Giveaway Alert!

Be sure to enter Melissa's 1000 Follower Giveaway at Don't Let the Teacher Stay Up Late! Today is only day 1 and already it's packed with prizes. In today's two giveaways, you can win prizes from 8 different TPT teacher sellers including a $5 Winner's Choice prize from my shop!

You can also enter to win the quietest pencil sharpener from Classroom Friendly Supplies!

Hop on over {here} to congratulate Melissa on 1000 followers and enter these giveaways! Don't forget to check back tomorrow for more!!

Laugh Eat Learn Giveaway!

Alexis from Laugh Eat Learn has hit a huge milestone- her blog is turning one!

To celebrate, she's having a huge giveaway! 30 teachers have contributed to the giveaway and she has FIVE bundles that you could win. All you have to do is enter {here}!

One of the bundles is the intermediate bundle for upper elementary teachers. One of the products in this bundle is the Word Study/Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe from my store.

For those of you who teach the younger kiddos, she also has a Kindergarten bundle, a 1st grade bundle, and a 2nd grade bundle!

ON TOP OF THAT you can win.....

So what are you waiting for?! Hop on over to Laugh Eat Learn's 1st Blog-iversary Giveaway!

Spectacular Plum District Giveaway!

Plum District is having a HUGE Back to School Giveaway!!! You could win over $5,500 in prizes- which includes a gap gift card (PERFECT for teacher outfit shopping) and personalized frecklebox gifts. All you have to do is like their Facebook page {here}.

VA is for Bloggers - Southern Hospitality Freebie Blog Hop

Welcome to Virginia!

Virginia is for Lovers Bloggers!

A bunch of us Virginia bloggers are bringing in the new school year by extending a bit of southern hospitality.  You can follow along the blog hop to visit 20+ Virginia teacher blogs for terrific teaching tips and fun freebies to help get your new school year off to a great start.

At the end of this post, you'll be able to see everyone who's a part of this blog hop! Pick one of us Virginians to start with and roll through all of our blogs to collect a ton of great freebies, ideas and resources!

The freebie I have today is one that is perfect for back to school! The activity is simple but it's a great way to kick off the school year in writing. 

I always start the year by reading and passing around a book called "Amelia's Notebook." It's a great mentor text for writing because it's fun and shows how students can tie in their personality to their fiction and nonfiction writing. The kiddos have really been excited about writing when we start off the year with this book.

This is Amelia's Notebook and it's a series so there are multiple books!

So then the next step is for the kiddos to begin their writing notebooks. I know that an empty notebook can be daunting to a fourth grader, so the first page of our writing notebook is our Heart Map. We fill in each space of the heart with something that is important to us that we can later reference to get ideas for a story.

The example on the right was made by one of my students that was so creative but told me on the first day of school that he hated writing and reading. I like to think that starting the year off with a fun, artistic activity made him hate writing just a little bit less. 

Click on the images to grab this freebie from my Teachers Pay Teachers store! I love receiving feedback on freebies, it helps me make my freebies even better!

You can also enter into this giveaway to win 3 products from my TPT store! That's right! You win, you choose!

Here's some of the products you could grab for free if you win!

Beezus and Ramona book companion with tons of vocabulary study!

Word Study or Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe for independent student practice with weekly words

Math quick check cards- put them on a binder ring and quiz your kiddos during transitions! See the blog post about these useful little things here.

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The next stop on the hop is Nikki from Teaching in Progress! She is the hostess and organizer of this whole blog hop sha-bang so you can't miss her blog!

Be sure to check out all the blogs below too!

Awesome Giveaway!!

Ok, Megan just launched her 500 follower giveaway and HAVE to share it with you guys. She's giving away a ton of awesome stuff. From TPT resources to the quietest pencil sharpener ever. What are you waiting for? Click the button to hop over to her blog!!!

Giveaway Winner! Plus another giveaway!

The lucky winner of my 100 follower giveaway is Katie from Second Grade Smarty Pants! She has a ton of shopping on TPT to do now! Thank you again to all my bloggy friends who contributed! You all make me super happy :)

I think we've all got the giveaway bug lately! I am loving it. If you weren't as lucky as Katie, then you should hop on over to Reading Toward the Stars! Andrea is having a spectacular 300 follower giveaway, which means 3 times the fun with 3 giveaways! I am giving away my Beezus and Ramona Student Booklet from my TPT store in one of her giveaways!

I hope you all have an amazing & restful weekend!

100 Follower Giveaway!!!

I am so excited! Over the weekend, I reached 100 followers. I can't believe it! In just the short amount of time that I have been blogging, I have met so many awesome bloggy friends and I have gotten so many amazing ideas! The blogging world is so generous and a ton of people have contributed to this giveaway to celebrate Fourth Grade Lemonade's 100 followers! Seriously, check out these prizes!

The winner will get:
Any 3 items from my TPT store


A $10 Starbucks Gift Card from Nichole at The Craft of Teaching


An item of your choice from Tara at Fourth Grade Frolics' TPT store

Two Spelling and Word Work packets from Michele at Run! Miss Nelson's Got the Camera!

An item of your choice from Holly at Fourth Grade Flipper's TPT store

Halloween Math Unit from Farley at Oh Boy Fourth Grade's TPT store

An item of your choice from Laura at Love to Teach's TPT store

Writer's Workshop Conference Cards from Amy at Active Readers and Writers

Monster Addition and Subtraction Match-Up Centers from Liliris at Fourth Grade Garden

Graphic Organizers from Kelly at Teaching Fourth

An item of your choice from Leah at Learning 4 Keeps' TPT store

What are you waiting for? Enter now!
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New Product, Freebie to 3 and Upcoming Giveaway!

As of today, I have a brand-spankin'-new product in my tpt store! If you're teaching rounding, need to review rounding or will be teaching it later in the year, this is the product for you! It's a rounding card game and you can use it multiple ways. I use it as a fun center game during math class. I also plan on using it throughout the year just to review. All you have to do is print and it's ready to go. There's even an answer sheet for students to record their answers on. Then when all the hard work is over, students can play "war" with the cards. Super fun.

The first three people to leave a comment with their email will get this game for FREE! Yay free things.

Speaking of free things, this blog is SO close to having 100 followers. I am so, so, so excited. I am loving all of my followers and I have had so much blogspiration and teach-spiration from all of your ideas. It has really transformed my teaching. I am loving my job even more because I'm always participating in different linky parties and everything.

ANYWHOO, I am going to host a 100 followers giveaway. There's still time, so if you'd like to contribute, you can leave a comment here with your contact info or you can email me at fourthgradelemonade@gmail.com. I have already been amazed by the generosity of all of my bloggy friends. Love it!

Fourth Grade Flipper's Giveaway!

Holly from Fourth Grade Flipper is hosting a giveaway to celebrate 200 followers! If you'd like to enter the giveaway, click {here} to go to Holly's blog. The giveaway is going to last another four days until Saturday so hurry up and enter!!

By entering the giveaway, you could win a $30 gift card or one of two amazing packages with products from me and 11 other great bloggers. If you follow my blog, you already have a free entry :)

Product Giveaway! & Favorite Freebie!

I recently blogged about how I opened up a Teacher's Notebook store! I am super excited about having a TN store and have decided to host a giveaway.

My first giveaway is for my class schedule cards. If you're interested, all you have to do click to enter this giveaway. Teacher's Notebook will automatically pick 3 winners on September 15th!


In other news... I am ready to go back to school tomorrow because I had such a great weekend. Isn't it nice when your weekend is perfectly refreshing? I'm about to have a pizza and movie night too. My idea of a perfect Sunday night, except it's Monday, which means we only have four days until the next weekend!!

Back to School night is on Thursday so I'll be meeting parents and giving a presentation. I already have my outfit for that night :)

One thing that I'm super thankful for this year is the Math Alphabet signs that Bridget at Little Lovely Leaders created. I cannot believe that these signs are free! These are perfect for the upper grades.. they feature the vocabulary in our curriculum in fourth grade math perfectly and they are so much cuter and much more useful than the cursive alphabet I had hanging above my front board all year last year.

For example, B says "B.. Bar Graph"

Here is the beginning of the math alphabet in my classroom that I posted on our front wall.

So super cute, right?!

Grab your Math Alphabet freebie {HERE}

Attention all teachers!

Tonya's Treats for Teaching is having a huge giveaway {here}. The great thing about it is that you can get first, second or third place AND you get to choose your prize. For example, for first place you can choose from four different gift cards.

Click the picture to get to the giveaway!