My Back to School 2014 Must Haves!!

Okay this is my first link up ever and I hope I'm doing this right!  I'm linking up for "Show Us What You Bought" by Blog Hoppin'!  Feeling exhilarated and really want to share some of my must have recommendations with you!

Classroom Purchases

I seriously feel like I bought some amazing items that are going to be so amazing essential for my classroom!!  

Click on the names to take you directly to the products I purchased for my classroom!

A Teeny Tiny Teacher - Reader's Theater

Creation Castle - Calendar Cards

Karen Jones - Kindergarten Interactive Math Notebook - For the Year!

Owl in a Vowel Tree - Editable Book Bin Labels

Reagan Tunstall - All About Me Flip Book

Clip Art

And of course I couldn't not get clip art!!

Here are some of the people that I purchased all of that BEAUTIFUL clipart from.  Click on the name below to take you to some of the products that I purchased!  

Ashley Hughes

Whimsy Clips

Teacher's Gumbo (I JUST discovered her clip art and it's freaking amazing)!

Krista Wallden

Graphics From the Pond

Teaching Super Power

Essentials from My Store

Here are some back to school items that you can find in my store as well!  These are some of my favorites and are (in some cases will be) staples in my classroom.  I hope you will check some of them out!  Here are some links:

Word Wall Posters - Colorful Polka Dots {Maches Fry's First 200 Sight Words)
Scoopin' Up Beginning Sound Sundaes
Beginning Sounds Phonics Printables
Fry's First 200 Words - Colorful Polka Dots {Matches New Word Wall Posters}
Fry's First 200 Words - Black and White Polka Dots
Center and Early Finisher Choice Cards
Editable Lesson Plan Book & Organizer
Seasonal Word Cards - Part 1
Plane Shape Posters with Faces

I hope you have had a wonderful 2 days of shopping galore!  But since I DEFINITELY know that feeling of discovering must have items too late (meaning after the sale), I am going to keep everything in my store discounted at 20% for the next 24 hours!!  

Also, don't forget to link up with your Back to School 2014 "Show Us What You Bought" here!

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Super Planner Organization - Plan Books and a Whole Lot More!

Happy July 4th to all of my friends reading this post!  I don't know what the weather is like for most of you, but here in NY the weather is absolutely yucky!  Lots of rain and certainly not a good beach day!

I have been on summer vacation for exactly 1 week and the days are seriously flying by!!  I've been promising and itching to find time to update my planners so today has been the perfect day to do that.  Rainy days = catch up on life ... do you agree??

Anyways, here are some of the updates that I made to my Owls theme planner.  If you already purchased this just re download the product under "My Purchases."  You will notice that the formatting and fonts changes for this book.  This is the planner that I used last year and I absolutely loved it for keeping me organized.  I'm still undecided if I will use this design again or a different design...

Don't forget that you can also check out the Black and White Paisley theme planner ...

and the Quatrefoil Planner in Turquoise and Gray

The last planner that I have in my store still needs the updates, but is still available for purchase.  I will be making those updates within the next couple of weeks.  It is the Blue and White Striped Theme Planner.

Curious if I will be adding more themes?  Absolutely!  I have some other nifty ideas in the works that hopefully I will be able to share out ASAP! :)

Anyways, make sure you check out these planners!  They are normally priced at $11.50 but I am having a MEGA sale for the 4th of July weekend and the prices have been reduced to $4.80!  I'd love for you to take a peek and tell me what you think.  

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Did somebody say ... Customizable, Editable Planners???

The new Super Teacher Organization Planner that I absolutely promised you was coming soon has now officially been posted!!  The theme is Quatrefoil (I LOVE this design) and you can choose from these colors: turquoise, gray, or mix it up (these colors complement each other so well)!  

I have been hard at work on this latest creation... designing... printing pages to make sure that the formatting is exactly what I want... editing... and printing some more.   I am so excited to share this product with you.  I can't wait to share more designs with you (coming soon) and I will be make all of the new formatting changes on last year's planner... so if you already purchased that binder, please check back soon!!!  I will update you as soon as those changes are made.  

Here are some pictures to share for now (until I can get all of the pages completely printed and organized in a binder).

I tried to share as much as I can... but trust me when I say that there is much more than what is included.  Also, if you have checked out and printed my Lesson Planning Template Freebie and Guided Reading Planning Template Freebie, you may notice that these same pages were included in the binder to help keep you organized.  However, I made the font match the font used in the planner and I also made sure that these were editable files (something my freebie does not include).

Right now, I have a special deal on the quatrefoil themed Super Teacher Organization Planner.  My planners are normally $11.50 since it is a 1-time buy (while in my store), but as a new product in my store it is on sale now for $7.00 (that's 65% off the original price).    However this is for a limited time only!!  I do hope that you check it out and like what you see.  I would love to hear what you think!

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A Giveaway and Then Some!

Happy Monday!  Lots going on over here...

In the words of my boyfriend, I have "adult ADD."  You know... that syndrome where you start 20 projects within days of each other but yet never seem to quite get one finished to completion until a later date.  Yes, that is exactly what I'm experiencing at the moment!!  In my quest to be super teacher, super product creator, super girlfriend, super balanced life style girl, etc. I seem to be falling short of the finish line!  However, I'm getting there!!  Slowly, but surely.

I have some exciting new things on the way!!!  I can't wait to share them with you!  I instagrammed recently about updating my Early Finisher and Center Labels pack!  I'm almost there (I would have liked to have finished that this weekend, but I got started with working on a couple of other projects so I haven't quite finished the updates yet)!  I P.R.O.M.I.S.E. to have that updated soon!!!  If you happen to take a peek, and like what you see already, make sure to purchase it because the price will be going up slightly with the addition of the changes.  And honestly... I think you will like the changes... a lot...  The updates will include adding to the organization of center rotations.  PLUS there will be additional labels added in the product.  

Early Finishers Choices and Center Labels

I am also working on new plan book creations.  Within the next month or so, I will be updating all of my older plan books to include what my new plan book has (New formatting, better templates, etc.).  I think you will love this too!  And truthfully, I can not wait to share these with you!!!!  I'm aiming to share my new planner this week!!  *Fingers Crossed*!!!  So.keep.checking.back.!  Here's a little teaser of the new style...  (When I say little, I mean little)!!  :)  The best part of this planner is that it is editable! :)  I will be posting more soon!!!!

Once again keep checking back for the updates!!!  This planner will be finished soon.  The older planners will be updated entirely and if you have purchased the older versions, you will get free updates for as long as that planner is in stock. 

Okay - now for some final, excellent, fun news... Sara of Miss V's Busy Bees is having a little birthday celebration giveaway until May 3rd (this Saturday).  There are many teacher authors participating in her giveaway (including myself).  Many sellers are giving away a $10 credit to their store.  Product goodies are being given away as well.  Make sure to head on over to her blog to enter for all of the amazing week long giveaways!!

Miss V's Busy Bees Blog

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Teacher Planning Freebies... Say What??

Happy Sunday Morning to you all!  :)

After a very lazy-licious weekend full of lounging and relaxing, I finally got my you know what into gear and I just uploaded Lesson Planning Templates to my TpT store.  For those of you that have to write out actual lesson plans, this freebie may be very helpful/useful for you.  Since I am tenured, my school does not require me to write full lesson plans (only keep a plan book).  However, I do find myself using these planning sheets as a way to help me organize my thoughts and my plan of attack for some of my lessons.

While you are checking out the lesson planning templates, I hope that you will also check out the Guided Reading and Read Aloud Planning Sheets.  I have found these sheets to be very helpful for recording my guided reading game plan.  They have been wonderful for helping me organize and monitor my students by reading level. 

Both of these packs are FREE on my TpT store.  Make sure to check them out!  Hoping that you find them as helpful as I do!!

Here are the links for each of the above packs:

Lesson Planning Pack

Guided Reading and Read Aloud Pack

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