Classroom DIY Duck Tape Project

I decided to try to give new life to a file cabinet I have in my classroom.  My teacher friend who retired  left me her file cabinet.  I always had the cabinet against the wall but decided to move it to utilize the back of the file cabinet.  I turned the back of the file cabinet into my lunch count bulletin board.  Here is a photo before and after.  A little duck tape and TLC can do wonders!  What do you think?

In the beginning! 

Halfway done! 

End Result! 

First Day Back and Clipart to Celebrate!

Today was my first day back at work!  Summer is officially over!  Bitter sweet!  As I am working on some of my products for Teachers Pay Teachers I came across this amazing website for clipart.  The clipart she offers is for purchase but she releases one free clipart each day for download.  The sets of pages she has are bright and colorful!  Todays freebie was a volcano.    

Jessica Weible Illustrations

http://www.jessicaweible.com/

Teachers Pay Teachers!!!

I have not been posting the last week or so because I have been busy working on some documents for Teachers Pay Teachers.  I have been an active member of Teachers Pay Teachers for the last year or so but only got the courage to become a seller about a two weeks ago.  I find this to be an exciting and rewarding venture.  As I post more products I will keep you posted as well.  As I learn new tricks and things I will fill you in!  Here is the link to my store!  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jessenia-Roman

With the tutorial I found on www.teachingsuperpower.com I was able to create this signature using pixlr and photobucket.  It was quite easy.  Watch her tutorial and you will be amazed at how easy it is.  Happy blogging!

Word Clouds

I just love word clouds! You can utilize word clouds in different lesson in your classroom. You can used them to teacher your students new vocabulary, review for an upcoming test, reading comprehension, response to literature. You can have the students create a word cloud to introduce themselves the first day of school. You can used them in brainstorming a topic for writing or any other subject. The list can go on. Here are some free sites that I use to make word clouds.  I made this word cloud on Tagul.  

http://www.wordle.com

http://tagul.com/

http://worditout.com/

http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/

Fonts!!! Fonts!!! Fonts!!!

I decided to start blogging because I love all the new technology and tools that are available! On my venture of beginning my blog I came across this cool website to upload many creative fonts!!!! These fonts can be used to make resources for your classroom. If you are thinking of creating documents for Teachers Pay Teachers many of these sites have fonts that you could use!!! ">