Oh Baby! A Giveaway!

I'm 38 weeks pregnant today, people. Where did the time go?? I'm seriously melting in this Florida heat and SO READY to have this baby. Not much longer! It's so worth it.

All that being said, I know it is seriously time for some Back to School shopping! I can't believe I won't be joining in this year, but that doesn't mean I can't help celebrate! So I've decided to do a giveaway!

I'm giving away a $10 Teachers Pay Teachers giftcard (I think there's a sale coming up! *wink) and a copy of this year's edition of my FAVORITE binder pack! It's 114 pages of pure organization glory...

Enter below and tell your friends! And let's hope I'll have some cute baby pictures to share out soon. :)

WE HAVE A WINNER! GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who entered. Be sure to check back for more giveaways and freebies!

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Another Makeover!

This week has been Makeover Madness week and I am loving it! I have been working really hard on getting my binder cover sets (three total) redone AND planning pages added to go with them! If you don't know already, I made these cover sets about a year and half ago for myself and two friends to use for our first year teaching, but we need a change! I already updated my namesake, the "Amanda" Edition... so here's.... drumroll, please! The "Calli" Edition!!

It went from THIS

to THIS!

This one did not change as drastically as the "Amanda" Edition did because the colors and patterns worked SO well together. I consulted Calli and added the flowers at the bottom as well as some bolder lines to make things POP! I LOVE it! I kind of even love it more than my own version!

And just like the "Amanda" Edition, the "Calli" Edition comes in a Covers Only set (which is 50% off through the weekend) and now it also comes in a FULL 116 page planning package (which is also on sale!). Click the images below to check them out! I also have images below of the "Amanda" Edition so you can compare and see which one suits you best. 

FULL pack!

FULL PACK!

FULL PACK!

Covers ONLY

Want a sneak peek of the "Susannah" Edition? Head over to my Facebook page to see a follower only sneak peek image of the Earth tone pack I made for my pal Susannah! The full pack will be updated this weekend! ;)

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

Facebook Giveaway Going On Now! Yippee!

Hey ya'll! Today I am celebrating 100 likes on Facebook! I'm so thrilled!

I am giving away your choice of a binder cover set recently posted onto my TpT store! These sets of covers are very special to me.

Story time! When I was in my student teaching internship last year, I created some binder covers for myself and two of my closest friends who were also in their internship. I decided to tweak them to make them usable for other teachers and added in several covers for all those binders we have to keep up with. I named them after each of us!

We have ME! The "Amanda" Edition:

Then we have the "Susannah" Edition:

And the "Calli" Edition:

By clicking the images above, you will be directed to the product on my TpT store with more details and a list of all the covers you'll get!

To enter the giveaway, head on over to my Daisy Designs Facebook page, like the page, and comment on the giveaway post with one of your organizational goals for the upcoming school year! And don't forget to tag a friend so they can enter, too! Good luck, readers, and thanks for following, liking, pinning, and tweeting! ;)

{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

FREE 2014 Monthly Calendar Download

Hey blog lovers! I am trying to get organized (ya know... since it is one of my resolutions for this year...) and I started by making my monthly calendar. I am always incredibly picky about calendars and planners, so this year I'm making my own. We'll see how it goes.

So far so good, though. I made a monthly calendar for my supervising teacher's schedule of MY stuff for her, so she doesn't have to overwhelm her already busy calendar with the stuff she has to worry about for me. I made a little folder for her with all the forms and schedules she needs to co-teach with me and I'm adding this little calendar to it tonight.

As I was making it, I was thinking... this is too cute not to put up on my blog. So, blog buddies... here's a download for you for FREE! I went all the way through the year for you, even though my supervising teacher only needs through April. :) Let's get organized together!

CLICK HERE FOR THE DOWNLOAD

Here are some shots of the pages. How cute are these?!

Let me know how these are working out for you! And once I get my planning sheets done, I'll post them too! Happy organizing!

Orientation Jitters

My orientation was today for my internship starting next week. I was so anxious! Lots of information for sure and all of it stuff to be excited about. I'm trying to get all the things I need in order today and tomorrow because I will be playing in the snow this weekend in D.C.!

I just finished making my binder cover and I LOVE it. I'm linking it to a blog (HERE!) about what I am loving and making this year... I am loving my computer and my new teacher binder cover!

I'm working on the insides right now and probably won't have it entirely done for a while until I know exactly how I'll be incorporating it into my internship. More pics later!