October Monday Made it and a few freebies

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends! I hope you have a wonderful day today and that you are able to spend it with friends and family!

Happy Columbus Day to my American friends...I don't know about you, but I am thankful for the day off! I can't believe I missed blogging for an entire week! My grad class is a lot of work right now, so most of my nights are spent working on that...I'm looking forward to it being over.

It is the second Monday of the month so I am linking up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made it. It is hard to believe we are already into the second week of October. I haven't been as creative as I would have like to have been, but there are a few things I made this month.

Since our first quarter is ending I have cleaned up a self-assessment that I have had my students use for years.  You can grab it for free here.

My Native American Interview Project is a fun way for students to research a tribe and present it to the class. It is a freebie in my TPT store. You can pick it up here.

I created a fun writing prompt that I worked on with my kids. It is a descriptive writing piece that ties in social studies/geography into their writing. You can pick it up at my store here, or if you are a follower on Facebook you can download it there. It is my new Facebook Freebie. Head over there to grab it while you can!

I also completed the final tests for my Fourth Grade Common Core Assessment Bundle. It was a lot of work, but I am so thankful to have my unit tests made for the entire year! The bundle includes 5 assessments, one for each of the major Common Core categories. I know I will appreciate it in March when I have tons to do at school. If you are interested you can pick it up in my store here. It is currently 10% off.

What have you made this month? 

Tried it Tuesday-Facebook Fan Freebie

Well, yesterday did not go as planned. I was supposed to go to school for teacher workday. Instead I spent the day with a very sick husband. After a doctor visit, chiropractor visit, and a CT scan, all tests are coming up clean. By the afternoon he was able to keep food down (and medicine) so I was thankful for small blessings. He still feels off this morning-so my praying friends, if you would offer up a prayer for him I would appreciate it. He went to work today but three days with a migraine is enough to drive anyone crazy.

While he was napping yesterday, I was able to play around on Facebook and set up a Fan Freebie Page. I followed the video tutorial Ideas By Jivey shared on her blog when she created hers. The video makes it extremely easy to set up and Jivey's extra notes at the bottom make it easy to edit the picture for the Freebie Tab. I don't have paint (the program Jivey used) so I uploaded the drawing to photobucket.com and was able to size the picture there.

You can head over to my Facebook page and download one of my newest products on TPT for free.

 (If you download it, let me know that it worked for you!)

Special thanks to Holly for running Tried it Tuesday. It helps to motivate me to try new things that I normally would avoid!

What have you tried recently?