I have gotten a few questions about what I give the parents at the beginning of the school year. I am posting my General Information Packet for you to look through. I find that creating a packet saves me time because it clearly explains things to the parents. I don't get notes ...
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Trouble Opening TpT Files?
The top question I get emailed or asked in my Teachers Pay Teachers store: Can you help me? When I open your file, it shows these black bars. What do I do? The number two question/statement: My computer won't open your product because it says it is corrupted. What do ...
End of the School Year Card and Memory Book
I know the end of the school year is getting close for many of you. I go until June 22nd, so I still have a ways to go. I thought I would tell you about my End of the Year Memory Book and share with you my FREE End of the Year Thank You Card. Here is my End of the Year Student ...
Show Us What You Bought!
I love a good sale and I thought I would share with you some of the TpT purchases I made during the HUGE Teacher Appreciation Sale. *I hope you sellers don't mind, but I took the liberty of taking screen shots of your covers. Click on the covers to hop over to TpT to check out ...
Teacher Appreciation Sale! 20% off plus another 10% off
It's that time of year again! To show my appreciation for teachers everywhere, everything in my Teachers Pay Teachers store will be 20% off from May 6th through May 8th. TpT is offering an additional 10% off when you use coupon code: TAD12. Click on the picture above to ...
Entomologist Glyph
I created this Entomologist Glyph "craftivity" to go with my ant unit. We are studying ants in my classroom and I wanted an art activity to hang in the hall for Spring Exhibit. An ant version of this glyph will be included in my Ants packet, if I ever finish it!!! In the ...
From Seed to Plant Activities
The week before last, we planted "mystery seeds" in newspaper cups. The students predicted what type of plants their "mystery seeds" would grow into. Then the seeds began to sprout and we measured our sprouts and wrote our observations in our "Seed to Plant Observation ...
Georgia On My Mind
I cannot stop thinking about my awesome bloggy meet-up last weekend in Georgia. It was so AMAZING!!! How did I end up in Georgia, you might be thinking? Well, I had been trying to meet up with my first blog/teacher friends, Anna Brantley of Crazy for First and Cheryl Saoud of Primary ...
Letter and Postcard Writing!
I created this unit last year and it is still by far one of my favorites. *If you purchased this unit last year, please re-download. I added a few more pages. Click on the thumbnail to check it out on TpT. My favorite letter writing activity is when the students pretend they ...
Ant Trouble!
Sweating, heart racing, cursing, jumping, stomping, and eventually yelling as an ant went flying through the air and landed on my pant leg. Can you say stressed!? Yes, this is how my classroom aide and I spent our prep...wrangling harvester ants! Harvester ants are large ...
