Zippin Down the Freebie Trail

It's here! The Blog Hoppin' Bunny has stopped by my blog! I am so excited!

All of this blog hoppin hysteria will go through Sunday, so you won't want to miss a stop... And I'm going to tell you how to retrace yur steps!

I am soooooooooooooooooo excited to be involved in this blog hop, I made TWO freebies! The first is a little "shout out" (more like a "tweet") to send home to share good news from school. I'm not a primary teacher, but I didn't want to have my primary buddies going away thinking, "Nope nothing for me here." So these little notes are for you!

Click on the image to take you to the google.docs location where you can download the notes. Cardstock is almost best, but I'm sure you already knew that,!

The second freebie is for older kids. It's a card game to practice exponents, and I made  it just for this very hop! The backgrounds are all pretty spring patterns from Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah-Designs! Love! (I believe if you are stuck practicing exponents, you should certainly have the opportunity to look at cute, colorful patterns!)

You can get the math freebie by clicking on the link below to take you to TpT. You can download it there (And if you teach math to bigger kids, I really hope you will)

I keep thinking that this whole product-making business will get easier.  Ummmmmm. Not yet!
I think I save each page about eighty-two times. I save it with a password to keep the creations of my clip artists-friends safe and secure. But then I have to desecuritize the same pages when I want to combine them with other pages and then save them again and re-protect them. (I hope you are as glad as I am that I am not making vocabulary activities, because I am almost certain that "desecuritize" is not a word. But it SHOULD be!) I remain a novice--but if anyone wants to be my product tutor, I'd be all ears... that's a little bunny humor for you!

So grab them both if you would like. Or One. Or the other. Or neither and just leave a Hello comment. Or just smile and think a happy thought or enjoy a sip of coffee. I'm fine with any of those!

And here's the best part: You can click on the link below to take you to another blog on the trail. You'll be headed for Kristin's/Little Miss Glamour's blog. What a sweetie she is. It will take you less than two seconds to fall in love with her blog--since the "home page" is all covered with shoes! So fun! And I can't wait to snag her freebie, so I will be racing you to get there. Just click on the link below...

And, just in case you stumbled into the middle of the blog hop by starting here, you should go back to the beginning and fill up your basket! The hoppin' started at Primary Inspired. Scroll back up to the top of this post and click on the orange egg. This way, you can start the adventure from its blog-hoppin' beginning.

Enjoy your day...

Searching for the Truth and Uncovering the Lie!

Whoa. That sounds rather ominous!

Thankfully, this all relates back to the fun link-up at Flying into First Grade...

Here were your options:

Statement 1: While working for the Hawaii Department of Education, I got lost in a sugar cane field with my co-presenter somewhere in the vicinity of the school where we were assigned to work. We drove through rows and rows of cane plants (which poked into our windows and nearly damaged the car) for over an hour and narrowly missed having the workshop canceled on our behalf... Or...

Statement 2: As a seventeen year old employed at a doughnut shop, I misread the directions while making raised dough (such as that used for glazed doughnuts). As a result, once I mixed the warm water and dry ingredients, the dough rose out of the mixer, filled first one large trash can, then two, and then nearly half of the dumpster in the parking lot behind the shop... Or...

Statement 3: During my first year of teaching, I was on duty as the recess supervisor when three large dogs from the house across the street broke free from their backyard and found their way onto the school playground. Hundreds of children watched amused and/or horrified as I ran back and forth across the playground, among four square, hopscotch and tether ball games, trying to catch and capture the furry friends with only the help of my whistle and a commandeered jump rope...

Hmmmmm. Are you still wondering? Which ones ARE true? And which is completely made-up?

 

Statement #1... True story! I thought I would be lost forever in that sugar cane field in Hawaii! Fortunately, the native Hawaiians were so sweet and friendly that once we finally DID arrive, they gave us some food and some juice and made us feel like everyone, positively everyone gets lost trying to find their training location.... I am chuckling now remembering that is was a rather large white building that we managed to miss...

Statement #2... True story! It was the one time in my life I thought I was actually living an episode of I Love Lucy! It was only my second job (if you don't count babysitting), and I was panicked. I am still paranoid about fractions, because clearly I read some part of that recipe incorrectly. I do remember securing the assistance of some rather cute box boys from the grocery store in the same parking lot. We hauled the dough out in big plastic trash cans (which were surprisingly heavy) and tipped them into the dumpster. And, yes, I admit that I drove by the next morning to determine that the dough was not oozing out of the dumpster like the blob that ate the doughnut shop (Good movie plot, though!)

Statement #3... Ah, there's the falsehood. Here's the TRUTH on this one: I am afraid of most dogs (although probably not Sydney or Murphie or Missy Squirrel's dog, Truman, who could probably fit into her chicken purse). I have a very bad feeling that if there WERE three large dogs (or medium dogs) (or, quite possibly, rather small dogs) loose on the playground, I might cry. Or I might say, "Oh My Golly! There are three large dogs loose on the playground... Somebody DO something!" Or, most likely, I would run up to a few of my sixth graders and say: "Look. Help me out here. I'll give you all homework passes if you can PLEASE help me out with the dog situation..."

Of my many (okay, nine) respondents, two people guessed correctly. Tamara and Nancy: Check your e-mail for a Starbucks treat! And, if/when I start my own CSI outfit, I want you to be on MY team!

Here's more news: Tomorrow, the Easter Bunny Freebie Trail is dropping by my blog! YIPPEE! I loved being a part of TBA's Bunny Hop last year. (I felt very "grown up" about it, for some reason. It was my first ever HOP!). And now the bunnies have hidden something special for you AGAIN!

So be SURE you hop by tomorrow and find a FREEBIE.

And don't forget to link up with LaToya at Fluttering through First.
Finally, don't you just LOVE all of these Ashley Hughes graphics? I left the link to her TpT store below. Such happy stuff! (And my numbers are from Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah! Click on the Zip to get there!)

See you tomorrow... PEEPS!

Artwork by Ashley Hughes on TpT

Fun fonts by Jen Jones at Hello Literacy and on TpT