The new Common Core e-books have been released on TPT!  There is a huge selection of e-books all packed with great freebies and resources to teach the Common Core State Standards for different grade levels and content areas.  I am kind of partial to this one (check out page 14)! You can click on the picture to download the FREE the 42 page math e-book for K-2 students and if you scroll down in the description you'll see the links for all the other great CCSS e-books as well! ...

I am two days away from summer graduate school ending...two days!!!  I cannot contain my excitement.  I have had an amazing summer at my placement and learned SO much but my classes have been rough!  I am ALMOST ready to tackle a few weeks of back-to-school readiness!  To start with, I just posted my 2nd grade back to school centers !!  You can check them out below! So, what am I planning on creating for the next three weeks??  Here's my short list: 1. Update my earlier ELA Units (Poppleton, Seasons, Exploring the Wild West,) 2. Finish my 2nd Grade ELA Vocabulary Card Set 3. Finish my Back-to-School Books Activity Pack 4. Get crafty with some new classroom decor 5. Enjoy a little bit of vacation and family time! I hope you are all getting a little excited for back-to-school or just enjoying your last few weeks of vacation!  ...

Happy Sunday!  Today is another gloomy, rainy day here in NC.  I think I have seen the sun maybe 10 times this summer, I am so tired of the rain!  The only good part of rain all the time is that I am getting some major work done on my back to school things!  Yesterday I posted my new back-to-school centers for 3rd graders !  These are great for the first few weeks of school.  You can click on either picture to check them out! After finishing those up, I wanted to revamp my FREE schedule cards that I made last year.  You can still grab them for FREE on TPT by clicking on the picture below. I wasn't done there : )  I also put together some fancy schedule cards which I have called my Deluxe Schedule Cards and they have a chevron background since I am officially obsessed with the chevron print.  I kept the same headings as in the Free pack. They are available for $2.50 on TPT.  Now, I'm off to finish up my Back-to......

Hi Friends!  I am busy working on some new back-to-school centers on this rainy Saturday and while I was making form 3rd grade math games I put together these posters!  Teaching graphs and charts is always a fun unit with my 2nd graders and I thought maybe others could use these posters as well. They are now available as a FREE download in my TPT store!  You can click on the picture to download them now.  The pack includes both color and B/W posters.  Also, don't forget to enter for a chance to win a FREE copy of Math Movers.  10 winners will be chosen for one pack of their choice!  a Rafflecopter giveaway ...

Credit: The 3AM Teacher, Zip-ah-dee-doo-dah Designs, KG Fonts, Hello Fonts It's no secret that I use my iPad ALL the time in my classroom.  Some teachers are REALLY lucky and they have a cart of iPads or a class set.  I only have one Wi-Fi iPad (my personal iPad) to use with my kiddos but we make it work! Before we begin let me say that I am lucky to have a Smartboard and projector in my classroom. I bought this handy little gadget to hook my iPad up to the Smartboard which helps ALOT to make the iPad more accessible to all students.  This is a VGA adapter for the iPad, you can get it from the Apple website or at Best Buy. Now that we're hooked up, here are 10 of my favorite apps/activities using my iPad that benefit all the kids in my classroom.  1. iBooks This is a free app to download from the iTunes.  Any read aloud book I read this year (Magic Tree House, etc.)  I downloaded it from iBooks.  To help with cost, I asked fo......