I love my job, I really do. Sometimes the kids drive me crazy and sometimes I am exhausted and sometimes it is a Friday toward the end of the year and it is hot and muggy and everyone is worn out. Today is that day. Today I am tired and the children are tired. It is on days like today that I need to remind myself how lucky I am. I get to work in my own space with people that constantly surprise me. I get to plan my whole day to include the things I want. I get to learn new things and try out fun experiments.

 

I need to remind myself that yesterday I went out into the orchard and built forts. Next week I will be fishing for tadpoles and watching them grow. Last term I played being red riding hood and ran around in the woods looking for clues to catch the big bad wolf.

 

I get paid for this! Sometimes I just need reminding that I get paid for this! I do have the best job in the world. I can say that now, as I am about to go off for PPA this afternoon and it is Friday!

 

One of my favourite poems:

 http://zenpencils.com/comic/124-taylor-mali-what-teachers-make/

 

I realised that for some of my followers the last post might have seemed a bit strange.

I haven’t told you all, I am now selling my teaching resources. I sell them in two places here on Teachers Pay Teachers and here on TES.

I actually joined both these sites a long time ago to find resources I needed. Recently I have started to read around the forums and understand a bit about the sites and now I am selling on them!

 

It has been fun and I have found it a bit addictive. I love coming up with ideas for products and building on them for my stores.

Anyway, last week was the start of a four-week seller challenge. This challenge is run by Third in Hollywood and has been fab so far. Last week the challenge was to make over a product, which I did and you can read about it in my last blog post here.

Right, so with the explanation out of the way on with this week’s challenge.

Dare to Dream

 

The challenge this week was to write about our goals for our stores. Now I actually struggled a little with this. I do have goals and I do have plans, but not really in relation to selling my resources. So this took quite a bit of thinking about. Eventually I decided on my big goals for my store but compared to some other people’s they aren’t that big or interesting, but they are still my goals and I have a plan to get to them and I will work hard for them and I think that’s all that matters!

 

 

That’s it really. I think I might be a bit too happy with my life is this is all I can come up with!!

 

 

So I have signed up to the huge seller challenge over at www.teacherspayteachers.com. This week the challenge was to make over a product that needs a bit more life.

Sooooooo I have given my English unit of work on recount writing a bit of a make over. (here: Whole unit on sale!) This is a whole unit of work on recount texts. Exploring them, analysing them and writing them.

I am still learning about the best covers to use and playing around with fonts but I think I prefer the simple straight forward look.. what do we think?

The product is also on sale until Friday.

Happy challenge everybody taking part!

Whole unit on sale!