Teacher Appreciation SALE!

Teachers Pay Teachers is having a huge sale to celebrate teachers 5/7-5/8!  And to show my appreciation I'm offering 20% off ALL of my products at my TPT store.  Get an additional 10% off at checkout by entering code TAD13. Now is the time to stock up on those clip art sets, Spanish or Math products.  This sale only comes around once every in awhile, so don't miss out!

Here a just a few new products in store:

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Clip Art Sale

I recently opened up a Teacher's Notebook shop just for my clip art.  I've uploaded several of my sets, but still have lots to go!  I thought I'd throw a sale over there, well, just because!

All of the clip art sets in my TN shop will be 30% off Tuesday (tomorrow) and Wednesday, Feb. 26 and 27.
Stop on by and see what's there!  Below are just a couple of the sets in store.

Verb Dice (Conjugating Verbs in Spanish)

I purchased some "Cool Cubes" this year and have been putting them to good use.  The students were really excited about them at first and I think the first time I used them we just wrote vocabulary words on them,  rolled them, then said the word in Spanish and English.  Needless to say, they became "NOT Cool Cubes" after that.  The next time we used them to conjugate verbs and they moved back up a notch on the coolness factor.  Anyway, we used them again today to practice the present progressive.  I like them because it gives students a variety of choices for subject pronoun, verb matches.  They like them, because, well, they are big foam dice!  You don't need cool cubes to do this activity, and in fact, until this year I have just been using two dice with a "key" on the board.  They use one die to tell them what they subject is and the other for the verb.  For example, 1): yo 2): tú, etc and then on the other die 1) comer 2) hablar etc.  They roll the dice and conjugate verbs and use them in sentences.  Roll a 1 and a 2 and say (or write) "Yo estoy hablando (en la clase de español)".  It's a fun alternative to a blah worksheet and the students seem to enjoy it.  If you would like to try it out in your class and don't have cool cubes or dice I've included everything you need to give it a try in your class.  Just click on the image and get what you need!  We used these today with the present progressive tense, but you can use them for any tense!  You might try laminating them and using a hot glue gun to glue them together (at least, that's what I would do!)  I also included a blank cube so you can write whatever you want!  Again, I would laminate first, then you can write, erase, reuse! Your own cool cubes! How cool!

More Reflexive Verbs

We just finished up practicing reflexive verbs in Spanish class, so I whipped up a quick review game.  The questions are basic translations and conjugations, but the students got a chance to practice for the the test and have some fun too!  Click on the image to download the game we played in class.  If you'd like to create your own games to play I also have this game template available for FREE HERE AT MY TPT STORE.

Tener and Tener que

My Spanish 1 students are learning to use the verb "tener" and "tener que" in the present tense.  Every year I see sentences like "Tengo que la clase de arte." and my ears hurt inside my head. :)  To try and combat this very common error, I helped students write sentences using both tener and tener que and then had them draw and color pictures of their sentences.  It seemed to be helpful, I didn't see any "I have to art class." sentences.  If you'd like a copy of the template I used, click on the image below!

Spanish Reflexive Verbs

We are learning about reflexive verbs in Spanish.  This can be a somewhat odd concept for English speakers as we do not necessarily have reflexive verbs in English.  We have been doing several practice activities and I want to try and help students write sentences that have all of the pieces they need.  We worked through a fun sentence unscramble activity and then did some drawing and independent sentence writing.  I think they're beginning to grasp the concept! I'm including the sentence drawing activity we did here, click HERE to get a copy.  If you'd like to check out the sentence unscramble activity we did, click on the image for more details!

Factoring the GCF in Polynomials

AHHH, polynomials!  You've got to love 'em.  We've been working our way through parabolas and quadratics in my Algebra 2 class and in preparation for solving quadratics we are learning how to factor.  Of course, we started by factoring the GCF from polynomial expressions.  I created a few tic-tac-toe game boards for factoring the GCF to give the students a more fun way to practice and thought I'd share them with you all!  Click on the image to get the game boards!  Enjoy!

Pilgrim Hat Clipart Freebie!

My poor, little, neglected blog... school started and I fell off the face of the blogosphere.  So, here's a freebie to say "Welcome Back" to my little blog!  Click the image to get this pilgrim hat clipart set.

Monster Trucks FREEBIE!

I just finished creating this Monster Trucks Pack and wanted to share a little with you all.  Click here to get some blue tire tracks paper.  Click the image to get the entire pack at my TpT store!  Enjoy!

Dollar Days Sale!!

The folks over at the Lesson Cloud are putting together an AMAZING sale!  The authors are putting up many of their items on sale for $1 or $2 on July 29 and July 30th.  Click on the image above to see all the great products for sale!

The items I will have on sale are below...

All of the above items will be only $1 (except the halloween art which is $2)!!!  Be sure to check them out (click on the images for more details) along with the other great products and add all your "must haves"  to your wish list at TpT (or just put them in your cart) so you don't forget!  Happy shopping!