Quick Project for a Friend

I'm excited to finally have a project for the watercolor flowers I purchased!  My co-worker needed some rules posted in her room, so she asked for my help.

Elapsed Time

We are working on elapsed time this week.  I love using a t-chart for it, but Everyday Math uses the open number line, so that's what we are practicing with.  I made this little reference chart to send out to my parents.  What do you use with your students?

We are slowly working towards using math stations.  This is a great review game for telling time. I can't wait to break out this game with my class! 

Back to School Sale

Are you ready to shop?  My wishlist is ready to go!  I've added several new products this summer and expanded my multiplication products to include x11 and x12. I've also made some of my fact family products in various themes so that you can choose when to use them.  I originally made them for my students so the theme matched the month/season, but that really limited the use.

We have some seasonal monsters. 

 

There are some cute kids having fun.

 

 

We have some adorable animals from around the world. 

 

There is a Line Plot Bundle now available.  The Scavenger Hunts are some of my most popular activities.  

 

One of my new products is the Build Them Pocket Chart Math Facts. My teammates are ready for this one!  I'm hoping to have a Division item available before school begins.

 

Last year was the first year that we implemented Common Core.  I know that my students need a lot of my exposure to different types of sentences before I can expect them to write good quality sentences.  This product contains a sorting activity and sentence unscrambles. 

 

 

Here's an oldie.  My students loved this activity at the end of the year last year.  It has 3 scrambled sentences for each of the 5 mammals as well as a few other writing activities.

 

Here's another new bundle with a Scavenger Hunt added.

 

Descriptive writing bundle- These are quick writing activities that are perfect for around the holidays.  They make a great display and my students always enjoy the guessing game.

  

A few more bundles...

 

 

And, a Graphing Mega Bundle! This is a great deal! The already discounted bundle are discounted even more.  You can also save up to 28% during the Back to School Sale by using the BTS15. What a super savings!

  

Graphing Mega Bundle

I'm excited to finally have this project up in my store.  It includes some of my most popular products at a discounted price on already discounted bundles.  There are great hands-on activities along with activities that will get your students up and moving around!

These activities are geared towards third and fourth grade, however, above grade level students in second may enjoy them, too.  The hand-on  activities are great for review and the scavenger hunts will challenge your students!  You can click on the picture to find the activity in my store.

Ordered Pairs Scavenger Hunt

My math scavenger hunts are some of my best sellers.  In June I added Ordered Pairs as a Scavenger Hunt and also created a bundle.

Technology Fail

I love to take pictures!  Lots of pictures!  Digital photography is great until it isn't so great... corrupt files etc.  I periodically back up my phone files just in case I lose my phone.  I find myself using my phone for most pictures and video since it's small and I always have it with me.  March 2014 was the last time I backed up my phone from what I can tell on my computer.

So paranoia set in the night before we left for vacation and I tried to back up my phone.  It wasn't working.  My husband tried and tried and tried, but it still wasn't letting the backup to take place.  SD card is bad.  UGH!

I'm finally over misplacing or accidentally deleting my son's first Christmas and I will forever cherish the 4 photos I have and 30 seconds of video. :(  I'm forever grateful that when my son was born I loaded photos onto my new laptop instead of my desktop which crashed a week after he was born. This time I lost a year's worth of video and photos. I'm thankful that some of the important pictures were uploaded to Facebook or sent to friends or even emailed to myself.  I lost A LOT this time.

So anyway, I'm going to share a few photos because it doesn't hurt to have them in a few places. I know I took less photos than normal. I decided to just enjoy the moments because if technology fails then the moments are what I have.

Maui Day Trip- We were here for a heatwave and we found a really cool spot to stand and enjoy the breeze.  We didn't hike down to the beach.

 

Waiting for the fireworks.

Elevator View

 

We celebrated our 16th anniversary.

My son turned 8.

 

 

The Game Room

My son made some new friends and he left this message for a friend.

Sunset leaving Maui.

Sunrise heading home on the second leg of flight LA to Minneapolis.

Neat store!  

Our vacations will always overlap in some way with the Vegas TPT fun!  Maybe one day I'll be able to go.

Double Sided Tape

As I was doing some summer cleaning around the house today, I found some old double sided Scotch tape that I used for a school project several years ago.  I bought a lot.  I'm still using it up  9 years later, but I'm afraid the supply is now gone. 

So anyway, while watching The Bachelorette and reading a few blogs, I realized that next year isn't the year to deal with messy bottles of glue.  It was messy this past year.  Well, why not use some tape?  Has anyone tried this before?  I'm thinking it might be worth a try.  If it isn't a good idea then I have 9 more years of tape to use!