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ELA Common Core Vocabulary Cards for K-2

I made a last minute decision this week to book a flight to Union, MO for one of the Whole Brain Teaching conferences. I AM SO EXCITED!! However, I'm also a little freaked out because I'll be traveling by myself for the first time ever!! AGH! And I hate flying with a serious passion. Seriously. But, I think it will be well worth it! I am so excited to become a whole brain teacher! I keep having dreams about it!

Anyway, point of the post was that I finally finished my ELA vocabulary common core cards for K-2. I haven't split them up yet for individual grades but I plan on doing that sometime today. Hopefully.

And you know I like to give away my stuff free when I first post it so this one is called the font challenge.

The first person to name both fonts pictured below and leave a comment including your e-mail will win a free set of the grades K-2 bundle or if you are upper grades you can win the 3-5 bundle!!

And NO cheating!! Please. =)

Good Luck!

To purchase a set, click on either shop button below!

And just in case you were wondering, my picture from the last challenge was of Key West! =) I leave in T-minus 2 days!

Themed Organizational Binders

I have finally had a chance to sit down and blog about my finished my finished binders! I'm like a proud mama!

Ya'll...I have literally been working on these bad boys since Friday. For reals. There are two separate sets. Here is the first set!

And the second set...

These two sets of 11 different themes are sold separately but both sets include the following {minus the Pirate binder cover sample for set 2, that is just for preview purposes so you know what is included!}

And the best part is that the binder covers, the WWW sheet, the Schedule and Roster sheet, and the labels are all editable! They are available in both my shops!

I am super proud of this baby. I literally woke up dreaming about making binders on Friday morning and then the idea was born!

I will begin working on the K-2 ELA Common Core Vocabulary cards this week and hope to have them finished before I leave for this fabulous place...

The first person to comment with where I am headed for vacation next week will receive both binder sets FREE!! {Unless you already know - that's cheating!} =)

Please leave your e-mail in your comment!

Tutorial: Making Editable Files with Purchased Graphics

Hola friends!! I just learned how to do something really cool this weekend! I had been wondering how to do this FORVER! I emailed Brooke from Once Upon a First Grade Adventure to share with me how she did it. Thank you Brooke!!

Here is the 5 minute video! At the beginning of the video I think I said how to make an editable PDF, but I actually meant an editable file like Powerpoint or Word!

I hope to be uploading the binder sets today!

There will be two sets of 10 themes each.

I will not offer them as individual sets due to the mass amount of time it would take to create all those TPT and TN descriptions and such, so please don't ask me to. =)

Hope this tutorial was helpful! If you have anything else you would like to see done, just leave me a comment and I would be happy to try!

Getting Your Students Organized with Themed Binders

I literally had visions of the classroom binder in my head as I slept this morning, so then I was inspired to create a pack of classroom binder sets for several different classroom themes!

I used the PIRATE binder in my room this year and it makes it so much easier to communicate with parents and get students organized with sending their homework, notes, and graded papers to and from school.

Themes included in the pack are:

PIRATE, STAR, PRIDE, CHEF, JUNGLE, DOT, CAMP, HERO, BEE, STRIPE, PAWS, ROCK STAR, SEA, and BEACH! If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

Here is a preview!

Above are just the binder covers. I have MUCH more that will be included to make the classroom binder possible in your classroom including labels and printables for your binder. I haven't quite finished, so I hope to have these done and posted soon with a FREEBIE also!

To the right is a picture of the binder I used a couple of years ago, just so you can get an idea.

The themes will all be bundled together, that way, if you ever change your classroom theme, ALL of the binder printables will be at your fingertips!

What do you guys think?

Other binder themes?

If it becomes too many themes in one pack, I may have to make divide it into two sets!