800th Post Giveaway Winner (and HELP!)

Thank you so much to all who entered, shared, Tweeted and followed this past week! The winner of the Happy Birthday Bunting Set is:

Zulema Fontanes!

I'm emailing you now Zulema, but if you don't receive the message (it might hop to your spam/junk folder), you can contact me at:

michaelek1(at)yahoo(dot)com

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I'm back to work next week, so check in for a sneak peek at what this year's Super Stars will be enjoying!



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Thanks for your daily votes at Circle of Moms (up there, the button to left of my posts)!

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My daughter has moved on to the final round of the Vera Bradley Dress Your Dorm giveaway contest! Our nationally ranked powerlifter would LOVE to win a girlie-girl makeover for her dorm room (she'll attend college here in Oz in the fall) and all she needs is a bit of help by way of daily voting and sharing: you can see and vote for her entry here, and then if you're so inclined, share her entry via Twitter, Facebook, email, Pinterest, or your other social networking sites.

The nice part? You don't have to sign up for membership to any sites or share anyone else's information- talk about a fabulous contest!

Thanks for your help!

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Giveaway Winner!

Thank you so much for leaving such great comments, adding me to your blog readers, and saying "hi" via Twitter, Blogger, and Facebook!  Extending my professional learning community past my own classroom's walls is what I enjoy most about blogging, especially with kindred spirits who "get" why we share teacher humor, voice our opinions, help one another, and advocate for children.

The winner of the geometric foam pattern blocks is...

LINDSAY!

Lindsay said...

I just found this blog through google. I just got a job as a Kindergarten teacher! I'm super excited!! :) I can't wait to read more from this upcoming year when I'm teaching as well.

I've already emailed you, so make sure you send me your mailing address and I'll get the blocks in the mail a.s.a.p.!

 

Giveaway Winner: Katie from Katie's Literature Lounge!

Congratulations Katie from Katie's Literature Lounge!  You're the winner of my 600th blog post giveaway- shoot me an email with your mailing address so that I can get your goodies in the mail to you a.s.a.p!

And thanks to **you**, Dear Readers, new and old friends, for stopping by, following, and tweaking my ideas to work for you and your students.  You make BlogLand a wonderful place!

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Quick teacher's tip:

Use black lettering as shadows when you want to make words in a display or bulletin board assemblage *POP*:

I cut two sets of  matching letters using our die cut press at school out of black and tan construction paper.  Carefully placing the black letters down first, I then off-set the tan letters on top of them, and glued them down to the back of a sentence strip.  Not liking the blue line that was peeking out from between the letters, I used a white-out pen to erase it... the black "shadow" letters really make the words stand out, don't they?

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I'm working on a little pre-Christmas giveaway as well, so stay tuned!

Two G's: GREEN and GIVEAWAY Winner!

Despite the roller coaster weather we've had here in Oz, there's green to be found:



Patterns of green on the dining room table...

Sparkly green on the windowsill...



... and twiggy green on the door...



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Congratulations to **~Katie~**, my 500th Blog Post Giveaway WINNER!



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~ Little Birdie Secrets shares a leprechaun's visit (go look, it's CUTE and your kids will LOVE it!)

~ Miss Fancy Pants posted a great tutorial for a wonderful March Display art piece...

~ Make and Takes shows you how to make an awesome pot of gold and rainbow (think crafty goodness with paint, chocolate and chenille stems a.k.a. "pipe cleaners")...

~ and while totally NOT leprechaun-ish in any way, I LOVE these recycled glasses from soda bottles shared by Haute Nature...hey, recycled...that's "going green," right?

And the Winner is...

Gladys!

**YOU WON THE CHRISTMAS BANNER!**

Congratulations, and thank you so much for visiting Kindergarten's 3 R's- I'm off to email you to get your snail mail address.

Thank you dear friends and readers~ at this rate, it shouldn't take me long to reach 500 posts!

(P.S. A creative friend and Dear Daughter are urging me to put my other Christmas banners up for sale on Ebay- I'll post here when they're available for purchase...)

Giveaway Winner!

Dear Daughter drew a winner:



Congratulations Shauna!

Thank you to all who entered by commenting or emailing me last week- the excitement of today's drawing is what got us through the misery of our colds!

Many thanks for reading and for sharing your thoughts and encouragement- I'm so looking forward to reaching the next blog milestone (when/what is that, exactly?) and of course, thinking up something new for my next giveaway!