TpT Seller Challenge: Week 3 Make Your Masterpiece

Week 3 is here!  I am so excited to be linking up with these fabulous ladies for the Make your Masterpiece portion of the seller challenge.  If you're interested in joining up, click the picture below!

Here is my masterpiece below!  I worked hard to finish this product.  I did this activity at the end of the year with my students, but I was finally able to wrap it up!  It is My Poetry Book - a product used to teach 8 different types of poems.

I want to give a big thank you to my favorite blogging bestie for checking my product!  Maja from Kooky Kinders is the best!  You can check her out by clicking on her button below. :]

My Poetry Book teaches students how to write 8 different styles of poems that include, acrostic, cinquain, concrete, couplet, diamonte, limerick, haiku, and tanka. 

When students learn these poems, you start by creating them together.  There are templates for specific poems students will write when learning each style of poetry.  

When they write an acrostic poem, they will learn by making one about grapes.  There are also templates available so students can make grapes to place on their poem.  Look at the student example below!

The cinquain poem template is about carrots.  Students again learn how to write the poem together as a class, create the craft using the templates in the product, and place the page in their poetry book.  Check out the student example for a cinquain poem below!

There are topics for the other poems, as well as templates for the craft pieces for each poem.  The kids LOVED writing the poems together and then making the craft to go along with it.  It also makes their poetry book turn out so cute!

Then, there are blank templates for each style of poetry so students can write their own poem using the poetry style to place inside their poetry book.  Here are two examples of student poems that were written on their own.

I like how there are templates for each style of poetry so that students can make their own types of poems without being told how to write a poem.  It allows for creativity and adds more pages to their poetry book.

Also, when introducing the different styles of poems, I would buy the snack that would go with each topic.  For example, when we learned about acrostic poems, my students ate grapes to help get their creative juices flowing.  (or maybe I just enjoy having snacks!) 

I hope you find my masterpiece something you would love to have.  You can head over to my TpT store to grab your own set today!  My kids sure loved making the poetry books, and we had a lot of fun reading them when they were complete.  Once they are done, all you have to do is bind them together using a binding machine or tie them using ribbon.  It makes for a great keepsake!  

Thanks again to these 4 awesome ladies for motivating me over the summer!

TpT Seller Challenge: Week 2 Dare to Dream

Week 2 is here and  I am so excited about our topic.  I also love learning about all my blogging fiends - old and new!  I have many dreams.  It is hard to narrow it down to just a few, but I will. :]

If you are interested in linking up, be sure to click on the image below to find the directions.  We'd love to have you!

So..here is my Dare to Dream list!

*Buy a house - Now, this is a tricky one.  My husband and I are currently living in Chicago.  We are renting an apartment in downtown Chicago.  We absolutely love it!  However, we hope to one day move somewhere we can buy a house and live in a neighborhood.  Wouldn't that be an awesome place to have a family?  As of now, I am enjoying our young married years, but if I were living in a house in downtown Chicago I would be way more excited!

*Donate my TpT earnings - I am fairly new to TpT and I hope to one day make enough money that I can donate my earnings to others and charities.  I donate some of what I make, but I do not make enough to donate and purchase the things I need for my classroom and TpT resources.  As a teacher, I find myself buying many things for my students and classroom.  This leaves me with very little to donate.  So, my dream is to one day make so much money on TpT that I can spoil my students and give to others.  That would be the ultimate dream.  But, for now I will continue to donate the little I can and work my tail off to create products that will intrigue teachers to purchase so that I can in turn give back to others.

*Travel the world - I feel like this is probably everyone's dream, but I LOVE traveling.  I dream to travel all 50 states and go to Europe multiple times.  This sounds slightly humorous since I am a teacher, but a girl can dream right? ;)  I hope to travel and share all the experiences with my students so that they can become more worldly!

*Have children - I have always wanted a BIG family, and by big I mean 6 kids - at least!  My husband isn't really down for having 6 children, but we may have compromised at 4.  The older I get though, the more I think about how hard it would be to financially raise 4 children.  I dream that I will have enough money to raise 4 healthy children and give them all that they can to live a happy faith-filled life.  So, fingers crossed I can make this dream come true!

*Spread the Word of God - This is the most important dream.  I hope that I can make an impact on other's lives so that they will believe in God.  I hope that I am a good Christian that shares with others and shows them that they must believe.  He is our Savior, and I dream that everyone I know will be saved (including myself).  I ultimately want to be a great person that shows others how wonderful life is when God is in it.  I feel blessed to be on this teaching journey with so many other educators, and that is all because of God.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my dreams.  I know that I have to work really hard to achieve them, but I believe that I can.  Thanks for stopping by! :]

Here are the four awesome ladies that have started this whole TpT Seller Challenge.  Check them out below!