A Motivational Giveaway!

You know why I LOVE second-graders?  They get excited about the little things.

Seriously.  I love that!

This is the first year that they receive actual grades at our school.  You know, they can get an "A."

One little girl asked me at the beginning of the year if a 100 was an A+ and when I told her it was, she asked, "If I get that will you write A+ on the paper?"  I assured her I would. :)

When she got one this week, I made sure to write it AND stamp it on her paper. She was beaming from ear to ear!

It's the little things, I tell ya.  I'm pretty sure that stamp made it even more OFFICIAL.

I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by http://www.rubberstamps.com/ wanting to know if I would be interested in reviewing some of their stamps.  Of course! 

They let me choose a few for my own classroom.  These were my choices...

I thought the "missing name" stamp was adorable and let's face it.....it's *sigh*  Meanwhile, the "clock stamp" will come in very useful for creating centers and practice pages for our time unit.  I love that I can use it to stamp clocks for students to practice drawing hands to show the time - a great way to save copies!

There it is!  The A+ stamp....I knew I had to have that one just for my little sweetie pie!  I am constantly trying to reinforce "complete sentences" with my second-graders, so I plan to use the "incomplete sentences" stamp when needed and if a student sees that, they will know to rewrite the sentence to make it complete!!

You can take a look at all of their "motivational stamps" HERE.

I also selected this "Please Redo" stamp...

When I have work that I want the students to redo and turn back in, I can stamp away!  Take a look at the self-inking stamps HERE.

I've loved the stamps so much, that I just placed an order for a new one TODAY!  We started letter writing and I thought, "Hey, it would be great to have one of these with our classroom "address" on it (our school has an in-school mail delivering system) for students to use for our return address on envelopes."  So, I went to www.rubberstamps.com and ordered one!  Can't wait until it arrives...the kiddos will eat that up. :)

Could you use some new motivational stamps in your classroom?  It's your lucky day!  I'm going to pick one winner on Thursday and that person will get to choose 5 stamps of their choice that they would like for their classroom!

To enter, just comment below with one stamp that you know you would love to have for your classroom.