Thrills and Frills in First

How do you contact your students' parents?

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Have you ever wanted to send a quick text to the parents in your class? Maybe reminding them tomorrow is picture day or that tomorrow is the last day to hand in money for the class trip? It sounds like an amazing idea, but lets be honestly, do you really want parents knowing your personal phone number? Well, no need to worry anymore... just download REMIND.

REMIND is an AMAZING app and website that allows you send text message blasts to parents/students without them knowing your phone number, or you knowing theirs.

Signing up is super easy!

You either sign up through the app or on their website.

To start, you will be promoted to enter your email address and your name.

Then, you'll name your class.

You will then be at your "home screen." On the left, is your class' sign up number and in the middle is where you write your messages. (this is from the website, the setup on the app is almost exactly the same)

The blue icon (on the top right side) will give you options of how to inform your parents about Remind. I always tell them at Back to School Night and print the PDF to hand out.

And voila! You are now able to send texts without ANYONE ever seeing your phone number. I loved it and will definitely be using it again this year!

Oh wait, almost forgot!!! it is totally FREE.

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Reading Buddies Decoding Strategies

Monday, July 21, 2014

Who does love using this well known reading strategy buddies with their students?? We L.O.V.E. using them so much, we created a package that contains materials you can use to introduce and practice each strategy with your class.

We always introduce the new strategies to our students by leaving a package for the students to find. In the surprise package contains the reading buddy beanie baby, the poster and the activities that go along with explaining and understanding the strategy. It is such a fun and exciting way to teach your students the different strategies.

Our unit is currently on SALE in our TPT Store

orrrr you can go check out our Thrills and Frills in First Grade Facebook Page where we are having a contest where you can win this product.. The contest will go until tomorrow night.

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BLOG MAKEOVER

Sunday, July 20, 2014

We are so EXCITED about our blog makeover. Jessica from Creations by Jlynn did an AMAZING job turing our little vision into this beautiful blog. It was such a pleasure working with her, and we are in LOVE with our new design.

It took a lot of hunting to find a blog designer who was in our price range, most blog designs, that we found, started around $100, which was more than we wanted to pay. Jessica was extremely affordable, (her blog designs begin at $15) and always responded quickly to our emails. Overall, we couldn't be happier with our new blog. If you are looking into a makeover we HIGHLY recommend Jessica.

THANK YOU SO MUCH JESSICA!!!

Jessica is offering Thrills and Frills in First followers 10% off her store until August 21. Use the Coupon Code "Thrills10" to get your discount.

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Interactive Notebooks

Monday, July 14, 2014

We hunted and hunted for Interactive Notebooks for First Grade, but just couldn't find one that fit our needs ...so we created one ourselves =). We just put our Interactive Notebook for First Grade in our store and it is currently on SALE for 7.00.

orrrr you can go check out our Thrills and Frills in First Grade Facebook Page where we are having a contest to win this product for you and a friend. The contest will go until tomorrow night.

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