Five for Friday, Currently, & October Freebie!

I'm always preaching to my kids, "Use your time wisely." Well this week, I'm using my time wisely and linking up with three awesome linkys in one post!! Five for Friday, Currently, and Freebie Friday!!!

I am beyond elated that I was nominated a few weeks ago for the community "Educator of the Year Award." "What?" Last week I discovered that I had been chosen as one of the top four finalists!!! "What?" I interviewed with all of the judges Tuesday and the winner will be announced at a formal black tie dinner on Oct. 24th!!! Super super excited, speechless and honored!!!

My Currently hosted by "Oh Boy 3rd Grade." It's been a few months since I've linked up with Farley for her Currently and so happy I remembered today!! And for the first time ever I'm in the top 50 to link up!

Loving my new flash drive bracelets and reading my comments to discover my fan's favorite products!!! Read more about them here and enter to win one loaded with your favorite products!!! The giveaway ends tonight!

My kids dancing to the "Nae Nae" song on "Go Noodle!" They are obsessed with this song....and with "Go Noodle."

A Halloween freebie for you I'm linking up with "Freebie Friday" that is a sample of my new popular "Sequencing Mats" and "Adapted Sequencing Books," thanks to the awesome pumpkin clipart from "Whimsy Workshop."

Thanks a bunch for stopping by!! :) 

What did you do this week? 

BTS Freebies!!!

Oh Snap! It's almost August!! As much as you hate it...it's time to start thinking about the upcoming school year! Well I'm featuring SEVEN BTS freebies here to ease your thinking and planning!

My open house sign in sheet...which has been downloaded almost 16,000 times! Wowza!! :)

Beginning of the year student info sheet! 

Includes everything you'll need to know from custodial issues, to allergies, to how they get home!

A line up chart

I love this and rotate it each Monday so every student gets the opportunity to lead the line. It also allows me to separate and place students away from students that should not be together. 

A check out list

This is helpful for creating and tracking books, toys, or a supply checkout system. 

An accommodations flip book

If you're in special Ed, this allows you to have accommodation suggestions right at your fingertips when writing IEPs or planning for your students.

Student desk name tags!

Simple, yet trendy name tags for your students. Print on sticker paper to easily affix to students' desks or laminate for durability. Even have students write their own names and then compare this to their handwriting at the end of the year!!  

Inspirational subway posters freebie!

Start your year out by displaying some cute, colorful, and inspirational quotes in your classroom. 

This is just a glimpse of the BTS freebies in my store! You can head over to the freebie section of my store here to download all of these freebies and even more freebies and BTS items! 

You can also click on the button below to check out other teacher deals and dollar steals in other teacher stores or even link up your own deals!!!

RACE TO 100 FREEBIE & A BLOGHOP

Hey, it's Freebie Friday!!! So much coming up in February! It's probably my most favorite month with Groundhog Day, President's Day, Valentine's Day, Black History Month, and the 100th Day of School!! If your 100th day is coming up, then you'll love this freebie that has been pinned almost 600 times and downloaded from TpT nearly 6,000 times!!!! 

My "Race to 100!"

I'm also working on a "100 days of school" mini activity booklet this evening that I'll be posting this weekend!! So be sure to follow my store so you'll be notified upon it's completion. 




And look what's in store for Sunday! Heck, I should say...the whole month of February!

Every day during the month of January, one blogger will deliver a secret envelope filled with one or more Valentine treats just for you! I'm up first and will be starting the hop with your first treat on February 1st. There will be tips, freebies, giveaways, and more!!!

You'll be able to visit my blog each day for this clickable map and easily navigate to the daily featured blog to retrieve your treats!! How exciting is that?? There are some really great things in store, so don't miss out!! See ya back on the first!!!

MobyMax Giveaway!!!

Hi Teacher Friends! Have you heard about MobyMax??? I used the free version last year and liked it so much that I purchased it this year! 

MobyMax is a web-based K-8 Common Core Curriculum that assesses and finds your student gaps and missing skills and then automatically assigns lessons to fill in these missing gaps!!! That's right.....Moby does it all for you!! However, you do have the flexibility to assign your own lessons and assessments if you choose. 

There are so many exciting features......where do I begin?? 

Here is a look at the dashboard and subjects! 

Students choose a subject to work in. Most subjects begin with a placement test that the student will need to take.

Classroom Tools allows the teacher to easily sign up students using the roster button, post assignments and announcements for the class, print worksheets, design whole group clicker activities, or privately send messages to parents and/or students using messenger.

Students are easily motivated with the badge system by earning a star for each practice set they complete. After ten stars, they earn a badge! Students are also automatically awarded with game time minutes for correct answers, but teachers also have the flexibility to reward more and monitor game time if they choose. Vibes can be given to reward or remind that difficult child of positive behavior. And you can even put together class contests!

But this is just the start teachers!!!

MobyMax gives you the ability to progress monitor, assign formative, summative, diagnostic, and unit assessments and more!

But wait....it gets better!
I haven't even told you about my most favorite features!

Reports
Parent Portal
IEP Goal Monitoring

Yes! There is a parent portal, so parents can check on their child's progress at any time. Another piece of "evidence" for home/school communication checked off the list!

Printable reports are available for all subjects. Here is an example of addition fact  progress for all and then broken down for one of my students.

And yes you did read my favorites correctly.....IEP goals! Say what? Built-in IEP goal monitoring and data collection! I haven't had chance to delve into this feature too much, as the free version I had did not offer this feature, but check it out!

Coming from a special education teacher, this is a HUGE plus! I can actually assign lessons and standards that target my student's IEP goals and let Moby do the monitoring! Wowza!! I have an instant print out of how my students are maintaining or progressing towards their goals whenever I need it! 

Two last features I must mention are the audio capability. You can adjust the settings to automatically have the lessons read for your students. This is a must feature for me as a special educator as most of my students cannot read. Another plus is that Moby allows your students free access at no charge....no expiration, no hidden charges, no limit to number of students, and offers an entry to their monthly tablet giveaway just for signing up for free! 

However, in order to gain access to all of the teacher components like the assessments, reports, worksheets, student motivators, etc. you must have the paid version. BUT MobyMax and I have some great news! Not only is it only $99 a year for an entire classroom.......MobyMax is giving away a free one-year subscription to one of my readers!!!! WooHoo! Just follow me on Bloglovin' to enter. Pin, like "The Bender Bunch" on FB, or leave a comment to earn more entries and increase your chances to win!

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Try MobyMax out for free {here}. 

And since it's also "Freebie Friday with TBA," here's a little freebie for ya! I'm working on a mini unit to teach my students about their state of Nevada, so if you live in NV, stay tuned for this product! I'm thinking about even taking requests for other states if it goes as planned. But for now, please enjoy my "Desert Animals" booklet that will be a part of this unit. 

Freebie Friday With Three

I spent nearly almost all day yesterday cleaning up and organizing all of the files on my computer! It was quite the mess! In the process I ran across a few Back to School freebies you might be able to use this year! Just click on each picture to be taken to the download page! Enjoy!

Open House Sign In Sheet

Student Info Sheet

Open House Classroom Donations

Also, don't forget about the big TpT sale coming up! Get 28% off of everything in my store!

I've recently added several new items and I have lots of classroom decor for your new year!!

Click {here} to browse and start your wishlist!

Freebie Friday With A Giveaway!

Tomorrow is the first day of February and boy do I have a great Valentine Math Pack for you! I'm so excited with how every page turned out!

It includes over 80 pages of Valentine themed and CCSS aligned Math for the month of February! Activities are suitable for Kindergarten and first grade. The majority of the pack is no prep, but for those that LOVE colorful centers like I do, it also includes hands-on centers for number bonds, fact families, whole part part, roll & remove, tens & ones, and telling time. 

Don't want a pack that requires a lot of prep and color printing??

Then, this pack is still for you! Use it with or without the colorful centers as I have designed the center recording sheets so that they can be used with the center or also work just as a printable worksheet!

Here is a preview!

 Here are two sample worksheets from the pack that I'm offering for FREE!

Just go {here} and download the preview to snag these two freebies!

I'd also love to give another one away! Just pin it or share it on your blog or FB page. Leave me a comment below with the link to your share and I'll pick a winner Sunday night!

Oh, and isn't the "Be My Valentine" bunting banner on my cover page so adorable? You can get it and two other adorable banners for free from Paula Kim Studio {here}. 

Happy Friday!!!