New Things, a Giveaway, & Guest Post Freebies!

This week has been super busy!  Aside from a couple of outings, I've mostly just been hanging around the house.  Let me tell you...you can get loads of things done in your pajamas! Don't you just love summer time?  Most importantly...I managed to get my house clean! Floors vacuumed, laundry done, toys organized, the works.  {insert applause} Here's what else I've been up to:

Remember that whole copyright scare with Scrappin Doodle's adorable Seuss graphics?  Well I finally redid my Seusstacular Roll and Cover {Free} and my It's Time for You Know Who telling time activity.  I swapped out the old graphics for the new acceptable ones.

I also completed a new Rock, Paper, Scissors game.  I received a request for a telling time version a few weeks ago and just now was able to get around to making it.

With all of the Daily 5 buzz this summer I got to thinking about my literacy stations.  I organize the movement of my students with what I call "literacy maps."  What I love about these maps is that it allows my literacy stations to be grouped heterogeneously while keeping my guided groups homogeneous.  You can have up to 6 guided groups or as little as you choose.   I usually have 4 guided groups while leaving 2 of the rotations open for reader's and writer's workshop mini-conferences.  I do not use the official Daily 5 workstation names.  I've renamed them a bit.  I wanted to be able to share my literacy maps and the signs that go with them with you but I realized that other people may not want to call their stations the same names as me. Sooo.....I managed to create editable pdfs so that you can label them as you please!  The packet contains my version and the editable ones!

I've decided to give away 3 copies of my Programmable Literacy Maps & Posters for Workstations.  You can enter with the Rafflecopter below.  This giveaway will end on Sunday at midnight and I'll announce the winners on Monday.  Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway One last thing.  Make sure to stop by Mrs. Stanford's Class today for my guest post.  You can pick up my latest Roll and Cover game while you are there!