It's The Great Pumpkin Classroom Projects Linky

It's here! It's time to share those great pumpkin projects that your kiddos have been working on. Share your projects from home, the classroom, and your homeschool projects too.

You can share your favorite pumpkin project on the It's The Great Pumpkin Classroom Projects Linky. All that I ask is that you link back to this post and that you are Pin friendly.

Check back soon because I'm going to feature some of my favorite classroom projects on my blog very soon.

Are you ready. Here's the list. Add your classroom pumpkin project today.

Back to School Writing Prompts by Robin Sellers

I love writing prompts, don't you? The beginning of the year is a great time to add a bit of creative writing to the curriculum. It's this time of the year when students can learn to love writing. You can encourage them to be creative and let come up with creative stories. My back to school writing prompts encourage creative narratives and add a little excitement to the back to school routine. Don't ask your students what they did over their summer vacation. Ask them what they did on another planet over the summer and get ready for some creative ideas.

I love using story starters. A story starter is a great tool to get students writing using creative ideas. A story starter provides a prompts that creates a scenario that, well, starts the story. Then students have a free license to finish the story any way they wish.

I got a bit crafty with my story starters this year. I took my story starters, added great graphics, put them on pencils. I added them to a container I found at a dollar store and even added some tissue paper too! It's my own little way of making writing fun and giving students choices too. They can choose their own story starter and even use their new back to school pencil and write away through the first days of school.

You can purchase my Back to School Story Starters and Back to School Writing Pages {HERE}. If you use them, stop back by and let me know how the writing went in your classroom.


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TpT Back to School Sale 2013 Promo Code

Don't miss out on the opportunity to save over 28% on the teaching resources you need for your classroom. The TeachersPayTeachers Back to School Sale takes place on August 18-19, 2013. Most sellers will have the items in their stores posted at 20% off.

Use the TpT promo code and you will get and additional 10% off-- that comes to 28% off. The TpT Back to School Promo Code for the 2013 Back to School Sale is BTS13. Be sure to check out the new 3D Life Cycle Craftivities in my store while you are there. Go to TpT {Here}.

Origami Frog Freebie {Use With Your Frog Units}

Here's a cute activity to add to your next lesson about frogs. My Origami Frog Pattern comes complete with directions, photos, and a frog pattern to use to make your very own jumping frogs!

Just click {Here} to download this very fun freebie.

Thanks and Enjoy!

Robin @ Sweet Tea Classroom

100 Sweet and Simple Classroom Dollar Store Solutions

When you're spending your own cash to teach students, you learn how to be resourceful. Many teachers have learned the power of the dollar for their classrooms. From the dollar bins at the front of Target (I always have to check out their school items.) to the Dollar Stores, teachers have walked through the doors of those stores and come out with their next teaching solution for just a dollar.

My challenge for you is to share your best dollar store classroom creation or find. Let us know how you plan to use it in the classroom. Please share any other tips too.

Then add your link to the bottom of this post and be sure to link back to this post too. I've got room for 100 Sweet and Simple Dollar Store education creations below. (Be sure that you are Pinterest friendly. We'll want to pin these ideas and even feature some favorites here.)

Here's mine: Rainbow Craft Stick Tally Marks

I picked up this pack of rainbow craft sticks. These work really well for a hands-on tally exercise. Give children five of each color and show them how to make tally marks.

Since they will only have five of each color, it will be easy to create like sets. This is a natural way to then work with counting by fives. Then, of course, the kiddos can work with ordering the colors of a rainbow.

And that's a sweet and simple way to use a dollar store find to help teach the kiddos.

3-D Watermelon Life Cycle Craft

Are you ready for local Watermelon festivals or even Watermelon Day or are you even studying life cycles in your science unit? Here's the perfect watermelon craft to integrate science and art.

Create a 3-D Watermelon craft when you teach about watermelons, life cycles, or plants during your science units. This craft is perfect to reinforce the topics taught during this science lesson and it works well as a science center too.

My 3-D Watermelon Craftivity includes directions, patterns, watermelon sequencing cards, a black and white watermelon life cycle poster, and a color watermelon life cycle poster. The six life cycle sequencing cards are for seed, sprout, vine, flowering vine, baby watermelon, and mature watermelon. You can ask children to add labels using their own descriptions if you wish.

If you teach ESL or ELL, the watermelon life cycle poster in this packet is also in Spanish and reads el ciclo de vida de una sandia --the accent mark is over the i--


If you're interested, you can buy this packet in my teaching resources store {HERE}

Illustrated Alphabet Polka Dot Printable Word Wall Decor

Are you required to have a Word Wall in your classroom? If you are, I have created a cute polka dot word wall that uses an illustrated alphabet. It's SO cute! Even if you aren't required to have a word wall, I highly suggest one too! They are useful teaching resources--- and great for classroom decor too.

 Alphabet Classroom Decor Word Wall Fun: Create an A to Z Word Wall with these polka dot, illustrated Word Wall Headers. 

 This set includes full size alphabet decor posters from A to Z and smaller word wall labels using an illustrated theme from A to Z.

If you're interested, you can purchase this set from my teaching resources store {HERE}.

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