fbpx Top

Where the Wild Things Learn

Blogiversary Giveaway…EVERYONE wins!!

by Leave a Comment

WOW! It is hard to believe that I began this blogging journey a year ago. I have met so many wonderful teachers through this community who I have learned from. I say this all the time, but I truly believe that blogging has made me a better teacher. I learn from wonderful people like YOU who leave comments and suggestions, and who posts on your blogs with inspirational ideas.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart for following along and reading about my lil ol’ classroom journey. It means more to me than I could ever say!

To celebrate, I am joining up with one of my fav bloggy friends Diane, over at Fifth in the Middle. She has 1,000 followers… isn’t that amazing?!

To show our appreciation, our bloggy friends are helping us with two days of giveaways that you will not want to miss!

I’m not going to tell you exactly what you’ll win (some of them are exclusive to this giveaway!), but they are products from the following bloggers:

Me 🙂

Today’s giveaway is easy! All you need to do is fill out this form and wait for goodies to be sent to you! EVERYONE wins, but you MUST enter today! I will be reverting this post to draft status before bedtime tonight! Good night, everyone! Thanks for participating 🙂 Come back tomorrow for more AWESOME chances to win!

Giveaway Form

Check back tomorrow for an easy and fun scavenger hunt that will qualify you to win a bunch of amazing prizes!!

I also wanted to share two quick student motivations that have worked SO well with my new group of kiddos these first two weeks. I’m linking up with the amazing Joannne (you have to read her mad scientist post today, it’s great!!) 🙂

The first is my NOISE letters

Both of my classes start with the full letter on the board at the beginning of the day in both my classroom and my teaching partners. When their noise level is too loud, I take down a letter. If we get to  “E”, there is nothing above a whisper allowed. If they lose ALL of their “NOISE” we go to silence. If anyone talks at that point we lose recess.  The letters they’ve lost carry over when they switch to Math and Science with my teaching partner. We had SUCH  a talkative group last year and knew this group would be, too. This has worked WONDERS so far.. hopefully it continues 🙂
The second motivation is an idea I got from one of the first blogs that ever inspired me, Lady Bug Teacher Files.  I {love} all of her amazing ideas! 
Last year I almost had a mental breakdown from giving out so many pencils. This year, so far.. problem solved! I numbered pencils the first day just like she suggested. I told students if they could keep that SAME pencil until Friday, they would get a sugarless chewing gum day. The applause and excitement erupted! I am proud to report that EVERY students, yes ALL 54 of them kept their pencils the first week!!!! The second week, only ONE student lost his. YAHOO! I can already feel the mental breakdown of pencil disaster going away this year 🙂 
These two little things have made my teaching life so much better. What do you do to motivate students?

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. Happy Blogiversary from me, too! I found my way to your blog from Diane's post…and I'm glad I did! I'm signing up as your newest follower (probably not your newest for long, though, as I bet you'll get lots of Diane's followers over to check you out today!) Thanks for the incredible giveaway!
    ~Deb
    Crafting Connections

    Reply

  6. Are you going out to celebrate your Blogiversary? I don't know about you, but once school starts, those first few days I feel like a zombie and have a difficult time making dinner!! I love the NOISE idea. My principal wants every class to have a behavior clip chart this year. The NOISE idea would work well with that, too. I definitely checked out the Mad Scientist.. loving her lab coats!!

    Happy, Happy Blogiversary!!!

    Susan

    LopezLandLearners

    Reply

  7. I have been using the NOISE letters as well. They work wonders in my classroom too. I do it a bit different though. I work backwards and take down the "e" then the "s" then the "i" and what is left is NO and it is no more talking. So far we have only been on "NO" one time. I love your pencil idea! I must give that one a try as well because at the rate I am going (we have been in school a month now) I will be out of pencils by Christmas.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Don’t Miss Out–Join Now!

Join now and be a part of our community! I send exclusive freebies and teaching ideas to my subscribers.

Footer

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No feed found.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed.

@ameliacapotosta

Join the

Facebook Group

You will get so much out of this little group! Talk with like-minded teachers who are ready to use or already using authentic texts to learn together.


Join the Group