Birthday Pack Giveaway and My First Time Guest Blogging!

Hello everyone!

I got a sudden bursts of inspiration last night and worked hard to create this birthday pack. And I want to thank Amanda at The Teaching Thief  for being apart of that, as I took inspiration for part of it from the scrap paper birthday bookmarks she made.

I am sad to say that I didn't do much for birthdays last year. This year I want to be prepared!

So here it is and I am very proud of it. I can't wait to use it in my classroom this year! It includes book marks, bulletin board decor, stickers, certificates, and no homework passes.

Take a look!

all the graphics are courtesy of KPM doodles

I am going to be giving away 3(!) of these birthday packs. Fill out the rafflecopter form below. Good 

luck!  

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Before you go I wanted to let you know that I am guest blogging over at Adventures of a Third Grade Teacher. I'm blogging about Character Building read alouds I will be starting the year with!

Click the button to see my post!

oh and as a reminder my shop is still having a sale until midnight tonight!
Check it out!

Teaching Personal Goal Setting

So it is one of my goals this year to really get my kiddos thinking about personal responsibility and setting goals. I admit I wasn't that great at it last year. I want my students to be motivated to go above and beyond and really challenge themselves.

So I am really excited to show you all what I have created to help me with that!

This is my Classroom goal setting pack. 

Basically it is a set of 22 classroom goals. The students choose one that they feel they need to work on and fill out a weekly tracking sheet. The student's rate themselves daily and there is a place for either the student to write more comments, or the teacher to write more comments. 

You can use this whole class or just for those students you think need a little extra help. I am going to use it whole class. 

I think I'm also going to send the sheet home with the students on friday with their work as well. I haven't decided if I will tie it into classroom rewards or not yet. I think I'll see how it goes first. 

I think this is really going to help my students recognize where they need help, challenge themselves, set and achieve goals, feel a sense of pride, and really start building that intrinsic motivation we all want them to have. 

I am selling this is my TPT store for $2.00, so it's a good deal.  However, if anyone is interested I will give it away for free to the first two people to leave me a comment with their email address! FREE! YAY!

Click the link to go to my store!

If you win this, or purchase it, let me know what you think! I would love feedback, especially if you have some other goal ideas you think I should add. 

Finally, I am just 15 people away from the big 50 (followers that is) I am definitely going to do a giveaway once I get there. So if you are not a follower yet, click that button over to the side :-)

Happy Wednesday everyone! I think it's Wednesday at least, I don't know where the time is going!

Monday Made it and a Freebie for you!

So here I am again linking up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics for another edition of Made it Monday.

Loving this by the way. It's been giving me the added inspiration to create!

This week I was inspired by this pin found here at Suesstastic Classroom Inspirations.

I loved her coupon idea, but wanted something a little more relevant to my classroom, so I made my own!

Click here to Grab off Google Docs

You can use these a variety of ways in the classroom and they work well with any type of other classroom management system you might already have in place. This year I used an economy system, and when students would earn a required amount of money they could choose a coupon. You could also use them with the clip chart for students who earn top of the chart. 

Now I am a baby blogger, this being my second week in blogville and all. I had no clue how to make this kind of thing in power point, but with A LOT of trial and error, I was able to complete this and share it all with you. I'm pretty proud of myself.

Anyway, if anyone out there in blogville finds this useful, please feel free to take them and use them in your classroom. I just ask that if you do, you follow me, and leave me a comment.

Also, I've been thinking about having a giveaway to celebrate my one-month blogging anniversary. I was thinking about giving away a custom set of coupons. Let me know if you'd be interested!