Winner! Winner! ummm...Turkey Dinner!!!

Whoo! Hoo!  Thanksgiving was great.... I have so much to be thankful for and I have loads of GREAT news.  My friends, family, co-workers, students and their families are true blessings.  I have been selling products on Teacher's Notebook and Teachers Pay Teachers to raise funds for a classroom carpet.   YEAH!!! My project from Donors Choose is finally funded!!! I also wanted to announce the winners of my 200 Follower give-away.

Congratulations to:

Katie Brown -  Fantastic Fables Mini-Unit

Lynda - Context Clues Bumdle

Tena Halter - Reader's Notebook

Kym Braaten -  $25 Target Giftcard

It seems like I've been going a mile a minute for the past two months.  I haven't been blogging very much lately with so much going on. I am so thankful for my all the inspirational bloggers and my  followers.  I hope you've all had a wonderful Thanksgiving :0)

Bada-Bing! The Magical Product Swap, a FREEBIE and a Giveaway!

Jessica at Mrs. Stanford’s Class blog hosted a product swap and I am here to show you the fun product I got to review.  I was able to swap products with the wonderful Heather Perkins at Second Grade Perks. She has some really great products at her TPT Store - Check  em' out.  The product she swapped with me was her Word of the Day unit.

This unit is a very useful tool to help enlarge student vocabulary.  Since I teach at a Title I school, I'm always looking for ways to build schema and increase student vocabulary.  It was easy to incorporate into Daily5/CAFE because my students are already working on collecting words.

Heather's Vocabulary packet really spells out how use her unit.

  She introduces 2 words on Tuesday and Thursday and students work on vocabulary for homework.  Every Friday students have a vocabulary quiz.

We have a word collector board with flip cards for student generated
vocabulary.

As we introduced the words I had the kids create a card that has a picture and definition of each new vocabulary word.

We also have a large class word collector book where we add the word of the day.  Students also have their writing journals with a word collector section where they keep these words to use in their writing.

Click HERE to get the vocabulary flip cards as a FREEBIE!

To celebrate the product swap and 200 Followers you can enter below for a chance to win one of several products from my store or a Target Gift Card.

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