Tomorrow's the Big Day

Well, it's time to say good-bye to summer and hello to a new school year.  I have to admit, it's been a great summer and I'm going to miss it, but it is always exciting to start anew.  As a technology integration specialist, I love finding and creating resources for my teachers.  This year, I have several new goals, including this blog.  I hope to add tons of ideas and resources here for my teachers and for you!  Make sure to follow my blog so you don't miss out on a thing. I hope everyone is having a great start to their school year.  Now, I guess it's time for me to get ready for my first day tomorrow.  "Talk" with you soon. :)

It's a SALE!

Have you heard the news??? 

TpT will begin their BIG Back to School site-wide sale in just a few hours and I can hardly wait!  There are sooooo many awesome resources on the site you can get to start your school year off right.  And... yes, my store will be participating in the big event, too.  You will be able to get anything from my TpT store for 20% off... then use the promo code BTS13 at checkout for an even bigger savings ---- 28% OFF!  Now that's a sale!!!  The sale is only on for 2 days... August 18th and 19th.  Click on the graphic below to rush right on over and start shopping!

 

During the sale, get my latest products for back to school:

Newsletters for the Year! - 44 Seasonal Themed Newsletter Templates

Literary Genres Bulletin Board Set and Activities

Place Value to Hundreds (SMARTboard Math Lesson)

and so much more!

Happy Shopping!!!

Look What's New... Newsletter Templates!

You may have noticed I've been a little MIA lately.  I have been having a great summer and just spent the last week at the beach with my family.  And... this coming week is "Girlfriends Week" so I am headed back to the beach tomorrow with some of my favorite teacher peeps... YAY!  I am really looking forward to my last fun week of my summer break before heading back to school on the 19th. 

In the meantime, I worked a little at the beach last week and finished my latest project - a set of newsletter templates.  44 to be exact!  That is enough to for a different weekly newsletter for each week of the school year!  I am really excited about the way they turned out. :-)

Each newsletter is completely customizable.  Change the dates, title, section titles, text, etc.  You can also change the fonts and their sizes.  In addition, I included links to the free fonts I used and directions on how to download and install fonts on your machine.  In case you are trying to come up a cute title for your newsletter, I also include lots of title ideas!

The newsletters are seasonal themed with backgrounds and clipart representing the month and seasons.  Below are the months and themes included with the number of templates per month:

The themes included are:
August – Back to School (4)
September – Back to School and fall (4)
October – fall leaves, pumpkins, Halloween (5)
November – harvest, Native Americans, Thanksgiving (4)
December – winter and Christmas (3)
January – winter, ice skating, snowmen, penguins (4)
February – groundhogs, Valentines, hearts (4)
March – lion/lamb, rainbows, St. Patrick’s Day (4)
April – spring, April showers (4)
May – flowers, butterflies (4)
June – summer, beach (3)
July – 4th of July (1)

And here is a look at a few samples of the templates:

 

 

 

 

 

Interested?  Pick up my newsletter templates on Teachers Pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook. 

I'll end this post with a picture from my family beach week.  I hope you are having an excellent summer! 

Blogging Tutorials

This summer I decided to learn more about blogging and work on improving the look of my blog.  I was thrilled to find these great tutorials.  I learned how to create my own background and I am loving the new look of my blog.  I hope you like it too!  They have lots of tutorials on ways to improve a blog.  Here's where you can find the tutorials if you want to learn more about blogging, too!

I'm Having a Sale!

In honor of this great summer I'm having a Flip Flop Sale in both my TpT and TN stores!  Check them out for 15% off all of my products from July 21-26 at the TN store and July 21-24 at the TpT store.  I hope you are having a great summer, too!

In honor of my summer sale, I am giving away my newest product "Literary Genres Bulletin Board Set and Activities" to one lucky winner on the Giveaway page on Teachers Notebook! This chevron themed bulletin board set and activities is perfect for your classroom to teach your students about fiction and nonfiction genres and to use as a reference in your library. 19 genres with descriptions are included in 3 different sizes as well as student activities and a game. To enter for the giveaway, click on the Deals/Giveaways tab at the top of the page, then click on View All Giveaways.  The giveaway ends tomorrow night (July 23) so hurry to enter!

Look What's NEW!

I am so excited about my newest creation on Literary Genres!!!  Several years ago when I was teaching 3^rd grade I created a bulletin board that resembled a graphic web of the genres to help my students learn about fiction and nonfiction types of literature.  It was very basic looking so I decided to spruce it up some.  It ended up turning into a bulletin board set of 3 different sizes as well as an advance organizer, a sort for students, a concentration game, Bingo boards and reading slips!  Wow!  I guess I got a little carried away.  

The set includes a bulletin board set in 3 different sizes.  The large size is full page and has the genre name and description.

The medium size is half page and has the genre name on one half page and the description on another half page.  One way to arrange this on a board is to fold a piece of cardstock in half like a card and glue the genre name on top and the description on the inside.  Students can lift the “flap” to read the description. 

The smallest size is the perfect size for book bin labels.  They have the name and description on separate labels.  

I’ve also included an advance organizer for students to glue in their reading notebooks, some bulletin board ideas and book slips for arranging the genres and slips.  

4 Reading Bingo cards are part of this set.  Use them monthly or quarterly for students to keep track of which genres they have read.

Students can complete the Genre sort and play the concentration game!  And as a special thank you for checking out my blog, I’ve included the Genre sort as a FREEBIE!

You can purchase the full product in my Teachers Pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook stores.

Thank you SO much!

Sherri

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