Pinterest and Teachers Notebook

I have been pinning for the past hour and I decided to take a break.  I found some great new ideas and a fellow pinner must be teaching the same topics I am right now.  I found a few great examples of anchor charts for the states of matter.  I am definitely going to be making those this weekend. 

While I was pinning away, I received an email on my IPhone.  Can we say tech junkie ;)  Anyway, Teachers Notebook is revamping their site to make it possible to record 30 second videos about products.  They are also adding a forum for sellers and buyers and changing their product rating system.  I'm excited to see the new changes which are to be ready in the morning.  If you don't already know about Teachers Notebook, it is a place for teachers to sell their teaching materials, and the best part is that teachers receive 100% of their profits minus Pay Pal fees.  (Note:  The site will be down after midnight and it won't be up again until tomorrow morning when they are finished updating.)

Mothers' Day Ideas and Pinterest

     I have been surfing Pinterest this evening for new Mothers' Day ideas.  I found some really great ones if you want to check out my Pinterest Boards.  As I was cruising through the pins, I told myself that I don't think I have ever made it to the bottom of the page and I started to wonder if there was a bottom to the page.  Well, I must have been looking longer than I thought, because to my suprise there is an end to the list ;).  I wonder what I look like to my hubby while I'm mindlessly staring at the computer screen. 

     Today, I got a great idea from a fellow collegue.  She helps her students learn about using descriptive words (aka, adjectives) in their writing by reading them a story and leaving out the descriptive words the first time around and then reading it again with the descriptive words.  I am so stealing this idea.  It seems that this time of the year everyone is ready for school to be over and students are not writing to the best of their abilities.  I think they just want to slap it on the page and get it over with.  Since we go back to school next week, I am going to use this idea.  I will let you know how it goes.  Oh, and she has the kids try adding descriptive words to their writing that day.  I think this is they key to get them to do it.  Everyone needs immediate practice.