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Celebrating Birthdays with a Take-Home Bag

I like to utilize Take-Home bags in my classroom to enhance The Home-School Connection.  I have a Star of the Week Bag, a Scaredy Squirrel Class Mascot Bag, a Dr. Seuss Bag, a Nursery Rhyme Bag, a Lost Tooth Bag, and a Birthday Bag.  I have previously posted about my mascot bags {click ...

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Filed Under: Birthdays, Take-Home Packs, Teachers Pay Teachers, The Home-School Connection, Uncategorized

Free Halloween Downloads

Halloween is just over two weeks away.  My students, have been busy with my Halloween Math Centers.  They are enjoying them so much so that I decided to create more Halloween themed math centers!  I created this free Candy Corn Estimation and Counting Math Center packet. ...

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Filed Under: Free Downloads, Halloween, Uncategorized

Words With Bonus Letters

Ms. M posted last week about needing help with bonus letters.  I sent her my Words With Bonus Letters File Folder Word Wall from TpT.  Then Erika from The Honey Bunch emailed me that she was doing a post on Bonus Letters and would give me a shout out.  So I checked out her post and ...

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Filed Under: Free Downloads, Phonics, Uncategorized

Haunted House Inhabitants Math Center

To create this center, you will need foam Halloween stickers, large blue paper, black paper, a haunted house tracer, and a recording sheet.  I recommend purchasing my Halloween Math Centers packet so that you have the recording sheet, tracer, student directions, and word walls.  To see my ...

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

Halloween Math Centers

I love math centers and I especially love to create math centers that focus around a specific holiday.  I have been doing these Halloween math centers for years and thought I would update them to sell on TpT.   My Halloween Math Centers packet is a 42 page download of  hands-on ...

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

Busy Teacher’s To-Do Lists

I love To-Do Lists!  I write them on post-its, on those To-Do List pads, and on my Blackberry.  I also like to make To-Do Lists of ideas I have for TpT, my blog, and Scholastic.  I created free "Busy Teacher's To-Do Lists" for TpT and posted about them on Blog Hoppin'.  Click ...

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

Laura Numeroff Author Study

Laura Numeroff's newest book, If You Give a Dog a Donut is being released on Tuesday, October 4th!  Last week my students spent the week imersed in Laura Numeroff's books.  We used the activities from my updated Laura Numeroff "If You Give..." Author Study Packet.  If you have ...

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Filed Under: Author Studies, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

Read/Write the Room Worksheets

Read/Write the Room is a staple center utilized in my print rich classroom environment.  Each week, the students take clipboards, a pencil, and a worksheet and look around the room for words with a specific phonic element.  They then record the words on worksheets like the one pictured ...

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Filed Under: Free Downloads, Literacy Centers, Phonics, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

Word Wall and Freebie

I am super to excited to be part of Blog Hoppin' and I just wrote my first post for them on Word Walls.  Click {here} to read my post and snag a Read/Write the Room freebie! Click {here} to purchase my word wall words.  These complement the word wall headers (click {here})in my TpT ...

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Star of the Week

I start off by being the first Star of the Week.  I have my Star of the Week display up for Meet the Teacher Night.  This is a great way for parents to get to know me better and serves as an exemplar for what is expected from the Star of the Week.   To create the display, I printed ...

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Filed Under: Back to School, Take-Home Packs, Teachers Pay Teachers, The Home-School Connection, 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. 🍁✨

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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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