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Circus Fun Math Centers – Free Sample!

Here is a sample from my Circus Fun Math Centers that I posted on TeachersPayTeachers.  I hope that you take advantage of my sale and purchase it today before midnight! Click {here} to check it out! This 41 page packet includes five math centers:Circus Fun: Make Ten to Add - Students ...

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Filed Under: Free Downloads, Math, Math Centers, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

Writer’s Workshop: Writing Off an Object or Memory

I am super proud and excited because one of my students, Paige,  won first place in the Suffolk County Writing Contest for first grade.  For those of you who don't know Long Island, Suffolk County is huge!  I am so proud of her.  Paige will read her winning prose at a special dinner event in June! ...

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Filed Under: Free Downloads, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized, Writing

Listening Center

Setting Up Your Listening Center The listening center is a center that is easy to set up and manage.  This center is a student favorite and can be utilized to expose students to quality literature that may be above their independent reading level.  This center can be used every week ...

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Filed Under: Literacy Centers, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

Writing Letters to The Tooth Fairy

As part of my letter writing unit (Click {here} to check it out), my students wrote letters to the Tooth Fairy and created Tooth Fairy crafts.  We read the books Dear Tooth Fairy by Alan Durant and You Think it's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt .  Then for fun, we ...

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Filed Under: Letter and Postcard Writing, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized, Writing

Jelly Bean Math Centers and Dollar Tree

I started my Jelly Bean Math Centers today.  I sent home the donation letter that comes with the packet and I was overwhelmed by the response from parents!  It just so happened that Dollar Tree had all the donations needed.  The only thing I needed to do was buy a few more small ...

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Filed Under: Math, Math Centers, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

Letter Writing Unit

I just posted my 62 page letter writing unit to TPT.  Click {here} to check it out.  It includes a bibliography of letter writing themed books, lessons based on those books, anchor charts, file folder word walls, and reproducibles. I just finished the Help Me, Mr. ...

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Filed Under: Letter and Postcard Writing, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized, Writing

Spring File Folder Word Wall and Writing Prompts

I have updated my Spring File Folder Word Wall and Writing Prompts for TpT.  Click {here} to download for only $1!  ...

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Filed Under: File Folder Word Walls, Spring, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized, Writing

Jelly Bean Themed Math & Freebie

Check out my 42 page Jelly Bean Themed Math Packet! Included in this packet: Parent Donation Letter, List of Suggested Jelly Bean Themed Picture Books, Jelly Bean Sorting, Tallying, and Graphing Center, Jelly Bean Eggs Estimation and Graphing, Jelly Bean Guess and Count Center, Jelly Bean Estimation ...

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Filed Under: Free Downloads, Math, Math Centers, Spring, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

Reading Strategies and Reading Comprehension Cueing Cards

I have jazzed up my Reading Strategy Posters and My Reading Comprehension Cueing Cards. These are my best selling items on TPT. Check them out by clicking the links below.  Please, note that both of these products are included in my Guided Reading Resources packet. Click {here} to check it ...

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Filed Under: Reading, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

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This I Am Grateful Squirrel Craft is such a fun fall/Thanksgiving activity for your classroom! Students can share what they’re grateful for while creating an adorable fall squirrel craft that makes the cutest hallway or bulletin board display. 🍁✨

Perfect for:
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🎂Happy 20th Birthday @teacherspayteachers ! I hav 🎂Happy 20th Birthday @teacherspayteachers !

I have been with TpT since 2008!  I remember looking for a place where I could share my computer created resources with other teachers without having to set up my own website.  TpT was suggested.  I started off with a few Microsoft Word created resources 😬. At the time, the founder of TpT, Paul and his brother Dana, were single-handedly running things. I loved getting their newsletters.

In 2009 I was in a NY times article for TpT about who owns the copyright to teacher’s lesson plan ideas…the schools or the teachers.  This was not the article the author or editors told me I would be in, but that is another story! 

I stuck with TpT and creating resources and then in 2011, the site really took off and I met all these other amazing teacher-authors and finally met Paul in real life! 

As a single homeowner on a teachers salary, I worked nights and weekends on TpT resources just to be able to afford to live in my little house.  Then something amazing happened, my hard work paid off and I was able to get myself some breathing room.  I am so grateful for TpT for giving my life purpose and financial freedom back in those days.  Even though I am married now, I am so proud of myself for being able to own that little house (I still have it and rent it out) and buy my forever home in my dream neighborhood all by myself.

So many of you found out about TpT and so many more sellers joined.  It truly became the open market place that Paul envisioned all those years ago. 

TpT is still a big part of my life all these years (and hair colors) later.  I know when I eventually retire from teaching, I will be able to do TpT full time.  I love creating and sharing resources (880 and counting) with all of you.

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