Free Back-to-School Printables!

So many of us are close to that bittersweet phrase, "Back-to-School".  There's a wonderful excitement when starting a new school year with new students, but feelings of sadness arise because it marks the end of Summer.  The much needed Summer we all deserve I might add!

To help prepare for Back-to-School, I have a great set of printables available for you today, in celebration of Worksheet Wednesday.  This Wednesday's celebration is hosted by The Teaching Tribune.  Make sure to stop by there later to snag up many more wonderful printables just for you!

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These printables are for students to draw their portraits on the first day of school.  As a bonus, I've even added printables to capture their last day of school, so you can compare their growth!  They are available for Preschool through Fifth Grade.  These would be perfect for student portfolios to keep throughout the school year.  I hope you can use these printables!

I'm also teaming up with Wordless Wednesday.   My photo for today is of Garyn making a contained mess!  We were making Oobleck (Dr. Seuss Slime) for a guest post I'm doing for my friend Laura.  I'll let you know when it gets posted so you check out all our messy Oobleck adventures!

Have a wonderful worksheet  and wordless Wednesday friends!

The Best Back-to-School Portraits and Worksheet Wednesday

I have a fun idea for Back-to-School photos for your students or own kids!  I wish I would have thought of this sooner; I would have started when Garyn was old enough to "like" something and express it.  What a keepsake it would be!  But better late than never.  
So this year we'll start with

Have you ever heard that joke, "You know your Mom's a teacher, when you have pizza for dinner and she just has to talk about fractions?" Well, I said to Garyn, "Hey, let's fill out this sheet about how awesome you are!"  "Do I need a pencil?" he says.  I nod my head.  He gives me a look like, "Woman, we're on Summer Break.  Give it a rest already."  This is what we he had fun completing for me...

After we finished that and he went back to his video game, I took his answers, sat down at the computer and made this Back-to-School Portrait of him:

Then I thought, "This would be awesome to do for students as a Back-to-School Portrait for their portfolios or a Mother's Day present!"  So that's my plan and I'm going to take one of Garyn every year around this time of year every year to keep as mementos of his growing up and different favorites.

Here are printables you can use with your students or your own kids (there's one for girls and one for boys)

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I'm linking up with The Teaching Tribune's Worksheet Wednesday, so follow the link below to find more wonderful worksheets!

Yesterday, I finally finished a graphic set for this Autumn, The Fall Kids!  Included are 21 images, 12 PNG and 9 Line Art.  These will be perfect for the upcoming Fall season.  I just love how the pumpkin girls and apple boy turned out!  You can find them here.  And they're even HALF-OFF for today only...

Peace Out, 

Free, Free, Free!

Hola!  Hello!  Whazzz Up friends!  I hope this Worksheet Wednesday you're doing excellent; you'll be doing even better after you get all your FREE worksheets from various authors.  You can find all this worksheet goodness on The Teaching Tribune's blog on this Worksheet Wednesday.  

I'm sure you'll learn pretty fast about me as a clip artist, that one of my inspirations is Mel, from Graphics From the Pond.  (She's going to be one of my guests very soon; stay tuned!)  When she came out with this new Watermelon Kids Set, I knew I had to create something with it.  So in honor of her, and Worksheet Wednesday, I'd like to offer you this language arts worksheet, Summer Word Fun.  It's a Making Words printable with a fun watermelon theme.  Please feel free to download!  If you do, I'd be so happy I'd be doing cartwheels if you left me some comment love.

So make sure to visit The Teaching Tribune today to get more Worksheet Wednesday goodness today!

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Peace out friends, until we meet again soon,