Monday, February 28, 2011

First Grade and Kindergarten Smartboard Lessons Giveaway!

I love my Smartboard, but I didn't LOVE it until recently.  
I didn't use it the way I needed to.  I can admit it now.  I used it with my Elmo, I used it for PowerPoints, and I used it as a glorified computer monitor and overhead. 
I didn't LOVE it, and use it the way it wanted so badly to be used.  I am so sorry little Smartboard for the time we could have spent together.  I know now you were just dying to be engaged with my students. Wanting so badly to be touched with the pen, and interactive with those little minds.
 I think I heard you reboot a few times over it.
But...I DO NOW!!!!

Enter the.....

I love them!  They have saved my entire Calendar Time!  I no longer take up half the room with my calendar wall!!!!  I can actually display child centered work!  I can have room to put anchor charts!  I absolutely think these girls are the most up and coming gals in the teacher world!
Just look at Calendar Time on a Smartboard:
It is interactive to actually keep track of the weather.  On the next page, you keep a running temperature graph that is interactive and connected to Weather.com


Money keeps track of the days we have been in school!


Number grid can be used a variety of ways.  The next page that isn't shown is a fact family house where we roll die, yes, interactive Smartboard die to determine our fact family house!

I cannot tell you how awesome these programs are!  If you use Everyday Math it goes over the same skills!

I also love the games they created.  Our classroom favorite is probably:
Long Vowel Speedway!
The kids can't get enough of this game and all that are included.  I believe there are at least 8 different games in the Long Vowel Speedway file.  Kids love this during Daily 5.  I include it in Working on Words.

Enough of how much I love Smart Lesson Stop!  Now I get to tell you how you can love them!!!!

Go to their site, look around, and then come back here and just leave a comment about what you think would be of good use to you in your classroom. (1 Entry)

Follow me (1 Entry)

And the WINNER WILL GET..... 4 Smartboard Products of their choice!!!!

YES, I SAID 4!!!!!  WHOOO HOOO!

I will announce a winner on Friday, March 4th at 7:00ish EST

I just know you guys are going to love their stuff.  I only like the best things out there and items that I just can't make myself, or don't have the time.  I LOVE their resources, the kids LOVE them, and it saves time!  Not to mention that their products are so teacher friendly priced!  

Let the Smartie's Smartboard Contest Begin!

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101 comments:

  1. Thank you for introducing me to this site! I'm now a follower of yours and my favorite things on the website are compound words and long vowel race. The calendar also looks amazing! I hope I win this one!

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  2. This is a great page! I love just about everything in the reading section :) and the calendars are super cute too!!
    Curls and a Smile

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  3. I would definitely love the calendar sets! Like you, I would love to free up some wall space!

    www.peaceloveandfirst.blogspot.com

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  4. I already follow you. I am just amazed with the calendar items. Wow!!

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  5. I would love to use the calendar activities in my classroom!!

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  6. I already follow you! Do you think it would work with a Promethean Board?

    Janine

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  7. I love the calendar activities!

    Janine

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  8. What a great resource! I would definitely use the calendar activities!

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  9. Janine,
    Yes any smart board resource can be used with a Promethean board. You have to import and then save it as a flipchart. Hope this helps answer your questions.
    Jess

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  10. I follow your blog. It's super!!! I love the calendar activities and the compound word unit!

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  11. Oh my word! Gosh, i “talking” like a southern gal!!! Love, love, love it! I just got my Smartboard installed and I want to learn, learn, learn!

    I follow your blog!

    Conchy

    Conchy.Marcano@gmail.com

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  12. I love my smartboard too. I love the reading activities they had: synonyms, homophones, blends and digraphs, etc.

    I have some resources I've made on my website if you would like to check them out. www.southwestschools.org/Whitewater/1H.htm, click on Just for Teachers, then smartboard.

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  13. Oops! I forgot, I love EVERYTHING, but the calendar is sooo cute!!

    Conchy

    conchy.Marcano@gmail.com

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  14. While I do not currently have a SMARTboard in my room, I will be getting one next year! You have NO IDEA how excited I am! I am however extremely nervous that I won't know how to use it. The website and your ideas sounds A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. and I would love to have the opportunity to use them in my room...next year!

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  15. I am now a follower and I am so glad you introduced me to this site. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my smartboard, but it takes a chunk of time to make cute lessons myself, so I would love to win :). I really like the froggy digraphs - we started digraphs this week!

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  16. OMG! Love, love the stuff that they have created! Thank you so much for introducing me to this site. Like you I love the calendar, how fun would that be! I also would love to use the Rocking Rimes!

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  17. I am already a follower of your blog!

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  18. I love their Space Rhymes! My Kinders need so much exposure to rhyming! :)

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  19. I've also followed you for a little while now :)

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  20. I was already a follower of yours and I have used my smartboard all the time and so glad you shared this website. I love all their reading materials.
    Tammy Daniels
    Tam118dans@gmail.com

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  21. I am a follower of yours. I looked around and will probably buy the "Matter" science lesson tonight b/c that is what we're working on right now. But, I would LOVE to have the calendar file. Thanks for sharing this site. I've had my Smartboard for a few years, but the addition of the Activity Toolkit has been the best part ever. You can create games in just seconds!
    www.asprecsapple.com

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  22. This is my first year not posting a calendar wall and the space was quickly taken over by other items. I use it to teach and I especially love it for math. I have the greatest flip chart from promethean planet with all of the manipulatives on it.

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  23. I follow you. Thanks for introducing me to this site. I use my smartboard daily and have wanted to put my morning meeting (weather, 100's chart etc..) on it for awhile but haven't had time! Great to know this resource is out there!

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  24. I am now a follower of your blog. Love it! Thanks for sharing your creativity!

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  25. Love, love, love the calendars & agendas on SmartLessonStop! Also loved the Writing Good Leads, & the Shop til You Drop Math one (my kiddos really need practice with money!).
    Thanks so much for sharing this site!!

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  26. I just completed a freindly letter writing unit with my Kinders. Their "You Got Mail" unit would have been a perfect companion to my unit.

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  27. The Koosh ball math activity may be enough for me to pull the Smartboard on wheels back into my room! My firsties would L.O.V.E. it!!!

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  28. Those calendars are great! And my kids would be so engaged doing the kooshball addition! I would love any of their activities.

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  29. And I've been following you for a little while now. I love reading your new ideas and discoveries!

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  30. Thanks so much for sharing your great ideas and teaching tips! The math activities would be great for centers - especially the kooshball addition! What a fun way to practice those addtion facts! :)

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  31. haha you know me, I already bought 5 things. I love them. I can't wait to do it tomorrow!!
    Donna
    http://kinderglynn.blogspot.com/

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  32. And I am already a follower of your wonderful, terrific, fabulous, amazing, LUCKY LOL Blog!!
    Donna

    http://kinderglynn.blogspot.com/

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  33. What an awesome site! Thank you for sharing. I would love to use the long vowel raceway game with my intervention students!

    wardswayofteaching.blogspot.com

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  34. I follow your blog!!! We have both Promethean and Smart Boards in our district so I am lucky enough to use both! They each have their advantages and I don't know how I ever did without a board in my room before!! Going to check out the site right now! I created my own calendar for the Smart and I am interested to compare it!

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  35. So many great lessons!!! I do like how they set up their calendar...mine is similar with some added things. I also like the Race to the Finish sight word game!

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  36. Loving this new site!! Functional use of my SmartBoard I love it!!!

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  37. I am a faithful follower of your blog.

    Ms. M
    www.msk1ell.blogspot.com

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  38. I'd really love the Space Rhymes because my Kinder Kids are really struggling with rhymes this year. I don't have a Smart Board but I do have a Mobi Tablet & supposedly we can use all the Smart board activities with it.

    Ms. M
    www.msk1ell.blogspot.com

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  39. I would LOVE the calendar sets! How fun to make calendar time interactive!

    -Gladys
    htt://teachinginhighheels.blogspot.com

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  40. Of course I'm a follower of your blog!

    -Gladys
    http://teachinginhighheels.blogspot.com

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  41. I'm already a follower! How could I not be?? :-)

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  42. I have to agree with some of the other comments, the entire reading section looks fantastic! The short vowels activities would be especially helpful for my kinders who have just started diving into short vowels! Thanks for letting us know about this great resource!

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  43. I love all the grammar smartboard activities. These would help reinforce those skills in my second graders. Thanks so much for letting me know about this site. WOW!

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  44. I already follow your blog. :)

    I like the "Smart Day Agenda." I find that all day long I am turning my smart board on, off, and flipping between that and my document camera. I like the idea of having the agenda posted all day day to see the schedule and to easily use the smart board because it is on.

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  45. I love my smart board!I really like the long vowel raceway activity. Thanks for hosting the giveaway.

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  46. My highly energetic mini friends would absolutely love the Math Mania and Kooshball Addition activities for the SmartBoard. I love reading your blog! Thanks for sharing. :)

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  47. I love your site and am a follower!

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  48. I like the games for long and short vowels, calendar templates and of course some adding and subtracting games!

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  49. The Math Mania looks like it would be a fabulous buy! It would be fun reinforcement for the kiddos. Also, the calendar sets look amazing!

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  50. I am already a follower of your blog! :)

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  51. I am already a follower of your blog! Thank you so much for introducing us to such a wonderful site. I have made my list of lessons to purchase! Awesome is all I can say!

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  52. Wow! What a perfect way to re-vamp my morning board. I have the equipment, but so many of the lessons are not "Cute" aka "engaging" for first graders. These would be perfect. Love the calendar the best, but would also like to try Froggy Friends Blends & Digraphs!

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  53. I love the calendar sets! There were also several reading games I know my kids would love! :)

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  54. I also recently started to LOOOVEEE the Smartboard. Honestly the calendar activities are my favorite!! I follow you and love your blog :)

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  55. The SmartLesson Stop is so colorful and has kid appeal. I love the calendar set, but what I really love is the Reading materials. I can see me utilizing them during my groups and the kids having fun while they learn. The materials on vowels caught my eye.

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  56. That site is (as Abby would say)"12 kinds of wonderful" !! I love the calendar!!! I really want them all now!!!

    www.cupcakesandcritters.blogspot.com

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  57. I am also a follower of your blog!

    www.cupcakesandcritters.blogspot.com

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  58. I just got off the site and am in love! I think I would start with the calendar - the same money/calendar/weather routines that get kinda boring come March would be fun again! I LOVE the long vowel games too - perfect for our word study time!

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  59. I am a new follower of this blog now!

    emilygraceleake@gmail.com

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  60. These smartboard lessons are amazing! I would love to try them out. We don't yet have a smartboard, but have the software that we use everyday!!

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  61. These lessons are very cool and creative. I would love to try some of these lessons in my classroom. Thank you so much for posting these!!!!!

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  62. I love the calendar sets and think that I could get great use out of them.

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  63. I am already a follower of your blog.

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  64. I LOVE my SMART Board and could not imagine teaching without it! I would love to get any new ideas/lessons for use w/my lil love muffins!
    randeeschatz@hotmail.com

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  65. I am a follower of you and the long vowel speedway would be AWESOME- I have some kiddos that need vowel practice!
    Thanks
    Leslie
    www.fabinfirst.blogspot.com

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  66. Love the "How to pick a just right book" lesson!

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  67. I follow your blog!! I love what I am seeing so far!!

    misspaxson.blogspot.com

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  68. I am always looking for new stuff to use in my calendar time! I also love the vowel games!!

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  69. Love, love, love their stuff as well. I used their Groundhog file this year and it was fantastic!

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  70. I LOVE their stuff and I am a student teacher! This would be great for calendar time and we will be writing postcards with Flat Stanley soon and the Writing lessons would fit nicely!

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  71. I'm a brand new follower! What is there not to love about this site, really? The phonics games look like tons of fun! I'm sure my kiddos would love new things to try out!

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  72. I just found out YESTERDAY that I am finally getting a SmartBoard!!!!! :) I. can. not. wait. I'm pretty sure that I would use any of that stuff but the Rocking Rimes is so cute. My kids love anything musical so I know it would be a hit with them right away. Any other SmartBoard tips would be great, too! ;) Thanks!

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  73. And I follow your blog now too!

    http://LittleMissGlamourGoesToKindergarten.blogspot.com

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  74. I am follow your blog now.

    sagummow@gmail.com

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  75. EVERYTHING would be of good use for my classroom!! I'm excited to use one of them with my class!

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  76. I am a special education teacher and I am so excited to find this website. I would use the reading games especially the long and short vowels..

    sagummow@gmail.com

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  77. I follow your awesome blog and their website!

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  78. Wow.....they have a lot of great resources. My most favorite would be the Calendar Activities. This would be great for all my boys! :)

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  79. I'm a follower of your blog now. I sure hope to win this.

    jesnscot@hotmail.com

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  80. I like the set of calendars and i am very excited to use it in my class room.
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