People Measuring Freebie

Life & work are a little bit cr-aa-zz-y at the minute so my blogging has unfortunately come last on the list. But in amongst kinder to prep transitions, reports, assessment, class lists, working between two schools, etc, etc I have managed to make a freebie for you! And I'm linking up with Simply Kinder to share it. Go and check out all the other amazing freebies linked up. 

Click on any of the pictures to go to my store to collect it. And while you are there please follow me & leave a comment back on this post {or on Facebook} if you can spare the time. Your love & feedback is appreciated :)

We are exploring measuring again this week using non-uniform units such as counters, pop sticks & unifix. The kiddos have loved this! 



Hope you enjoy it just as much,

A new title & Giveaway time!

See anything different? 
I spent a very late night last week making a new blog header- whattaya think? It may only last for a little while as I keep trying to improve it but it's here for now!

Oh my goodness, I am so tired tonight! 2nd day back, 500 things to do and all my holiday sleep in's are catching up with me! We have PSGs this week and our whole school review tomorrow- everything happening first week back! 
Great two days though, I have missed the kidlets.

Anyway, the whole reason for posting tonight is to tell you all about Amanda's amazing 400 Follower Giveaway over at Mrs Pauley's Kindergarten. 

There are some super sweet prizes including Winner's Choice from my store.

Before you go, have you entered my 100 follower giveaway? Click on the link to enter.

100 Follower giveaway! Yay I made it :)

Holy Coconuts! I go away for a week and I come back to awesome craziness! First things first, I have finally organised my 100 follower giveaway but it could almost be my 150 giveaway... how did that happen. So excited! Thank you to all of the amazing bloggers who offered to help out... it was a huge shock to read the google docs to see the 9 lovely peeps who offered to help & I am a huge fan of all of them. Aw, shucks!
{By the way, one of my cute poppets always says "Holy Coconuts!". I have no clue why but the kiddo is a cracker & I have been using his saying all week}

Please enter below and share the love via fb or your blog. I spilt the prizes into two so feel free to enter both giveaways. Wish I could enter- I have especially wanted Brooke's sight word pack for ages :)

Drum roll please............... 

Clipart from Krista Wallden

Enter Giveaway 1 to win: 
{Cute little daisy frames from the 3am teacher}

  

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Enter Giveaway 2 to win:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thank you for entering & good luck! I will post properly later this week about my amazing holiday and a bunch of other goodness... so excited!

Eureka! It's holiday time & 5 for friday

Ah, another 5 for Friday and I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs again!

Drum roll........... My 5 Random Things for the week...........

One
We have finally made it to our mid-year holidays*! 11 week terms** should be made illegal my poor little poppets were exhausted this week {tears everyday} but they have been SO good! I can honestly say I will miss them over the 2 weeks... same could not be said as enthusiastically a month ago :) 
*side note- we call our 'vacation' holidays... just so you know :)
**our school year in Australia {or at least Victoria} is spilt into 4 terms, not 3 like the majority of the world... and it's our mid-year winter holidays now

Two
Make sure you enter my giveaway to celebrate the swap to Bloglovin'. You can win 2 products from my store. Check out all the other blogs at the bottom of the post too.

Three
Bring on the sunshine!! We are heading to the 'top-end' next week where it should hopefully be warm enough to swim. Fingers crossed. I'm dreaming of beaches, sunshine and margaritas

Four
This week was our "fun finale" so the kiddos and I have hung out, cleaned up, {they have} watched movies {while I did planning, listened to readers, cleaned, etc}, and just enjoyed each others company! It was lovely. We celebrated yesterday with movie & popcorn day which I completely forgot to take pictures of... oops


Five
We visited our school 'Rural Block' yesterday which is basically a mini garden/farm at the back of our school property. We grow tons of fruit & veg seasonally {tomatoes, corn, lettuce, strawberries, zuchinni, pumpkins, etc} and collect and sell eggs from our chickens. Aren't they the cutest?

And before you go, can you help with my 100 follower giveaway?
Click on the pic to leave your details.

I hope wherever you are, that you have a relaxing weekend planned!

Bloglovin' Linky's & a Giveaway

There are 2 great linky parties happening to 'celebrate' the swap to Bloglovin'. Thanks to all the peeps who have swapped over so far. If you're not sure how to do that follow my tute here or any of the other great tutorial's written (mine is basic).

Check out Tori's Bloglovin' linky party to see a huge number of bloggers that have already swapped over. Such a great way to find new bloggers!

And it's giveaway time! The wonderful ladies at Collaboration Cuties have started this great Bloglovin' giveaway!

So while you're here enter my giveaway below to win your choice of 2 products from my store if you are following me on Bloglovin'. This will be drawn sometime next week and I will choose 2 WINNERS! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

You only have a few days left to swap over- get to it :)

Also, while you're here I'm in the process of making my 100 Follower giveaway. If you can help out by donating a product click the pic to leave your details (bottom of the post) 
Thanks :)

Blog Lovin' & Picture Book Linky

Just a reminder to swap over to BlogLovin' (or another blog reader) if you haven't already. Goggle reader will close on the 1st of July. 
If you already have an account, make sure you update your blogs list incase you have started following more since you joined up.
To import the blogs you follow in Goggle reader to BlogLovin' go to http://www.bloglovin.com/import/reader and follow the steps. Easy!

Although I am a long way from the start of the year here I thought I would link up to share some of my favourite start of the year stories!

We always start the year talking about our holidays. I Magic Beach by Alison Lester & Looking for Crabs by Brace Whatley are some of my favourite's.

We also talk about our classroom rules, our differences & looking after others. Giaraffe's Can't Dance is great for talking about our strengths and how it is important that we are each different.

I always read Too Loud Lily by Sophie Laguna to focus on how we are all different and also the different noise levels accepted in the class. 

I have loved reading everyone else's favourite books. I now have a huge wishlist for next year.

Also, if you are able to help out with my 100 follower giveaway fill out the form here!

Clipart by Creative Clips by Krista Wallden

 

Yay! 100 Followers & Five for Friday time!

I was still in the report writing/editing haze last weekend so I missed out on linking up with Doodle Bugs but I'm back this week! 

Also, be prepared for a lot of exclamation marks in this post :)

I cannot believe we're only one week away from mid-year holidays! Bring it on!

On Thursday we took the poppets on excursion to Melbourne as a finish to our Dinosaur unit. To make our 10am start at the Museum we were on the buses and gone at 7.30am, which meant I was at school just after 6.30. I stopped to get a huge cup of coffee on the way so I would survive :)

The kiddos were SO good! I have to admit I was worried beforehand. Excursions are super stressful as it is (taking almost 90 kiddos 2 hours away, the lists, timetables, constant counting so you don't lose anyone, trying to get 22 kids on an escalator at once.. etc) and I have a few high needs kiddos this year but they were absolutely brilliant. I was really lucky to have 3 extra teachers with my group {just in case} and they were an amazing help.

We were "palaeontologists" in our Dinosaur walk tour & talk. They were so cute.

Yesterday, because of our huge day Thursday, we had Fun Friday. We went to the computer lab for an hour of Reading Eggs, then watched The Land Before Time and had a 90's Power ballad (Roxette, Bon Jovi & Wilson Phillips.... lol they wanted Gangnam style but my choices were better) dance party in the afternoon. 

             

This little man asked one of my cutie girls to dance! He led her around the room and everything! Cutest thing ever!! He is one of my Autistic poppets so it made my heart especially sing because we haven't been having the easiest time lately. He will break hearts.

And (after much working out due to the switch from Google Reader to Blog Lovin') I have officially reached 100 followers! 

                                                                        Clipart by Creative Clips by Krista Wallden


If you are able to donate a product for my giveaway please fill out the form below.




I am also part of Jessica's 200 follower giveaway at Literacy Spark. 

Click on the pic to enter. There are some great prizes.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,