Creative Teaching Press 50th Anniversary

I am so excited to be part of Creative Teaching Press' 50th Anniversary!  Creative Teaching Press is celebrating 50 years of teachers helping teachers.  I am beyond ecstatic to be part of Creative Teaching Press as an Exclusive Blogger and help launch their new collections and giveaway $50 worth of products!!! As a veteran teacher of 20 years, I am grateful for having a company like Creative Teaching Press.  I have used their collections and products in my classroom for so many different things.  Don't forget to enter the giveaway of $50 worth of products from Creative Teaching Press!

I especially love using their Painted Palette Behavior Clip Chart Bulletin Board Set for keeping my students on task and organized. Not only is the clip chart bright and cheerful, my students love that they can keep track of their behavior and are held accountable for the choices they make daily. I really love the Stop, Think, and Act organizer.  We use this in our classroom daily and students are stopping before acting. Students also have a personalized Desktop Behavior Clip Chart for their desk.  This desktop chart helps the students to visually see their progress throughout the day and week. My students love having their own copy to help remind them of their behavior choices.

                            Behavior Clip Chart Bulletin Board Set                     Desktop Behavior Clip Chart



The new Painted Palette Paint Chips Jumbo Library Pockets have been a lifesaver for my personal library. Students enjoy checking out books and bringing them home.  I label each pocket with the students' name (I like to laminate the pockets so I can use them each year). When students want to check out a book, they place an index card in their personal pocket.  The index card has the title of the book and date checked out. My students love this system!  It has helped me to keep track of my personal books and my library is always so neat and organized!

                                           Paint Chips Jumbo Pockets




Enter the giveaway of $50 worth of Creative Teaching Press products!! Please hop over to The Adventures of Miss Elisabeth to check out other wonderful collections and products from Creative Teaching Press and to enter again for a chance to win $50 worth of products!

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~~Winner of CTP Giveaway~~

I'm very excited to announce that my sweet friend Laura @ Love to Teach  won all of the amazing Creative Teaching Press products that I featured!!!  She will be one of the first teachers to get her hands on the new Back-to-School products before they are available for purchase! All products will be live online during the week of May 26th.  Please check out the new products (HERE).



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Guess who I met on Mother's Day in New Orleans???  Heather from Creative Teaching Press and the crew!!!  I had the chance to meet up with CTP at the International Reading Association Conference.  I was beyond thrilled to meet everyone!  I had the opportunity to check out the conference and watch the talented CTP crew in action!!!!   AWESOME...is all I'm going to say!!!!

Happy Mother's Day to everyone! I hope your day was filled with love and laughter! I want to wish my beautiful mom a very Happy Mother's Day.  You are always there when I need you!  Thank you for the countless hours you spent helping me make and wrap gifts for my students for the past 19 years.  Also, thank you for helping me with just about everything!!!! 

my beautiful, sweet mom with my crazy, awesome daughter

~~Giveaway Time~~

Don't you just love all of the Creative Teaching Press Back-to-School products? I can't wait to get my hands on these products for next school year.  As a CTP Exclusive Blogger, I can share all of the new products with you.  I can even let you win a copy of EVERYTHING you see!  These new products are going live on the CTP website May 13th.  Why wait?  You can win them here!!

I am totally in LOVE with these chevron books!  I am definitely using them next school year!!

How cute are these cupcakes?!  

Can you say "Chalkboard Adorable"?! These will be perfect in any classroom!!!

OMG!  I can't contain myself with these letters!  I LOVE them all!!

Look at these awesome 5-Star Common Core Charts!

I'm in love with these borders and bulletin board set!

You can win EVERY product you see!  For chances to win, use the Rafflecopter below to enter!

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For more chances to win, enter at the following CTP Exclusive Blogger's Pages!

 

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~~Love to Teach: 400 Follower Celebration~~

I am so happy and honored to be helping out my sweet, dear friend, Laura @ Love to Teach!  She is celebrating 400 followers.  Please hop on over and check out her giveaway!  She has some amazing teachers helping her celebrate (14 to be exact)!  There are tons of ways you can win (83 is a lot of ways)!!!!  I hope you can help out Laura and show some support!!!!

~~Hurricane & Giveaway~~

What a week!!!  I am going to place blame with Hurricane Isaac for my absence of posting.  Monday, August 27th was my first day without power, and Friday, August 31st was my last day without power.  That's right~~5 days of no lights, AC, Internet, telephone (except cell), and television.  School was closed from Tuesday, 8/28 to Tuesday, 9/3.  Not only were my students in rare form after returning from an "unplanned" vacation (did I mention they are still in vacation mode after 3 days back), but I am now dealing with a damaged house in St. Bernard Parish.  I am originally from St. Bernard and moved to Hammond after Hurricane Katrina.  I lost everything in 2005~~house, car, and dream teaching job.  My brother rebuilt my house and now lives there with my nephew.  I feel that 2005 is coming back to haunt me again with the numerous phone calls to insurance companies and appointments with adjusters.  All in all, everyone in my family is safe and healthy.  God is definitely good to us.  Material things are repairable and can be fixed.

I am thankful for all of my wonderful readers here in blog-land!  I have 188 followers and my blog has been viewed 100,000 times!!!  I think a giveaway is in order to show my appreciation to everyone who follows me and takes the time to read my posts.

The following pictures show what  I worked on during Hurricane Isaac!!!  Let's just say..my hand hurts!!!

 



You are looking at yards and yards of laminating to cut out!!!  I did, in fact, cut everything out before returning to school.  My centers are very happy right now!!!

Please check out what my daughter worked on while the lights were out during the hurricane.

This is me!!

 

These are her clay creations.  Aren't they precious!!!!

 

Now, are you ready for a giveaway??!!  I am giving away a $20 Target Gift Card!  I have not created any products since school started~~but who doesn't love Target!!  I might even get my daughter to throw in some of her creations!!!

 

Thank you for your continued support!!!!! Good Luck to All!!

 

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~~My First Giveaway~~

40 Follower Giveaway
Contest Ends Monday, May 14

I am super excited and crazy nervous at the same time!!  My very first Giveaway is happening NOW!  I teamed up with some wonderful ladies.  Laura at Love to Teach :) and Sarah at Wishful Teaching are part of this HUGE giveaway.  There are 3 units and a gift card up for grabs.  Who doesn't love TARGET!! I know I love to shop!!! 

I am new to blogging and already have 43 followers and 20,000 page views!  Yes, I said that right~~~20,000 page views!!!  I almost fainted when I saw that number today!!!!  Thank you to everyone who reads my posts and enjoys the freebies.  This contest is for you!!!!!

Here is a sneak peak of the awesome units/gift card up for grabs for one lucky person! 

End-of-the-Year Memory Book created by Third Grade Love

Writing Unit created by Love to Teach

Place Value Game created by Wishful Teaching

$10 Target Gift Card

Now that you have seen the WONDERFUL and AWESOME products you can win, please read below on how you can enter!!!  Don't forget to leave a comment on this post each time you completed a step!!!  Good Luck!!!

                         1. Follow my blog~Third Grade Love and leave a comment telling me you are

                             a follower!

                       

                         2. Follow Love to Teach and leave a comment telling me you are a follower!

                         3. Follow Wishful Teaching and leave a comment telling me you are a follower!

That's it!! Only 3 simple steps!!!!! Good luck to everyone who enters!!!

With much appreciation,