An Apple For The Teacher: What Works Teacher Appreciation Giveaway

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, several of my blogging friends have gotten together to share some of our best teaching secrets as well as two AMAZING prize bundles.

The work we do in our classrooms, while sometimes unappreciated, is so, so important to the future of our communities!

While I am not a pack rat or into hard-core recycling by any means, I hate throwing away things that can be re-used. My first tip involves those extras that sometimes come with various TpT products.

For example, the picture above is a laminated sheet of some Fly Guy sight word flash cards I made for some of my students. See those 4 empty cards?? I hate throwing away the card stock and laminate. So... I use them!

They are already laminated, so they make a perfect dry-erase surface for extra problems for my students. I will often write problems on them to use with my small groups. Sometimes I give each student a problem to solve independently, and other times they all solve the same problem. I can quickly erase them and re-use them over and over again. They can easily be adapted for differentiation as well.

I have also used them as reminders or scaffolds for skills we are working on, such as having a beginning, middle, and end when we retell a story.

My second tip involves one of my favorite office supplies - book rings. When I was in high school and college I used these to make my own flash cards for studying. Now I use them in my classroom for just about everything!

I use them to label my book boxes.

For Sight Words.

For math facts.

I also use them to keep sample problems and lesson plans close at hand.

And now... time for the giveaway!!!

We have two amazing prize bundles valued at $475!!!! Remember, the more entries that you have on the Rafflecopter the more chances you have to win! And believe me, you will want to win these packages! Check them out below!