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Earth Day: Reusing in the Classroom and Visual Plans for the Week of April 22nd

I use a lot of paper with my students and I feel really guilty about that.  One way I have found to be a little more eco friendly is to save all larger scraps of paper.  I do this by placing a little garbage pail in the art center and telling the kids to put their bigger unused scraps of ...

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Owls, Plants, and Last Week’s Plans

I just finished a big 84 page Owl themed Literacy and Math Packet.  It has editable pages and is Common Core Aligned!  I am trying this new thing where I put the standards on the worksheets.  Let me know what you think of that.  My teammates suggested it and I thought it was a ...

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Memorial Benefit and BUSY!

Hi everyone!  I just wanted to let you know that I won't be able to post my visual plans until later in the week.  I had a busy weekend and have not had much time to sit. I attended a benefit in memory of my friend Artie yesterday.   I was an all day and into night event.  Lots ...

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Teachers Pay Teacher Purchasing Tips

I am teaching an inservice class for my district and it came to my attention that some teachers did not know that you could re-download your purchases.  Some teachers also don't know about TpT... SPREAD THE WORD, PEOPLE!   Seriously, sign up for the newsletter (go all the way to the ...

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Filed Under: Blogging and TpT Tips, Uncategorized

Visual Plans for the week of April 8th and Bears

This week's story is Splash!  It is about two bears waking up from their winter hibernation.   I have a ton of bear stuff, so I decided to get all into the bear theme this week.  It depends on whether or not I like the reading series story, if I decide to build my theme ...

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Five For Friday – April 5th

I am linking up with Kacey again for Five for Friday!  Here are five random things about my week: 1.  I feel like crud!  I have a terrible cold.  Last night, I stuck tissues up my nose just so I could go to sleep without nose-leakage! Gross 2.  We are having some ...

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Erica’s “Tell it Like it Is” Blogging and TpT Tips: Technology

There was such a positive reaction to my first "Tell It Like It Is" post a while back, that I decided to create another "Tip" themed post.   First,  I want to thank you for the positive comments.  I was not trying to be "The Boss of the Applesauce" but I wanted to get some simple, ...

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Visual Plans, a Freebie, and a Winner

 Sorry, that these are so late.  It was a busy weekend.  Anyway, here are my visual plans for the week. Click the pictures to download.  I have attached the freebie to the plans.    *This plan book format is called "Erica."  Click here to check ...

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Hunt for Egg-cellent Sellers & Five for Friday

Here are my five for Friday: 1.  Hunt through my store for my five favorite sellers, which are on sale until the 31st only!    Don't forget to enter my huge 4,000 FB fan Mega Giveaway! 2.  So, I had these big plans for my week off and well... Source: a dead ...

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4,000 FB Follower Mega Giveaway!

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I am so excited and grateful to be able to host this Mega Giveaway!  There are over 37 prizes from 36 amazing bloggers!  I am so grateful to all my blogging friends and you, my wonderful fans.  Thanks for helping me reach 4,000 plus followers on FB! Click on the pictures to check ...

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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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