End of the Year Timeline Banner

Happy Monday!

Are you ready for the BIG SALE starting on TpT tomorrow?  I get all nervous and excited at the same time. Do I have everything I need in my cart?  Wasn't there something else I wanted? Oh no! The clock says I only have 56 hours left!

It's a bit ridiculous.  I just really like to be stocked for the end of the year.  Up here where I live, we still have 6 weeks left...30 days...too many hours and minutes!

One thing I am looking forward to is my End of the Year Banner {plus printables!}. I know it's going to be one of those activities my students LOVE, but I feel comfortable with because I'm still hitting the standards at the same time!

This product is designed to be used at least two ways.

There are larger bunting flags that can be used to make a classroom timeline.  I plan on pairing my students up and assigning them each a month. Then we'll display it on our hallway bulletin board.

There are flags with lines, if you want to have your students write in more detail about the timeline event.

There are also smaller bunting flags that your students can use to create their own timeline to take home.  What a wonderful keepsake from their school-year!

There are also R/LA and Math Summer Themed printables which will come in super handy those last few days of school!

This banner is great for grades K-6, but the printables are best suited for grades 1-3.

Here's a look at the WHOLE unit:

Grab your own Timeline Banner by clicking the picture below:

Or....You can win this unit on my FB page, but hurry, the giveaway ends at 9pm EST!

And don't forget about the Teacher Appreciation Sale tomorrow! Happy Shopping!! Go stock those carts!!

Button courtesy of Amy Lemons

Halle

Where I've Been (plus a giveaway!!)

Boy, oh boy, has it been quite a while since I logged into blogger and published a post!  Some of you have been so kind to think of me and email me to make sure everything is alright...

...and yes, everything is alright! Everything is more than alright!

You may have already caught  a glimpse of my news on Instagram, but I am so excited to announce that my husband and I are expecting our first bundle of joy in September!

It was a long road getting to this point. We struggled with infertility for close to a year before we were finally blessed with the wonderful news that I was indeed pregnant!  Our journey to "expectant-hood" was an exhausting and overwhelming one, and I found myself putting blogging and creating on the back burner more and more as the months wore on.

Then we got pregnant, and well, I was so darn excited and wrapped up in it that, again, blogging and TpT just weren't a priority.  I was still writing down ideas for resources, and I still managed to get a Facebook post or two together, and amazingly I even created a resource, but most of my free time was (and still is) going towards pregnancy blogs, books, and nursery ideas.

Even more of my time has gone towards doctor's appointments. Because of a medical diagnosis I've had since I was very young, I am considered high-risk.  Well, according to my doctor, "on the low end of high-risk."  I feel fortunate to get extra monitoring, but I've never been to the doctor's so much in my entire life!

I'm writing this post because I finally feel like I am at a point in my pregnancy (20 weeks and counting!!) where I am ready to put more attention towards blogging (I've missed sharing and DISCOVERING great ideas and resources) and creating. I don't think I'll ever have the drive I had at the beginning and that's okay with me!

On our "baby moon" last week :)

In honor of my exciting news and my return to the blogosphere, I am giving away a copy of my Mother's Day craft "My Heart Blooms for Mom".  My students loved creating their little flower pots last year and I am excited to do the craft with them this year!  And I'm so looking forward to receiving a few (TpT inspired, I'm sure) Mother's Day crafts of my own a few years down the road!

Check it out here

Winning is easy, all you have to do is comment below with your email.  I'll announce a winner this evening on my Facebook page!

Thank you again to all of you who checked in on me!  It felt nice being missed ;)

~Halle

A "Silly" Freebie

Are you celebrating a certain Dr.'s birthday this week?

We are, and I can't wait to share pictures of all the fun stuff we're doing to celebrate!

I have a fun freebie for you to throw in with all your other festive Seussy-stuff!

It's called "Silly Parts of Speech"

 It's not actually all that silly. But I'm not allowed to use a certain author's name in my products!

This freebie is great as a hallway hunt. read the room, or center activity!

Students read the words on the cards and decide what part of speech the word is.

Adjectives. adverbs, nouns, and verbs are all covered in this Hallway Hunt, as is a recording sheet.

You can grab it for free from my Facebook page. Just make sure you're a fan!

I hope you can use it in your room this week :)

~Halle