Target Gift Card Giveaway

Who wants to win a $50 Target gift card?

I am joining in with a few of my K-2 friends to just say thanks for following me! This gift card could be yours in a few simple steps:

1. Go to this link and enter the Rafflecopter: http://gvwy.io/nueep4l

2. Like this post.

3. Comment with your grade level.

4. Then help us spread the word!

Good luck!!

Back To School Giveaway

Here in Florida we are preparing for Hurricane Irma. All of South Florida is in a state of emergency. Several of my family and friends have chosen to evacuate however my husband and I are staying.  We are putting up the hurricane shutters, filling all containers we own with water poured through a filter, stocking up on gas and food, and tying down tree branches.  I hope that all of you will keep my state in your prayers through this weekend and after when clean up begins.  The fact of the matter is that this storm is much, much wider than our state so no matter where you are, you will feel the effects. Stay safe everyone!!!

On to my giveaway.  I am joining my I-Teach K-2 friends to giveaway this awesome blue tooth voice amplifier for your classroom.

All you need to do is:

1. Like this post.

2. Comment with your grade level.

3. Enter the short Rafflecopter at:  http://gvwy.io/nueep4l

4. Help us spread the word.

That's it!! Good luck!!

"Eggstra" Special Giveaway

How many of you would love to win some "Eggstra" special Easter or Spring themed products? All you have to do is enter the rafflecopter below for your chance to win this amazing pack of products for your classroom.

One of the products you could win is my "You've Been E.G.G.ed" Classroom Kindness Writing Activity and Egg Hunt.

It is SO much fun! Your students will love this activity. One piece of the product is the Egg Hunt (with a twist). First you pick a classroom that you want to surprise. Then you ask your students to write a sweet message to another student (one they may or may not know) using the Egg writing paper included. Then fold the message up and place it inside a plastic egg.  Now you wait for the other classroom to leave. (This is our FAVORITE part!) After they are out of their classroom, you and your class sneak in and hide the plastic eggs that each contain one of the sweet messages for your students. Finally, you tape the "You've Been E.G.G.ed" sign on the front of their classroom door and head back to your own classroom.  The best part is that the students are spreading cheer and not expecting anything in return.

Want to have this fun activity and many others?? Enter to win here: a Rafflecopter giveaway

Target Gift Card Giveaway

I am joining a few of my I Teach K-2 pals in a Target gift card giveaway.  You can win $100!!!

Everyone could use a little extra spending cash. Use it for your classroom, treat yourself to something special, or both!
To enter this giveaway, follow this link: http://gvwy.io/nueep4l
Good luck my friends!

Celebrating 2,000 with Brinca into Bilingual (Mrs.Nicolau)!

This week, I am celebrating with Mrs. Nicolau on reaching one of her goals (2,000 followers)! Several of us are helping her celebrate with TONS of Giveaways and prizes!! 

Read below for your chance to enter and win big!!

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

ALL GIVEAWAYS WILL RUN FROM SATURDAY 18TH (6AM CT) UNTIL TUESDAY 21ST (12AM CT)


Mrs. Nicolau is giving away TWO RAE DUNN MUGS!
These cute mugs are very hard to find (depending where you live) and everyone is going CRAZY for these!

Let's giveaway a gift card!! Enter the Rafflecopter for a chance to win a $25 TPT Giftcard! Remember the more entries you have, the more changes you have to win!!!








Who does not LOVE TARGET?! We ALL do!!  So let's do a giveaway for a $25 Target giftcard!






Since we are going crazy with prices, why don't we get even crazier?!... Let's also celebrate with a $21.00 gift card from the AMAZING Melonheadz!

Last, but definitely not least! I have many blog friends that have joined me to celebrate this amazing event! They have all joined me to giveaway bundles by grades!!!

The first bundle is for our Bilingual K-1 teachers!

Next is the 2-3 Bilingual Bundle!

Last is our K-2 Grades Bundle in English!

Are you excited enough?! We sure hope so! Stop by Mrs. Nicolau's blog to enter on all these great prizes!!!

While you are there, drop a note to her. She LOVES hearing from her readers! :)

Click on Brinca into Bilingual

Share The Love Hop

Valentine's Day is a day of showing you care and love for those special people in your life. This is actually something I try to do every day. However, I do get busy and sometimes forget to be grateful for what I have and show those certain people in my life how much they mean to me.  I am joining a few friends of mine this week in an effort to share how we "Share The Love" to some of our favorite charities, organizations, and families in need.  

We are ALL going to donate 10% of our earnings from February 10th - February 14th to the charities and families that are close to our hearts.  It is our wish that you may Hop through and feel it in your heart to donate something to one or even all of these charities and families.

My choice for the "Share The Love Hop" is a sweet little girl named Miaya. 

Miaya is a beautiful three year old little girl. In late January 2016 she came down with an upper respiratory infection that would not seem to go away with the antibiotics prescribed by her doctor. She was on her second course of antibiotics when she spiked a fever and started complaining about leg pain. She was taken to All Children's Emergency Center on February 21st and she was admitted for further testing. She was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on February 25, 2016.The diagnosis came as a complete shock to everyone as Miaya had been an extremely healthy child up until this point.

The day after her diagnosis Miaya was taken into surgery, to have a port put in, and they started chemotherapy later in the day. She will continue chemotherapytreatment until May of 2018. As you can imagine the medical bills the family are faced with are immeasurable. Miaya is the grandaughter of a fellow teacher and very dear friend to me. She had to take a leave of absence from her teaching position to give Miaya the care she needs. I am hoping through all of our love and support we will be able to help ease the impact of what is to come. I am asking all of you reading this, if you can spare even $1, every penny helps. You can donate with me to Miaya on her GoFund Me page: Miraculous Miaya.

In order to say thank you for Sharing The Love and donating with us, you can get a freebie at each stop.  My FREEBIE is a writing activity that encourages spreading love around the classroom and school while working on letter writing skills. It is a 10 page writing activity.

You can get it at my TpT store or by clicking Love Letters

In addition to this freebie, I will choose 2 people who answer the question below on this "share the love" blog post to pick an item from my store for free. I will randomly pick 2 winners on February 15th.  Here's the question:

How do you encourage your students to "Share The Love" with the world around them?

**Don't forget to leave your email address along with your comment below so I can contact you if you win!

Continue Sharing The Love (with one of my teaching Besties) Cristina of  McCrone Love at The Primary Besties!

Merry Christmas and an Apple Watch Giveaway!

Happy birthday Jesus and Merry Christmas to all!

This Christmas break is a time that I love spending with my family.  One of our favorite things to do is to experience new places and events.  This year we took three of our kiddos, the other one didn't deserve to go (JUST KIDDING!! He had to work!!) to see a walk through show called Ice in Orlando, FL.  It was amazing, super cold at 9 degrees, but still amazing.  Everything in the show is made completely of Ice. There are even ice slides! If you ever get a chance to see it I suggest you do.  Here are a few of the pics:

Heading in!

 The show told the story of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

 The slides were a HUGE hit!

 The reason for the season! Happy birthday Jesus!

Tis the season of giving, soooooo, I am participating in another FABULOUS giveaway.I believe teachers are some of the hardest working people in the world. In order to honor all of the effort, time, money, and love that you spend giving back to YOUR classroom, I am teaming up with some of my I Teach K-2 teacher friends to giveaway a rose gold Apple Watch!!!

In order to win, all you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter located on our Facebook page. Just click the link below!  Good luck!

Link to Facebook rafflecopter:  http://gvwy.io/nueep4l

Holidays Around The World Giveaway

During the Christmas holidays, I love to teach the different holiday traditions that happen around the world. I created a packet a few years ago in order to have a fun interactive way for the kiddos to learn about these different traditions.  We learn about Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Diwali, St. Lucia, Chinese New Year, Las Posadas, and Christmas in Australia. This packet includes a reader with key words for each country that the students can trace and a passport to represent each country. It also has book suggestions, activities and games, and holiday crafts for each country we visit. You can get this packet by clicking Holiday Traditions Around The World.

I use this unit during our Science and Social Studies time about 2-3 weeks prior to Christmas break.  For my Reading Workshop time I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to read and compare all of the different Gingerbread Man Stories.  There are so many of them out there and I have loved everyone that I can get my hands on.  Each day the students and I read a new book and complete a story map (which is a FREE download at the end of this post).  At the end of the 2-3 week time period that this takes, we compare all of the stories to each other.  Then we complete a Gingerbread Man Reader's Theater and decorate our very own Gingerbread Man cookies.

Gingerbread Man Reader's Theater

Gingerbread Man Rhyme

This is an extension of all our Gingerbread fun that gives some rhyming practice. It is an interactive reader, a rhyming center, and a sort activity.

You can get the story maps here for FREE if you are interested in this super fun activity.

This week I am joining my Kinder Friends with a fabulous giveaway.  We are giving away $25 gift certificate to TpT. All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win! There are also a few holidays items in each store for sale. Just search #kinderfriends in order to get 20% off!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Now hop on over to my pal Pamela at Pocket Full of Centers for another FREEBIE and chance to win!

Treats for Teachers Giveaway

I love October. This month I am participating in a little Treats For Teachers Blog Hop and Giveaway!

With all of the anticipation for Halloween and Trick or treating, it is a great time to talk about characters and character traits. We go through a series of stories (like the ones below) learning about a character's physical traits and about their behavior traits. Then we end by the week of Halloween. The kiddos get to wear a costume based on a favorite story and then they can describe their costume's character traits (using the freebie below).  It is so much fun. The kiddos love actually becoming their characters by taking on the traits they believe they would have.
To begin this unit, I love to introduce character traits using the book Shelia Rae The Brave by Kevin Henkes.

Shelia has so many wonderful traits that are easily spotted in this book. It makes for great book talk and modeling opportunities with the kiddos.

I continue this unit using my ALL TIME FAVORITE Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Williems.

These books are excellent because the kiddos can actually connect to these characters on a personal level. The students can see how Gerald and Piggie have almost the same traits in each book.  These books also make it simple for students to be able to compare characters to each other. I only read about 6 of these books to begin with (even though I own every.single.one.). We work through describing the physical and behavior traits together and then comparing Gerald and Piggie to each other. Finally, I read Waiting Is Not Easy by Mo Williems. This book is so very interesting because the characters behaviors actually switch places.  It is so fun to watch my students little light bulbs come on and wonder how that can happen!

If you would like to see more of my Character Trait activites you can click here.

(UGH! That cover is so ugly! One of my first TpT products in need of an update....coming soon!)

By this time we are closer to Halloween.  Students are able to come to school in a Character costume. We spend some time early in the day analyzing and describing their costume's character traits using everything we learned. Then the students must act like their character all day. They actually become their characters. They love, love this part!  You can click here to download this Halloween Character Mapping FREEBIE from my TpT store!

I am joining some Kinder friends in an incredible blog hop where treats are never ending!

At each stop you will be able to enter a giveaway to win FREE stuff for you and/or your classroom! Since the theme of this hop is "Treats For Teachers" I am giving away your CHOICE of any item from my store along with a $20 gift card to TpT. All you have to do is enter to win below!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

To continue on the blog hop, just click here to head on over to my pal Elaine from Kitty Kitty Kindergarten and see what treats she has up her sleeves for you!