WE LOVE TEACHERS GIVEAWAY!

Happy Teacher Appreciation, Week #2!! Many people were confused this year about whether TA Week was this week or last week and many celebrated last week. But I'm sure you don't mind being spoiled two weeks in a row! 

So I've teamed up with six of my special education teacher friends to show you some appreciation LOVE!!! All seven of us are giving away a $20 store credit to spend in our TPT stores to one lucky teacher! That's $140 worth of free resources to use now or get you off to a great start for next year! 

Use the rafflecopter below to enter!!! Thanks for all you do for our students each and every day. It's not always easy, but you do make a difference! Good luck and we hope you have a great week!


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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all of you!!! It's the one week of the school year where many teachers actually get to feel appreciated and get to be spoiled! Our PTO and Sunshine Club always go out of their way to place little treats in our mailboxes each day and have lunch catered each day! Today was a taco bar! Yum! I hope your school spoils you, because you deserve it! 

I'd love to show my appreciation to teachers too! Not just to my fellow colleagues, but to the teachers that have made a difference in the lives of my own children, and to those that continue to put in countless and unselfish hours to make learning meaningful and a great experience for their students. Hours that they take away from their own families. Hours that they take away from their own after school or weekend fun. Hours that they lie in bed each night thinking about how their lesson will go tomorrow. Hours that they spend thinking about how to get through to that ONE student. This is what teachers do!!!  

And to show my appreciation...I'm hosting a giveaway on my Facebook page every day this week!!! Visit my FB page every evening at www.facebook.com/thebenderbunch through Friday and enter to win daily prizes! Each day the prizes get bigger! Winners will be announced each night!! Thanks for all you do to make a difference in the lives of your students! I appreciate YOU!

Thank a teacher!!! 

Simple Mother's Day Gift & SpEd Giveaway!

Mother's Day is Sunday!!! My class made these today! They may seem a little silly, but I love how they turned out....and of course they're silly, they're made with silly straws, silly! :)

Here are the items you'll need...plus a hot glue gun, not pictured. I was able to purchase everything at Walmart believe it or not!

 The rest is pretty self-explanatory! I used 2 1/2 inch pots and they were only 77 cents each.

Just glue the foam ball inside the pot, insert the straw in the center, glue in moss, and decorate! Be sure to get the foam flowers that are sticky. This requires no gluing for your students and makes for a clean, mess-free craft and no drying time! 

We also made these little seed packets that I had printed from TpT last year! Each one is filled with a pack of flower seeds also purchased from Walmart. This printable is from "Teachings a Hoot." I don't have the direct link to this product, but {here} is the link to her blog. 

So that's Mother's Day this year in my classroom! I think the most favorite Mother's Day gifts my class have ever done are what we made last year....cookbooks and ceramic potholders! You can check that post out {here}. But since I have the same students each year, I have to always change it up! 

And did I forget to say HAPPY TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK TO YOU?!!!

These four items you see are just a smidget of what is in this care package that my team over at #weteachsped have put together for one lucky special education teacher!

OVER $100 worth of must-haves!!
And you can enter right HERE!
Hurry....only 23 hours left!
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