Quick Plot Review Chart Freebie!

A quick post - but I wanted to share something that I made tonight!

I needed something that I could give to my students and have them quickly review plot elements.  Since my school is concerned about my "excessive paper usage" (pft!) these are two on a page - save some trees.  (Or your school budget in my case!)

Lucky you - it's available for FREE at my TPT Store!

If you do download it, please leave me a comment letting me know! 

My BIG BIG BIG 2 Year Blog Anniversary party starts tomorrow (or tonight at midnight!).  Come back and check out the super awesome prizes you could win!!

298... 299.... 300 and Monday Made It

I've been watching my followers for awhile now, watching them quietly tick upwards.  First it was 277.  Then, I noticed I was in the 280's.  Then slowly, but surely... 298... 299... and then finally

300!!

Yay!  {cue balloons and streamers!}

And - for YOU my wonderful, dear readers and followers - I'm putting all my TPT materials at 15% off for the next three days.  I started this blog back in September 2011 because I missed my school that I was transferred from.  I never knew that I would be entering the wonderful teacher blogging community and the wonderful friends I would make along the way!

So, thank you for reading and commenting!  I love reading your comments!  I hope that I will have more things for you in the upcoming year, now that I'm back with my love 7th grade Language Arts and Social Studies.

I've also been working on a cute set of posters to fit my 7th Grade ELA Common Core Standards for Monday Made It!

I noticed that a lot of people make these posters for the new Common Core Standards and I thought that I would create a set that I could use in my classroom.  I posted them over at Teachers's Pay Teachers!  These are just for 7th grade, but if you like them, I will happily create a set for your grade level for the same price I have my posters set at.  ($2.50)

I actually enjoyed making these and I have to give props to the awesome bundle that I'm Lovin' Lit has posted in her TPT store.  They were my backgrounds and frames for this project.

Cute, right?  Plus, what's great about I'm Lovin' Lit's package is that these are just the tip of the iceberg in the pack!  There's so much more.  I can't wait to create more stuff!

Next year... I'm definitely going to...

Whew.  My school year ended on Friday after what I could only describe as Middle School "Hell Week."  It's our last week of activities, movies, end of the year ceremonies and just general madness.  I'm usually snippy at best because everyone has simply lost their mind.

Even on Friday, and school was OVER, we had a massive fight to just cap off the year.  I was in the office as the aftermath of the fight came rolling in and it was not pretty.

My assignment change and classroom move are official.  I'll post the pictures of my new room - it's a M.E.S.S....  That's a whole post on it's own.

On the happier side - I'll be back to 7th grade Language Arts next year.  My heart, while sad with leaving my computer lab, is very happy to be back in a Language Arts setting.

Which means I can join my sweet friend, Kim over at Joy in 6th Grade, for her 1st Linky Party!

Here's my list:

1.  Interactive Student Notebooks

Miss OCD, our non-blogger friend and I have been discussing how to do these for next year.  We're all pretty excited about them.  If you follow me on Pinterest, you'll see that I've been pinning a lot of Interactive Student Notebook ideas.  It will probably be another post I'll make over the summer - I've got a lot of ideas.  I love foldables and I've been making my students take notes (with COLOR) for awhile, so it seems like a good road to travel down.

2.  Read Class Novels

I've always wanted to teach Language Arts with more novels.  My students hardly ever read full novels with our textbook series, I think it will be a great challenge for me (and my students!)  I have one project posted over at Donors Choose and I'm hoping for some success there.  I want my students to read the Hunger Games this year because it's such a good novel to foster classroom discussions.

3.  Create a Clean, Engaging Classroom Environment

My new room is a total mess.  It probably hasn't been cleaned since 2000.  (I'm not joking.)  Apparently, the old teacher never even put bulletin board paper up.  Yes.  I'll wait for you to gasp in horror of the thought of a completely white, dull, classroom.  

4.  Updated the Bulletin Boards

So, along that vein... That room needs bulletin boards with fun anchor charts.  I love all the anchor charts up on Pinterest, so I'll be taking some ideas and working with that.  

I think I'll be busy making a lot of different Language Arts items all summer preparing for my next year, I'm really excited about it.

Fanboys Poster

I've had this poster sitting around on my hard drive for awhile now, so I finally spruced it up and put it on my Teacher's Notebook account!  FANBOYS - it helped my 7th graders two years ago remember their conjunction words for the CST.  Plus, by memorizing these guys, it helped them with their independent/dependent clauses!

It's FREE for everyone - hooray!  Have a good Sunday!

Parts of Speech Posters

Real quick post...  I'm in the middle of my office clean up/organize project that you'll probably see parts of on Monday for the Made it on Monday linky.

I made this Parts of Speech poster recently, I was just thinking back to my Language Arts teaching days and how I had to review Parts of Speech OVER and OVER and OVER!



So, I made this fun Parts of Speech review that you can print (warning! color heavy, obviously!) or show on your computer and projector combo.  It's a $1.50 over at my Teacher's Notebook store.