Share the Wealth Saturday- October 19

Happy Fall My Friends!
It is truly a pleasure to welcome you back to another great Share the Wealth Freebie Linky!

I just love the Fall season- the crisp air, the changing of the leaves, the hint of winter holidays in the air. Sigh... what a great time of year. To help celebrate this great changing of seasons, I have created a few new resources that you might be interested in:

Parts of Speech Mystery Pictures Fall Set 1:
These pictures cover 10+ parts of speech for your kiddos to practice! Click the picture to learn more!

I also just added my Language Arts Daily Dose Weeks 9-12! I created these because my students needed more intense practice with the many grammar concepts covered on high-stakes testing  AND to be better writers and consumers of information. The title says 6th grade, but students in grades 5-7 could easily benefit from this practice! Click the picture to learn more!

and NOW, on with the FREEBIE LINKY PARTY! WAHOO!

LINKUP RULES:

1) Only 2 or less items PLEASE!

2) Only FREE items are allowed

3) You MUST link to a product, not a general site or page

4) Put the ITEM NAME in the NAME box with grade level(s) item is for

5) You are required to SHARE this post. You can blog about it using the logo picture at the top of this post, Tweet it, Pin it, or share it on Facebook. Get the word out so others can join us and get the "goods"!

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

-Mr. Hughes

Just Not Seeing Anything That Grabs Yours Fancy???

Check out the Share the Wealth Pinterest Board where we have pinned nearly ALL the past submissions for Share the Wealth! Click on the picture below to check it out! WAHOO!

Share the Wealth Freebie Linky- October 20, 2012

My Dear Friends,

     How wonderful it is that I can greet you here for Share the Wealth Saturday Freebie Saturday! Not only have many teacher-authors been sending me their amazing freebies for your browsing pleasure, but they have been busy creating many new and exciting resources in their stores for your viewing pleasure as well!

     I hope that you have having a fantastic fall. Since this will be the last Freebie Linky in October, I would also like to wish you a frightfully fun and exciting Halloween! As you download these fantastic resources, I hope you will take a few minutes and share your thoughts about the items with creators. Feedback is how teacher-authors make better, more robust products for you in the future! :)

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by An Educator's Life!

-MrHughes

P.S. Remember that next Saturday is a Teacher-Author Spotlight- Remember to swing by!

                 October 20, 2012 

"Share the Wealth" Saturdays Participants

1. Free Halloween Passes by MrHughes (Grades: 3-7) 2. Halloween Color-in Joke Bookmarks from Little Red's Schoolhouse (k-5) 3. Fall ABC&123 Worksheets by Christine O'Donnell (Pre-K) 4. ABC Order for Veterans Day from All Y'All Need (K-2) 5. Persuasive Writing Prompts from Blair Turner (Grades 2-5) 6. Top Ten List from 2nd Grade Glance 7. Owl Compound Sentences Sample by 4thGradeRacers 8. Addition Song and Gesture Created by Becca Foxwell (Grades: K-2) 9. What in the World Mysteries from Patricia Potts (Grades 5-7) 10. Gingerbread Man Reading Comprehension from Ms. Joanne (Grades 1-2) 11. Fall Themed Owl Name Tags (grades pk-5) 12. Halloween Writing Prompts - Addie Williams (gr.3-8) 13. 36 Bingo~ A Computation Game from Pamela Kranz (Grades 4-8, homeschoolers) 14. Cute Monster Visual Directions Cards by Miss Martin (K-3) 15. Rewarding Great Writing by AliMaths (Grades 2-3) 16. Guided Reading Worksheet Preview Pack from Dragon's Den (Grades 3-5) 17. My Counting Book by Karen Jones (Pre-K/Kdg) 18. Popcorn Poem and Activity

19. Three Sounds of "ed" Past Tense Verbs By Fun To Teach (3-8) 20. Editable File Folder Labels from TheHappyTeacher (All grades) 21. Autumn Letter-Word-Sentence Sort (PreK-K) 22. Peer Editing Sheet from Middle School Matters 23. Investigating Floating and Sinking from Top Notch Teaching (Grades: K-3) 24. FREE Halloween Vocabulary Chart - 2 pages Created by Clever Classroom 25. Daily Schedule by AliMath 26. Flip Flop Fact Rap by Primary Paradise (K-4) 27. Spider Round Up By Faith Siegrist (grades 3-5) 28. Writing rubric for peer assessements by gingerose 29. Dots Fun for Everyone by Scipi (3-5) 30. Halloween CVC Word Match Freebie! Teacher Tam (PreK to 1st) 31. Making Size & Positions Smart Notebook by Coach's Corner (Gr. 1-3) 32. Halloween Costume Character Traits by The Peanut Gallery (Grades 3-6) 33. Farming Nouns and Adjectives by Ms. A (1-2) 34. The Bean Game, Practice Number Bonds on Sums of 2 to 10, Patricia Potts, (K-2) 35. Primary Handwriting Rubric by Lesley Boatright (Grades K-2) 36. The Looking Glass Wars A Novel Study by Jane Kotinek

37. Reading Conference Sheets by msob123 (grades 1-6) 38. Mixed Word Problems #1 from Elena Fryer (Grades 3-6) 39. Boo-tiful Skip Counting 40. Gobble Till You Wobble Poster 41. Proportions Exit Ticket Grades 6-8 42. Heidi Raki 43. Kathy Burnette 44. Character & Setting Cards by Linda Nelson 45. Writers Notebook Rubric by Realistic Teacher 46. Problem Solving Template for Primary/Junior 47. Halloween Treat Bag Topper 48. Confessions of a Teaching Junkie 49. Missing Addend Flip Cards by K. Almaraz [Grades K-2] 50. Native American Make-A-Statement (Grades 3-5) 51. Red Ribbon Song by Coast to Coast Kinder 52. Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt by Tammy Manor

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October Already!?!?!?!

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Where has the time gone? More than a week has blurred before my very eyes and I haven't really had a spare moment to share any of it with you.

School seems to be humming along. My class is really a great class this year (and I am STILL saying that after 30 full days of school...lol). We seem to get much more done than in past years and I am very pleased with how all my students are doing. In fact, our last math test saw a rise of over 10% in the class average! That is very exciting.

My goal this year has been to communicate better with parents as well. I was thrilled that 11 of the 18 parents were willing to provide their e-mail address at Back-to-School night. I have been able to send out weekly e-mail updates to the parents letting them know of events/test/activities/suggestions for the coming week. I have also been e-mailing individual parents to let them know of successes and challenges for their student.

I realized that I hadn't posted in a while as I was working in my DropBox account. Boy did it need to organized. That idea could be a whole post on its own. If you don't yet have a DropBox account yet, you NEED to get an account. Scan the code in this post to be taken to the sign up page. You get 2GB for free. If you sign-up under me, we both get an extra 250MB. Heck, even if you don't think you will ever use it (which I didn't at first), sign-up and download the program. As a teacher, I hated trying to e-mail myself files, or easier, but still a pain was all my thumb/jump drives. With my DropBox account, I simply save it to the folder on my desktop, and then when I arrive at home, the computer lab, my iPod, and more, I simply open the file I need and I am ready to go.

I also thought that 2GB would be gone in a heartbeat, but I am good about saving files to my desktop that are larger and I don't really need all the time. Plus, if lots of people help each other out, we can all get lots of free space. One other bonus is that you can log-in from any computer and you don't have to download the software on those computers to use the site. This is nice when I am working in the school computer lab. I log-in to DropBox and then use what I need right from my web browser. Anyways, enough sales-pitching this awesome free site. If you don't have an account and you are reading this, I urge you to get one and take it for a test drive. You will find that it really IS worth the time to check it out.

Home life has been good. We decorated for Halloween as a family last Monday. It is amazing the amount of decorations we have accumulated over the past 13 years. But, everything looks spooky, and the kids really enjoy seeing the decorations. I really love the door monster my wife made a few years back. My wife was kind enough to make one for my classroom door as well (which, because it is NOT outside in the weather is fairing much better than our front door one). My classroom is also decorated. Over the past 11 years, I have slowly whittled down the amount of decor I put up. It is a negative view, but every time I decorate something anymore I think about the fact that it will just have to be taken down in a few weeks. That thought process ensures that I only put up the "good" stuff and spread it out to look like there is a lot of it up. Heck, I figure students are NEVER too old to enjoy some holiday spirit around them.

Well, I guess I better get back to being lazy. Haven't really had a Saturday to chill out on for a few weeks. I don't want to miss another second of it.

Later...