TPT Back to School Sale!!!



It starts tomorrow!!!  Teachers Pay Teachers is having their BIG Back to School Sale!!!  You will get 10% off from TPT and I am adding an additional 10% off, for a total of 20% off! 

The sale runs August 12th - 13th.  Make sure to use Promotion Code BTS12 when you check out!

Hope to see you there!  Click here for my TPT Store.

Welcome Activity Mats for the First Day of School

I made these last year and loved using them on the first day of school.  I had one at each student's seat when they walked in the door that morning.  It was a GREAT activity to do together on the front and then let them finish the back independently while I tended to unpacking school supplies, etc.

These are to be printed on LEGAL-SIZED paper, which is 8.5 x 14.  If you don't have a ream of legal paper for school, go get one!  I use it a lot for students to draw on and for making booklets to fold in half - there's just more paper there to work with!  But I digress......

I put both grades in the one download (so you will get both First Grade and Second Grade in this download).  The pages are meant to be printed back to back (the "Welcome to _____ Grade" on one side of the paper and the drawing page on the other side.

Click here to go to TpT.  You can download the Free Preview to see exactly what you are getting (except the red "Preview" word will not be on the paid download).  Best of all, this is ONLY $1.00!!!

Back To School Freebie

I've got a little back to school freebie for you, a school-themed "Read, Trace, Write and Draw" activity:

Click on the photo above (or click here) to download it.  You can use this as an easy center activity- a no-brainer to keep it simple the first few weeks of school.  Great for vocabulary, handwriting, spelling, reading, etc..... skills.  Hope you can use it!

Vistaprint Goodies

I just placed a big order with Vistaprint and I can't wait to get it!  I also have a special promotion to share where YOU can get up to 80% off plus an extra $5.00 off your order if you click here:  http://vistaprint.tellapal.com/a/clk/BbrCn

Let me show you what I got:



 These were invitations/flat notecards but I changed the wording.  I will send these home with the kiddos that learn all of their sight words.  By the way, these were free.


 Stickers


 Stickers - I put these inside their BEE Books that go home everyday so parents will always know where to find the website address.


 Notepad - We are the Gators (that's our school mascot) so I flipped when I saw this design!


 Sticky notes




 A pen (the bottom shows what the message on the pen looks like)


 These are Return Address Labels - these are very cheap and you get like 140 of them!


 Flat Notecards (more Gators!!!)




Notepad - Just thought this was so cute!

Stickers - Just to label stuff with :)

More flat notecards - love this design!

Check out this cute totebag!!!

The following items were free:

 Rubber Stamp

 8.5x11 Magnet

 

 Business Cards - I distorted some private info :) 

The fine print :)

Watch out for shipping!  After you add items, go to your cart and click on checkout to see what the shipping charges are - they can get high.  After you click on check-out you can go back to what you were doing, you don't have to check-out then....that's just a good way of checking the shipping charges.   You may also get free shipping if you order a certain amount, so look out for that.  I got all of my items (plus more stuff for my daughter that I didn't show here) for $45 (including shipping).  I feel like it was a steal for all of the personalized goodies (and I got multiples of several items, like 3 sets of the sticky notes, 2 sets of the notepads, 2 sets of stickers, etc.....). 

Here's the code to the discount again:  http://vistaprint.tellapal.com/a/clk/BbrCn 

If you have any great Vistaprint ideas for school stuff, let me know!