It is hard to believe that I have been a part of the TpT family for five years! It has been an amazing five years. I started on TpT after hearing about it from a friend who worked for Scholastic. I was already teaching courses and sharing files with friends and through the ...
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Farm Theme! Visual Plans, a Freebie, a Flash Contest, Nashville Recap, and More!
This week we are visiting a farm. I love this trip - 12th time and it still does not get old. I just love feeding farm animals! To make the trip more meaningful to my students, I created a farm themed unit called Down on the Farm Literacy, Math, & Science Centers & ...
A Laura Numeroff Themed Week (Visual Plans)
I am a bit behind on the visual plans, these are actually last week's plans. I am not sure if I will ever get caught up enough to post ahead of time. I hope you don't mind. I think if you are a visual person, like me, you might like seeing the photos of the centers better anyway! ...
Spelling Homework Menu
This year, I decided to try a spelling homework menu. Above is my cover page for this weeks' words. I hope and think my students will enjoy having a choice of activities. I don't feel my first graders are ready to do their homework in a spelling notebook just yet. Nor do I ...
Printing at a Reduced Scale & Printing Multiple Slides Per Page – Plus More Printing Tips
This post is a smorgasbord of printing pdf file tips. I have included printing at a reduced size, getting pdf's to print when they won't, and adding text to editable pdf files (not really a printing tip though). I sincerely hope this post helps you - that's why I wrote it! I don't ...
Five For Friday – May 24th and Hugs to Oklahoma
Hi, everyone! First, I want to let everyone in Oklahoma know that I am thinking of you. My heart breaks for all the tragic loss of lives and for those who have had their homes and businesses destroyed. I did not get a chance to donate a product to the Teachers heart Oklahoma ...
Freebie, March 4th Visual Plans, and More!
I made this freebie to celebrate Dr. You Know Who's birthday using Cara's new fonts, Krista's adorable graphics, and The Digital Bakeshop's papers and frames. Click above to download. I just ask that in return, you follow my blog and TpT store. This week's visual plans were a bit ...
St. Patricks Day Common Core Activities and a Freebie
Are you impressed? I am not waiting until the last minute to post about a holiday unit. To be perfectly honest, the packet is from last year and I just updated it a bit. It has just been one of those years where I cannot get ahead on anything! I know a lot of you are in the ...
Doubles Plus One & Domino Math Centers
Are Doubles Plus One perplexing your students? First, the concept assumes they have their doubles facts memorized. We have been working on this through our math rings, but we are not there yet! To help my students out, I made them little cheat sheets with domino doubles. ...
Batty for Bats
I just finished my Batty for Bats Unit. It is a 59 page literacy and science unit. I have always loved doing a bat unit with my students - click here to see last year's post and snag a freebie. This year, I wanted to align the unit to the Common Core and focus ...
