Poster Maker Software for School Teachers (Windows and Mac)

A simple program to make your own poster!

PosteRazor is a software that easily helps you make your own posters at school and at home. All that you need is a picture, the PosteRazor and a standard color printer.

 

Why is a poster so appealing? Maybe it’s because a poster is more than a photo. It is something that captures life in greater width and height. That’s why posters also easily become keepsakes.

The PosteRazor cuts an image or a picture into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document.

Free Clipart Images 4 Teachers and Students

This past month Fonts 4 Teachers offered all Teachers Pay Teachers members our collection of FREE clipart images for Valentine's and St. Patrick's Day.

    

 You can find these two freebies in our TPT store. They are part of a larger collection called Cliparts 4 Teachers, a set of 564 black/white and color, high resolution images (JPEG) divided into 22 categories:  

- Back to School
- Backgrounds and Borders
- Christmas
- Cinco de Mayo
- Crops
- Diplomas
- Easter
- Farm Animals
- Hall Passes
- Halloween
- Happy Birthday
- Independence Day
- Miscellaneous
- Names of Seasons-Months-Days
- New Year
- Objects
- Seasons
- Sports
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Valentine’s Day
- Wild Animals

All the cliparts can be used in any application (Mac or Windows) or printer available. The artwork design was done by Jesús Max and the project directed by Award Winning Teacher (1990) Ramón Abajo. Here you can take a look at the series Back to School and Christmas.

  As you can see there are some black and white cliparts for students to color at school or at home. You can find this collection at TPT. Check them. You will like them.

 

My Teacher Wishlist for Next Year

I am getting excited about ordering things for next year. For whatever reason, I was a bit left out of the party last year so I want to come back strong this one.

My favorite 5 things to order are:

1. An electronic sharpener. Look at this one. I love it. It is the Wescott iPoint.

 

  2. Erasers. When I was a kid at school I loved erasers. There was a brand Milan that I really liked. Unfortunately, they are not around anymore. My second choice is.. The Pencil Grip.

 

 

 Don't you love them? And ...

3. A school supply caddy..

 

 Isn't is gorgeous? I have been looking for one for years. 

And this is it.

What about you?        

     What do you have in your wishlist?              

Awesome Arts and Crafts Ideas for Kids

As a first grade teacher, I love arts and crafts for my class or even at home with my own twin boys. Students get involved in such a fun and creative way that learning takes place inadvertently. They build up motivation for school, eliminates boredom and creates active thinkers.

First I am going to introduce two activities that I created myself: the first one is the 2 Dimensional Pop Up Alphabet. This activity creates a fun learning experience for your students.

It gets students excited and motivated to learn the alphabet, for reading and writing. These fun and easy 2 Dimensional (2 D)-Pop-up activities are the perfect ones to help guide your students through the learning experience. 

 

They work well with mainstream students, English learners, and especially recommendable for students with special needs.

The second activity is the My first 3 Dimensional Alphabet Book. It ads a bit more complexity to the task, but still awesome for the younger learner.

Apart from my own creation, I adore making masks..

  

or using beads

Or even paper. Be careful with scissors and glue. They can play tricks on you!

Last, but not least, some recommendations for Amazon. Next you have My Fave Arts and Crafts Books for Kids. The products are unexpensive and they have more activities than you will ever use. 

1) The Todler Busy Book by Trish Kuffner.
365 creative games and activities to keep Your 1 1/2- to 3-Year-Old Busy

2) The Complete Book of Arts and Craft

This Complete Book of Arts and Crafts provides 256 pages of fun activities for children ages 5 to 9 that reinforce creative minds and motor skills! It includes paper, painting, musical, sculpting, and holiday crafts, as well as a complete answer key, user-friendly activities, and easy-to-follow instructions. --Over 4 million in print!

... and 

3)  Summer Bridge Activities

Prevent summer learning loss with our award winning, best-selling summer learning series! Summer Bridge Activities: Bridging Grades First to Second reinforces essential skills across the curriculum and helps prepare children for second grade. With 12 weeks worth of activities, completing Summer Bridge ActivitiesTM is the perfect way to keep skills sharp all summer long!

Do you have a favorite book or activity? Please share with us!

 

The Best 3 IPAD Apps for Kindergarten

Everyday more and more Ipad apps for kindergarten, and for school in general, are released. Here is my top number 3:

1.  Preschool EduKitchen

By Stacy Zeiger on Feb 17, 2013

From its opening jingle to the flying stickers, kids will enjoy nearly every aspect of Preschool EduKitchen. While enjoying the game, they will also build their logical thinking skills.

 

2. Hunches in Bunches

By Lamisha Serf on Feb 16, 2013

Another great rhyming classic by Dr. Seuss, Hunches in Bunches is a fun story about a boy who just can't make up his mind as different hunches pull him in different directions. A great addition to your digital library.  

 

 3. Preschool Maze 123

By Sadia on Feb 16, 2013

This high quality app uses brightly colored interactive mazes to help kids learn to problem solve. Each maze has a different theme to explore.

What are yours? Come on! Leave a post and tell us about your favorite apps for kindergarten. 

ABC 2 Dimensional Pop-Up Alphabet Book for Kids

ABC Pop-up alphabet book for kids that works! 

Do you want to create a fun learning experience for your students? Do you want them to get excited and motivated about learning the alphabet, reading and writing? These fun and easy ABC 2 dimensional (2D)-Pop-up activities are the perfect ones to help guide your students through the learning experience. 

 Nothing motivates a young learner more that making his or her own book. Students will take pride in their own pop-up alphabet book knowing that they can share it with family and friends.The extra blank letter pages will allow them to insert words they may need to complete their stories. 

 

These 2D/pop-up alphabet activities will help students to:

• Learn the alphabet
• Improve creative writing
• Practice the alphabet and its sounds
• Decorate your classroom by: 
• Writing student’s names on their desk
• Create tags and labels for your bulletin boards and learning centers. 

 This set of activities comes with step-by-step instructions as well as a video tutorial, but the purpose is simple: print, cut, color, and glue. Don’t miss this opportunity to teach and learn with excitement.

3 Things That Pinspired Me Last Week

One of the things that pinspired me last week was Jason Valentine's Day free bingo. I think that the activity is awesome and the presentation amazing!

 

 The second one was ideas for homework organization by Crystal Lynn. I think that my homework needed a little bit of push and I think I got it.

And finally this awesome homework kit designed by Andrea Randall!

What do you think of my pinspiration last week? 

Leave a comment!