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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Giveaways, First of the Month Freebie, and 10% Off Sale!

Click here to enter between November 1st- November 8th 2017!

Two Giveaway Opportunities!

Big news, everyone! In addition to my First of the Month Freebies, Little Owl will host a Rafflecopter giveaway starting on the first of every month! You can enter to win any of my products from my Teachers Pay Teachers store, Little Owl's Teacher Treats. Simply follow the link, fill out the form, and you're entered to win! The raffle will be open for a week, and I'll select a winner on November 9th.

I'm also excited to be part of this $25 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway organized by Kelly Maloy (An Apple for the Teacher) and co-hosted by: An Apple for the Teacher, Mrs Hansens Helpfuls, Teacher Gameroom, It's Kinder Time, Little Owl's Teacher Treats, and Samson's Shoppe.

Rules: Use the Rafflecopter to enter. Giveaway ends 11/6/2017 and is open worldwide.

First of the Month Freebie from Little Owl

This month's freebie is a math game from my Go Math! series. This zoo- themed math center reinforces subtraction concepts in a hands-on, engaging way.

Zoo Break: Taking Apart with Pictures

In addition to Zoo Break, here's what Little Owl has been up to for the past month!

Go Math Chapter 1 Games and Bundle

I'm so excited to share that I'm DONE with my Go Math! Chapter 1: Addition Concepts centers for first grade. The centers cover early addition concepts. Although these activities were specifically designed to support the Go Math! curriculum, they can be a useful addition to any math program! My first graders particularly love matching "switcharoo" facts with Find My Twin :)

Go Math! Chapter 1: Addition Concepts Bundle

Concepts include...

1) FREEBIE- Adding zero with Good Clues, Bad Clues:

2) Using pictures to add with Puzzling Pieces:

3) Adding in any order with Find My Twin:

4) Solving for missing addends and sums with The Case of the Missing Number:

5) Making 6, 7, 8, and 9 with Evidence Files:

Record sheets are also included for every activity!

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Winter is Around the Corner!

It may be November, but it's never too early to start thinking about winter holidays, amiright? I'm mildly obsessed with Helen Lester's Tacky the Penguin series, and I can't WAIT to try out my new Tacky the Penguin Reader's Theater Script this year!

Tacky the Penguin Reader's Theater Script

Tacky the Penguin Bundle

Between Tacky the Penguin, Mooseltoe, Holidays Around the World, and my love of all things elf...

My Elf Lapbook Activity

Bundle: Elf-Themed Math Activities

Cookies from the North Pole: Making 10 Activities

Ernie's Cookies: Subtraction Activity

The Hungry Elf: Subtraction Activity

Looking to boost family involvement at your school? Want to take the stress out of planning a family night before the holidays? Consider hosting a Pajama Reading Night! Read all about it here, and check out my Host a Pajama Reading Night packet on TPT!

...I'll have my hands full this December and January... but that's just the way I like it! What are your plans for this holiday season? Let me know in the comments!

Happy teaching :)

Sunday, September 10, 2017

New Year, New School, New Freebies!

Hey teacher friends! I've been going through some major upheavals throughout the past few months, and life is finally starting to settle down again. Since May, I left Japan to move back to the States, got married, bought a house with my new husband, and accepted a position as a first grade teacher in my local school district! I'm thrilled to find myself in first grade again after all the changes I've gone through recently. Starting the school year in a new place on short notice has been a bit daunting, but I've been blessed with friendly, collaborative coworkers. Here's a little glimpse into my life for the past two weeks!

My biggest focus lately has been classroom setup. I'm trying to keep things clean, organized, and simple from the get go.

Alphabet Sound Chart and Matching Word Wall Labels Available Here

It's so important to establish rules, routines, and expectations during these first few weeks. On day 1, we read No, David by David Shannon, and made T-chart of things we DO at school, and things we DO NOT do at school. On day 2, we read Swimmy by Leo Lionni, and thought about the ways we work together at school. Then, we used these two stories to launch a discussion about respectful vs. disrespectful behaviors. We managed to boil our T-chart down to two rules:

1) Respect people (including yourself)
2) Respect materials

Next week, we're going to focus on Whole Body Listening. I've made a Google Slides presentation to lead a conversation about listening with ears, eyes, mouths, hands, and feet, and we'll make an anchor chart for referencing this lesson throughout the year!

Whole Body Listening Lesson

I've also added a new math freebie called Good Clues, Bad Clues to my store. It focuses on adding zero.

Good Clues, Bad Blues FREEBIE available here!

Now that things have calmed down on the home front, I'll be getting back to my "First of the Month Freebies." In the meantime, enjoy this math game and b/d reversal posters! Happy teaching!

FREE b/d reversal posters available here!

Monday, May 1, 2017

May's First of the Month Freebie

Hey there, teacher friends! We're in the home stretch now, and I hope you're hanging in there. Just wanted to bring you a quick update to let you know about May's First of the Month Freebie. It's a math game called New Tools, Broken Tools. The game covers Common Core Standard 1.NBT.C.4: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. My first graders are currently working on this standard, so I developed this center activity as a fun way to reinforce it!

Student-friendly directions

Headings for the sort

Includes 40 sort cards with answer key

This game is a sample from my current project- Go Math! aligned centers for first grade. More games are available in a growing bundle here, and the product description includes links to individual units and games.

One more thing- since it's the first of the month, my entire store is 10% off! Hope this helps to make your end-of-year planning just a bit easier :)

Thanks for reading- happy teaching!

-Erika, Little Owl's Teacher Treats

Friday, March 31, 2017

First of the Month Freebies and Sales!

Hey there, teacher friends! I'm just bringing you a quick update to let you know about something special I've started for my followers. Each month, I'll be posting a "First of the Month Freebie" for you to download as a THANK YOU for the support you've given me since I started this journey a year and a half ago! Also, my entire store will be on sale the first of every month. No, this is not an April Fool's joke :) I truly appreciate you guys and am so grateful to be part of the TpT community.

Now, you're probably wondering... where are these freebies?! So glad you asked! April's freebie is a a place value game called Super Star:

A fun game to reinforce greater than/less than and place value skills for first graders

In case you missed them, here are the freebies from February and March:

February's Freebie: "Barn Owls" Emergent Reader

March's Freebie: Helen Keller Fact Writing Activity

This one isn't a "First of the Month" freebie, but it's another THANK YOU to you! My first graders have enjoyed playing this place value game to reinforce hundreds grid skills. I organized it in a binder by placing each puzzle and matching cards into individual sleeves. I put the record sheets into sleeves also, so students can use whiteboard markers in order to save paper!

"Fill the Nest" free place value game

Follow my store to receive notifications when new freebies become available! If Pinterest is more your style, I've got you covered there, too.

Thank you so much, and I hope these freebies make planning a little easier for you :) Happy teaching!

-Erika Utz
Little Owl's Teacher Treats

Little Owl's Teacher Treats