Reindeer Buffet

With the holidays fast approaching, I wanted to share my Reindeer Food Buffet product with you (*The fonts displayed on the product photographs below have been updated. A preview is available in this post.) 

Last school year, I introduced this Reindeer Food Buffet activity to my classroom and in the process...I started a new holiday tradition! The buffet was a HUGE hit.  The students were engaged and chomping at the bit to create their own blend of holiday magic. This activity provided my students with the opportunity to promote mathematical thinking: measuring, weighing, counting, and estimating.

Here's a preview of the Reindeer Buffet product contents:

Page 1: Cover Page
Page 2: Thank You
Page 3: TOU
Page 4: Reindeer Buffet How To Steps 
Page 5: Reindeer Buffet How To Steps (version 2)
Page 6: Reindeer Buffet Directions
Page 7: Reindeer Buffet Directions (version 2)
Page 8-15: Ingredient Place Cards ( 2 different fonts available)
Ingredients:
Red Glitter
Silver Glitter
Flying Powder
Oats
Potato Chips
Bread Crumbs
Raisins
Cocoa 
Page 16-17: Reindeer Food Tags
Page 18: Reindeer Food Buffet Sign
Page 19: Blank Ingredient Cards
Page 20: Credits

Start a NEW holiday tradition in your classroom! This Reindeer Food Buffet will be a guaranteed favorite in your classroom year after year! Added plus, with your special blend of reindeer food, Santa will be able to locate your home, as well as the homes of your excited students anxiously awaiting Santa's arrival! Enjoy and thanks in advance for your support! As always...make the ordinary, EXTRAORDINARY!  

P.S. A letter from Santa will be added to this product. I am waiting on Santa's elves to proof the letter and email it to me;-)

monday made-it

I just discovered 4th Grade Frolic's Monday Made It! As usual, always tardy to the party. 

I abandoned my blog many months ago, and I never shared my Interactive Notebook series I created titled, PICK POCKETS! Feast your eyes on the first installment, PIGGY BANKS: Counting Coins.

Everyday during calendar math activities, we review coin values and solve a few money math problems. And everyday, my students struggle with recalling coin values. So, I decided to employ the use of interactive math notebooks to remind them of coin values and coin equivalents.

Also included in this product, coin equivalents.

Here's a short video clip of the Pick Pockets interactive notebook in action!

You can find this product in my TPT store. I plan to add more activities in the near future. If you have any suggestion for activities I should add, please let me know. 

Click the picture to be directed to my store. Thanks in advance for your support. 

Valentine FREEBIE!

Jesus, Mary and Joseph...creating my Sweet Treats TPT math station proved to be a daunting task. As a newbie TPT product creator, I sit for hours struggling with the simplest tasks. I spend a majority of my time sitting in front of the computer screen with my head in my hand thinking, "There has got to be an easier way." And there usually is. You just have to know the right person to ask for help. There are so many ins and outs to creating TPT merchandise. There is a bright side to my recent harrowing TPT experience, I learned two new techniques...which I plan to share on Techie Tuesday. 

Enough "talking." It's been a rough week. Grab this FREEBIE for a limited time only. This sweet treat contains the following

• 1 I CAN card
• 10 cupcake tops and bottoms
• 1 printable practice sheet

I plan to add 2 more stations to this product. Please leave feedback on TPT.  THANKS! Here's a preview:

Click HERE for FREEBIE!

As always, make the ordinary EXTRAordinary!

Do you want fries with that?

While posting a photo on Instagtam (IG), a thought occurred to me...and thus began another episode of Internal Dialogue Theater.  So I thought to myself...

Self: "Why am I always posting pictures of MY students engaged in activities created by OTHER TPT sellers?" (Yes, I talk to myself, and I answer back on occasion.)

Response to Self (I promise, I am not crazy): Yeah Trina, why? Your creativity knows no bounds. What about all the goodies you purchased from the Target Dollar Spot last May?

Self: Oooooo...yeah!Where is that crap?   

END SCENE

(And so ends another episode of Internal Dialogue Theater...LOL @ myself) 

So, off to my shelf I went in search of the red bucket where I dump all of my Target Dollar Spot finds. As I rummaged through my Dollar Spot repository, I ran across these french fry containers. 

Last week while attending  the most productive staff development day EVER, I created the french fries you see pictured below. A few days later, the idea for the programmed ketchup bottles popped into my brain.

I found the ketchup bottles on the My Cute Graphic website. My Cute Graphics is a financially challenged teacher's best friend. 

I created this station to assist my students with their math goals and objectives. Some of my lower level students struggle with numeracy concepts such as counting and one-to-one correspondence.  

I wholeheartedly appreciate the ideas and the activities I find on Pinterest and Instagram, but I really need to buckle down and start creating my own products. Honestly, I would prefer to post pics and blog posts of my students engaged in activities, I masterminded. But...like everything else, these things take time.

As I sit here with heap of ideas swimming around in my head, I find it hard to decide on my next project. But...in the meantime, I am in the process of completing my Roll-A-Sandwich Dice Addition math station. Here's a Sneak Peek:

Can you believe those are coasters? Those sandwich fixings look real...lick the screen real...right? Guess where I found them. That's right, the Target Dollar Spot! 

Stay tuned for Meet the Teacher Monday. This time, I promise to post earlier...probably late Sunday night. 

By the way, what are your Super Bowl plans? Me...nada. Until next time, make the ordinary extraordinary.