Teacher Pay Teacher Update

Hello Friends!  

Today, as I recover from a stomach virus, I decided to create a new game that turned into three new products.  Recapping my past school year, I noticed that my students thoroughly enjoyed playing games to review concepts we were learning.  When the students would figure out who went first, most of them would play rock, paper, scissors.  I thought, what better way to review than by creating a game that included those concepts.  With that, I came up with the Rock, Paper, Scissors Game.  I created my products around the skill of measurement conversions.  I created a product using metric conversions, another product with customary measurement conversions, and then a bundle to include both of them.  I am in the middle of the process of creating a mixed measurement product as well.  Each of these products come with three leveled game boards to review basic skills, to challenge those students that are at a higher level, and a difficult game board for any enrichment group.  Please feel free to check out my new products and tell me what you think!  

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Have a wonderful week!

2016 Updates!

I'M BACK!  

I am so excited to have finished my first year at Saint Ann's and my fifth year of teaching.  I am hoping to have new adventures awaiting me in the future.  Currently I am interviewing at a variety of school in the area.  Do not get me wrong, I love where I work now, but there is no way that I can live off what I make.  So I am excited to see what awaits me in the future.  As for my summertime, I am going to continue to work on my TpT store and expanding it to include more games, task cards, and would like to open it up to see what customers are looking for in the middle school math field.  Here are a few of my new exciting products that I just created.  If you have any suggestions or requests, please feel free to message me or send me an email.  I am up for a challenge!  

Math Vocabulary Word Search

Geometry Vocabulary Word Search

Real Numbers & Properties Word Search

These word search puzzles are a great way to integrate math vocabulary in the classroom. There are two versions of each puzzle.  The first version is when you introduce the vocabulary terms.  It gives the students a word bank with all the words and then asks them to create sentences with half of the words on the back.  The second word search is for those students who are more advanced or when you want to review vocabulary.  The second word search gives only the definition or an example and the students must find the words in the puzzle.  My students loved using the definition word search in our review math centers!  They would race to see who could define and find the word in the shortest amount of time!  Check back later for more word search products!  

Beginning of the Year Materials

Middle School Vocabulary Word Wall

All About Me

Classroom Job Chart

I added some new beginning of the year materials to my store as well.  To go along with my geometry vocabulary word searches, I included my middle school mathematics vocabulary word wall.  It contains 64 vocabulary words that are used in the 6-8 math classes.  The vocabulary cards are color coordinated based on pre-algebra and algebra 1 classes.  The second item that I added to my store is the All About Me worksheets.  I created three All About Me activities for various subject areas (history, math, english).  I use the math one as the cover of my math ISN.  The students have to use numbers to answer various questions and then draw a picture that relates to it.  History and English are very similar.  The History All About Me Worksheet has students using history (past, present, future) to explain certain things in their lives.  The English All About Me Worksheet asks students to use various parts of speech to explain certain things in their lives (goals, summer activities/hobbies, recipe for success).  It is a great way for teachers to learn about their students given the content area they are teaching.  Lastly, I took my very popular Classroom Job Chart and created it using various backgrounds and font colors.  It is one of my highest selling product and through it would be great for teachers to have a variety of choices to choose from since many of us use themes in our classroom.  Please check the various colors and backgrounds on these products.  If there is a color you would love to have for your classroom, please feel free to email or message me!

Math Games/Activities

I am going to continue to create task cards for my students.  They really enjoy using these and moving around the classroom.  They know that as the number on the task card increases, so does the difficulty of the questions.  This allows students to move throughout the room working at their own pace and challenging themselves.  Another item that I will be adding in my store are the Yahtzee games.  My students are always asking when we will be playing Yahtzee again.  If you have not checked out any of the Yahtzee games, I highly recommend that you do!  

Check out my store!

Black Friday & Cyber Smile Sale

Hey everyone!  I know it has been a while since I last posted on here but I am excited to say that I have been busy enhancing my TPT store with new looks and products.  In addition, my new school is keeping me very busy with organizing and hosting our Saint's Day Celebration, directing the Christmas Show and Beauty and the Beast Jr., and preparing our 8th grade class for Confirmation.

Report cards went out recently and parent teacher conferences are completed.  I am so excited to say that 75% of the parents are beyond ecstatic about the interactive notebooks and feel that they have been the key to their child's success this past quarter in math.  All my classes averaged above a 90% for the quarter!  I am so very proud of them all!  Most of this success comes from the products, foldables, games, and centers that I posted on my TPT Store.

I am asking you to check out my store and my two sales!!
I am having a Black Friday Sale from Nov. 27 - Nov 28 in which everything is 15% off in my store.  I am also participating in the Cyber Smile Sale in which everything is 20% off in my store.  Make sure to add items to your wish list and get them while they are HOT!!  Thank you to everyone who subscribes to my store, provides feedback, and purchases my items.  Without you, my store would not be such a success!

Have a wonderful holiday break!  

Teachers Notebook

Ever hear of Teachers Notebook?  I stumbled across this site while searching something on pinterest.  I saw that it was similar to TPT and this past fall I uploaded two-three of my items.  I realized that I did not utilize it as much as Teacher Pay Teachers and therefore stopped posting.  However, recently at my TPT Meet-up last week, I was told that by uploading your products on Teachers Notebook, people still find and buy your products.  Therefore, I decided since I am updating my blog and included my TPT Store, I too included my Teachers Notebook Store.  I am surprised to see that my store was viewed 9 times already.  In addition, I created my own teacher instagram and already have 50 followers.  I am thinking that if I can get 100 to have a huge TPT sale!

Any other tips or tricks to get more followers and bring more traffic to my store and blog?  

Have a great week!

Update!!

Last week was extremely busy!  I signed all final paperwork at my new school, was able to spend time in my classroom, get my teaching manuals, participated in my first TPT Meet-up, and took my boyfriend on his first camping trip.  Once back from camping, I had time to work on things that I learned from my TPT Meet-up.  This is all new to me and I want to make sure that I create my own images.  I had to do lots of research on how to redesign my website through other blog posts and YouTube videos.  

The first thing I did was create a new button.  

I wanted something large, easy to read, simple but makes a statement.  I wanted to make sure that I stayed with my colors of gray, blue, and yellow!  I tried to choose fonts that were statement fonts and were large enough to read.  One change I made was changing from three students to three owls.  I mean, how cute!!  :) 

Once I created my button, I knew I instantly wanted to update my TPT Page.  Of course it is still a work in progress, but I began by creating a new TPT banner and side banner.  I then took that work into redesigning my blog.  I wanted to create a header that had links to my various sites (TPT, Instagram, Pinterest) and to my various pages.  I also wanted to create a navigation bar that was included in my header.  After much research, I was able to complete this.  I am still unsure how to create a header and about me section with clearer options and am open to how this is possible.  

TPT Meet-Up

This past Thursday, I had the privilege to meet up with about a dozen other teachers from around the area at TJ Rockwells.  These people are amazing individuals that each brought their own flare to teaching, blogging, and TPT to the table.  Our afternoon included lots of laughs, great food, honest sharing, and amazing conversation that allows us all to grow in what we do.  A huge thank you to Becky and Greg from The Class Couple for organizing this meet up and Go Noodle & TPT for all the lovely goodies!  

Molly from Sassy Sub was one of the amazing teachers that I met at this meet.  

I am linking up with her for this fun Summer Recap Party.  I hate that summer is coming to an end.  Therefore, I am going to recap three major things that happened to me this past summer.  

Vacation Trips

This past summer, I was blessed to enjoy my vacation weeks with my amazing boyfriend.  We went to several different places, and still have two more weekends of fun lined up.  We began our summer with a week trip to Cape Coral Florida.  This was my first time going to the Gulf side of Florida.  We enjoyed days of jet skiing, kayaking, beach laying, fourth of July bash with a concert from Chase Rice, and a trip to Miami to visit his father.  This past weekend I took Joe on his first camping trip.  It was quite an amazing time.  We hiked 12 miles our first day there.  Other fascinating camping events included getting lost in the woods, Joe cross the river on a tree trunk, hearing a bear in the woods, and bear spotting in our campsite.  In the weeks to come we have some day trips planned to Music Fest, a weekend trip to Rochester NY, and a trip to Baltimore, MD.  

TPT Meet-Up

This summer I participated in my first TPT meet-up.  It was something I always wanted to do since I started creating projects for my TPT Store.  I was very nervous and scared at first to meet up with random teachers and exchange ideas.  However, after halfway through it, I felt comfortable discussing my ideas and products with others.  I learned so much to help improve my store and blog.  During our meet, I set a goal of improving my store, products, and being consistent in product making.  I am hoping that I can achieve this goal with the motivation from this meet-up!

Blog/TPT Update

As you see, I have updated my blog and redesigned the header and side column.  I am not completed yet and hope to work on it throughout the school year with my boyfriend is away on the weekend at baseball tournaments.