Book Clubs Giveaway

How cool. Check out First Grade Pandamonium for an awesome giveaway. It is a unit for sheets to use with Book Clubs and all you have to do - wait for it - is blog about it and become a follower of an AWESOME blog! Go check it out!

Happy Reading! Amy C!

Recipe Link Party!

Over at Clutter Free Classroom they are having a link party for your favorite recipe during the school year!

Here is mine:

Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwiches

Ingredients:
pack of chicken breast
bottle of bbq sauce ( I prefer the Montgomery Inn!)
buns


Directions:
1. Place chicken in crock pot.
2. Pour entire bottle of BBQ sauce over chicken. (If bbq sauce doesn't cover all chicken add a little water.)
3. Let cook on low all day. Chicken will fall apart and shred itself!
4. When finished cooking, place enough chicken to make a great sandwich!

I serve mine with corn and a strawberry salad with spinach, lettuce and romaine mixed together!

Delicious, quick and easy!

Hope you Enjoy!

Happy Reading! Amy C!

Giveaway.....

"Teaching Heart ( www.teachingheart.net ) is hosting their annual back to school party on July 24th till July 30th.  Each Day a new prize!  Gift cards, Books, Teaching Heart Products, and more!!!  Plus a free printable will be posted during the week.  You need to visit the blog at;http://teachingheartmom.blogspot.com/ 
daily to check out the prizes each day and enter for the ones you want to win!!!"


Happy Reading! Amy C!

Alisha Needs Help too!

So The Bubble Blonde Teacher needs our help! Her husband bet her she couldn't reach 125 followers by Friday evening.... when she reaches 125 she will get the camera she wants - so in short.... GO JOIN HER BLOG!

Happy Reading! Amy C!

I. Need. Help!

Alright - teacher frustration/overwhelmedness (is that even a word) has set in! We don't even start school until August 17 (my birthday - what a present huh!?) and I am already freaking out about my room, theme and activities for beginning of the year - I don't think they are good enough and I am not happy with what I have done... and then I read every one's blogs and I get even more upset because I am jealous of their ideas and think, "Why can't I come up with that stuff!?!?" (insert awesome blogs here such as The Inspired Apple, Chalk Talk, and my list could continue because on my dashboard I have 250 + blogs JUST for teaching! - OBSESSED - I think so!)

Here is where I need help. I am sticking to my theme, "Oh, the places you'll go!" and I need a theme for my binder my kids keep and the folder at the beginning of the year. I use right now the "BEE Binder" (Bring Everything Everyday). In this binder is where they put notes home, homework, word wall practice, our poetry notebook, EVERYTHING!

So put your brains together and come up with a Dr. Seuss themed name for their binder! I am S.T.U.C.K!


Happy Reading! Amy C!

First Day in First Grade

So this morning when I couldn't sleep - I went on over to Mrs. Kincaid's First Grade and she had the CUTEST idea. We all know the world is way too into technology - and so are our schools and our families.... so therefore Mrs. Kincaid came up with a play on facebook! She made a page that said "_____ Likes First Grade!" 

I had to copy her - I can't take the credit!

So - I am going to make one for each of my students and take their picture - they will decorate the frame and we will put the picture in it!! On Friday of the first week back (we start on a Wednesday) we will send them home! 

I have made a few in all different fonts - if you would like one with your grade level let me know!! Just email me at amycoates@me.com

Thank you to Stephanie Kincaid for the great idea! 

Happy Reading! Amy C!

SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!

Awesome giveaway.... GO CHECK IT OUT! Another Day In First Grade


Happy Reading! Amy C!