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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Sale Time!

It's about time, teachers, ... to give thanks. Because I am so thankful for this new era of cyber sharing and collaborating, I am joining the sales on TpT and TN.

The Teachers Notebook's 3-Day Sale is Sat., 11/24 - Sun., 11/26. In addition to my discounted prices, there will be a 10% reduction at check-out given by the site administrators. You don't want to miss it!

Teachers Pay Teachers' annual Cyber Monday sale starts on Mon., 11/27 and continues through Tues., 11/28. In addition to the discounts I'm offering, you can apply their coupon code, CMT12, for an additional 10% off your entire order. You've just got to make time to shop at this sale!

You know this is a very busy time of year. If you are not exhausted, yet, you soon will be. So, treat yourself to some tried and true lesson plans and units. You deserve it!

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Even MORE Pinteresting Boards

It's about time, teachers, to update you on the explosion of collaborative boards on Pinterest. If you missed my 1st two lists, check them out here and here. The latest finds include:

Word Study Ideas
Straight Up Grammar
TpT Pin Exchange
Math for Sixth Grade
Consummate Common Core Lessons - Math
Pre-school Literacy
Essential Elementary Products
Pre-school Math
Pre-school Other (not math or literacy)
Upper Elementary Other
Upper Elementary Literacy
Upper Elementary Math
Lower Elementary Literacy
Lower Elementary Math
Lower Elementary Other
Kindergarten -- $5 & Under
1st Grade - $5 & Under
2nd Grade - $5 & Under
3rd Grade -- $5 & Under
4th Grade -- $5 & Under
5th Grade -- $5 & Under
6th Grade - $5 & Under
Social Skills Success for Primary & Elementary
Social Skills Success for Jr. High & High School
Fabulous Fall Finds
Halloween Math on TpT
Halloween Language Arts on TpT
TpT Creative Reading/Language Arts Products
Writing Ideas (K-6)
ELA - Letters and Letter Sounds
ELA - Sight Words, Word Families
ELA - K/1 TPT Freebies
ELA - Letter/Word/Sentence & Syllables
ELA - Sight Words, Word Families
Pre-K/K/1 Science Lessons and Activities

To add a little teacher humor to your day, go to my facebook to check out my new feature:

There's a giveaway that you don't want to miss...

It's hosted by Heather at Creation Castle. Hurry over there and sign up to win!

Monday, September 10, 2012

More Pinteresting Boards for Teachers

It's about time, teachers, ... for an update on all the pinteresting collaborative boards for teachers.

Last week I posted a list of 57 collaborative boards that pertain to elementary teaching. After posting it, I was asked to list contact information for boards that did not give that info in the heading.

Here's what I found out about those boards that do not make the contact info readily available:

Click on the button "Edit Board." A list of contributors appears. For many of these boards, the creator is listed at the top. Clicking on the creator's name should lead you to contact info.
For all the other boards with missing contact info, I emailed the creators I could identify to ask permission to publish their contact info. Sadly, I did not get any permissions. The best I can suggest is that you go to the Seller's Forum on TpT. Look in the Selling Tips section, as that is where the vast majority of threads on collaborative boards can be found. There are threads on other portions, as well. Check the Everything Else section since I know there are threads there.

Just this past weekend, Jason @ Jason's Online Classroom started 44 new TpT collaborative boards. [Can we say, "over-achiever?"] Go to his pinterest account to check them out: http://pinterest.com/JasonsClass/

Of course, you can also find all of the boards I have listed on my pinterest account since I joined all of them! [Now you can definitely say, "over-achiever!"]

Almost simultaneous with my original blog post about these boards, Heather @ Creation Castle created a FREE TpT product that lists Collaborative Pinterest Boards. She has broken the boards down into categories and only included boards with contact info listed. Her product is dynamic; she'll be adding to the lists as she finds more boards.

It's time to pin, pin, pin!

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Pinteresting Boards

It's about time, teachers, ... to help each other find interesting boards on Pinterest (i.e. Pinteresting Boards). There are scores of collaborative boards on Pinterest that cater to elementary teachers and teaching. Here's a list of some of my favorites:

Some of these boards have thousands of followers; others are just getting started. What a treasure these boards are! You've just got to check them out!!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Pinterest Price Dilemna

I had the good fortune to read Laura Candler's blog post about price tags on Pinterest. In a nutshell, it seems unwise to put a price on items you pin because you may run a sale or change the price. Laura suggests just putting $ on priced items to let pinners know it's not a freebie. Laura's idea sounds great to me! You can read her entire post here. Thanks Laura!

End-of-summer, back to school, or out of this world...whatever you want to call the sale frenzy we are all in, I'm joining it! Check out my Teachers Notebook shop.

This sale is for EVERYTHING in my Teachers Notebook shop. This sale lasts until 8/31/12. Hurry on over!

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Spring Fling Sale! & $1 Words FREEBIE

Hurry over to my TpT Store or my TN Shop and enjoy 20% off of EVERYTHING!

Did you try the $1 Word clues I posted yesterday? If so, here are the answers:

1. cookout 2. chimpanzee 3. violins & autoharp

You will get a lot of bang for your buck when you introduce $1 Words to your students. The skills they will hone include:

· Addition computation

· Calculator

· Vocabulary

· Parts of speech

· Base words

· Prefixes & suffixes

· Participles

· Singular & plural

· Compound words

· Spelling & proof-reading

· Dictionary & thesaurus skills

· Study skills

· Internet skills

· Critical thinking

· Problem solving

· Cooperative learning

This is a seriously integrated unit. Your students will learn to pay close attention to verb tenses and singular/plural nouns. Before too long, they will realize that prefixes and suffixes can impact their calculations. Encourage them to make an anchor chart of common affixes' values.

If you make your $1 Words a competition, I have created rules to make it demanding and fair. In the spirit of teamwork, I require every student to have someone on his/her team verify their answer before giving it to me. The "verifier" has 2 important jobs: check the addition & the spelling. If a clue is turned into me with a wrong answer, the team not only does not score a point, they LOSE A POINT! If the spelling is wrong, even though the word is correct, the team LOSES A POINT! Your students will instantly become meticulous editors when they see their team lose a point. Be prepared for some bad sportsmanship and quash it immediately.

My students write their answers on the back of their "dollar bills." Both the solver and the "verifier" must sign the dollar. Then I post them outside my classroom under the name of their teacher. I post correct and incorrect answers so that students may check and challenge MY calculations. Believe me, they will!! If an answer is incorrect, I write "-1" in red marker across the face of the dollar. This saves me lots of explaining. Similarly, if a student submits a "bonus buck" (one with 2 correct answers), I write "+2" on the face of the bill. I keep a running tally posted next to the teacher's name.

If you are wondering why I penalize teams with a lost point for an incorrect answer, the reason is simple. I have had students who "couldn't find the answer" turn in any old solution in order to get another clue; hopefully an easier one. If you allow this, you will have expended a lot of wasted effort and paper in preparing the clues. But perhaps more importantly, you will have allowed your students to evade a challenge. All of the clues are solvable. Perseverance is a good thing, as well as a trait of G/T students If everything you give them is easy, you're not really meeting their needs.

Over the course of the competition (2 - 3 weeks), my students go through clues at lightning speed. Thus, I have created more than 400 clues to meet their demand. You can get more of my clues through my series of $1 Word products, available on both TpT and TN. (I have not posted ALL of my clues yet. But more will be coming as soon as I format them. Patience is a virtue!) You may be interested in:

You can find all of these products at my TpT Store or in my TN Shop. Of course you will want to start with the $1 Words FREEBIE!

FREEBIE

Remember, EVERYTHING is 20% off through Sunday!

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