Hey, friends! Here are some “helper” highlighters I put together for my early finishers to help me in math with students who are still struggling with certain problems. They will use them to help explain problems and mark important words in the problems for the students they are helping. I just used decorative scotch tape […]
Archives for August 2013
FREE Editable Newsletter Template
Hey, ya’ll! My first week went grrrrrreat! My students were very respectful and sweet, and their parents were so encouraging at our parent night. I hope you had/or will have a great first week, also! I always send my homework electronically every Monday in an email. It’s not pretty, but my parents appreciate being on […]
Editable School Themed Morning Independent Seat Work PowerPoint Slides
For the past three years, I have been using these really unattractive PowerPoint slides for student instructions on morning and independent work. My slides for back to school are really shabby, so I sat down tonight to brighten them up, and hopefully make the instructions I post a little more appealing! There are five school-themed […]
Finally! The Back to School TpT Sale Has Arrived!
(Awesome graphic provided by Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs) If you’ve been eying a FlapJack resource, now’s the time to take advantage! Here are some of my bestsellers that are 20% off (plus the TpT discount using code BTS13) on August 18th and 19th: Classroom Material Packs These are by far my most popular items. Frog Theme Ocean […]
Hanging Fan Labels for Tables, Centers, or Stations with FREE Number Circles
Anyone else feel like a first-year teacher EVERY year?? I am beginning my tenth year of teaching tomorrow, and I promise you I do not understand why it is taking me every waking minute to get my stuff together! Aaaanyways, here are some fan labels I created to mark my math station areas that were […]
Six Teacher Tips for Classroom Organization with the Evernote App
Are you an Evernote fan? I absolutely love it. It has been a helpful tool to organize all of the chaos in my brain. If you’ve never heard of Evernote, it’s a note-taking app and website that stores your notes in a database sort of manner. The best part is that it syncs across all […]
Hanging Editable Owl Circle Templates Freebie for 5,000 FlapJack Facebook Friends!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! The FlapJack Facebook page has 5,000 friends now! I would love to do an awesome giveaway, but there’s just no time with school starting back. Instead, I’ve created these customizable owl labels that will hopefully be useful to all of my teacher friends. […]
FREE Shapes Posters in English and Spanish
Hey, guys! So, I wonder if anyone can relate to this: Last night, I drifted to sleep while my husband mumbled about the fact that he couldn’t get to sleep. After a couple of hours, I wake up to the sound of some bizarre moving playing. I end up watching it with him. Now he’s […]