Sunday, May 27, 2012

I'm Addicted...

So, through Pinterest I found a website that I am now completely addicted to. It is teacherspayteachers.com and it is seriously the best website for teachers. Here I only have three days of school left until summer and I can't stop downloading stuff of this site.

For those of you who are like I was two months ago and don't have a clue as to what I am talking about, it is a website where teachers make things like games, lesson plans, worksheets, etc and they upload them to this site. Then lazy teachers like me who want all the cool stuff but don't always have the time to make them up, can go and download them to use in our classrooms. Most of the things on the site you do have to pay a couple of bucks for, but please, I have to pay lots of bucks for ready made stuff at any teacher store. Plus, they have some really great treasures for free.

I'm really not sure how I taught before I discovered this treasure trove and I am addicted. A couple of weeks ago I seriously downloaded about 25 nonsense word games. That's almost a different game a week for the entire school year. This morning I downloaded seven short "a" games. Looks like I'm ready for the second week of school in September!

I can't stop, I look at it everyday. Almost as often as I check Facebook and Pinterest. Then this afternoon, I had this brilliant thought, "I wonder if they have stuff for pre-schoolers?". Guess what? They do! So I downloaded some stuff for my pre-schooler and I to do this summer when we have Mommy School.

Anyway, I didn't want to be alone with this addiction so I thought I would invite the world of teachers and parents to join me!