Check out the prizes at Sprinkles to Kindergarten's giveaway!

Fabulous in First has partnered with CTP to offer this great product in a giveaway!

Check out Finally in First for a chance to win this awesome assessment pack for K, 1, 2, or 3....your choice!

Faithful in First is celebrating 400 followers!

Teaching Maddeness has a giveaway celebrating 500 followers!! Congrats :)

Sweet times in first is giving away some awesome math manipulatives!

Stop by and check out the giveaway at Simply Kinder

Hop on over to Polka Dots and Pencils!

Fourth Grade Fanatics is giving away an awesome Utility bag from Thirty One!!  Check out her blog by clicking on the image to the left!

I Teach, What's You Superpower? has a fantastic giveaway going on now! Click on the picture to the left to enter!

Rowdy in Room 300 is giving away two amazing burlap creations.  Click on the image to the left to enter!

The Hands On Teacher in First has a giveaway going on now.  Check it out!

Check out this blog posting from Fun in Room 4B!
In a bit, I'll post my own Fabulous Find :)

In addition, Check out these blogs for some Great Giveaways!
Tonya's Treats for Teachers-ENDED
The Idea Backpack-ENDED
Sweet Seconds-ENDED
Teacher Idea Factory-ENDED
Kleinspiration
Room 5
Treasures for Teaching

So Now for my Fabulous Find-
Seriously, my newest addiction is this website:

Spell with Flickr (used to make the graphic above)
Kleinspiration: a blog on educational technology
Tagxedo: similar to Wordle, but oh so much better
Pinterest: my personal addiction (Check mine out)
The Scale of the Universe
PlanBook: I "plan" to use this to record my lesson plans.  You can share them with your teammates/admin.
PDF to Word: for all those wonderful ideas you find online and want to change!  Here is an example of my success with this program....doc in PDF....doc in Word
EdTechIdeas: 48 Websites for Educators

What are YOUR favorite technology Sites?

I discovered this man while participating in the Teaching Blog Addict Blog Hop.  Dan Meyer was featured in a guest piece on Teaching With Style, written by Melissa from Dilly Dabbles.  


I started by reading Ten Design Principles for Engaging Math Tasks.  Then I browsed Mr. Meyer's spreadsheet searching for third grade tasks.  I found the following Three Act Tasks that you can download for free: Bucky the Badger and Pyramid of Pennies 

Alright fine, most of his tasks are geared towards 6th grade and above,  but the principles are sound and I spent quite a while exploring his website and everything it is linked to.  Happy Reading! 

Third Grade Common Core Standards made simple.

The best freebie I've found so far came from this outstanding blog called 3 Teacher Chicks:
Third Grade Mathematics Common Core Standards
Third Grade ELA Common Core Standards

Both files are available to download for free on Teachers Pay Teachers.  Three Teacher Chicks has also created similar downloads for other grade levels.  What a fantastic resource!!!