Marker {LOVE}

You can never have too many markers right? I came across these amazing smelly highlighters for only 49 cents each at Michaels this past weekend. Markdown from a dollar! 

                                     

I also have a huge love for Sharpie Markers. They are great for poster making and writing things pretty! At Target they have NEON Sharpies for a buck and a half each. I got them all :) 

            

That's it with the marker purchases! I'm off to bed early tonight. I'm waking up at the crack of dawn (5am) tomorrow to head out of town to a teacher training thingy! 

Bits of Betsy {Did you know my mom is a teacher too?}

I have an exciting announcement! Drum roll please.....

What's Bits of Betsy you are probably asking? Well let me tell you! My mom {Betsy}, who is a 2nd grade teacher is going to be guest blogging here every once in a while. She has been teaching for 36 years. She's taught 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th grade. She has tons of wonderful ideas that she would love to share with you! So...without any further ado here's Bits of Betsy:

Hey Chickies, 

This is my first time as a guest blogista on All That Glitters in First Grade.

I teach a 2nd/3d grade loop and love it. Kelly is my daughter and I love to "steal" her ideas and I have some that she has taken from me. This is one my favorite activities involving place value, smallest, and largest numbers.

Place Value Pizzazz

Here are 0-9 Cards to print for the activity, or you may use your own number cards. I do this activity small group. First deal two cards to each student. Tell the students to lay their cards down face up. Ask students who can make the largest number or smallest number? You can also deal out three cards and see who can lay down the largest three digit number.

{Here's a little sneak peak at what the cards look like. When you click the link (0-9 Cards) there is also an ink saver version (black/white)!}

Variation-Lay out three cards face up to each student. Ask...Who has the largest digit in the ones place, or tens place, or hundreds place? 

With more advanced students have them make four of five digit numbers! 

Thanks for reading!

~Betsy

Fonty Freebie and Throwback Thursday!

Happy 4th of July! 

To celebrate the 4th, I've uploaded a fonty freebie to my TpT store called KL Summertime...

KL Summertime Freebie Font

{Click above to check it out!}

I'm also linking up with Cara for my very first...

For my first throwback Thursday, I'm going to bring back one of my first creations using my Bamboo Tablet. You can use these frames to make labels or name tags for your classroom. The possibilities are endless! :) 

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Originally Posted July 10, 2012

I have just created some pencil frames that I wanted to put out there for people to snag....

{Click Here!}

Feel free to use them for personal or commercial use! If you end up making something with them for your TpT or Teacher Notebook store, let me know so I can check it out! 

Now it's your turn! Go link up with Cara and share your blog post throwback! 

Currently!

This summer is flyin' and I can't believe that it's already July and it's my birthday month! I'm linking up with Farley for this month's...

Listening: Watching reruns of Full House never ever gets old! Uncle Jessie and Joey are trying to sell a face shield invention to keep hair spray out of your face. Meanwhile D.J. is upset at Stephanie's snooping!

Loving: I adore Essie nail polish. More importantly I love the names that they come up with. Here's my newest favorite shade:

In the Cab-ana

Thinking: Colombia....more specifically Bogota, Colombia. I will be traveling there next month on a mission trip to help at an orphanage. This will be my third visit!

Wanting: It's been a while since I've created anything for TpT and I haven't been posting regularly on my blog. I think I'm in a creative slump. I'm looking to pop out of it soon!

Needing: To start summer school lesson plans. Yikes, summer school starts bright and early Monday morning! I need to start planning some fun activities. If you have any suggestions...please send them my way!

Tips, Tricks, or Hints: Be yourself....yep!

So swing on by Farley's Blog to link up! 

Michigan Blogger Meet-Up

I had such an amazing time on Saturday meeting up with some fellow Michigan Bloggers at P.F Changs. We had such a fun time chatting and I loved being able to put a face to the wonderful blogs that I follow.  A huge thank you to Maria for being the photographer! 

Patty and Christina were the ones that put together the meet-up. They even brought us some goodies!!!

This is my mom and I. My mom is a 2nd grade teacher and has been teaching for 36 years. She doesn't have a blog yet...but she's thinking about guest posting on mine.   :)

Group pic! I can't wait to meet up with these ladies again! 

When you get a chance please swing by their blogs...

Christina's Blog

Patty's Blog

Amy's Blog

Holly's Blog

Maria's Blog

Laura's Blog

Marsha's Blog

Julie's Blog

Cara's TpT Store

Ellen's Blog

Kara's Blog

Sums of 15 and other happenings

This week in math we have been working on finding sums of 60, 12, and 15. This upcoming week we are doing sums of 16, 18, and 20. I came up with this game to help my kiddos practice finding sums of different numbers. I played it as a whole class game with jumbo inflatable dice. I quickly wrote out the blank problems on the board. Since they learned how to play the game last week with the numbers 12 and 15, this week they should be able to play it with a partner for the sums of 16, 18, and 20. Well...at least that's what I'm hoping!

Click the picture and it will take you to my TpT store to download it for FREE! 

Here's a peak at what the game board looks like...I've even made a blank one for easy use with any number!

Disclaimer: If the directions don't make sense when you download PLEASE let me know! I struggled with "just right" wording. It makes sense to me but then again it might be as clear as murky water to someone else! 

Here's a little peak at what we did this past week in my class...

On Fridays I have my kiddos fill out this paper for the star of the week {Thank you Susan Moran!). Our focus this month is compassion. All week I had been reading them books that deal with compassion. As a school we are showing compassion by collecting coins for a kid who has muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair. His parents need money to renovate their house for their son. I loved that one of my students decided to use the word compassion while describing a classmate. How precious is that?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

P.S. I'm 11 followers away from 200! I can't believe it. I see a super exciting giveaway in the near future. Anyone out there willing to donate one of their amazing products? If you are email me or comment. I would really appreciate it! 

Wah! {tears} + a Fonty Freebie

Spring break is coming to an end. So sad. It went by so fast and now it's back to waking up at 5:45 am. Tomorrow is a p.d day, so no kiddos until Tuesday. I've had an amazing spring break. My mom and I went to Chicago for a few days and then swung by the outlet malls on the way home.

Here's a few from our room. We were on the 26th floor. My ears popped every time we went up or down in the elevator.

This is my yummy brownie sundae from Ghirardelli. 

Meet Lego Woody and I! He was on display outside the Lego Store in Water Tower Place. 

My coolest purchase on this whole trip was my brand new ipad mini. I {LOVE} it! I downloaded the ifont app and created some fun fonts.

Check it....

Click the graphic to go to my tpt store to check them out. 

Here's the KL What?! for you to try out for free. Just click the pic below to download from dropbox. 

This is my first attempt using dropbox to share a file. I think I did it right, but if it doesn't work let me know and I'll fix it. 

I hope all of you had an amazing spring break too!

Summer is just around the corner. Right?