Winner Winner! Chicken Dinner!

Greetings friends. This is Crystal from Kreative in Kinder. I hope you are having a fantastic week! Ready to be sugar wasted tomorrow? Yeah, me neither. Halloween is not my diet's best friend! 

Guess what? We had almost 8,000 entries in our iPad giveaway! WOW! Thank you, thank you for all of your sweet comments this week. This blog really is a labor of LOVE and we sincerely hope we have been a blessing to you and your classroom. It takes a village, right? You are never alone. Virtual team front and center. 

I also wanted to apologize for an issue with rafflecopter for the giveaway. When I set it up, I swear I set it to end at midnight tonight. Apparently, I made a mistake and it ended at midnight last night. Please accept my sincerest apologies if you didn't get to participate. We launched on Sunday hoping to give everyone a chance to enter. Don't worry, our authors at Freebielicious are always in the spirit of giving and you never know what we have up our sleeves for the future.  

Our hope is that everyone feels like a winner everyday when they come to this blog and benefit from the love we share with you. So, without further ado, WE HAVE A WINNER! This lucky lady will be mailed one iPad Mini, an accessories kit (additional ipad not included), a hard kid friendly case, ten stylus pens, an iTeach t-shirt from Kreative in Kinder's T-Shirt Shop, Sharing Kinder's Ipad 101 Unit, and a $100 iTunes gift card. YEAH! 

 Check out your winnings!!

Thanks again for celebrating our 1st birthday with us. Here is to another great year!! 

<3 all of your FL friends!

Military Hero's Freebie

This is a great community building project that my son's kindergarten teacher sponsors every year!  So I made it adorable and am sharing with you with this great freebie below!

Stop by to see how I use it!  

Happy Birthday Freebielicious!!

 

Have you heard? Freebielicious turned ONE this month! This last year has been amazing and we are so happy with our Freebielicious family.  This little blog has twenty-five amazing authors…teachers with hearts of gold! Our only goal is to be a blessing to primary teachers.

Welcome to our party! Everyone is invited. We are SO excited to host a birthday party like no other. Don’t worry, we won’t ask you to buy us a present (we do love chocolate though). Instead, we want to help tech up your classroom with a pretty sweet giveaway. Follow our blog, FB, and pinterest to enter to win. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. You can win a prize package valued at over $500, which includes an iPad mini! Sweet deal, right?!

Fill out the rafflecopter to enter. You have three chances to win. Follow Freebielicious on Pinterest, Follow Freebielicious on Facebook, and Follow Freebielicious Blog by email. Enter to win by October 30, 2013 at midnight. Winner will be drawn on October 31^st, 2013 and announced on Freebielicious. One entry per person and entries will be verified. 

Happy Birthday Freebielicious!!!

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Pumpkin Sight Word Concentration

Here is a fun way to review sight words. These cards can be used to create a concentration game during your Pumpkin or Halloween thematic unit. Make two copies of the sight word pages to create your game. Simply print and laminate for durability.  It can be used during your small group time or in a literacy center to practice these 40 sight words.

Pumpkin Color Sorting Freebie

I whipped this activity up last minute the end of last week when I was prepping for this week! Then I took the time to fancy it up and turn it into a freebie for you guys! What that means is, my set of the activity just has plain construction paper to sort the pumpkins on. Your set, has fancy little cards to print out! ;) 

I have one student who is still working on his colors so this will make great differentiated practice for him.

If you want to snag this freebie and prep it for the week just {click here}

 

Halloween Safety {interactive mini book}

Here's a fun little interactive book to use with your kiddos before Halloween! It covers all the safety tips that are important to making trick-or-treating fun and safe!

It's interactive in that each page requires the students to complete a task!

 {Do you like my princess costume? ;) My students draw WAY better than I do!}

Head on over to my TpT store to pick up this freebie!

A Fun Resource for Learning Color Words

I am gearing up to start a two-week color word study in my kindergarten classroom. Each day of the study is dedicated to a specific color. Tomorrow is black day. The entire class is invited to wear something black to school and we will do extensive word work (in an interactive way of course) to help  my students learn to spell "black" quickly and easily.

Kindergarteners always love to know WHEN a special day or activity is coming up, so I created a set of reminder cards for my classroom calendar. These cards clearly display when each featured color day is scheduled for the next two weeks.

Stop by the Kinder-Craze blog to grab this great freebie and take a peek into some of the fun activities we will be doing in class during our color word study! 

Want to know more about the printables you see in my classroom calendar? 

You can find them in my TpT store. 

Pumpkin counting mat

We have been working on some very simple counting in our class.  Head on over to my blog by clicking on the first picture to pick up this simple counting mat.

Apple Freebie

 Here is a picture of some apple crafts my kids did in September.

One of my favorite projects to do with Kinders in the Apple Finger Painting....

Click on the picture of the link to read more about how I do this activity 

and go snag a template to paint.

Mary Amoson, Sharing Kindergarten http://sharingkindergarten.com/ http://www.facebook.com/SharingKindergarten

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Firefighter Color by Number

October is Fire Prevention month. If you need a quick activity to enhance your fire safety unit, this Color by Number Firefighter might be just what you're looking for!

Cut this single page printout in half to create two half-page coloring pages. My students love coloring the small pages and I love that they are engaged in learning their color words.

Stop by the Kinder-Craze blog to grab your freebie. While you're there, be sure to check out a few additional resources and activities for teaching fire safety in your classroom. 

WOW Work Jar!

Do you need to motivate your students to produce quality work? Don't we all?! 

Hopefully, the WOW Work Jar will do the trick!

Click here to download the sign and jar label AND enter to win 100 Brag Tags!