Five for Friday!

My week started with a long weekend for the Queens Birthday Holiday (which is weird because her birthday isnt even in June!But it means an extra day off so who's complaining?)

We went on a quick trip up the coast and got to do some 'firsts' for my kids

1. Horse Riding!!! My kids thought it was legend....wait for it.....dary!

2. I got nostalgic about this!

Yes it is a glass sauce bottle. You know you remember these. Before sauce in a glass bottle became dangerous ;)

3. I have a Reading Wizard! For home reading, if a student reads for 100 nights, they achieve reading wizard status. Our principal has had some cute capes made and the kids get to wear them for a week. Super cute :)

4. My little buddy is turning 4 this week. Looking back through my phones old pics, I wonder where the time went

And finally

5. Cheers!

New pack...and you can win it!

 This is my newest pack! I usually give one away on FB but there have been some crack downs on giveaways and getting people to 'like' your page in exchange for something.... So Ill give you a chance via rafflecopter.

This is the inside. The page looks the same for colours and numbers :) Due to the length of some words the Find It part can often snake around the grid.

Words included are red, yellow, blue, green, white, orange, black, purple, pink, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

For a chance to win, enter Rafflecopter below. Nice and easy. Good luck! And if you miss out, you can click any of the pictures to go and grab it in my TPT store.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Clipart Challenge!

Several fabulous clipartists and bloggers have come together for an amazing Clipart Challenge hosted by Primary Possibilities!  Each blogger is featuring a clipartist and a product they made using that artist's images!  This is a great way to discover new clipart creators for your summer creations.   So keep reading and following the linky at the bottom to head on to the next post!  You may even pick up some freebies along the way!

I signed up for this neat idea! Stephany at Primary Possibilities paired a product 'maker' with a clip artist! We could choose something from their store to make either a free or paid product with.

I was pretty pumped by the idea :)

I was paired with K is for Kinderiffic

She is just beginning in the world of clip art so she only has a few things...but I look forward to what she does next! Debbie has a few great freebies for you to test out and a nice looking alphabet set in colour and b&w. Go and visit her store. I chose her cute Bright Spring Flowers set - a steal at only $1!!!  And I made a cute matching game using the flowers laid out like dots on a dice face. Students can match the correct number to the amount of flowers pictured. Although its just a simple game, it practices many skills like counting, numeral identification, visualisation and subitising. It covers numbers 1 to 6.

Click on the picture to go grab it from my TPT store for FREE!

Thanks Debbie for the cutie clip art and thanks Steph for hosting this great idea!

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Currently....JUNE!

Go and link up with Farley's Currently!

My little girl is 5 and testing her boundaries. every.single.day.

My super cute Kinder kids and teaching friends spoilt me for my birthday. See this post.

Now reports are done, I am looking forward to more time to pin, create, blog, pin.....

I scored some cash and vouchers for my birthday. I am after some new tights and long cardis.

It is cold here today! And rainy. And yuck. The socks aren't cutting it, so its on with the Uggs.

We have our half year break in 4 weeks and get 2 weeks off. Looking forward to it!

Stamping Fun Freebie

Just a quick one for you today! The weather in Sydney is FOUL! Rain, rain, rain......

I created a pack of CVC stamping sheets for my class last week. Click HERE to visit them on TPT. But for some of my lower Kinders, thinking about CVC's was just too much to handle. So I created a few sight word stamping sheets for them to practice those high frequency words they see all the time in their easy readers and in our class shared reading books. That way we were practicing looking at and reading these words AND they still got to have fun stamping!

Here they are

How fabulous is the Elkonian boxes font? It is from Graphics from the Pond. 

Click either pic to grab them from GoogleDocs.

Ive linked up with

Five For Friday

Well what a week.

1. It started in tears. I had spent quite a large amount of time last weekend trying to plan some engaging and relevant literacy work station activities based around creating CVCs for my Kinders and all I could think was FAIL! Was it them or me?

2. It began looking up a little when I took my workstation gear home for my own Kinder daughter to try out.... (will be blogging about this over the weekend)

3. Some gorgeous late autumn weather encouraged us to get outside and talk our dog to the off-leash park!

4. MacDonalds has this awesome treat for a limited time - sour citrus slushie with soft serve=YUM!

and finally 

5. My birthday

Enjoy your weekend! I know I will now my reports have been submitted....that is, until they come back for editing.

An awesome birthday!

Well, today is my birthday :) It started off like this

Then I went to work. It continued like this from one sweet little boy

Then kept going! My two friends at work got me some special things to dress in for the day

And then another beautiful girl popped up with another sweet pressie

I had a FAB-U-LOUS day!

To celebrate my birthday my TPT store will have 20% off until midnight 30th May (US time)

I am lucky to have such wonderful people in my life.