Free St. Patrick's Day Papers

I was browsing the web looking for green paper and I came across this collection of high resolution St. Pattie's Day scrapbooking papers. There are eighteen in all and they are free for personal use!

Third Grade Common Core Standards Posters

Just in time for Leap Day! The Grade 3 Illustrated Common Core Posters are done! You can check them out by following this link. I've posted some of the illustrations below:

There are eleven themes included with this Common Core Poster Kit. Pictured to the right in green is the "cute little bugs" themes, which has butterflies, ladybugs, earthworms and bees. There's also a woodland trees and creatures theme, a rainbow theme, a fifties retro theme, a cut and paste theme, a comic superhero theme, and five more!

Just like my fourth and fifth grade posters, these posters come in "We can" and "I can" versions.

The cute owl graphic in the photo is from Clker.co.

Thanks to Victoria Leon and Kathleen at Info & Lit : A Librarian's Blog for nominating “Creative Classroom Resources” for the Liebster Award.

Info & Lit : A Librarian's Blog http://infoandlit.blogspot.com/

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Here's a little background on the award:

Liebster means “dearest” in German, and the award is intended to help up-and-coming blogs get the attention they deserve.

In order to accept the award, the blog owner must do the following:

1. Copy and paste the award on our blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave us the award.
3. Pick our five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers, and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have been nominated.
4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs.

I am pleased to accept this award and would like to pass it along to the following great blogs:

Middle School Maestros
http://www.middleschoolmaestros.com/

Math Slideshows

http://www.mathslideshows.com/

Artistry of Education

http://artistryofeducation.blogspot.com/

Hunger Games Lessons

http://www.hungergameslessons.com

The Enlightened Elephant

http://theenlightenedelephant.blogspot.com/

Be sure to check out these great blogs.

Thanks again to Victoria Leon and Kathleen for nominating me for the Liebster Award.

Ponyboy and the Gang Get a New Look!

It's been 52 years since they were teenagers banging around the streets of Tulsa!

I updated the PowerPoint with some cool new illustrations and backgrounds. Have a look! Thanks to MMG for the superb illustration of the Outsiders!

Fourth Grade Common Core Standards Posters Illustrated Version

Winter vacation brought warm weather (it was seventy-five in Southern California, where the grandparents live!) Mom's peanut butter squares (yum), and time to finish projects. I'm happy to say I finished the fourth grade common core standards posters. A big thank you to all the fourth grade teachers who gave me feedback and inspiration along the way.

I've posted a few of my favorite graphics from the project here. Have a look!

I get a kick out of creating an image that really shows the concept or skill behind each standard. I'm always looking for ways to make improvements to the illustrations. If you have any feedback or ideas, I'd love to hear about it. You can leave a comment here or contact me through Blogger.

You can download the posters from my TPT store.

There are posters for the math and ELA fourth grade standards. They are written in both "I can..." and "We can..." The poster kit also includes five "themes."

Fourth Grade Common Core Standards Posters

Update, January 15, 2011: I added a third theme for these posters. Some very cute illustrations by Whimsy Primsy.

I recently created a poster kit for the fourth grade Common Core Standards. A co-worker needed something that was colorful and kid-friendly, but that wouldn't require a lot of color ink (ink jet printer ink is expensive!) We came up with the idea of making the poster "modular." The kit is made of several parts. The parts that have color are used over and over. The standards themselves, which require the most printing, are black and white. All the parts can be printed on letter size paper.

The art in the poster kit comes in two three different styles. Both styles have a "school time" theme, with lots of pictures of kids writing, drawing, answering questions, and presenting, along with even more art of backpacks, books, markers, pens, and all that other fun stuff that make school such a rich and creative place to be!

If you you would like a poster kit like this one for your grade, I'd love to hear from you. Please leave a comment below. In the comment, let me know what grade and what theme you would like to have. Or you can contact me through my store on TPT. Happy teaching!

You can download the grade 4 Common Core Standards posters at this link.

Copyright 2011 Steve Gipson