Freebie

Teachers need to resources to spruce things up some times and here's a lttle freebie to make that happen:

link: http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1

Expires August 31, 2014

Thriving on Teachers Pay Teachers

Here is a fabulous article for educators looking to make a few pennies by posting their hard work on Teachers Pay Teachers.

http://blog.teacherspayteachers.com/

Soon To Be Teacher - The Baby of the Family of Educators

Day one of teaching = success!!!

Two lessons I learned about being a teacher today:

1) Time management and classroom management are KEY to a great lesson 

2) I'm gonna need to take stock in some energy pills! haha!

- Guest Blogger, Emily

Goodbye First Grade

As the school year wraps up and plans are underway for the upcoming school year, teaching assignments must be made, involuntary transfers placed, and new positions need to be posted.  It's like putting a puzzle together; the puzzle looks one way in the spring and then changes are made again to the puzzle pieces during the summer break.

I have been feeling completely exhausted this school year with my first graders for some odd reason. I felt I should go to an older grade, perhaps second or third grade.  As the puzzle was being put together the spot that opened up was a fourth grade position, the one grade I have not taught since my student teaching over twenty years ago.

My heart dropped when my principal came to let me know how the puzzle pieces were being fit together this spring.  I couldn't pin point what made me so immediately apprehensive  about going to fourth grade.  When the darling smiles on my first graders entered my classroom the tears rolled down my eyes as I realized that I would soon be clearing out my first grade curriciculum and start counting down the days these petite smiles would beam at me as I greet them each morning.  That was it.  I will miss these little arms that glue themselves instantly around my growing waistline every morning, the little fingers that endlessly tap at my forearm to instantly capture my undevided attention, the tiny voices pleaded endlessly for a bandaid for their invisible paper cuts.

Ideally, everything is mapped out before school dismisses for summer with minor changes.  Yet, I have never returned from a summer break without a major mouth dropping announcement being made, that is, a teaching assignment.  Someone moves, decides to stop teaching, switches schools or makes a radical change in position.

Now that it has been announced to parents that I will be teaching fourth grade, parent request have been made, and the first draft of class lists have been posted I have resolved to say my adieu to my love of first grade.

- Bethany

Heidi Songs

Incorporating music to teach is something I use at every opportunity possible, even when I am teaching in the upper grades.  I felt like I hit a wall when I conducted a weekly monitor progress assessment and realized my first graders were not retaining their sight words consistently.  I wanted to recycle everything I had been doing.  I freaked out!  As we follow the Common Core my First Graders were supposed to come to me with a handful of sight words already mastered, right?!?  Wrong!?!

I collaborated with my First Grade team, the real experts, who were also experiencing the same frustrations.  We talked about a website to check out.  It was www.HeidiSongs.com. 

I checked out some samples she had on YouTube and then made the purchase online.  A month after using the sight word songs and reproducibles in my class, I realize it has been worth every penny.  The songs are fabulous and the reproducibles double as a handwriting practice.  I highly recommend the sight word series since they help forge through the Common Core for First Grade. 

Family of Educators Blog has no affiliation with the website or distribution of materials.  We are simply giving credit where credit is due and sharing a fabulous resource.

Word Family /ox/

This is a very simple CVC word family using words - ox, fox, box, pox.  I left out out sox as in "Red Sox" to not confuse young readers.  It's a six page document with a cut and paste activity, word search, spin game, and Elkin boxes, and modeling sentence writing and more.  Click here to access a copy to use for individual, small group or whole class intruction.

My Memories Suite - Freebie

Accessing Your Freebies

You will now access the freebies through the store, instead of as a direct download. This means that if you ever buy a new computer, your computer crashes, or you accidentally delete a file, you will be able to access it in your My Downloads section of your MyMemories Account. You will now have to have a MyMemories account to access the downloads. Accounts are always free.
Enjoy!!!

Get $10. off Making Memories Software using my code: STMMMS38684.

Remember that the Halloween and Super Hero Masks are still up for only ONE more week!!  More will always come!


 

http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1

 

http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2

 

http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_3

All of our Freebies will now be MyMemories Suite Compatible.  What does that mean??? It means that you can now load the freebies directly into your MyMemories Suite Software, and then completely customize them with any paper and embellishments that you have.  If they don't have the software, they can still download the sample project and the elements, but they will not be able to customize their project.

Using MyMemories Software to Customize your Masks

1. Download template file and install it into your software
2. Using MyMemories Suite, choose Create Album From Designer Template and find your project
3. Now you can print and enjoy the provided template, or customize it with your own papers and embellishments.

TIP:
You can right-click on the white guide and lock it in place to keep it from moving while you are working. Make sure this is the top layer of your project before printing.


Just SAVE and PRINT on cardstock!