Nurturing Noggins: 100 TpT Follower Freebie Announcement

Monday, March 25, 2013

100 TpT Follower Freebie Announcement

First of all, I wanted to let you know about a website that I just heard about called EduCents. It has flash sales (30%-90% off) for educational materials. It sounds pretty cool. If you give them your e-mail (like Groupon) before they launch, you will earn a $10 gift certificate. That's a pretty sweet deal.

Click here for your $10 gift certificate.

I've been wracking my brain, trying to decide on what to give away as my 100th follower freebie. Now, you may think I am jumping the gun (I still need 21 to get there...but you can help me <wink, wink>). I am all about planning. So, tell your friends to follow my Teachers Pay Teachers store, because there is a SUPER cool freebie coming your way. No really... it is SO worth it! My husband helped me with the artwork, and it is AMAZING! Keep checking back to see when it will be posted, and THANK YOU for your support!

Now, for this week's freebie. We use thinking maps at my school. I went to two evening's worth of training to learn when to use what map. In my training, we learned to use bubble maps for adjectives. As I've been looking through resources, I've been seeing the same graphic organizer used for other things. So, I decided to make a bubble map for you to use to describe characters or whatever you would like (butterflies, frogs... I know you're all working on life cycles like we are). I made two different options: one map has four bubbles, and one has six bubbles. I sometimes find it's overwhelming for the kinders to think of a lot of adjectives, and it takes them even longer to write them. ;)

Click here for your freebie!

I also just finished a really cool product on number bonds. I think number bonds are so cool, so I wanted to make a differentiated version for my classroom. I'm really excited to use them in my classroom. They are listed in my Teachers Pay Teachers store and in my Teacher's Notebook store.