Ring 2016 in with a Sale!

Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a lovely 2015 and are gearing up for a fabulous 2016. Finishing 2015 for me meant that I completed my first calendar year of not teaching in the classroom. I decided to take this leap for two reasons. 
Reason number one was so I could homeschool my children and travel around the US in our RV, which was a ravishing success. You can read more about our year at RVing with the Rakis. 
Reason number two was so that I could focus more on bringing quality resources to you through my Teachers Pay Teachers store. This was also a ravishing success. As I added 3 new interactive math notebook lessons to my catalog yesterday to finish out my 5th Grade Common Core Bundle, I realized that this year I have added 85 new resources to my store. The majority of these resources were added to complete series and bundles that I started while I was teaching in the classroom. I always planned to complete these sets, I just never had the time. So this year I used all of my extra time to:

 - complete my Year Long Spelling Packets

 - add to my ESL Vocabulary Packets (this set will be completed to 100% in 2016)

 - complete my Aesop's Fable Reading Response Packets

 - complete interactive math notebook bundles for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade and 5th grade

 - complete my Primary Grades Word Wall Bundle

 - complete my Primary Grades Writing Journals

 - create a Non Fiction Book Study for Any Book companion to my Novel Study for Any Book

In order to celebrate the new year, I have put every resource created in 2015 on sale for the next 3 days. So stop by my Teachers Pay Teachers store and save on these new, quality resources. 

In 2016, my plans include a full update on my Problem Solving Path sets, additional problem solving resources for primary students, completion of my ESL Vocabulary Packets, completion of my Greek and Latin Root Word Packets, and the release of my School on the Go Homeschool Curriculum.

What are your plans for 2016?

It’s Time for the Cyber Monday Sale

I have to be honest for a moment. I am not a fan of Black Friday. I don’t like the crowds. I don’t like the chaos. I don’t like being manipulated into giving up time with my family to save a couple of dollars. It’s just not worth it to me.

But Cyber Monday, Cyber Monday I love. I can stay home, put on a movie for my boys, and get the majority of my holiday shopping done while still getting great deals. Plus, all of the stuff gets shipped to me, so I have a bit of a delay between the time I shop and the time I have to try and find hiding spots for gifts.

At the same time I am using Cyber Monday to get the holiday shopping taken care, I always stop by Teachers Pay Teachers and stock up on stuff I’ll need to teach come January. This gives me the piece of mind to not stress about what I need to buy or make in order to teach well, and gives me additional time to get in that holiday baking and movie watching that the boys and I like so much during the holiday season.

If you’re like me, and you enjoy Cyber Monday, you’ll be excited to hear that my Teachers Pay Teachers store will be on sale 20% off on Monday and Tuesday (Nov 30th and Dec 1st of 2015), so that you get a double discount. Here are a few of the deals you can find:

 

 

What’s in your shopping cart this Cyber Monday?

Back to School Bonus Sale

Two weeks ago when the Teachers Pay Teachers’ Back to School Sale occurred I was not even thinking about the beginning of the school year since our school year doesn’t start until September 1st. Luckily, Teachers Pay Teachers has added a bonus day sale which will occur tomorrow – August 19th just for those of us with a later start date. For this day, my entire store – including bundles that are already reduced – will be 20% off. Plus Teachers Pay Teachers is offering an additional 10% with the use of the coupon code MORE15. Here are just a few of the deals you will be able to pick up in my store tomorrow:

 

 

 

Whether you are getting ready to start soon or you’ve already been back for two weeks, take some time to shop tomorrow and save some big money on resources that will save you a lot of time and energy this school year.

Tomorrow We Appreciate Teacher Heroes with a Sale!

It’s snowing out where I am at right now.  My Facebook page is full of school closings, but it is also full of my teacher friends talking about the work they will be doing today.  Planning lessons ahead, getting caught up on grading, writing out IEP notes, cutting out lamination!  Seriously, the teachers I know (myself included) so rarely take days off that they must be superheros!  Luckily, Teachers Pay Teachers has recognized this fact and so the entire site will be 10% off tomorrow just by using the coupon code HEROES.  (If you received my TPT Note to Followers, please make sure you have the coupon code as I accidently entered the wrong code and can’t get back in to correct it!) 

Of course the majority of Teachers Pay Teachers sellers are using this opportunity to give teachers additional savings.  My Teachers Pay Teachers store will be on sale an additional 20% giving you a full 28% off of anything purchased from our catalog of 587 quality teaching resources, including these newly released items:

 

Enjoy the sale!  (And the snow days if you’re getting them!)

Cyber Monday Sale at Raki’s Rad Resources

Cyber Monday sales are generally all about buying Christmas presents for others.  How about buying a present for yourself?  How about saving some money on teaching resources that will free up some of your time so that you can actually enjoy preparing for this holiday season?  Time you can spend baking cookies, going to ornament exchanges, or just spending quality time with your kids.  On Monday & Tuesday – December 1st and 2nd of 2014 – Teachers Pay Teachers is having a site wide sale.  They are offering all buyers 10% off with the Promo Code TPTCYBER.  In addition, I am putting my entire store on sale for 20% off, so there will be some amazing deals in the Raki’s Rad Resources store on Teachers Pay Teachers.  Here are a few of the things you might want to stock up on during this two day sale:

 

Happy Shopping!

Fill Your Back to School Wishlist with a Blog Hop

Since I’m currently in Georgia, I know that “school is back in session”.  However, for my International School friends, and my family back in Buffalo, NY, school starts up next week or the week after.  This means that the Back to School sale at Teachers Pay Teachers, that happened a few weeks ago was a bit too early for them to benefit from, as they were all really still in vacation mode.  Luckily, Teachers Pay Teachers has decided to give them an extra day.  So, tomorrow, August 20th, with be a one day Back to School Bonus sale!!  Whether you have already started back, or you are starting back in the next few weeks, this is a great time to grab an extra 28% off of resources you need for your classroom.

To give teachers just a little bit more, I am participating in the Gimme 5 Back to School Blog Hop and giving away 5 teacher resources to one lucky winner.  All you have to do is to win is leave me a “wishlist” in the comment area.  Leave me links to five resources from my Teachers Pay Teachers store that you would like to use in your classroom – a Back to School Wishlist – and your e-mail address.  At 10:00 p.m. TONIGHT, I will use a random number generator to choose one person to recieve EVERYTHING on their wishlist for FREE.  If you win, you will have all five items in your e-mail account tonight, but remember this is a one day offer, so be sure to leave your comment before 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Also, there are 17 other Teachers Pay Teachers stores who are offering a similar giveaway in this Gimme 5 Back to School Blog Hop.  Stop by A Grade Seven Heaven to find a list of all of the Gimme 5 giveaways.

 

Feel free to pass these giveaways around to your colleague and other teacher friends, so that everyone has a chance to fill their Back to School Wishlists, and don’t forget to stop by my Teachers Pay Teachers store tomorrow to save 28% off of everything at my store – using the coupon code: BOOST.

 

Happy Teaching & Planning!

Updates & a Sale – Just in Time for Back to School

Normally I’d spend the month of July preparing new things for my classrooms, but since I won’t have an actual classroom this year, I have spent this month updating old resources to be a better help for other teachers.  Here are some of the updates happening at Raki’s Rad Resources:

Problem Solving Path is now available from 2nd and 5th grade, as well as 3rd and 4th.  In addition, the 2nd and 5th grade journals now have both a US journal and a UK journal and the 3rd and 4th grade journals will soon have this same update.

 

   

 

Many (though not yet all) of my Internet Scavenger Hunts are now available with all 3 formats – type on .doc versions, write on .pdf versions and QR Code versions.

 

Many (though not yet all) of my Word Family Word Wall Cards are now available in 3  different fonts – the normal fancy font, a standard font and a blocky bold faced font.

All of these updated products are available to you at a sale price over the next two days.  August 4th and August 5th is the big Back to School Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers, where many stores (including Raki’s Rad Resources) will have their stores on sale for 20% off.  Add in the sale code BTS14 and save an additional 10% off of your order.  Here are a few of the deals you can score just in time for back to school:

 

 

 

 

 

What’s on your wishlist for back to school?