I did it.
I can't believe I did it.
I just now posted my FIRST item on TPT.
Whaaaaaat?!
I have wanted to do this for YEARS. You know, as a teacher you always come up with great things that you do in your class and (if you're like me) that you want to share - BUT then there's the roadblock...
"I grabbed these images from google."
"Can I use this font for free?"
"This goes with my text book, kind of? What if someone else doesn't have it?"
...and many more I'm sure.
Last summer (two summers ago? Gosh.) I was attempting to make my own clip art (I did and some of it is cute, some of it should not see the light of day) and considering making my own font, yes, I am cheap. I made some things for first grade ELA and it was the same as everything out there. There is a lot for primary ELA on TPT. Why make it if I can buy it?
I thought about when I felt most creative and my happiest with things I created - and that was when I was teaching fifth grade science in Virginia. I came up with a lot of my own units and activities, I had a blast. So I decided to tackle first grade science and then move on to other grades! I love science, but I feel our science book is lacking! We supplement a lot, and sometimes its hard to find great experiments and activities that are ready to go, easy and fun for our students - and for us!
I began with our first science skills. In Florida, we call these the Nature of Science standards, in Virginia its listed as "Scientific Investigation, Reasoning and Logic", or as I called it, SIRL (sir-l.)
My original freebie plan was to include the entire five senses section of my SIRL unit - but TPT said "No longer than 10 pages..." What? So I had to pick something! I chose the sort part, feeling that it is something easy and quick that a teacher might me scrounging on TPT to find to fill that five minutes before the bell!
Well, go check it out! I hope you love it, let me know what you think!
(I see a gazillion exclamation points, apparently I am excited!)
Be kind!,
Alison :)
I can't believe I did it.
I just now posted my FIRST item on TPT.
Whaaaaaat?!
I have wanted to do this for YEARS. You know, as a teacher you always come up with great things that you do in your class and (if you're like me) that you want to share - BUT then there's the roadblock...
"I grabbed these images from google."
"Can I use this font for free?"
"This goes with my text book, kind of? What if someone else doesn't have it?"
...and many more I'm sure.
Last summer (two summers ago? Gosh.) I was attempting to make my own clip art (I did and some of it is cute, some of it should not see the light of day) and considering making my own font, yes, I am cheap. I made some things for first grade ELA and it was the same as everything out there. There is a lot for primary ELA on TPT. Why make it if I can buy it?
I thought about when I felt most creative and my happiest with things I created - and that was when I was teaching fifth grade science in Virginia. I came up with a lot of my own units and activities, I had a blast. So I decided to tackle first grade science and then move on to other grades! I love science, but I feel our science book is lacking! We supplement a lot, and sometimes its hard to find great experiments and activities that are ready to go, easy and fun for our students - and for us!
I began with our first science skills. In Florida, we call these the Nature of Science standards, in Virginia its listed as "Scientific Investigation, Reasoning and Logic", or as I called it, SIRL (sir-l.)
My original freebie plan was to include the entire five senses section of my SIRL unit - but TPT said "No longer than 10 pages..." What? So I had to pick something! I chose the sort part, feeling that it is something easy and quick that a teacher might me scrounging on TPT to find to fill that five minutes before the bell!
Well, go check it out! I hope you love it, let me know what you think!
(I see a gazillion exclamation points, apparently I am excited!)
Be kind!,
Alison :)
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