year and I decided to make some cutesy Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Handwriting pages!  You can click the picture below to grab it at TPT! Each of the pages has directions to help the kids write the letters.  I can't wait to do it with my kiddos, I think it will be a cute little booklet for them to keep! I'm so ready for the first week (even though it's not for a few more weeks)... even if I'm not ready for waking up at 5am!  Is everyone else getting ready for back to school or are you back in school already?  I find it so bizarre that across the U.S. we're all on different school schedules, but I guess it all works out somehow!  Even if it means we get to watch people talking about "5 days left" on their blog while we've still got 2 months left!  Right!?

All of this talk about back to school and the big TPT sale has really got me thinking about going back... even though it will be weeks before I actually go back (the kids start September 10, but obviously I'll be back in before then!)  Anyway... I was thinking about the book First Day Jitters and all the crazy emotions we feel before then... and I decided to make a quick little linky for it! Here are all of my back to school emotions!  I tried to focus on the positives!!! Here is the picture so you can link up... but be sure to read the rules !!! Rules for the Linky Party: Put your text over the picture above to talk about your back to school "jitters!"  If you're not sure how to put text over a picture, check out this link ! Use the HTML code at the top of this post to link back to the post! Comment on the two blog posts before yours! I'm excited to see what you link up!

My students always LOVE reading all of the No, David books by David Shannon, and I came up with a really fun activity for them to go along with the books... a puppet!  It's the perfect activity to introduce classroom management at the beginning of the school year! I included 10 different writing options... perfect for all of the elementary grades: David’s Body – without any text David’s Body – with Name/Date on arms and room for an illustration David’s Body – with large primary writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with medium primary writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with small primary writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with large primary writing lines, no room for a picture David’s Body – with medium primary writing lines, no room for a picture David’s Body – with small primary writing lines, no room for a picture David’s Body – with writing lines, no room for a picture ...

First things first... it's almost that time again!  No, I'm not talking about going back to school, I'm talking about the famous TPT back to school sale!!!  Get ready... because my entire TPT store will be on sale for 28% off (as will hundreds of other TPT stores)!  Fellow bloggers, feel free to use this image to promote your sale too!!! I had such a blast making that frame that I ended up making a whole set of back to school frames!  The frames have pencils, colored pencils, buses, and red, green, and yellow apples!  I just love how they came out! They're listed at TPT for $2, check them out at the picture below!