Thanksgiving A Time To Be Thankful!

The season has quickly changed from ghosts and goblins to turkeys and pilgrims!

This is the time of year when we reflect on what we are thankful to have and enjoy in our daily lives.  

 

 This product is to help encourage this understanding of daily blessings and includes several turkey writing templates for creative writing and drawing. A thoughtful activity that has several different size writing lines, plus a blank page for illustrating. 

There are also two other fun title pages to creative write how to cook a turkey and

how to disguise a turkey!

Even the littlest learner can tell what they are thankful for, while an older person can write their thoughts and ideas down. Then they draw a picture.

Find the activity here:

Turkey Writing Paper for Thanksgiving

 It also makes a wonderful book with a title page and and ending page!

To practice skip counting, I have a Thanksgiving theme puzzle product with several counting activities in color or black and white!

Here is a sample of this activity.

It can be used as a puzzle or a one timer with cut and glue.

Thanksgiving Day Skip Counting Cut And Glue

Enjoy! 

Halloween Is Coming!

As the leaves continue to turn bright yellows, reds and oranges, it means
Halloween is getting closer! Halloween products are always such fun and
I have a new one I just listed in my store!

 

 

There are templates to create dice to use in this graphing activity!
It can also be used as a racing game to see which pumpkin jack-o-lantern finishes first!

 

I have provided it in color and gray shades to save ink when printing.

Halloween Pumpkin Roll and Graph

 

 

There are the six pumpkin faces that can be glued or taped on cube Kleenex boxes to create great primary dice to use! Younger children might need help making the dice cube.

I have a variety of other

Halloween Products

available in my

Hand to Heart TpT Store

 

 

Here is a freebie bookmark to enjoy!

Halloween Bookmarks "BOO-tiful Reader"

  



Colors and Color Word Activities!

Colors and color words are a fun way to add to beginner learning activities.

 

 They can be started with simple matching of colors and color words.

 Color Word Puzzles

 

Then adding color words to simple vocabulary.

 Color Word Flip Booklets

 

 

Learning and practicing the spelling of color words is important too.

 

 Color Words Letter and Picture Puzzles

 

 

Then creating stories to use these skills helps to commit them to memory.

 

I See Shapes Looking At Me

 I have a variety of color products available!

 

Back to School EBooks Are Full of Free Activities!

Welcome back to school!

The teacher-authors of TpT want to wish you the very best as you enter this new school year.

 

You can view eBooks for other subjects and other grades PreK-12 through the links in the description of this book!

 In this eBook, 50 PreK and Kindergarten teachers have offered their best tips and freebies for your consideration. We hope that you will find inspiration as you read these pages as well as fantastic teaching lessons and materials that you and your students will love.

PreK-K EBook

Please note: Each page of the eBook features one freebie, a back to school teaching tip, and some have links to a paid item as well.

 

These activities are great for homeschools, daycares, preschools, roadschools, after school programs, also parents and grandparents!

Have a great school year!

Free 4th Of July Bookmarks!

It is hard to believe that it is almost July 4th! I have several activities for patriotic holidays! 

I just added this set of free bookmarks to celebrate reading and readers!

Patriotic Bookmarks for the 4th of July

 They are in color or black and white!

 Enjoy!

TpT Seller Challenge Week #1 Makeover Madness!

I created a product that was included in the TeacherspayTeachers Christmas 

2014 Winter Holiday Tips and Freebies: PreK/K Edition! 

This is my page in that book!

Since then it has been brought to my attention that

 THE POLAR EXPRESS and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Therefore for Week #1 Makeover Madness, I simply changed the name of the activity from Polar Express to Santa Express!

Free! Santa Express Geometric Christmas Train

Free! Patriotic Bookmarks "We Salute You" and "Veterans We Salute You"

Free Bookmarks for Memorial Day! Color and Black & White

Free Memorial Bookmarks!

End Of The Year Diplomas and Certificates!

The end of the year is rapidly coming, along with the many end of the year celebrations! I have a wide variety of diplomas and certificates in various colors and styles, to make those milestone achievements memorable!

I have Kinder and Preschool Diplomas, as well as non-grade, age and activity specific for up to and including adults!

End of School Products

Click the link to find a variety of end of the year products!

End Of The Year Songs!

I have several year end songs for Kinders, Firsties, Students, Preschools and Daycares! This product is for Kinders, but the others are linked in this description!

Goodbye Kinders!

Earth Day Stationery!

 Here are 21 pages of Earth stationery in a variety of color and gray shades. Each color and gray shade has differentiated lines for a variety of grade level writing assignments.

There are a blank pages for the students to write on, using no lines. They are in colors and gray shades too. The littlest learners can dictate their story to an adult.

There are three different writing grids pages, so you can pick the right one for your age group. They are also in colors and gray shades.

The students love to share their stories! They can be made into a class book or posted for all to see.

  Earth Day Stationery 

How Pinterest Is Revolutionizing Your Child’s Classroom!

Over half a million education pins are posted every day. And through them, teachers are finding ideas, community, and newfound wealth. This article also talks about TpT and several TpT sellers!

“Teachers are looking to be more efficient, but also want their creative force to shape the things they use,” said Speicher. “So when teachers navigate resources, they tend to take them and modify them. They figure out how to make it on their own, with what they understand about their kids. I think that ethic — of inspiration and input, but also what’s configurable to you — is the right intervention for teachers.”

Great article to read!  https://medium.com/bright/how-pinterest-is-revolutionizing-your-child-s-classroom-4ccd4d59bbb9

Creative Website Changes Words Into Magic!

There is a free site called TYPOGRAFFIT® that is a creative and fun way to practice spelling words, make sentences or write simple stories. You can make plain-text into a unique visual message.  

 It's free to use and no log-in or user account is required. Simply use it directly from the above website. Type the words into the blank box and click Generate. It will change the words into visual form! Click Generate again and the form changes. There is a toggle button that changes the window from text to image. Children enjoy watching their words become something magic!    

My Favorite Things!

Some of my Favorite Things!

As you can see traveling is a favorite activity I love! I especially like taking the kitchen sink!

 

What is TeacherspayTeachers? Not Just For Teachers, But Homeschools, Preschools, Childcares, Daycares And Parents!

TpT is a "supplementary digital materials market," which consists of all types of online or downloadable handouts, curricula, educational games and worksheets. It’s a marketplace for teachers selling their own wares and it works kind of like Etsy. While it started as a place for teachers to purchase products, it has opened up a whole new world for homeschools, daycares, childcares, preschools and parents to find good educational activities.

It was created in 2006 by Paul Edelman, a middle school teacher in New York City.  It is now considered one of the top ten The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Education.

 

 http://www.fastcompany.com/3041645/most-innovative-companies-2015/the-worlds-top-10-most-innovative-companies-of-2015-in-educat

At this moment, TpT has over 242,866 free products to encourage buyers to experience the activities before purchasing. For example, here is a free activity in my store.

 

 FREE! Puzzle Match Sample Pack

 

 It includes one page each of some of my puzzle products.

I encourage you to see what TpT has to offer!

Niika Note!

Many bloggers have furry friends that keeps them company while they sit at the computer creating enticing paragraphs of wisdom. OK, I’m really working on that last part……

My fluffy companion is a Border Collie and Husky mix. She truly is the best of both breeds. Her name is Niika, pronounced Neeka. 

Sometimes she passes me a note!

 Yes, it is really Monday!  Enjoy your week!

Easter Is In One Week!

I can't believe that one week from today is Easter. The time just flies with so much to do!

If you are looking for fun Easter activities, visit my TpT store and look under Easter

The. Thrill. Never. Gets. Old!

A picture of my store pictured on the TpT Website.

Discount Marketing Strategy on a TeacherspayTeachers Product!

I’m sure that most of you already knew this trick, but I didn’t! How had I missed it!!! So I thought I would share…

I wanted to make a TpT Store product on sale with the line through the regular price and the sale price listed. I asked how to do this and a dear friend, Pamela Kranz answered my question.

Go to the upload page of the product you wish to edit. Put the regular price in the Price Box. Then put the sale price in the Bundle Discount Price. When you Submit and load the page it will show it discounted!

Easy peasy…....now!

Easter Is Coming!

It will be here before you know it! I have many creative and fun ideas on my Pinterest Easter Board.    Enjoy!     

My Easter Pinterest Board

TeacherspayTeachers Blog

I am so excited to be in the TeacherspayTeachers Blog today! http://blog.teacherspayteachers.com/funny-classroom-moments-tpt/

 

It shares one of my favorite teaching stories!

When I first started teaching, I overheard one of my kinder girls explaining to a new student how kindergarten works. "We are the a.m. kindergarten class — the first class each day because A is the first letter of the alphabet. Now, the p.m. kindergarten class is the last class of the day, since P is near the end of the alphabet. And…………(long pause)………I think the f.m. class must come in the middle of the day because F is in the middle of those letters."

Happy Sunday!

Free Bookmarks for Spring or Easter!

Find them in my TeacherspayTeachers Store! 
Look for them under FREE in the CUSTOM CATEGORIES, plus other free activities and products!

Just The Beginning........

Please join me as I take my baby steps into the blogging world!

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