Building A Community

So, probably my last community project for a while.  After this cute Building a Community foldable & packet, it'll be time to move on and work on some plant and animal science topics for a while.  It's been fun gathering the information, and designing the templates for these cute community projects though! Hope you like them!  

If you want to pick yourself up a copy of the templates and get your students working on building their own communities, they're available (with some worksheets thrown in too!) on TpT - here's the link:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Building-a-Community-2096355

Community Helpers

I've been working on these little friends for a while now.  It took me a little time to figure out the correct way to lay this fun Book of Community Helpers out, so that it would collate when printed 2 sided or copied .  I'm liking the way it turned out now, and hope those little second graders have fun adding some information and color to bring it to life!
On to my next TpT adventure!

Here's the link if you want to grab yourself a copy:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Book-of-Community-Helpers-2079602 

Rural, Urban, & Suburban Communities - Foldables

So, I had an idea! I was trying to come up with something which would work in our pockets for the different types of communities.  The class are about to study Mrs. Brown Went to Town, so the idea was to bring in the Rural, Suburban, & Urban community types at the same time.  After a little thought I finally had the idea of making foldables for each of the community types, and after a little more work, I had the Barn / House / Skyscraper shapes worked out and ready to go!  I made worksheets for the individual communities, and templates  to go inside the finished product.  Here's how they turned out.  I think they're pretty cute...  If you want to grab yourself the worksheets and templates, head on over to my TpT store:

Rural, Suburban, & Urban Worksheets & Foldables

Getting Started, and my first TpT product!

Well, I finally did it! I posted some products on TpT! It wasn't easy, between the learning curve of the technical aspects, the challenge of remembering how to make a PowerPoint and all that goes with it ... group / ungroup / import / re-size..., but I FINALLY MADE IT HAPPEN! I know - I have an uppercase overload, but I am actually proud of myself! Who knew I would have to learn how to 'flatten' images in files (or even that that was possible)! Of course, now I have a whole list of things I want to do better, faster etc., but this is progress! Speaking of which, I'm writing this on my own blog.  Which, I can freely admit, I had NO IDEA how to set up a few weeks ago, and which has taken me a while to even get to this point.  Oh happy days!

Give it away for free?? Really??
I have always loved the fact that there are free products on TpT, and in fact, you have to upload a free product as your first product on their site.  When it comes to it though, it's hard to post something for free when you've spent time making it! That said, I did happily note that a handful of people have downloaded it already, only an hour or two after I put it there, so that makes me warm and fuzzy inside! Does that count as success? Not the monetary kind, no... but hey, I'll take it!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ten-Frame-Spin-2053549

Goodnight Moon Feltboard & Brown Bear, Brown Bear hand puppets.

So, every time I make something for my classroom, my son's classroom, or my little one's pre-school, I'm often told that I should put the finished product on pinterest.  Oh boy, but finding the time to give back a little is hard, hard, hard!  One step at a time though! Today I am going to make a start to hit the rewind button and put up a couple of pictures of older projects I have completed (often with the help of a very good friend or two!).  Here are a couple of felt projects we did:

The first one was a Goodnight Moon feltboard request from a pre-school teacher, where the students add the individual elements to the background as the story progresses. The second picture is a collection of Brown Bear, Brown Bear hand puppets we made for the same class, after the teacher said she wished for a more interactive way of sharing the book with the little ones.  (This class is for ages 2.5 - 3.5, and they loved the finished hand puppets!)  I used a basic shape for the hand puppet template in each color, and then added the individual details - ears, feathers, frog eyes etc.  By far the most challenging? That goldfish... I really tried to come up with a design which had it facing forward like the rest, but nothing seemed to work well, so this is what they got!