A GiveAway from Teacher Gems!

Teacher Gems is having a big giveaway to celebrate her 30th!  You have a chance to win a variety of items! How great is that!? Head on over to her blog! There are so many ways to enter.

FREEBIE FRIDAY!

So I am working on this pack for what I think will be a paid item on TPT, but I am not sure yet.  My first Freebie Friday givaway will be a sample voting background for ActivInspire. The Chevron themed pack I am making for my TPT store will have a lot of variety, so if you LOVE Chevron, keep checking my shop. I hope to have the large pack of Chevron backgrounds up after I get back from the BEACH! :) To get today's freebie click the image below to link to my TPT store. Hope you enjoy it!

I LOVE Creating!

So I am considering a couple of projects for my summer break. I really want to make a Chevron ActivInspire Background and ActiVote pack. It would include backgrounds like the one you see below. I also want to do a Write From the Beginning Writing Pack, definitely for 1st and maybe Kinder and 2nd, too. The pack would include Thinking Maps, Writing Paper, Foldable (with Thinking Maps inside), and a printable that could be made into a poster.

I am super excited about all my items on TPT. It is such a rewarding feeling to know that what I create could help other educators. I made a Reciprocal Teaching Chart last year and used it during small group instruction. I even blew it up to poster size with the poster maker at my school. Check out my Freebies Tab to get it through my TPT store.

Sample: Chevron Background for ActivInspire Flipcharts

Reciprocal Teaching Chart

Click to go to TPT store for download.

 

My First Grade Days - My Buzzy Garden

This post came from my previous teaching blog, The First Grade Buzz. A popular item on pinterest was my "Word Garden." Check it out!




When I chose the name for my blog, I decided on the title The First Grade Buzz because my classroom has a garden theme. My students are all the bugs "buzzing" in my garden. Their Reading group names are all different types of bugs. (Butterflies, Dragonflies, Fireflies, Bumblebees, and Grasshoppers)

I hope you enjoy these pics of where I spend a lot of my time! If you are interested in any more information about this theme, feel free to ask!

Learn and Grow Large Letters
Hanging flowers from Hobby Lobby
40¢ per pack on sale after Spring
A large tree is at the back of the classroom by our pond.

"Work That Glows"
Every garden needs a pond! I made this with 1/2 off greenery from
Hobby Lobby and a pond bulletin board kit.

Firefly Lights found at Michael's craft store for the "glow."

My Buzzy Groups!

The rest of my Buzzy Groups

They say they are never bored in centers!

Every garden needs a little sunlight, found this sun at the Dollar Store.

Table Groups are Bee cut outs with table numbers.
The bees look like they are flying around our garden.



Instead of a
Word Wall we have a
Word Garden.

I use floral fabric on the bulletin boards.

My Job chart and Behavior Chart

Love Seeing My Clip Art on TPT!

I love creating clip art, it's sort of a hobby of mine. I love making digital images and manipuling shapes. Thanks to a new program I found I finally can create some items I think are worthy of selling on TPT! Now, I am anxiously awaiting that first purchase. I will be one proud momma that's for sure! Below are the previews to some of my items. If you are interested link to my TPT store on my bannerin the top right!

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! 

 

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due... and my first TPT item!

Welcome! Not new to blogging, but new to selling my instructional resources and clip art, my love for being an educator is deeply rooted. Previously "The First Grade Buzz" my new blog "Teacher Inspired" will be a place I post all the random, fabulous stuff I find and create. Hopefully by August, when I start my new job as Master Teacher, I will have a large range of followers and many items to share! Inspired by all the great teachers out there, found everywhere from within my own school, Pinterest, Blogger, and more, I had the idea to create a blog to post a wide range of teaching ideas. I want it to be a place where teachers can go to look for useful ideas that could stretch across grade levels, very fitting for my new job endeavors. So, I may be saying goodbye to the BUZZ of first grade but can’t wait to welcome new INSPIRATION.

I absolutely MUST thank Jennifer at Raspberry Road Design for designing my blog layout! It is so me and it matches my personality perfectly! It's like she was in my head! If you are looking for a great designer who doesn't cut corners, she's your girl! Loved her so much that she is designing made to match items for my Etsy store: Ink Inspired.
Her shop on Etsy can be found here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/raspberryroaddesign

The other reason I am super excited about my new blogging endeavors today is last night, very late last night, I put my first free item up on my TPT store! Now to figure out how to put it on my products page on my blog today.... baby steps....

Anyways....here is the preview! Want it? Head over to my TPT store by following my link on the right sidebar.

 

I am so excited about posting more products, but here is my first FREEBIE! Hopefully soon I will provide a link on my static pages, after I learn a bit more! If you download I hope you enjoy my backgrounds! More to come....

Testing Testing 1...2...3

Testing out my fabulous new blog!