Seller Challenge Week 1 Day 1

I am SO excited to participate in a TpT Seller Challenge hosted by Third in Hollywood, Sparkling in Second, Zesty Teacherista, and Teach Create Motivate! (What a mouthful!).

For the next four weeks, other bloggers and sellers will be going through a boot camp of sorts to get our stores and blogs ready for the upcoming year. This week you will see a LOT of changes to not only my store, but literal HUNDREDS of other teachers' stores and blogs as well!

This week is Makeover Madness week! I have "makeover products" on my summer to-do list anyway, so this challenge is pushing me to get it done now!

I decided to start with one of my earliest products and one very dear to my heart: My teacher binder covers. I made these during my final internship in college for myself and two of my closest friends. There's the "Amanda Edition," the "Calli Edition," and the "Susannah Edition." I have gained a lot of knowledge and TOO MANY new clip art packs to not give this baby some attention! I started with my own "Amanda Edition" and plan on revamping the others this week as well!

This product went from THIS...

To THIS!

I kept the same feel for it, but it just feels so new and fresh! As I was creating the new covers, I got carried away and actually prepared an entirely NEW bundle pack! I started adding planning pages, and before I knew it, I had calendars, charts, and everything else you'll need to start the year off right!

AND the best news of all... I have both of these beauties on SALE this week during Makeover Madness Week! Click any of the images above or below to head to them now to check them out and snag a great deal!

Stay tuned for more Makeover Madness products, because my store is about to get a MAJOR facelift!

COVERS ONLY

BUNDLE

{Five for Friday} Jan. 24

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching this week for the {Five for Friday} linky! I'll post 5 random things that happened this week in the world of an intern in Kindergarten!

I finished my planning sheets and started using them. I like them a lot! Right now I am only in charge of planning for Math, but very soon I will be taking over the class, so I'll be filling these pages up! I may not actually have enough room for my big bubbly handwriting... Maybe it will give me an opportunity to practice smaller writing...

I love my pages. <3 

This week I had a lot of fun continuing with the kiddos' winter activities... even here in Florida. This week has been a COLD one. I know the 30 degree weather I'm having is not cold to some, but good grief! It is horrible for my Florida blood. This has been a long winter........

Anyway, we did a little activity with mittens in math this week and it was cute. The students learned the meaning of "predict" and made a prediction of how many of a chosen manipulative would fit in a mitten. They used dry erase worksheets (Yay laminating!) and then we counted how many actually would fit. They loved all counting at the same time as me to see how many would fit. I did this is small groups of about 4-5 kiddos. :) We then recorded the number of the actual amount that would fit and broke it down to how many tens and ones were in that number.

Then we tried a larger mitten. We all had a lot of fun with this center activity.

I LOVE it when kids don't think I'm watching and they do cute things like hold hands, hug, high five each other, etc. I adore it. Today was a strangely cuddly day for the kinders, I guess, because I saw it a LOT! I saw very unusual pairs of children holding hands and even dancing! On the playground today, a little girl and boy were seriously ball room dancing! They were twirling and spinning and had their arms in the right place. It was seriously one of the most precious things I've ever seen. I guess they are getting into the Valentine's Day spirit early!

I put up a new TpT product today! In Kindergarten we are starting numbers 11-20 and then shortly after that, 20 and beyond. I am a fan of the game "I Have, Who Has" and created one for Kindergarten number recognition and number fluency. I love it! There are five sets of cards all for varying levels of number recognition. They can be used as individual sets or they can be mixed together for differentiation.

Picture Cues

With Ten Frames

Numbers with no pictures.

Written form of numbers.

Written form with picture cues.

Check it out here at my TpT store: Daisy Designs

A yearly tradition for the school I'm interning at for the 100th day of Kindergarten, is to make shirts with every student's handprint in paint and to wear them in a parade around school. Here's some Math for you:

1x shirt for every student

20 students in every class

1 handprint per student PER shirt

5 classes of kinders

Yeah. That's right. That's 2000 painted handprints....

Well, we finished that this week and THANK GOODNESS for parent volunteers.... <3