Bing is currently offering $3 DonorsChoose Giving Cards for projects submitted by teachers. I am desperate for donations! I have 4 projects submitted right now and I REALLY need an easel. This only takes about 2 minutes total if you are willing to help. Getting $3 at a time really adds up. I am currently $189 away from having my project funded.

In the last year and a half I have had 11 projects funded with over $4,500 in donations. DonorsChoose is amazing!



1. Click here to start. (Bing's Education site)
2. Click the yellow 'Choose Bing and Donate' button.
3. If you are willing to temporarily change your home page to a Bing search page, a box will likely pop-up. You can go back and change your home page right back to what you were using before if you don't like it.
4. Enter your email address twice and click the yellow button to get your donation code.
5. Check your email and copy the code.
6. Go to my project http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=522080&challengeid=36263. 
7. Give $3 and check-out.
8. At check-out, either sign-up or sign in.
9. In the payment section there is a box that says I have a gift code: ________________ Redeem Code. 
10. Enter the code you received in your email and click "Place your donation".

I would really appreciate any and all help. It is $3 FREE money that will help support my classroom and we desperately need an easel. My kids cannot reach mine right now and they have to stand on a chair to write from the top to the middle.   

My favorite fonts by far are by DJ Inkers from the Fontastic CDs. I think DJ Framed has been my go to font for the year. :)

Thanks to Kathy from the Yahoo! group KindergartenD5 for sharing the link to this valuable font. It is called ABC Print Arrow.

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The following link has dotted lines for practice, too.

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Several people have asked me about the use of the tap lights in the picture above. This idea was not mine. Unforunately, I don't remember who I learned it from, but I remember it was a Kdg. conference in St. Louis earlier this year and it was put on be the Bureau of Education and Research (BER) in case anyone else remembers.


The idea is to have 2-4 tap lights out. I have picture cards that I keep with them. I have just been using black and white pictures copied and laminated from the book Letter of the Week. It has great picture cards for each letter of the alphabet. The child takes a card and then taps a light on for each segment they hear in a word. Then, they have to tap the lights off to begin the next word. For example, rock would be be 3 taps (1 tap per light /r/ /o/ /k/).

The lights were 4 for $3.96 at Wal-Mart. I think they take AA batteries, but I can't remember how many.

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Kohl's Cares program is currently offering Eric Carle plush toys and hardcover books like The Grouchy Ladybug, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Mixed-Up Chameleon and The Foolish Tortoise for only $5 each.