Time for Bloglovin and G+!

I'm sure you have heard that Google Reader is shutting down July 1 so it is time to find a new blog feed and thanks to my teacher facebook friends I found

It was super easy to import my Google Reader blogs within their groups into Bloglovin' and I get a daily email with my feeds. If you want the SUPER cute Bloglovin button

 on your own blog here are the directions from it's creator, Melissa Mazur at

For now you can still follow me with Friends Connect but I suggest you Follow my blog with Bloglovin just in case. Google says that Friends Connect is not going away, it is connected to Blogger Reader now, but it is not supported anymore so I'm sure it is only a matter of time before it goes in favor of G+

Speaking of G+ add me to your circles there too :)

I'm joining a great linky party hosed by Tori's Teacher Tips to find some great new (to me) blogs! Hop over and check out these blogs, many are having giveaways too :)

Whole Brain Teaching Summer Book Club

The Super AWESOME Mrs. Stoltenberg has a special summer invite just for us! Check it out!

You’re Invited!

Summer, Funtricity, and the WBT Book Club

We have created the first Whole Brain Teachers Book Club! Our highlighted book for discussion is the newest WBT book from Coach B with all the latest and greatest strategies and techniques:

Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids http://goo.gl/gBNAW

Where: http://wbtbookclub.blogspot.com/

How: Go to this link and become a member! It’s Free! Grab the book on Amazon or Kindle! Start reading and join the posted discussions! Be prepared for some thought-provoking, energizing, moving, and always lively conversations with fellow WBT teachers from around the world!

You can also earn up to 700 Whole Brain Teaching Certification Points with your posts! We'll be exploring, chapter by chapter, our manual, "Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids." Follow these directions ... Step 1: Go to http://wbtbookclub.blogspot.com/
Step 2: Scroll down to "Members" on the left hand side. Click on "Join This Site" and become a member. You will need a Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Open ID, AIM, or Netlog account to do this. Becoming a member is a necessity to use the book club, as you have to be a member to post.
Step 3: Enter your email address into the box on the right hand side of the page (below Members). This will allow you to receive messages regarding new discussion topics and important info.
Hope you can join us!!

WBT Webinars are back!

It has been a crazy busy year and I am so behind! Well I had to grab a minute to let you know that WBT Webcasts with Coach B are starting up again tonight, yep we are moving to Mondays! So please join me tonight! We are starting a new series on meeting Common Core the WBT way and tonight Coach B will share how to help kids reason accuratly answering the question "What is Evidence?"

Hop over to WBT TV tonight, March 11 at
 5 PM Pacific, 6 PM Mountain, 7 PM Central, 8 PM Eastern

See you tonight :)

TK California

So teaching Transitional Kindergarten is hard, a lot of fun, but REALLY hard! I wanted to share a few of the wonderful videos from the TK Implementation Conference they had down south the beginning of February. I didn't get a chance to attend but these videos have given me some new focus and made me realize that many of the other TK teachers are having a hard time too. Enjoy and keep teaching :)

Transitional Kindergarten: Teacher Institute, Part 1 from Preschool California on FORA.tv
Transitional Kindergarten: Teacher Institute, Part 2 from Preschool California on FORA.tv

Life is CRAZY!

So bottom line is I have not had much time to blog this school year. I have been spending a lot of time learning this year and trying things out with this class. Some things have worked great but many things have not and I really don't want to blog about those things yet. I have a few posts I'm working on that I hope to have posted soon for you :) Until then I wanted to share that there is a new version of My Memories Suite with some AWESOME new features including export to SVG to use with electronic die cutters like the Silhouette!

You can download a trial of My Memories Suite for free by clicking the words  My Memories Suite   This will take you to the  My Memories Suite  store where you can get the trial or buy the program. When you are ready to buy My Memories Suite put in my Share the Memories code for a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store - $20 value! The code is STMMMS99167

There is also a limited time sale for 50% off on the full install or upgrade!

I'm installing the upgrade now and will post a giveaway in the next couple of weeks :)

Kindergarten Common Core

Have you all seen this new 600 page ebook for the Common Core Standards?

After seeing this all over many of my favorite blogs this week I finally had a chance to check out the free sample download. WOW these are so cute and useful! If even half the pages are as great as the sample this book will totally be worth the investment.

My school district is still using the California State Standards for now but since most of the California Standards are similar to the Common Core Standards I know I'll still be able to use many of the pages from this book. Then when my district decides to switch to Common Core, which will probably be with little notice, I'll already be started :)

Between this Kindergarten Common Core workbook and the Power Pixs from Whole Brain Teaching I will have the standards super covered :) The workbook is $39.99, but one comment said there is a 15% discount with the code CORE15. If you are a blogger you can receive a copy for free until September 16th! Just click HERE to find out how.  Now if only printer ink was free too because I will need A LOT of ink :)