tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51988180554434444212024-03-13T20:13:12.778-07:00Claudia's ClassroomClaudiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15484465368927707174noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198818055443444421.post-7067471925676235722016-11-21T02:37:00.004-08:002016-11-21T02:37:57.490-08:00Happy Birthday to Me! (Weekly $25 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi guys,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've got 2 days of Parent-Teacher Conferences to get through this week and then a half-day on Wednesday, but it'll all be worth it come Thursday! Not only is Thursday Thanksgiving, but it's also my birthday! Yup, every couple of years it'll land on the big day!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So in light of my upcoming birthday, what better way to show my appreciation to all of my followers than by having a giveaway? Enter for your chance to win a $25 Teachers Pay Teachers gift card! Read on for details on how you can win!</span></span><br />
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Claudiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15484465368927707174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198818055443444421.post-80084348021490850012016-11-14T04:00:00.000-08:002016-11-14T13:37:24.956-08:00$25 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hi Guys! I hope you've all settled in nicely this school year. It has been a little crazy for me, switching grade levels and all, but I finally feel like I'm starting to get a handle on things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we get closer to Thanksgiving, what better way to show my appreciation to all of my followers than by having a giveaway? Enter for your chance to win a $25 Teachers Pay Teachers gift card! Read on for details on how you can win!</span><br />
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Claudiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15484465368927707174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198818055443444421.post-19020108638826982542016-08-02T20:09:00.000-07:002016-08-02T20:38:14.276-07:00Winner Wednesday! - August Edition: Lightboxes in the Classroom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This month, it's all about lightboxes! If you've been on
social media at all this summer, then you know that these<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.heidiswappstore.com/default.aspx?PageID=1005&CategoryID=930&ProductID=15993&RootCatCode=09000" target="_blank">Heidi Swapp Lightboxes</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are all the rage! So much so, in
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, yes I jumped on the lightbox bandwagon, but now what?
Well, now I needed lots of pretty little things to put<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>in to</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>my lightbox. And while Heidi
Swapp offers lots of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.heidiswappstore.com/default.aspx?PageID=1006&CategoryID=930" target="_blank">adorable accessories</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for her lightbox, I'm a firm believer
in making things myself if I can. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem
spending a buck or two if it's worth it, but if I know that I can do it myself,
I always give it a shot. And so... I did.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were some other amazing TpT sellers offering lightbox
products and then I came across a how-to tutorial from Lori over at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://livelaughlovesecond.blogspot.com/2016/06/lightboxes-how-to-make-your-own-slides.html?spref=pi" target="_blank">Live, Laugh, Love Second</a>. So with
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So low and behold, I created my first (and best selling!)</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lightbox-Designs-Back-to-School-2611767" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Lightbox Design Set</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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You'll need either transparency sheets (you know, like the kind that we
used to use on the old overhead projectors) or printable vellum. I've
used both and they both work just fine. The only thing I will say is that
the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><a href="http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/521312/Apollo-Quick-Dry-Universal-Inkjet-Transparency/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">transparency sheets</a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">can be a little expensive and the
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purposes and functionality, they both worked the same (in my opinion). I
was fortunate enough to get some transparency sheets from a friend and I bought
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now while that's all well and good, it was also very EXPENSIVE! I still wanted to give my students <i>something </i>but I didn't want to spend a fortune doing it. I also wanted to be sure that the gift I gave them would be something they could use more than once, not something that they would just throw out after a few days. So, I thought to myself, what would be something useful that the kids can use during those hot summer days? And then it hit me - water bottles! I did some searching on Pinterest (of course) and I came across <a href="http://polkadottedteacher.blogspot.com/2012/05/goodbye-class-of-2011-2012.html?showComment=1338243028033" target="_blank">this</a> pin from The Polka-dotted Teacher. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I opted not to give the kiddos the Kool-Aid packets, however.</span></div>
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amazing! I gave them two days to work on it and it was due the morning of
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went to Party City and picked up some adorable gift boxes. They came in so many different colors! I settled on these four.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, raise your hand if this has ever happened to you. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You buy a fresh pack of pencils, you're all excited (don't deny it, you know you are!) and you begin to sharpen them, when:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So you went through all that trouble to sharpen your batch of shiny, new pencils and if that's not bad enough, one of these scenarios will inevitably happen:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Any of this sound all too familiar? Yeah, I thought so. I've tried it all, trust me! I've tried electric sharpeners, countless hand-held ones, I've tried having the cute "Sharp" and "Dull" pencil buckets, the "no sharpening pencils during a lesson" rule and still, there's always a sharpener issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then, I started to see all these blog posts and pins about "<a href="http://www.classroomfriendlysupplies.com/" target="_blank">The Quietest Classroom Sharpener</a>" and everyone was saying how great it was. Being a school supply junkie, I naturally had to check it out. At first glance, It just looked like a regular pencil sharpener, except it comes in all of these cute colors! (You know how much teachers love cute colors!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They could barely contain themselves when I showed them our new sharpener. All I heard was a sea of "oohs" and "ahhs".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We started off by reading two different passages about Thedor Seuss Geisel. You can get the passages <a href="http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2014/02/theme-and-inference-in-dr-seuss.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Close-Reading-March-1699309" target="_blank">here</a>. The children made some annotations in the margins as they read. Next, I assigned a specific paragraph to each group. I asked them to focus on their paragraphs and they each took turns presenting them to the class; telling us why that paragraph was important and whether or not they had any questions about what they had read. The children did this for both of the passages. Lastly, we compared and contrasted the two texts and discussed their similarities and differences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We recently celebrated our 100th day of school! Being that this is my first year in 5th grade, I didn't really know if the kids would still be interested in this. But, I hung up my trusty "Days in School" sign in September and began the countdown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It wasn't until we started approaching the 90-day mark that I started to hear some chatter from my kiddos. The sign is located on the whiteboard in the back of my room, by my classroom door. This is where my kids line up as they're getting ready to go to their next class. Lately I would hear comments like "We're half-way through." or "Only 8 more days to go, guys!" Then, the day before, I heard lots of gasping followed by comments like, "Tomorrow's the hundredth day!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I took my cue from their excitement and started to plan some 100th Day fun! Naturally, I turned to <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/claudiabd226/100th-day-of-school/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> for some inspiration but I found many of the activities to be a bit "young" for my fifth graders...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fifth graders are tricky because they're still "young" enough to enjoy the little things, but then there's the occasional one who's "too cool" for all of this. So I knew I wanted to do something, but I also I knew I would have my work cut out for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, during what seemed to be an endless search of pins, I came across <a href="http://www.733blog.com/2015/01/100-days-of-school-glow-bracelet/" target="_blank">this</a> pin and it got the whole ball rolling!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally, the 100th day had arrived! I came in early that day and got to work decorating my classroom door and entry way and setting their "100 Days Brighter" tags on their desks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To my delight, I was greeted by surprised looks and smiling faces as my kiddos walked in that morning. They were <i>so</i> happy to see the room decorated and the little tokens on their desks. They put the glow bracelets on right away and started shouting out the color of their bracelets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As the day went on, we did a few more activities. We started off with a little Mad Lib-type of activity. The kids really enjoyed doing this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later, we took a quick brain break and did 100 exercise moves. There's nothing better than watching a bunch of 10 and 11 year olds get out of their seats, jump around and get to act like kids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We ended our 100th Day with an AWESOME activity from </span><a href="http://www.rundesroom.com/2014/02/celebrating-100-days.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Runde's Room</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. When I saw this, I just knew I had to do this with my kids. It starts out with a really cute writing prompt about what their lives are like when they're 100 years old. But the best part??? The picture that goes with their writing prompt! She found an awesome app that "ages" the kids' pictures and produces a new photograph of them looking "old". It's hysterical! My kiddos had a blast looking at all of their "old" pictures. And bonus - it makes an amazing bulletin board display!</span></div>
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