Wed
02 May
2012
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Teacher Appreciation Jackpot

Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and Sunday, May 6th is sure to be your lucky day! I’m excited to announce the very first Teacher Appreciation Jackpot, an amazing “blog hop” event involving over 130 bloggers!

We wanted to show our appreciation for you in a BIG way, so we’ve all agreed to give away one of our TeachersPayTeachers products for free on that day! Each free gift will be valued at between $3 and $8, so the total jackpot amount is estimated to be over $500! We’ll post the actual amount on Saturday, May 5th.

Because so many bloggers are participating, this event will be divided into three grade level groups. Each of those smaller events is being coordinated by one blogger as shown below:


Here is my free item:

DAYS OF THE WEEK CENTERS

Three different centers and a printable craft for your elementary spanish students.

Everything is done in Spanish and it has two levels for differentiating in the classroom. 
Download the preview to read about the centers. 


Thanks so much for all you do! We appreciate your commitment to your students and your dedication as an educator!

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Tue
10 Apr
2012
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Spring Break Linky Party

MS H. is having a fun linky party at her blog and I’m joining.
Click on the picture to know what we are doing during our Spring breaks and enjoy yours.
I’m in the middle of my Spring break. I had many things to do on my list, but there is no way I can do everything. So here is what I have done so far:
I went to celebrate some Easter days with friends, we went to the countryside and eat barbecue. We have been doing this for some days… That’s why I can’t do don’t want to do other things.
We also watched a football match (or what Americans call soccer).
And these are the things I still HAVE to do:
Planning for my classroom.
Organizing my closet.
What do I always leave the fun part at the end?

I’ve been tagged!

Here are the rules:
1. You must post the rules and link your tag back to the person who tagged you.
2. Answer the questions of the person who tagged you.
3. Create 10 questions of your own for others to answer.
4. Tag 10 people and link it with your post.
Here are the questions that Krista from The Second Grade Super Kids sent me:
1. What is your favorite color to paint your nails? I usually don’t paint my nails, but when I do I like them black.
2. Do you have anything that you collect in your classroom to display (ie. I have an obsession with sock monkeys!) Do plastic containers count? I could easily have more than 50… I like postcards. I save all the postcards the students send me every year. Love those memories.
3. What is something you do every year for open house at your school (ours is coming up and I would love ideas!)? We don’t have Open House in Spain… I would love having one. I once read about a teacher that created a game so kids and parents could discover the classroom together. I would like doing something like that.
4. Do you have a pet….do share!? No, I don’t have pets. I live in a small apartment.
5. What time do you usually wake up and get to school on a typical school day? I get up al 7:30 and leave home about 8:30 and walk to school. I live about 25 minutes walking from my school. We start at 9:00.
6. What did you dress up as on the last Halloween that you dressed up? We don’t really celebrate Halloween in Spain. It started a few years ago. But my last disguise in school for last Mardi Grass was as a diver. We were celebrating water year in our school. And there is no way I share that photo!
7. What is something silly that you are afraid of? (I am afraid of fish…silly right? or so I am told!) I ‘m scared of birds. It’s quite silly… I shouldn’t see that Alfred Hitchcock film.
8. What is your favorite part of working at your school, besides the students in your classroom? I am in the Theater  group and also in the library. I could not decide because I love drama and books.
9. What tv show do you can you absolutely not miss each week? We have a programme in Spain called Spanish people around the world (that would be the translation) I imagine myself living abroad every time we watch it.
10. What is the #1 thing you hope your students leave your classroom remembering at the end of the year? The peaceful environment we have when we all learning together and helping each other. I love that humming in the classroom when working in small groups.
I’m going to send this to all my friends in Global Teacher Connect: (I’m cheating because there are 13 people in my list, so feel free to answer or not).

My Questions are:

  1. Where are you from?
  2. Where do you teach?
  3. Which subject and grade do you teach?
  4. What would you do if you weren’t a teacher?
  5. What do you wear to school?
  6. What did you do during spring break?
  7. Where would you like to travel next Summer?
  8. Imagine that you earn some kind of School Lottery and you can buy anything for your school/classroom. What would you get?
  9. Which is your favorite store for teaching materials?
  10. Which is your favorite store for clothes?