A "Blog-iversary" Celebration - Giveaway & Freebies

     With my 1 month "blog-iversary" just 5 days away, I'm having a giveaway to thank everyone for all you've given me over the past month. (See yesterday's post for my slightly sappy ramblings.) I also just hit 500 followers - WooHoo - so I 'm going to celebrate the milestone with 5 freebies - 1 a day for the next 5 days. (With all these 5's floating around I should play 555 in the Lotto...) So here are the details:
     

Giveaway: 
     5 winners will each win any 5 items from my TPT store. (I figured I might as well stick with the "5" theme I seem to have goin' on here.)  I have a lot of cute Back-to-School stuff posted so I think everyone can find something useful, even if you're not a kindergarten teacher. I'll pick the winners on Thursday. To enter, leave a separate comment for any/all of the following:
       1. You follow my blog
       2. You follow my TPT store
       3. You blogged about this "Blog-iversary" Celebration
     
     
Freebies:
    It's so tricky to find books to put in the hands of our kids in the beginning of kindergarten. Many of them have limited literacy skills but I really want them to feel successful as readers right away. Since there's really not a lot out there that floats my boat (Ask anyone who knows me - I'm so freakin' picky...) I've been making my own series of emergent readers to use during the first couple of months of school.  They are SO basic that kids of almost any skill level can "read" them. Each title has a large, full-color shared reading version and a smaller b&w student version for the kids to put in their book boxes. (There's nothing quite like that "OMG! I can read every book in my book box!" smile.) With beginning sight words and picture clues to use their "reading fingers", they are a great way to introduce independent reading and Readers' Workshop routines and I thought I would offer them to you as a "thank-you."  There will be one a day until my "Blog-iversary" on Thursday, so get them while you can! Here's the first one - just click below the picture.  I hope you can use it!

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