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. 

Three Easter Freebies, More/Less

I'm on a roll.....must be the SPRING FEVER!! Four more days and I'll be on spring break! All of sudden, my minds rolling and I've created three Easter freebies for you, plus finished my more/less flashcards that have been on my to-do list!! I think just the thought of a soon to come vacation has transformed me. 

Since I'll be on spring break next week, we are doing our Easter activities this week! I just LOVE the centers and activities that you can do with simple plastic Easter eggs! Here are some of the activities I'm doing this week. 

I teach multiple levels, so I'm doing beginning sounds, counting, and number order with my younger students, rhyming and basic addition with my middle students, and contractions with my more advanced students. The possibilities of these little guys are just endless!!!

But I found myself with so many levels of students, trying to create a different recording sheet for each activity....when I realized I could create one simple recording sheet that would work with every activity my students are doing!!!

 You can snag it up free {here} to use with your egg activities!

My class is soooo into Science these days!! We are literally doing a hands-on Science experiment every day, I just don't have time to blog about them all......this summer look for my "Year of Science" pack that I've been working on all year!!! It's gonna be Super Awesome!!! 

While we are doing an egg experiment everyday this week, I'd like to share our "Easter Egg Sink or Float" freebie with you! 

You can download it {here}. 

My other freebie is my "Rhyming Bunnies" freebie. It is an exclusive on Educents.com. You can grab it from Educents {here}.

I also just posted my "More/Less Flashcards." Many of my students are struggling with this concept and I'm sick of running around grabbing objects and items in the classroom to show them more and less, so I made these flashcards. They are available {here}.

Woohoo! Four more days!! Have you had your spring break yet?? 

Light It Up Blue Tomorrow!!!

Light it up BLUE tomorrow in honor of  World Autism Day! April 2nd is World Autism Day and many iconic landmarks, sport venues, retail stores, concert hall, museums, hotels, bridges, and thousands of homes and communities will be shining their blue lights! Home Depot has stocked up on blue light bulbs just for this event. We're also asking everyone to wear blue tomorrow! 

So grab your blue lights and lay out your bluest outfit and support Autism awareness tomorrow! Even if you can't make it to Home Depot, pull out those blue Christmas lights.....that's what I did! 

And if you haven't entered.....there's 3 hours left to enter Stephanie's awesome giveaway and get some great resources for your class!!! My "All About Ants" unit is also featured!

Visit her blog {here} to enter! Hurry! 

And don't forget to light it up BLUE tomorrow!!!!