Teachers Pay Teachers is having their annual Teacher’s Appreciation sale on May 7-8th! Whoo-hoo! It’s time to stock up and shop it up everyone! Everything in my store will be 20% off for the next couple of days! 
Click the picture above to be taken to my TpT store. The lovely graphic above was created by Beth Boudin from Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs. Check out her shop for some great and adorable clip-art!
Hellurrrr my bloggy friends!!! I know that I’ve been MIA for a while and let me tell ya–it’s been one busy year so far! Today is the first official day of my Thanksgiving vacation and I am thankful for some rest! As many of you know, I am at a new school this year and teaching 26 lovely second graders! I’m loving second grade and I have learned SO much in a short period of time. Being back in the general education classroom is very different than teaching special ed. My grade level team is great and I’m really enjoying getting to know so many of the staff members on campus. I’m also coaching cheer again at my elementary site, but my squad is much larger (I have 31 girls!). I’ve slowly been making things, but I’m just now starting to get into my “groove” I guess in the classroom. Last week I posted a new fun Fall Literacy Center pack, which my kiddos just loved! There are five literacy centers included.
These activities are also included in the pack, but I also wanted to sell some of the activities individually in case you were interested.
We also made Stone Soup last week! One of my favorite activities to complete with my students! Here is a picture of our yummy soup, which my kiddos loved!
I just uploaded these fun companion activities to my TpT store in case you are interested 
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Here’s a little free activity for you that we completed in class this week . We also made posters that featured the characters, setting, and B-M-E (beginning/middle/end) of the stories (sorry I forgot to take a pic of this 
). Click the venn diagram below to download the activity.
I hope that all of you have a nice and relaxing week! I hope to post some more things this week, so come back and check often! :)
Hi everyone! Now that I finally feel like I have rested up from the weekend, I would like to share some pictures that I took of my second grade classroom. I apologize in advance for the picture quality–I took all of the pictures with my iPhone before school started a couple of weeks ago. I have been so busy in the last couple of weeks that this literally feels like the first time that I actually have time to write a blog post. I have missed you guys, so I included some FREE things for you guys in this post so make sure that you read the whole post :)!
I have to tell ya–I’m loving my second graders! They are so sweet! We are starting to get into a routine and I am so looking forward to the rest of the year with them!
This pic was taken from the front door where students enter.
This picture is from the back of the room. The boards are pretty much bare to save space for anchor charts that I will make with my kiddos.
This is the photo from the back door. My word wall is located on the cabinet doors.
Here is a close-up of the word wall cards.
Here is my classroom library.
I added some tissue paper pom-poms to my library area for a 3-D effect.
ABC cards that I made to coordinate with the colors in the classroom. I loved how they turned out!
Standards posters for the back cabinets. I added ribbon for some extra “cuteness”.
As many of you know, I spent most of the summer reading about the Daily 5 and I am planning on implementing many of these strategies in my classroom this year. I have to tell you that I really contemplated how I wanted to set-up my classroom library. I ended up purchasing bins from Dollar Tree and purchased Reagan Tunstall’s Classroom Library bin pack from Teachers pay Teachers. This was a total time saver for me! I still have to go through and label all of the AR levels, but my kiddos have done a great job keeping everything clean and organized. If you are interested in checking out this product, then check out my pin on Pinterest.
The following items are from my TpT store:
Now on to some FREE items!
There is one more FREEBIE because I think you guys are awesome .
I hope that you guys have a great week!
Yippee! It’s almost here! My cart is all loaded up and ready to go! I feel like it is almost Christmas , in case you have no idea what I’m talking about, Teacher’s Pay Teachers is having their BIG back to school sale on Sunday and Monday (August 12-13) and all items in my store will be marked down 20% off, but you can receive an additional 10% off of all of your purchases as well from Teachers Pay Teachers! Just enter the promo code BTS12 upon checkout. Here is a link to my store if you want to check it out: Barbara Kilburn’s Teacher Pay Teachers Store
I want to give a big shout out to Amy Lemon’s for creating the adorable picture that you see above! I’m linking up to the big sale at the Blog Hoppin‘ website! There are many wonderful sellers participating so you should check it out!
Here are a few items in my store that would be great to start out the year:
Thank you so much for checking all of this out and have fun shopping!
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