End of Summer School TPT Sale!

Hey everyone I'm celebrating the end of summer school with a sale on my Teachers Pay Teachers products. Please check out my TPT site!

How do you use your ELMO? LINKY PARTY

I'm excited!! I just found out I'm getting an ELMO this year and I'll have a projector on a cart. So my question for the blogging world and those that have had an ELMO in their classroom is how do you use it? How should I incorporate it into my daily routine and centers? I'm excited to learn from all of your experiences!

Vista Print

Nancy over at the Apple Teacher Basket is having a Vista Linky Party! Check it out!!


I just ordered some cute things from Vista Print for FREE (I just paid the shipping) that I wanted to share! 
I ordered:

• car magnet for my board
• 250 business cards with my contact info at school
• a rubber stamp for star work
• a personalized pen to keep in my mailbox that won't run away! 

Order your stuff from Vista Print and get it before the school year begins!
 
 

With a heavy heart ... my website is coming down :-(

So I've had to make some decisions over the past few days about what to do with my class website http://www.misswhyte.com . My renewal date is coming up (first week in August) and I have been debating whether I should pay for the server and domain to keep the site up as a teacher resource or to take it down and well tonight the decision was made for me.
As a Mac user I was very excited today when the newest OS update Lion was pushed out and after using it for a few hours, it's great!!
BUT I didn't realize that when I upgraded to Lion that my Webdesign software from 2008: Dreamweaver 8, Fireworks 8, and Flash 8 would become outdated and I wouldn't be able to open any of the software or be able to update my websites. So the time has come... my website established in 2008 is officially is coming down. :-( You officially have two weeks to snag freebies and photo examples off my website and after that well you'll have to hope I still have them on my computer and there's no guarantee of that right now. I'm glad the blogging community has been so supportive and the teaching community has come together.
I have worked as a mentor teacher for many years and my website has been such a support for so many of you and teachers world wide. I love getting emails from teachers who stumbled upon my website asking for advice or help. Many teachers emailed me to ask for permission to adapt my activities and were looking for ideas to help themselves to support their students in the classroom. I have always believed that activities should be free of charge and to do so I helped to establish the Second Grade Teachers Club which has now over 7,000 members and I am the founder of the Kindergarten Teachers' Lounge started last year but has limited membership (150 contributing members) both free for teacher file sharing on Ning.
I will continue to share activities here on my blog but I'm hoping to join the bandwagon and begin to sell my products with the TPT community. I really have a heavy heart tonight since this decision was made earlier tonight and hope those of you out there understand. Don't worry my blog will continue on and I guess if nothing else this will make me more focused on here to share my story.... I keep telling myself that everything happens for a reason...

Target Finds

So I'm a few days behind in posting my target finds from last week. I was so excited to find the 20-26 mini dry erase erasers and 3-packs of mini dry erase markers everyone had blogged about. I also purchased dr Seuss stickers, 2-sharpies for $1, glue for $0.20 each a raise your hand and clean up time sign, a few cute pointers (stars and pencils), pirate lunch bags and the last upper case lowercase alphabet puzzle. Plus 3 teal storage bins for home($2.50/each). A very successful trip! In and out for under $50!

Please Help! Donors Choose

Please consider donating any amount to help get a new carpet from Lakeshore for our classroom. Lakeshore has offered to pay 50% of the cost if I can get my project fully funded before the grant money its offering runs out! I need your help to try and get my project fully funded in the next 24 hours! I'm only $128 away from my goal! I desperately need to get a 30 space carpet for my class since its growing from 18 kids to 27 kindergartners this August! Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
http://www.donorschoose.org/misswhyte 

Target 1 - Me 0

So after all the blog postings about dollar deals I nervously ventured to Target after summer school today. $46 later this is what I walked out with. They had very cute magazine bins for $2.50 but I decided that I have enough. I never found the abc puzzle matching cards that I wanted but maybe that's in next weeks shipment...





Now what do I use these fun markers that everyone has been talking about for?

Bulletin Board Linky Party

So there is a linky party about bulletin boards happening over at Sunny Days in Second Grade and I wanted to join up! I posted a link on her site to my class webpage but I thought I'd post on my blog some photos of the different bulletin boards I have had in my kindergarten classroom over the past two years. Please link up and join in with the fun!

Swing Into Kindergarten

Our Monster Rules

Our Corduroy Bears

We read A Box of Crayons and talked about what makes us alike and different.

We read about MLK, Jr and crated our own "I Have A Dream" kids
and wrote our dreams for the world and our community

Our monthly self portraits bulletin board

Fall Trees (paper and paint)

Winter trees (paper and cotton balls)

Spring trees (paper and tissue for cherry blossoms)

Interactive Addition Ladybugs

Beach Weekend - Happy 4th of July

I just got home from an amazing beach weekend in Delaware with friends! 

I wanted to share a few of my favorite pics!

Summer school starts tomorrow and I'm hoping for the best!

New Blog to Follow!

My old friend Karen has joined me in switching from the website world over to the blogging world. Please check out her blog as she gets going and send her a warm blogging welcome!

Mrs. Stamp's Kindergarten