Super Bowl Weekend

It is the end of that time of year. The end of professional football season.  Our family happens to like football. I grew up marching and cheering for football games.  Lucky for me I married a collector of sports memorabilia and my daughter married a retired NFL player.  Our families have many friends and love to get together to laugh and eat. So Autumn's classroom has been busy getting ready for the Super Bowl using themed items during reading, math, and center time.  We update our packaged items for the Super Bowl each year.  

There are no Seattle Skittles available. I found some on eBay for a ridiculous price over $100. So I went through Skittles looking for blue and green ones. I found that the "Dessert Skittles" have them.
For those that do not keep up with football, the Seattle Seahawk's player, Marshawn Lynch,           always eats Skittles during football games for energy.

I have made wrappers for both teams to go around Hershey's nuggets.

We have food flags ready to use where necessary.

I found an easy way to make football cookies.
Just take some Little Debbie's Oatmeal Creme Cookies and cut them to football shape. (Save cut off pieces for snacking.) Decorate the cookie using gel or white icing to look like a football.

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New Year

I am linking up with the ladies over at Primary Possibilities for a New Years linky! 

I was sick the last week before break so I will have had 3 weeks away from my kiddos. So it will be a whole ordeal going back in to the classroom. 

So I will be getting started with going over all of the expectations for the classroom and taking it slow. After this big break I feel like kinda of a reset needs to happen. So I am planning to spend a good amount of time repeating the normal things! Like lining up and sitting down. We will also be diving into our Arctic animals units! What are your have to do things for the new year after this break? To get you back in the flow myself and a few friends have put together a Rafflecopter that you can win a $50 gift card to TPT! So you can grab everything you need! 

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My Favorite Things!!

So my 2 can't leave home without them items are of course my Jamberry nail adhesives! These are perfect for teachers you can theme your nails! We all know a teacher loves a theme! My second is a new discovery. Clinique superbalm lip treatment. Even my 4 year old loves this lip balm. 

We just created this and it will become a tradition! We went to the Sugar Plum Fairy ball and then to the Nutcracker Ballet. It was AMAZING! The girls had their faces painted and a picture with the sugar plum fairy. Then we had lunch in the beautifully decorated Union Station. Finally we headed back to Kauffman Hall to see the ballet. The girls LOVED it. So did the mommies!

So truth be told I could honestly eat Steak almost every night. But that isn't actually going to happen. So I have to be friendly with drive thrus! So I have an unhealthy love of Chick Fil a! But the obsession gets worse this time of the year when their Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milk Shake is out. Seriously though have you had one? AMAZING!!!! Go get one NOW!

So for our part of the giveaway we are giving away a Walgreens gift card. Walgreens is my go to run in and run out spot. I never have to park a mile from the door and they never have crazy long lines. At mom's there is a whole shoe and clothing section in her mega Walgreens. She grabbed all of this today with her rewards point! So yep FREE loot!! Pretty sure the Olaf's are headed this way! So go enter to win!!

The items we will be featuring are our Math & ELA Polar Express with Centers and many other save your ink printables! We will also have our Hanukah Math & ELA half off!!

Because we value our followers and wanted to treat you to our favorite things Oprah style, we have put together the best giveaway of the season! My bloggy friends and I welcome you to the best, biggest, most cheerful event of the season:

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December Pick 3

 I have 2 super awesome friends Lisa at Pawsitively Teaching and Marissa at Inspired Owl's Corner that are hosting this awesome linky! It is just to give you some ideas of things that you can use in your classroom in December! 

So I know I am always trying to find easy and cost effective gifts that my kids can make for their parents. I think the hardest part is I teach kindergarten so finding cute things that they can actually create on their own. This seemed like a doable project and all parents love a picture of their child!

I love using directed drawings with my class! I think it helps them to develop confidence with their own drawings. I try to break things done so they can see that each big drawing is just smaller shapes! 

My last pick is definitely more for the kids! It would make a cute non holiday bulletin board also. Not to mention with Olaf the snowman popularity is through the roof!
Hope you are able to use something from here or hope over and check out someone else's post! 

Make sure you enter to win this awesome Jamberry holiday gift set! Just hop over and like my FB page! 

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Left Overs Friday!

I absolutely love the holidays! Thanksgiving is just such a happy start to the holidays. Unfortunately neither the hubby or I have family close by. So some years we opt to go watch football (Let's go Hawks) But this year we decided to stay home and host. So we have friends that are coming over! Which I know will be tons of fun. My friend Dixie is bringing red velvet cake! Which is my fav!!! 

So for this weekend I will be eating WAY to much and shopping WAY too much and then like all teachers working to figure out what we are doing in my classroom for December! 

I will also be creating this little left over!! One of my besties sells Tastefully Simple and I love it! So I will be using my left over turkey with this potato cheese soup!

My wonderful friend Missy over at Dirt Road Teacher organized this linky and giveaway! So you can plan for December with items that are on sale for only one day(Black Friday) and get a chance to win some moola(Visa) to finish your shopping!! 
So here are a few of the items that are on sale for half off in my store today that I will be using soon and hope you can use too!

Make sure you enter the giveaway!! Also if you have any great items you are using for the next few weeks link up!!

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