BLACK FRIDAY!

If y'all remember, I am a Independent Consultant for Story Time Felts and More! I personally think we have the most beautiful felts around. They are  made in America out of super soft 1/4 inch flannel and they are even washable!

  Today Story Time Felts is having their MOST "Awesomest" Sale of the year! It's the first time Story Time Felts has ever had a BLACK FRIDAY Sale! So you know they are going to do it BIG! Now, if you haven't been watching my facebook page, I'm going to show you a few of the fabulous goodies up for SALE! This sale is going on now until 11:pm tonight over at my Story Time Felts & More's Consultants website!

First up is the Aesop's Fables w/CD Set

                                                                         Regular Price $34.99    

                                                                        Special Price  $19.99 uncut

Aesop first told these fables in the 7th century BC, and we still tell them to our children today! These Stories teach valuable lessons such as "honesty is the best policy" and many, many more. There are 15 fables in all. Book includes five felt pages, 57 felt figures, stories, and the CD

Fashion Dolls Uncut

Regular Price: $17.99

Special Price: $11.99

On the job or on the slopes, on the town or on the beach this set is sure to make any young lady very happy! Felt dolls are so much better than paper dolls! Girls will have hours and "years" of fun because of our felts durably! Forty items of clothing and four beautiful dolls on regular felt offer dozens of dress combinations! 

Classic Fairy Tales

Regular Price: $27.99

Special Price: $19.99 / uncut

Five all time favorite fairy tales can be told with this comprehensive set. You and your child or children can tell these fabulous favorites:

* Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

* The 3 Little Pigs

* The Gingerbread Man (my favorite!!)

* Billy Goats Gruff

and

* Little Red Riding Hood

And here are a few more: 

Baby Kari

Crazy Good Deal

Regular Price: $27.99

Special Price: $6.99

            

Create-a-Face

Regular Price: $24.99

Special Price: $14.99

Butterflies

Regular Price: $11.99

Special Price: $ 5.99 

Friend Dolls

Regular Price: $3.99 each

Special Price: $2.00 each

And those are just a few! We have "3" pages filled with "going, going until they're gone items!!


Hurry over to my Consultant  Page HERE and click Shop! Then Click on the BLACK FRIDAY button on the top left! If you need any help with your orders or have any questions please contact me at: laleighma1@cobridge.tv


Happy Shopping!
Laura

Found Freebies!

Are you a Freebie Lover like me? I bet you are ;) Most Mommies and Teachers LOVE anything Free! Right? Oh Yeah! Here is an excellent site with LOTS of Fantastic FREE goodies! It's called:

Freeology

It has lots and lots of fabulous printables! Like...

                           

Classroom Posters and Signs! 

AND

                                                              

 Alphabet Printables           

AND

Awards and Certificates

Number Printables  

Reading Goodies

Coloring Pages

Environmental Printables

Grammar Goodies  

Plus Lots More!

                                                      

Now, scoot over there and get yourself some awesome Freebies and don't forget to share ! ;) 






Make Every Day a Child's Play Day!




Laura

Circle Time Seating Idea

I know Ms Deborah's post from Teach Preschool will be all over Facebook today, because this idea is SO awesome!

(picture from TeachPreschool.org)

Circle Time is a great way to start your day at school, but sometimes not everyone is happy about where they end up sitting! The complaints I've heard.... "I can't see you Ms. Laura because ______ is too big!" or "_____ is touching me!" or "I'm being smushed!" or "I can't hear you Ms. Laura because _____ won't stop talking to me!"

I know we have all tried different ways to get the kids sitting comfortably and paying attention during Circle Time, right? I've tried putting tape strips on the carpet with their names. I've tried using contact paper pictures with their names on it, but they don't stay long and well, it kind of messes up the rug too!

I've "chalked" seating spots; used laminated construction paper and mini note pads with Velcro on the back and I've even purchased mini rugs, BUT this idea that came from someone on her Teach Preschool Facebook page is Rocking!!

                                               Using Place Mats to Sit On!

 Is that a crazy good idea or what?! You know it is! Wow! I can't believe I had never thought of using them! Wow!

What ideas have you tried to control seating at Circle Time? Please share! :)


                                     Thanks! Have a Child's Play Day!
                                       
                                                     Laura



         

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Ghost Rhyming Game

I made this game myself and wanted to get at least "1" cute item on the blog before the end of Halloween! I barely made it didn’t I? Gees! I hope you like it . 


I scanned the images and printed out a set for my Mom's class. They came out just fine, yeah! I used white tag-board and will of course laminate them for durability. I stored them in a little velour pumpkin bag that I picked up last year at the Dollar Tree. Sorry there isn’t a picture of it because my Hubby took the camera to the hunting camp! Go figure!


                                                            

Ghost/Toast & Thumb/Drum

Flag/Bag & Door/Store

Pig/Wig & Wink/Drink

Skate/Gate & Mice/Ice

Cheese/Squeeze & Soap/Rope

Moon/Spoon & Truck/Duck

King/Ring

                                                              

                                       

                                                Happy Halloween!

An All About Me "Ms. Laura" Book

When my class did our "All About Me" unit each child made their own book at home, with the help of their parents. I scheduled a few kids at a time to bring their books, so they could "read" them to the class. This way I wouldn't be overwhelmed with having all of them at once. Each book was unique in its own way and totally fabulous! I so wished I had taken pictures of each and every one, but I didn't! Teachers and parents, take pictures of everything, seriously! Living in this digital age it now can be done and stored on a disk! I love that! But, when I was a younger teacher I couldn't afford to take so many pictures. I did get help from the parents via my Giving Tree.

I made a tree into a "Giving Tree" bulletin board and placed it right by my front door. It was simply an apple tree poster that I had gotten from Scholastic. I put apples, which I cut from tag board, on the tree. Each apple had different things we needed or used often in our class! The parents could just grab one on their way out and it worked very well. I never had to ask for stuff very often...well not much anyway ;)

But, back to the All About Me books! I made this one 12 years ago, so don't giggle too hard at the pics! Thank you ;) My own kids still get a good laugh at it today. It has become a mini scrapbook in time for us. Each page is in the shape of an apple, which I made from red poster board. But any shape would work just find. One of my students made their book using the different letters in their name. It was really cool! (I wished I had thought of that) I laminated my pages and brought the whole thing to Kinko's to have it bound. It wasn't much and it has lasted all this time, even with many little hands flipping through it over and over again! It was well worth the cost.

Looking back, I wished I hadn't handwritten the wording but would have printed it out with the computer. That way I could have caught any typos too. Gees! And it would have been more uniformed and much neater looking. I decided on the content from a page that I will add at the bottom. So here it is, just to get your brain brimming with ideas on what YOU could do!

                                                                

                 

               

Here is the page I sent home for the parents. It is from Leap Frog Press, now known as Frogstreet Press! Yup it's that old! ;)

And here is a fabulous link up to another great PDF file/printable on All About Me!

Mrs. Kilburn Kiddos

And here are some more links to sites with All About Me Ideas:

Alphabet Soup ME Songs

Hummingbird Educational Resources

Preschool Education

Child's Play

Leave me a comment if you "Like!"

Laura

   

Never Forget 9/11!