VIP Grandstand Ticket Holder

As you know I have a TPT store, it is one of the side shows at the Circus called "Labby's Lounge"
I am wanting to have a group of educators who will be my VIP Grandstand ticket holders here. This will give you my reader (if chosen) a chance to try out my product for free in your classroom. Like I have said in the past I used these in computer labs, but I am wanting to branch out!! Sound interesting? Fill out the form below and I will get back to you ! Thanks

What's New and Blog Freebie

As you know I worked in Computer Labs for 9 years, and over those years I collected ALOT of websites to use with K-3rd grades.

 I would put into folders as needed this picture shows the "holding" folder of ones that I changed out depending on the theme/topic each class was doing .....

This shows how many times my links were used

I've decided to share them via a TPT store. They are great for labs, computer centers in the classroom. 

For my loyal blog readers I have created a freebie based on my latest product. This freebie is only available on the blog.

 This was used when the students were studying Space in their classrooms. This is K/1 level BUT I used it K-3rd labs as we all know not everyone is AT Level .......The whole product can be found HERE....

.Below is the K/1 page along with the checkoff cards. The checkoff cards are great as you print, laminate them and give to the student as they work on that page, they check off (with a dry erase marker) as they complete a star. You can be doing RTI with ones that need the one on one work, while your other students do this. I hope you enjoy this, and let me know if you have topics/themes you would like me to do .....as you can see I have QUITE a few links I have used!!!  Thanks for stopping by!!  Let me know what you think! Make sure to follow my store HERE !

Organizing TPT Purchases

Since school got out in June I have been on a MAJOR overhaul.......Cleaned out the closets, garage, Den......I am FINALLY getting around to the computer files......I have 2 computers ....2 External Hard Drives (1 & 2 TB) and a billion (not joking) flash drives! Life got busy and well it is going to take a while! I thought I'd share some things I have found that have been helping along the way. These may or may not work for you.

First of all a product share

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This is the bomb........This is perfect for having all your purchases in one place! Ashley goes into depth HERE.

For mine, I did do the images a bit different than she shows. I went to the TPT product and downloaded to a file the product image directly to my computer(right click save image). Sometimes I had to find the link from blog posts. Then when I am done I just delete the files....

Also for my graphics files (clipart) I do it a bit different ....I print contact sheets of each product.
On windows go to the product folder click on one of the files and then click ctrl +A to select all of them.....

Then I hit the print button

TIP: Unclick Fit Picture to Frame (this makes entire image print)

And select contact sheet. Now I print my using NITRO PDF to save them as pdf''s but you can just print each one to your own printer.  I keep the pdf within the file as a back up .....These contact sheets I file in the binder above under graphics so I can see what each one has.

On my computer I use a program I've had from my digital scrapbooking days called ASDSee
(this is awesome product, but I am just sharing one component)

I mark each graphic with a label (Graphic) then a category (Seuss) ......I love that I can mark a file (in this case graphic) with multiple categories. I can then search all my files for Seuss and find them in hurry. I am not going to lie I am WAY behind on this. It is labor intensive in all aspects but at the end of it will my life that much easier!

There you have it! I will back soon with more!

Tales from this TPT buyer

Oh TPT, how I love you

From my very first purchase

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To my 408th Purchase ....

.So here is a tip for everyone .....I get in a buying frenzy when I see

But BEFORE I do I go back and add feedback to get credits for said sales.....(I mean who doesn't love free $$$) Sometimes I forget to add feedback on items ....so I always do this

Go to your purchases and sort by "Needs Feedback" ....now some are no longer on TPT......but this keeps you on track.....Hope this helps!!! Go Forth and prepare and

TpT Hits Vegas - Teachers Pay Teachers

I would be remiss about two very fun people we got to meet at the meetup. John and Amy from TPT.....I told Amy it was nice to meet another female "techie" and John that we really need to talk about my Buyer of the year award (Just kidding, oh wait I just bought more, maybe not :) ) Click on the link below to see their take on the meetup! It was great meeting you two! Keep up the great work!

TpT Hits Vegas - Teachers Pay Teachers

Teacher Appreciation Sale Finds Linky Party

(I started this back on the 7th, then the dreaded STREP hit, and I have been out of commission most of the week, 8 days and 1 hour of this very long year, that I never really got caught up from is over can I get an AMEN)


 I am linking up with Erica's Teacher Appreciation Sale Finds Linky Party

But first I wanted to say thank you to all the bloggers that did the freebies yesterday. I found so many great resources! I also wanted to thank Sally @ TPT, I was having with a few (ok ALOT) of the bigger files not saving to google docs...(remember to save on my cap on my ISP) she totally helped figure it all out! I am Sally at school, so I understand the behind the scenes people! Thanks again Sally, and all of the people at TPT....since I joined I have found so many products that have helped our students, either via TPT or blogs! You Rock!

Now while my bank account just freaked out ..(saying seriously TPT yet again, not really but my budget did for sure LOL) here are my latest finds.....

First up is

Amelia Bedelia Printables and Literacy Stations - Ashley Benoit - TeachersPayTeachers.com
Ashley hails from The Teacher's Treasure Chest 

Who doesn't love dear Amelia .....I have a few students who have read every single one, but I also have a few that I have coming up next year, that I will use this to hook them on her....Thanks Ashley

Next
 

Cute 2nd Grade English Language Arts Common Core State Standards - Workaholic NBCT - TeachersPayTeachers.com
 She hails from The AmazingClassroom.com Blog
I so needed K-3 CCS for Math and ELA that matched as working with these levels I didn't want mismatched.  I printed mine using the multiple per page option then did them back to back, laminated, cut them out and hole punched and put on a ring!

Next up

I Have Who Has Card Template

 She is the awesome Mrs. Magee from First Grade Brain

This is a perfect example of why I LOVE TPT, why reinvent the wheel....love the work has been done for me! 

Another Great find

My Summer Bucket List Writing and Craft - Miss Kindergarten Love - TeachersPayTeachers.com
 She is the Great Hadar from Miss Kindergarten

I had planned on doing this during the past week, but not something I wanted to have a sub introduce (ok fine, it was too cute and I wanted to be there)

My next find

Daily Awards and Incentives - Miss Nelson - TeachersPayTeachers.com
 Love her blog

  

First I love her blog as we have a Mrs. Nelson who is an excellent photographer, but when I see her with it I usually RUN.....LOL......Now I needed something to motivate the kids, and while I adore buy junk prizes at the Target $ spot, lets be honest, I need to revamp my incentives...

And Finally my Livesaver of the week......

Our PBIS team decided to raise money for our student incentive fund via a bake sale at our Spring Music/Art Program this past Thursday. I went on pinterest Monday to find in my plethora of saved recipes a quick and easy one, (at this point I did not know I was getting sick) and found this 

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So sent the recipe to my phone, and off to the store I went. As I was buying them, I thought I should put them on a plate and do something cute as a label. When I got home I was checking my facebook, and this picture appears on my newsfeed from Teach it With Class   facebook page....

She included a link to find in her TPT STORE..... I found she had one that said we need smore parents....(My district is made up with blended homes, parents, grandparents, foster parents) but I bought it anyhow. I made the comment on her page that it would be great if it had one for families. Do you know she sent me via email the exact tag I needed! This is why I LOVE teacher blogs, TPT, and facebook. (THANK YOU RANDI) 

I would love to show you the finished project. But I came down sick Tuesday, but was MADE(sore subject don't ask)...crawled thru work Wednesday, so that night I with my mask and gloves so not to spread the germs..made them, then again since I was MADE to go to work Thursday, I delivered them without taking pictures...I made it Thursday for 2 hours and came home and slept and with the love from antibiotics am just starting to feel somewhat better.....Sorry for late posting...

Teacher Appreciation Jackpot LiveSaver

After reading post below click HERE to check out all the wonderful freebies :)

Sorry so long since I have posted, but wanted to share a firefox add on, that has truly saved my sanity, and might yours too. I live in a rural rural area, so my internet well SO much better than dial up, has a cap of  15gb (I have flash drives bigger than this) for downloads and uploads. Yes, most people in cities have 250gb....you see my dilemma since discovering teacher blogs and TPT and Teacher's Notebook...I hit my cap quite frequently. So when the Jackpot above was announced, I had a few options, a)spend Sunday downloading at work (ummm...no) b) hit my cap (I am already at 9) and suffer until I renew on the 22nd (note this is the slowest speed ever known to man, so ummm no) So then I decided there HAD to be away to save documents directly to my google doc (now google drive) meaning no downloading to computer. Well after many many hours of playing with different add ons (this applies to firefox only, I HATE IE, and Chrome is so new to me, I don't want to even try right now) so I thought I'd share in case you would like to do it yourself.

On Firefox click tools adds on.....


 Search in box for Open IT Online


Install making sure that you have selected all to go to google viewer, after doing so it will tell you ' that it has been installed. You will need to restart Firefox for it to work. After restarting, open one of the freebie links (I am using Denise's at Sunny Days in Second Grade Fabulous Freebie for the example) Click on her link to TPT (make sure you are logged in to TPT)

 Right click on the download now, and click on open link in new tab.

 

The above will pop up in the new tab, click on the button that says Open IT online (making sure Google docs Viewer is selected) click ok

  

This is what you should see, click on save in google docs and you are done! Now I am off to download all these freebies myself! I hope I will be back with Teacher Appreciation gifts I did for coworkers. Hope this helps!