Milestone Celebration + Sunday Scoop 12-27

I am SO excited to announce that I have hit the first TpT milestone! To celebrate, I am throwing a sale- 10% off EVERYTHING from Monday- Monday. So, browse my store , get your wish list ready, and don't forget to save $$$$ starting tomorrow! 

If anyone reading this is debating on whether they should open a store- stop the debating and open one right this second. :D I never in a million years thought I would ever hit the first milestone when I opened my store (about) 19 months ago. 

If you have reservations, questions, or need some help -- email me: 

Brooke.L.patterson@gmail.com

I am excited to link up with The Teaching Trio for Sunday Scoop again! I haven't had a chance to in way too long. 

HAVE-TOs: The major have-to on the list is to work out.. Those holiday pounds have GOT.TO.GO! Who else is with me?!  

HOPE-TOs: I officially have one more week of Christmas vacation. AH! I want to spend this week relaxing and gearing up for the second half of the year. 

HAPPY-TO: As a HUGE thank you to all of you- I am so happy to throw my milestone sale!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. I also hope that many of you still have another week or so to relax! 

Thankful for YOU linky!

Well friends, we survived the week before Thanksgiving. If that isn't something to be thankful for- I don't know what is. Other than that major accomplishment, I have so many other things to be thankful for. I owe a huge thank you to the teachers out there that have shown support through TpT, Facebook, instagram and my blog! The kind words and feedback you have given me have not gone unnoticed.  I am just oh-so thankful for you! 

What's free from my store: 

December Writing Prompts- My Decemeber writing prompts are the perfect addition to your writing center or early finisher work. These are normally $3.00!

Story Structure Posters and Graphic Organizers- I use these posters constantly during small groups throughout the year. 

Thanksgiving Activity and Writing Prompts- Even though most of us are out of school until Thanksgiving is over, I wanted to throw in a festive freebie. :) 

Here's how it works for TPT sellers: 
1. From NOW until Thanksgiving Day make one (or more!) of your products FREE! 
2. Add your link below. This can be a link to a blog post or directly to TpT. 

**If you are downloading- please follow and leave feedback on the downloaded product of the TpT seller **

FALL GIVEAWAY

It's been awhile! The chaos of the beginning of school school has finally somewhat-not-really settled down..I'm happy to be back, but I'm making this short and sweet.

Help me welcome Cathy from Miss P's Pre-K Pups into the wonderful network of teachers!  She is my greatest teaching mentor and she finally opened her very own TpT store. To celebrate, we are hosting a GIVEAWAY! One lucky teacher will win 2 wonderful Fall products for their classroom!

**BY COMMENTING AND LIKING THE  POST ON FACEBOOK, YOU WILL RECEIVE 5 BONUS ENTRIES!**

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Pool Party Blog Hop!

The wonderful Celeste from The Education Highway put together one huge birthday celebration! She's kicking off the pool party by this blog hop offering TONS of ideas, recipes and best of all.. FREEBIES!! 

Being the smart cookie that she is, she put together this ebook where you can easily access all of the TPT sellers's social network! << Click the picture below to download. >> 

Have your kids keep track of all of the words they know with this FREE SIGHT WORD BOOK! [click here to download from TPT store] They can even use it during the summer. I have a feeling this could keep them busy during road trips.. ;) 

I'm planning on making these magician wands with my summer campers this week. How cute and- (more importantly) easy to make are these?! I found them on Terrific 2s Blog!

I'm dangerously posting the recipe to this amazing pizza dip. I had this recently at a party and it is so simple and delicious! If this doesn't make your mouth water, I just don't know what will.  

Now... GIVEAWAY TIME! You could win credit to my store plus credits to MANY other TPT stores!

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HOP ON TO THE OTHER BLOGGERS NOW! Click the Link-Up Link below>>

An InLinkz Link-up

Currently..

Isn't it aMAYzing it's already May??? I'm linking up with Oh Boy 4th Grade to talk about what I am currently up to. 

Listening: to Grey's Anatomy.. This has been MY SHOW for months now. I can't believe I'm just now getting into it after all these years! Every emotion you can think of you will get from this show. I may have a hard time accepting what happens in the recent episodes... but I'll cross the bridge when I get there. 

Loving: I don't know about you, but the weather in Louisiana is beautiful right now! Last week was very rainy which made me in a bad mood (obviously).. But now we are finally getting some sunny skies. :) 

Thinking: Well, after I filled in the last 3 spots I think it's obvious what I'm thinking about... (other than my way too long to-do list) THE BEACH

Wanting: The beach.. 

 Needing: The beach... 

Summer: THE BEACH!! The countdown to the start of my summer/ beach vacation begins! Only 10 more days for me! 

This weekend I had time to figure out what I'm doing for my end of the year party.-EEK! If you are in need of snacks/ party favors to celebrate an AWESOME year, look no further! Print these FREE labels out, attach them to a bag of popcorn (cheap!) and hand them out to your parents and students. I also included labels to say "Thanks for a POPPIN' year!"

 Easy, inexpensive and cute!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!

I'm going to pair the popcorn party favors up with my END OF THE YEAR AWARDS to make it extra special for my kids. 

500 FOLLOWER CELEBRATION!

Woohoooo! I reached the big five-double-zero followers on TPT! What?! I cannot thank all of you enough. To express my gratitude, I am having a major giveaway with over 70 amazing TPTers participating!  

 This giveaway will end MONDAY NIGHT and is broken up into 5 categories: Pre-K to Kindergarten, 1st Grade to 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade to 5th Grade, Middle- High School and Special Education. And guess what? You can enter all FIVE giveaways if you'd like! The donations include: Winner's choice and specific products. Each pack also includes Winner's Choice of 2 items from my My TpT Store. 
For Winner's Choice items: It is ultimately up to the seller, but generally, you should pick only ONE item that is under $5. They will contact you when the winners are announced!


Let's get this giveaway goin'! Enter as many giveaways as you'd like!

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Thanks so so so much for celebrating with me! I am thrilled with the support from all of you. The winners will be notified within 48 hours. Good luck to all of you!

It's been forever!

WOW! I need to get better about blogging during the year! I'm sorry I've been MIA for quite some time, but I'm back to bloggin'. :) I thought Doodle Bugs Teaching Five for Friday would be the perfect opportunity to catch up on everything that has been going on in my classroom and share some [FREEBIES] with you!

I got to do some spring cleaning on my PINTEREST and update the covers! I felt bad for everyone who was following my at the time because of the constant cover updates.. yikes sorry! 

This water cycle activity was so much fun to do with my students. They completely grasped the concept too. It is so simple. 

You will need: ziploc bags, sharpies, tape and water annnnnd that's it! 

I let each student have a bag, but you can do one for the whole class. Condensation forms in the bag and runs down the side (precipitation). I have also seen teachers put food coloring in the water, which is an awesome idea that I wish we would have done! The students wrote the diagram of the water cycle on their bag. After the water was poured into their bag, we hung them on our window. 

Are your students in need of some writing motivation? I 'm always trying to find small ways to make writing more enjoyable for those students who struggle. I came up with this idea as we were covering informative writing where the students had to research different topics. I glued these labels onto folders and gave them to my students for their weekly writing. It keeps them organized and makes them feel like even smarter researchers! You can grab Researcher Labels for FREE! by clicking HERE. I would love to see how you incorporate them in your classroom!

I started uploading JOURNEYS READING SERIES for 2nd Grade supplemental packets! I'm getting myself prepared for next year and hope to help other teachers using this reading curriculum. If you use it, what do you think about it? What do you like? What do you dislike? I can use your comments to help create the supplemental activities. :) 

View my JOURNEYS products here while they are 20% off! [this weekend only]

View the packets individually: 

Lesson 1 Henry and Mudge

Lesson 2 My Family

Lesson 3 Dogs

Hopefully I will have all of Unit 1 uploaded soon!

Last thing- another FREEEEEEEEBIE! Your students can practice building their own flowers using my Parts of a Flower Freebie from my TPT store! Enjoy! 

Whew! I'm happy to be back!