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Happy New Year – Ask Me Anything!

Happy New Year to all my fabulous bloggy friends.  It has been almost a year since I started blogging and my TpT sales took off.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your supportive comments and of course your purchases!  My particular favorite ...

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Comprehension Cueing Cards and Guided Reading Resource

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I had some requests to add more comprehension cueing cards to my Reading Comprehension Cueing Cards Packet.  I finally got around to adding the new cards.  Click {here} to check out the packet or go to TpT to re-download, if you already purchased.  I also updated my Guided ...

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Happy New Year Common Core Math and Literacy Activities, Plus Art Projects!

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!  I hope you all have off from school this week.  I am so happy to have some time to get things done and catch up with friends.   I just posted my 81 page  Happy New Year Common Core Math and Literacy Activities, plus Art ...

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Merry Christmas!

I would like to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas! ...

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Gingerbread Cookies

Those are supposed to be gingerbread men.  Cooking is not a talent of mine.  I dropped the first tray on the floor and apparently, I made the dough too thick and placed them too close together on the second tray.  Though both trays of cookies did not end up tasting bad, I could not ...

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Happy Hanukkah!

Hanukkah begins this week and I wanted to do some activities with my students to celebrate.  I also wanted to balance out all the Christmasy themed activities we did last week.  It is a tricky situation, I feel Santa is not a religious symbol and I am comfortable doing Santa themed ...

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Have Yourself a Very Common Core Christmas!

School does not end until December 23rd here in Lindenhurst, Long Island.  So, I have been working away at my Common Core Christmas packet.  Please, check it out by clicking {here} or any of the pictures below!  Here are a few activities included in the packet. Click {here} for ...

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Polar Express Movie Party Ticket and More!

This Friday, my grade plans to have a Polar Express Pajama Movie Party!  I am inviting my first graders using this ticket.   I have included this ticket and another version of the ticket, a Venn Diagram, a candy Polar Express craft, and parent letter in the packet below.  Just ...

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Common Core Gingerbread Math Centers and Cute Snowman Door

Here are some photos of my Common Core Gingerbread Math Centers.  They are in my Common Core Gingerbread Man Activities packet, available through TpT. Make Ten to Add I purchased the gingerbread themed buckets from the Dollar Spot at Target.   Gingerbread Man Domino Fact ...

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Teaching Compassion at Christmas Time

This character education unit utilizes picture books to teach children about being compassionate.  I developed this unit because I wanted my students to appreciate all the good that is in their lives and to inspire them to empathize with and want to help people who are less fortunate. ...

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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. 🍁✨

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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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