"Read Across America" Dr. Seuss Camera App

Crazy Cute!! Have you seen this app? With "Read Across America" and our district's celebration of "Nevada Reading Week" all coming on Monday, I couldn't have discovered this app at a better time!

  Isn't this super cute? 

Create fun Dr. Seuss photos with your students next week! There are about 15 different designs to choose from and you can even change the background color and add a frame!! 

The app is super easy to use! You can drag and adjust your image to fit perfectly. Then, email the photos to yourself and print! 

The app only works on the iPhone, not the iPad, and is $1.99, but well worth it!  

Click on the app icon to be taken to it in the itunes store.

I'm excited to send these home next week with each student as a keepsake for "Read Across America 2015."

My school kicked off reading week today with a pep rally assembly and all the teachers dressed as superheroes!! Here's my outfit!

Here's my girls being all silly today and one of my students holding my red cape up behind me! While I hate this picture of me (long day, last hour, bad hair day, belly-LOL), I just love all of their goofiness! They got such a kick outta my outfit and called me Super Woman all day!!! Such a fun day! :)

What do you have planned for Read Across America next week??

A Little Bit of Everything....Cooking, Markdown Monday, Monday Meet Up, and a Freebie!

I'm linking up with 4 awesome blogs today for "Monday Meet Up," "Eating, Drinking, and Linking," "Markdown Monday," and "Classroom Freebies!"

One of my goals this summer was to actually make some of the recipes that I've been pinning all year! Yesterday I knocked two off my list!

I made French Toast Casserole!!! Great!
Here's the pin:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/142848619405905580/

And for dinner, I made Mongolian Beef. Very good as well!
Here is that pin:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/142848619404611221/

I recommend both of these! Both are very easy and delicious!

As you may know, I do alot of cooking in my classroom! My kids love it and I love it! 

Cooking is not only an essential life skill, it is a great opportunity to teach students essential literacy and math skills. Through cooking and working with recipes, students are exposed to reading, sequencing, following directions, measurement, and other mathematical operations! Cooking also serves as a fabulous way to get student writing how-to, persuasive, and opinion paragraphs. 

I've been working on putting together a cooking unit for the classroom; to include recipes we've made and to include some new ideas for next year since I'll have the same kiddos again! 

Well it's complete! I just finished it up lastnight and would love to offer it at a discounted price for "Markdown Monday."

The recipes follow the following format and provide easy to follow step-by-step directions. Recipes that feature a girl require some cooking, while recipes featuring a boy require NO cooking!

Here's a preview of some of the learning activities included for the recipes!

This is not just an ordinary cookbook! It is about getting students engaged in learning. With these 34 timely, and simple kid-friendly recipes your students will practice sequencing, graphing, computation, measurement, and learn to write persuasive, opinion, and how-to paragraphs. 

And for Markdown Monday, you can get it for $2 off through Friday!!!

You can check it out {here}.

And for your freebie.....

You can snag up these iPad Classroom Rule Posters {here}.

Click on any of the blog buttons in this post if you'd like to join their linky party!!

Great App Finds, Freebie, & A Sale

Well it's GREAT FINDS SUNDAY on Monday!!!!! Better late than never right, and it has been more than never lately!! 

Is anyone else on spring break this week?!!!!

This week I have some great technology and app finds for you, as well as a $100 giveaway!

My first great find is an app called "Apps Gone Free."

This is what the app icon looks like and the app is free

 "Apps Gone Free" posts normally paid apps every day that have GONE FREE! Some of them only free for that day! I've seen apps as high as $19.99 go free for the day and have gotten several apps for myself ranging from 99 cents to $4.99 for free! I have gotten a couple of cheezy ones in the process, but who cares....they're free, so just delete them!!!

My next great find....also to do with apps....is finding Grace's website at www.imum.com. Grace is dedicated to finding the best and cheapest educational apps out there for families and their children. Every day she posts free and discounted apps for children.

 Click on her button above to view the free and discounted apps you can snag up today!!!!

Grace is also having a giveaway right now for your choice of a $100 gift card to Amazon or the iTunes store!

You can enter {here}.

Book Creator is also another great app find I've been playing around with, where you can create your own ibooks. I learned of it at a ULS staff training last week, but I want to play around with it a little more before sharing too much about this app. In the meantime, check it out for yourself. 


FREEBIE ALERT
If you didn't grab my Easter freebie that was featured on Educents, it is now available in my TpT store!!

I'm also having a spring break sale!

Everything in my store is 15% off for 3 days!!!

Start shopping {here}.

Five for Friday With 3 Science Experiments & A Freebie!

It's official!!!! I'm on spring break and I'm starting my first day out with my first ever link up with "Doodle Bugs Teaching" for her "Five for Friday" linky party! I've always wanted to join this fun party, but I don't usually blog on Fridays because it's my shopping night! I always do my grocery shopping on Friday nights after school, so that I can enjoy my Saturdays and Sundays. It really makes for a much longer weekend! Although it's much dreaded every Friday, it feels so good to get up every Saturday morning knowing it's DONE!!

So here's my Five for Friday on Saturday!!!

 Do you have trouble managing ipads and what apps students go on in your classroom? I did and it was driving me crazy! So in an attempt to solve this problem, I organized all of the apps on all the ipads into categories, took screen shots of each and made this schedule chart. We started it on Monday and it worked great! Now when students go to the ipad center, they check to see what category their group has been assigned and then they can choose any app from that category! If students are caught out of that category, the ipad is taken and they have to go do seatwork. That generally only happens once! 

In a previous post {here} I wrote about "guided access" and how you can use it to lock a student within an app, but it can often be challenging for me to free myself from my other groups to place every student into guided access.

Our favorite part of the day......Science Time!!!

Students got to see how the molecules of the water adhere to the piece of string without spilling!!

We made homemade playdough....and then......

 ..........used it to see our pulse!!!

This is a very cool experiment! When placed correctly over the pulse, the toothpicks rapidly vibrates and moves!

We studied ants all week, but had to say goodbye to our ants and set them free before leaving yesterday as we are on Spring Break now! Woohoo!

I just love this photo!

A closer look!

 The kids loved making ants on a log!!!

And to end the day before break yesterday....we colored Easter eggs! I am convinced that some of my students have never colored Easter eggs, so I am very happy I was able to provide them with this memorable childhood experience!

And I'd like to leave you with a couple of freebies from my "All About Ants" unit.