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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Filed Under: Insects, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

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 ...

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Filed Under: Free Downloads, Plants, Science, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

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 ...

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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 ...

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Filed Under: Letter and Postcard Writing, Uncategorized

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 ...

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Filed Under: ants, Free Downloads, Science, Uncategorized

Bears!!!

We just finished two bear themed stories in our reading series, Splash! and Little Bear's Friend.  Besides reading the stories, I decided to do a whole bear thematic unit.  I updated what I had already had and  I utilized my sweet friend, Rachelle's A Unit All About Bears With Math, ...

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Filed Under: Bears, Common Core, Math Centers, Science, Uncategorized, Writing

Spring Products!

I had a few requests to add a plant observation log to my "My Seed to Plant Project."  Please, re-download for the update!  If you have not purchased it, it is a quick and easy supplement to your current plant curriculum and is only $2!    Here is my tip for planting ...

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

20 Super Spelling Centers Contest!

Contest Closed!  Winner will be announced soon. A Scholastic red and white box was on my step when I got home from work today.  At first, I thought I had sent my March Scholastic order to my home address on accident.  Then it dawned on me that it was my new book!  Its ...

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🍁Check out my new fall themed cutie by @palmpals.o 🍁Check out my new fall themed cutie by @palmpals.official .  A sweet parent bought this for the class, we use them for our morning greeting toss.

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🧡🦃 A little fall gratitude + a whole lot of CUTEN 🧡🦃 A little fall  gratitude + a whole lot of CUTENESS! 🐿️🍂

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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