Huge November Sale Nov. 24-27

If you ever wanted to purchase some of my products, but were waiting for a sale, the wait is over.

All of my products will be on sale on both TeachersPayTeachers.com and on Teachers Notebook.

Just visit either site to get amazing bargains.

3 Day Sale on Teachers Notebook November 24-26



Cyber Monday Nov. 26th  + Tuesday Nov. 27th Sale on TeachersPayteachers



Have a Happy Thanksgiving weekend and save lots of money.

Have Your Students Enter the 2012 seventeen magazine fiction contest

Your students (between the ages of 13 through 21) can enter the 2012 Seventeen Magazine Fiction Contest and the winner will receive $500 and a chance to be published in a national magazine.

The entry period is between November 13, 2012 and February 13, 2013.

The contest is a great motivator to teach students to write fiction. Click here for the contest rules and instructions on how to enter.

Writing short stories is fun for everyone. I have several units in my store that will help your students become better writers and learn to write fiction.

Show Don't Tell $3.50

Three Ways Authors Reveal Characters $3.50

An Original Short Story to Analyze $2.00

Using 3X5 Cards to Set Up Scenes (Free)

Enjoy!

Freebies Page

I just added a Freebies Page to my blog to make it easy for you to find the free products that I have available on TeachersPayTeachers.com.

I think there is something here for everyone, and I hope these products will be of help to you.

My One Day Happy Birthday Celebration Sale

Visit my store!

Is It Really September Already?

I have not written a blog post for a while due to two momentous family events. 

To paraphrase Dickens, it was the worst of times; it was the best of times. We spent five weeks away from home and from my office.

On July 31st, we left in a rush for Green Bay, Wisconsin, after we received
a phone call telling us that my husband's dear sister was in hospice care. Sadly, she died of cancer on August 24th at the young age of 62.

Then, the day after her burial, we attended Jerry's nephew's beautiful wedding in Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin. 

Many of the guests had attended both a funeral and a wedding for people they love dearly within a two day span of time.

Talk about lows and highs. Words cannot describe how emotional it really was.

Here's a picture of Jerry and me at the wedding.

Now, I'm back in Texas and catching up on my writing and my housework. School is in session, and students and teachers are hard at work once again. I still miss the excitement of the first few weeks of school, and the process of getting acquainted with new students and their parents.

I wrote about a Getting to Know You Activities Packet  in an earlier blog post. Click here to read that post or click here to download it. It will give you and your students 4 or 5 days of activities for the first days of school.

And here's a free product you can use to teach your students about transitive and intransitive verbs. Click here to download it absolutely free.

I hope you are as happy to be back at work as I am.