Monday, April 11, 2011

Giveaways Galore!

If you like cute things, I know you will love this ADORABLE burlap door hanger created by the talented LeAnn Cox of Rustic Chic!  {She is the wonderful and talented parent of one of my first graders from last year! :)}  LeAnn was sweet enough to give me one of her beautiful egg door hangers to giveaway to one LUCKY reader!  {Plus, she gave me one to keep for myself.  Woo hoo!}  I know you want one of these darling things for yourself, so here is how you can win one:

1.  Become a follower of First Grader...at Last!
2.  Follow my TpT store (I don't have much there yet, still a work in progress)!
3.  Leave me a comment telling me about your favorite spring project/idea!
4.  Leave a comment telling me which one(s) of these you have done!

This giveaway will end Thursday at 10:00 p.m.!  Good luck my friends!  Thanks again for reading and for all of your wonderful help and encouragement!

If you don't win, and feel kind of sad...please contact LeAnn to order one of these for yourself! leanncox (at) bellsouth (dot) net!  You can also visit www.twinkieboutique.com.

Also...I told you, GIVEAWAYS GALORE... another sweet teacher friend out there is having a giveaway on her blog!  Katie, from Queen of the First Grade Jungle is giving away a cool planet book and a free copy of my "Adventures in Space" astronaut journal!  You should visit her great blog to enter!  {I was so honored that she wanted to giveaway something I made!   Exciting!}

96 comments:

  1. I follow your blog! That egg would look so cute hanging outside my classroom door......

    Cindy
    ccfirstteacher@gmail.com

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  2. You're on my "faves" list at Tpt! :o)

    Cindy
    ccfirstteacher@gmail.com

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  3. I follow your blog and tpt store.

    Cheryl
    Primary Graffiti

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  4. I follow your TPT store :)

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  5. I love to have my students make flower book reviews in the spring. They take a flower template and then fill it up with title, author, characters, setting, plot, and favorite part. Then we add some glitter and hang them from the window blinds.

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  6. I follow First Grader...at Last! ;-)
    valerie.balbaugh@sville.us

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  7. I follow your TpT! :)
    valerie.balbaugh@sville.us

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  8. I love sprouting flower and bean seeds in my window for our plant unit. I also LOVE teaching about butterflies and doing hand print art to show the life cycle of a butterfly.
    valerie.balbaugh@sville.us

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  9. I just wanted to let you know...I did each of those aforementioned things...but also wanted to tell you that I made a "Sight Word Candy Land" for my classroom earlier this year when I saw your idea. My sweet little Kinders LOVE it and want to play it all day every day! :-)
    valerie.balbaugh@sville.us

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  10. Hi Sarah! Thank you for letting us know about the giveaway! I am a brand new follower to your blog!

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  11. I am also a new follower on your TpT store.

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  12. My current favorite spring project idea is a school garden! Our sixth graders have studied different growing techniques and just built several gardens for herbs, fruits, and vegetables. We hope to donate these items to local food banks and to restaurants that promote sustainable living.

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  13. I just started following your blog last week! One of my favorite things to do this time of year is to have my firsties make a Power Point. After "researching" an animal of their choice they create a little slide show with 5 slides. I'm always amazed at how great they turn out. Here's a link to my classroom website where you can see their Power Points (the site is nothing fancy--just a school site).

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  14. I follow your blog and TpT store!

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  15. My favorite spring activities are anything with plastic eggs! Each week this month I have a different activity to go along with our skill. Last week we did a sight word scramble, this week contractions, and next week compound words!

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  16. I follow your blog, and it is my absolute favorite! You inspired me to start my own blog!

    Mary
    www.adventures-in-kindergarten.blogspot.com

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  17. I now follow your TpT store :)

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  18. I love your blog! I like to grow grass seed in pantyhose in a small clear plastic cups. As the hair grows the students can add hair accessories or give them a trim!

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  19. I follow your blog.
    Tam118dans@gmail.com

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  20. I am a follower of yours for your TpT store.
    Tam118dans@gmail.com

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  21. I have made the grass people as well as daffodils using paper cups painted yellow and flower petal made from construction paper! (very cute hanging in the hallway mounted on blue const paper!)

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  22. My favorite Spring activity is to raise butterflies in our classroom. My sweet little ones LOVE observing the caterpillars grow and change, and then releasing the butterflies at the end. We observe the changing creatures every day using magnifying glasses, developing vocabulary and learning how to label. I love my little budding scientists!

    Mary
    www.adventures-in-kindergarten.blogspot.com

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  23. I like doing spring items for my bulletin board. We usually start out with flowers and then add each week until we get a full spring bulletin board by May.
    Tam118dans@gmail.com

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  24. I have done all the items you requested.
    Tam118dans@gmail.com

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  25. I follow your fabulous blog!

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  26. I follow your blog!

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  27. I follow your Tpt store!

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  28. My favorite spring activity is learning about oviparus animals! We create a list, write sentences and make an art project with an animal thta hatched from an egg

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  29. I follow both First Grader at Last! and your TpT site. So exciting.
    I have my kids make an Easter Hat parade. I give them a people cut out and then the kids use fabric, glitter, cute paper, and whatever else we find to decorate their person and make fancy hats for them. We do a small parade in our classroom and then I hang the people in the hall for a lasting parade. My kids love it.

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  30. I love hatching butterflies and doing symmetry and life c ycles.

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  31. I LOVE making symmetrical butterflies with paint, reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and watching caterpillars transform right in our classroom!!

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  32. My kiddos love the sight work Candy Land game I made from an idea from your blog. . .did vocab words on Chutes and Ladders.

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  33. I have been following your blog for a long time! :)

    http://thesilverlininginteaching.blogspot.com/

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  34. I am a new follower of your TPT store!

    http://thesilverlininginteaching.blogspot.com/

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  35. Here are a few of my favorite spring/easter ideas: I love to buy those colorful pin-wheels at the dollar store and put a word family in the middle, then write letters on the sides. My kids have loved spinning the pin-wheel to see what words they can make. I am also planning to put sight words with each letter cut apart inside of easter eggs for the week before Easter. The kids can "crack" open the egg, and unscramble the words. Then, record them or use them in a sentence.

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  36. Oh, and I follow your blog! I pretty much check it once a week, if not more!! Thanks for all your inspiration.

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  37. I love the egg! Does she have a site where she sells them?

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  38. Hi, I'm a follower of yours! Thanks for the opportunity! Thanks, Nancy


    The Apple Basket Teacher

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  39. I like to have the students make 8 1/2 x11 chalk eggs with black paper egg shaped frame!
    Thanks, Nancy

    The Apple Basket Teacher

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  40. I follow your blog! Love it!

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  41. I also follow your TpT store

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  42. My favorite Spring activities have to be the life cycles. There is just nothing like seeing those beaming Kinder eyes when ladybugs, butterflies, and ducks hatch, frogs grow, and their "Very Hairy Caterpillars" sprout!

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  43. I'm a follower,

    Jenna
    fancyinfirst.blogspot.com

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  44. Woo Hoo!!! I follow your blog!!!

    Vickie Heydenreich

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  45. I also follow on Teachers Pay Teachers!!

    Vickie Heydenreich

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  46. I love your blog and am a follower.

    Ms. M
    www.msk1ell.blogspot.com

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  47. This week we are making a topiary with our first graders using peeps and a flower pot! Love it:)

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  48. Love the 'Qu' Quints! I have seen Qu in several ways, this was new and great! Love it!

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  49. I follow your blog! Love it!

    Elizabeth
    ehodges@sd251.org

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  50. I am a follower of your blog and LOVE it!

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  51. My favorite spring project is teaching about the life cycle of a butterfly and creating butterfly art! FUN!!

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  52. I follow your blog! Such fun stuff!

    Cori
    http://pencilsandcrayonsandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/

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  53. I also follow your TpT store.

    Cori
    http://pencilsandcrayonsandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/

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  54. I am following your blog!
    kellybbrown@gaston.k12.nc.us

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  55. I am following your TPT store!
    kellybbrown@gaston.k12.nc.us

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  56. My favorite spring activity is when we create our reports on animals that live in North Carolina! They love art and working with different mediums.

    kellybbrown@gaston.k12.nc.us

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  57. That sack is the cutest thing ever- so jealous! :)

    Happy Tuesday!

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  58. Well, your blog is a part of my favorites page as well as your TpT page :) Your stuff is too too cute! Keep your great ideas coming! My facvorite spring activity is our unit on insects. The kids get so excited :)

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  59. I follow your blog!! LOVE it!!

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  60. I also follow your TpT store!!

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  61. My of my favorite spring activities is making raindrops by cutting blue paper into shapes and gluing inside a raindrop template and then adding flowers under the raindrops in the same way! They always turn out so unique and are very colorful under the raindrops.

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  62. I follow your blog and love all your fabulous ideas!!!

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  63. One of my favorite spring projects is the life cycle of a butterfly :)

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  64. I am a follower of your blog.

    Stephanie

    MrsKellysKindergarten
    stephaniekelly03@gmail.com

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  65. I follow your TPT store.

    Stephanie

    MrsKellysKindergarten
    stephaniekelly03@gmail.com

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  66. I follow your blog and love it!

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  67. I also follow your TpT store, keep up the great work.

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  68. My favorite spring activity is creating a change of seasons mural using the apple tree. Students are placed in groups of four (1 for each season) and each member is responsible for painting an apple tree at each stage of growth during the seasons. The students get to show off their art work, whether or not they remember their science lesson from months ago, and their cooperative skills.

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  69. I'm following your Tpt store, but I'm having a hard time of becoming an official follower on blogger. It won't let me add you! Either way, you're on my favorites list on my computer!!

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  70. One Spring project my team is taking on is to do a service learning project with a local city beautification organization. We're focusing on trash clean up and will clean up the parks around our school next week on Earth Day. We'll also have a speaker come in to talk about recycling, reusing and being good stewards of the Earth. I plan to use some of the great Earth day materials my blogger friends have shared, too!

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  71. I follow your blog and TPT store! My favorite Spring activity is the frame we make for Mother's Day. The children take so much time to make them just right and then wrap them. So sweet!

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  72. I love you blog and your tpt store! I am a follower and you help me so much with my creativity!

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  73. I follow your TPT Store! I ♥love, ♥love, ♥love your Bossy E and gave it 4 stars!
    ~Fern
    Fern Smith’s Classroom Ideas!

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  74. I love making "March, In like a lion, out like a lamb"
    Here's the poem...
    In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb

    March roars in like a lion
    So fierce,
    The wind so cold,
    It seems to pierce.

    The month rolls on
    And Spring draws near,
    And March goes out
    Like a lamb so dear.

    We then have the boys make lions and the girls make lambs and then I hang them in the room back to back so as they spin in the AC a lion is coming in on one side and out on the other side...They ♥love it!


    ~Fern
    Fern Smith’s Classroom Ideas!

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