The recent TeachersPayTeachers sale is over! I am EXHAUSTED and EXCITED! I posted some new products (Most recently my Magic Tree House sets, which I finished up with some of my new clip art!)....   and I purchased some awesome new products from a couple of my favorite sellers. A few of my favorite purchases were: [...]

Did you hear! It's a TPT sitewide sale! If you're anything like me, you LOVE to purchase products from amazing teachers across the country and world. It's amazing the work that goes into the fantanstic resources posted by shopkeepers on TeachersPayTeachers. But if you're like me, you're also trying to keep up with this buying while [...]

Did you hear the awesome news? TeachersPayTeachers is throwing a sitewide sale on Wednesday, February 25! This means that all customers will receive 10% off of the total purchase at checkout.  As a new shopkeeper, this is a super exciting time for me! There are many things to get ready for... So here they are... [...]

I am officially three months into my TeachersPayTeachers and TeachersNotebook journey. It's been super fun, and I am so excited to have this "hobby" (oh who am I kidding... it's a part time job). It's been an interesting situation because I feel like I am spending my time balancing my family and children, planning for [...]

As promised, I'm back discussing paired texts. I hadn't really thought a lot about pairing informational and fictional texts as an objective before the implementation of the Common Core. I'll tell you what though, my students LOVE this concept and it adds a great amount of FUN and continuity to my instruction. One thing my [...]

There is one thing I have learned as a first grade teacher... Kids LOVE animals! They love reading about them, writing about them, drawing them... pretending to be them. So a combination between this realization, a need for research materials in my classroom, and the super cute clipart of TongassTeacher.... has produced my new animal [...]