TpT Back to School SALE

It's hard to imagine that we're part way through out third term out of four terms here in Australia, and on the other side of the world, some of you are beginning a NEW school year!

 

I have 20% off my entire store from August 4th-5th so stop on buy and grab a great back to school bargain! :)

 

Five for Friday

This Friday I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for 5 for Friday! Make sure you hop on over to her blog to link on up and post your Five. 

1 - Work Ethic Success! We've begun using MathsOnline as a tool for issuing some student homework. This is generally what each week looks like for my year 8 homework. Of the 4 blanks, two do theirs on paper, one has left and the other cherub doesn't do any homework. I am SO proud of their continual efforts and I can only hope that my year 9s begin to show such a strong commitment to work. 

2 - Max had his second Sanitarium Tryathlon on Sunday (19th May) and absolutely LOVED every part of it! It's all about giving it a go, TRYing their best and having a fantastic fun filled day. He loved in that much he wants to do a 'real' kids triathlon in December :)

3 - Today we had out school Athletics day and this is a picture from our school twitter page of some year 8 students. It was a fantastic day and the weather was perfect until the last 30minutes... then the sky opened and it rained... and rained... so everyone ended up in the hall doing the Nutbush, Macarena and Gangmanstyle until the bell went! I missed most of the day as I was on 'bubbler' duty for 3 out of the 6 hours :( 

4 - I am trying to find time to put my thesis proposal together! If only there were more hours in a day. It's on the impact of parental involvement on student achievement with Year 8 and 9 students at the school I am presently teaching at. Hoping to have it ready to submit in the next week :)

5 - I am SO thankful I bought three new pairs of shoes last week! TWO of them are boots. These boots are vinyl but keep my legs soooooo warm, my others are shorter leather boots and my third pair and maroon dress shoes which I can't wait to wear later in the year. 

Now don't forget to head on over to  Doodle Bugs Teaching to link up your 5 for Friday and check out others! 

About time I head to bed here in Australia ready for a Saturday full of marking!

 

Teaching Math with Meaning GIVEAWAY 3 x $10 TpT vouchers

The lovely Alison from Teaching Math with Meaning is giving away THREE, yes 3 x $10 TpT Gift Certificates! 

Alison is also a fellow 'Aussie' and is also addicted to Maths, so I cannot help but promote this awesome giveaway & SALE.

Alison is also having a 20% off sale from the 3rd to 6th January at her TpT Store! 

I will blog again very soon as now having over 100 + Blog followers, 100+ TpT followers and 100+ TpT feedback given, it's time to celebrate somehow! :)

TpT Cyber Monday & Bonus Tuesday SALE - UpTO 28% Off

These last few weeks have been packed with assessment, marking & reporting! Report cards aren't due until  11th December (phhewwww) but we have two exams still (around 100 papers to mark) to be marked, profiled & reported on! 

I am however, very excited to say that I am participating in TpT's Cyber Monday & Bonus Tuesday SALE.

I'm offering 20% off store-wide which means you will be able to access 28% off my store Monday & Tuesday ONLY!

I hope to see you shopping over these days! :) Thank you for your support & encouragement as always!

FLASH Halloween SALE & Pictures

I'm having 15% off storewide to celebrate my fantastic Halloween weekend!

What an extremely BUSY weekend. I couldn't have had a more exciting time with Max (and all of us) carving our very first pumpkin! 

A very awesome experience and very effective lit up at the front windows. 

We went to the Manly Harbour Halloween festival and unfortunately we ended up very wet and windy because of poor weather, but it was a fantastic evening with my 2 DEVILS! 

I have so many resources on my 'to create list' but I don't finish this semesters UNI assessment until this Friday, so after that I will be free to create!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend and a great beginning to the week is on its way! :) 

10% OFF SALE for 24 Hours

I couldn't be more excited to announce my first 100 sales and 98 follwers on TpT! I was going to wait until I had 100 of each but I couldn't contain my excitement and wanted to pass on my appreciation to EVERYONE who has supported me and especially those who have given feedback! :)

I am offering a 10% off all my items for 24 hours!

Buuuusssyyy & Math Center

Before - I'd begun to put words up!

Oh what a busy busy week! We're leading into assessment being handed in and completing revision with my year 12 Math A's because they have their qcs test coming up and their exam after this! A QCS test, if you're not sure is the Queensland Core Skills test that all students in Queensland sit to give them a position on ability against all other students in Qld and then their school results for 5 our of  6 subjects contribute to their OP which is an Overall Position which gives them a number between 1-25 to apply to University.

On top of this I spent a lot of time preparing posters and math relation words and a Math Center for my classroom. This is for my yr 8 and 9 students (age 12-15) to use in the last 20 minutes of the lesson as some core skill improvement activities!

After - My panorama is a bit blurry, but its so much more exciting, engaging & bright now! :)

My year 8s absolutely loved the room, the pot plant and that it was so brightly decorated compared to how bland and typically 'high school' it was.

$20 for all 4 of these off ebay!

$10 for all of these including
the big baskets & pencil ones

I bought all 4 shelves off ebay for $20 total which I was really pleased about! They are in excellent condition too! I bought the dustpan & brush new for $1, the plastic containers new for $8 total and the container of pens & pencils I had bought and collected over time. I have spare books I have on the bottom shelf for those students who don't tel their parents they need a new book, those who have 'one book for every subject' and those who just forget theirs. It made one of my year 8s days when he didn't bring anything to school because he's having a tough time, and I told him at the back there's books and pens he can use. He asked if he could keep it and was so happy and worked the best he has ever worked when I said of course you can, but you need to show me your best effort today! :) Such little things can make a childs day.

I'm getting very excited now as I've sold 8 items on TpT which means I'm only 2 sales away from my flash sale for 36 hours with a surprise % off! :)

I promise that I'll post this weekend again and I'll be putting more resources up very soon especially some freebies!! :)

I'd love to see some photos of your room and how you've decorated your math area!