Teaching is a Gift: Blog Hop

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Back to School with BLOGLOVIN Blog Hop

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A Teacher Without a Class and Teachingisagift are hosting a lil' ole Bloglovin Blog Hop. We saw that there was a big ole blog hunt going on, and we liked the idea so much we decided to start our own.

Make sure you pop over to visit A Teacher Without a Class, she's having an awesome GIVEAWAY!

Enter to win your own laminator!

We hope you will join us and find some great new blogs to follow!

Now onto the rules of the Blog Hop.

General Guidelines for Blogs and Blog Posts for this Link Up

Only education blogs for teachers or by teachers will be included in the link up.

Follow both Teachingisagift and A Teacher Without a Class on BLOGLOVIN

Write a blog post about BLOGLOVIN, this blog hop and reasons why you want readers to follow your blog using bloglovin.

Please don’t include product links and promotions in this blog post.

Be sure to add the Back to School with Bloglovin badge image and make sure it's linked to the Back to School with Bloglovin blog post on Teaching Is A Gift and Teacher Without a Class by grabbing a button.

Copy and paste the exact code in the little box below the picture:

We prefer new blog posts, but if you add the badge to an old blog post, please start pinning it and promoting it again. Thanks!

To make the blog hop collaborative, you need to either include the linky code at the end or tell your followers to click on the Back to School with Bloglovin logo to find more blogs.

If you want the Blog Hop to show up on your blog--just click on the grab the code at the end of the linky. Once you have copied the code, place the code in the blog by clicking on the HTML button and paste the code.

How to Join the Back to School Blog Hop Link Up

Add your blog post to the Link Up by clicking the blue "Add Your Link" button at the end of the Blog Hop post and submitting the exact URL of YOUR blog post.

In the NAME field write the name of your blog. In the EMAIL field, write an email address we can use contact you if necessary. This email address will not be visible to others.

Click Submit. Choose an image to represent your blog (blog button) and crop it to fit the square shape. (NB: If your blog post is not accepted during this step, it's probably because the URL was entered incorrectly.)

Pin and share your blog post with to help promote the link up!

My way of saying thank you for following on Bloglovin

is to offer you a set of chalkboard theme

Quotes for Your Classroom Posters.

Just click on either image below to get your FREE copy!

get the InLinkz code

Saturday, 4 May 2013

Calming the Chaos

I COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO WRITE "THE END IS NEAR"

Welcome to the Calming the Chaos Blog Hop hosted by 2peasandadog.

All of us bloggers have come together to share our top tips for making the last month of school run smoothly. Visit each of our blogs to learn something new and catch a freebie or two!

Happy Hopping!

STOP BACK TOMORROW FOR A NEW LINKY PARTY!
DO YOU LIKE TO READ ALOUD TO YOUR CLASS? DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE BOOK, NOVEL OR STORY YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE?
PLEASE JOIN THE FUN AND LINK UP!

Each spring I ask my students to write letters to students who will follow in their footsteps and be in my class the following year. I personalize it by getting the class list from the current teacher of that group of students. I then give each one of my students the name of an actual student to whom they are writing. These letters often include favourite memories of being in my classroom, advice about how to be successful in the grade, things to do and not to do, best field trips, use of technology, etc. I encourage my students to write letters which are mostly positive, although I allow them to be HONEST but not mean (about me of course!). I ask them to think about how they felt when they read the letters left behind by the previous year's students.

I give my students a variety of different decorative papers to use to write their letters. I also let them write them by hand or using word processing software. I collect all the letters and then store them in a folder with my "back to school" materials until the first day of the next school year. On the first day I place a single letter on each student's desk along with my "back to school" survival kit. I have even used an ABC book idea before and had the students write each page about being in Grade 6 Gifted. They called these books "How to Survive Grade 6 Gifted". They are always a hit!

My FREEBIE for you is a simple template you could use with your class or adapt to suit your needs. Just click on the image to download your own copy.