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5 Year Blogiversary!!

January 11, 2016 By Rachel

Do you see the beautifulness you are surrounded by?!!!
I could not be more excited about the new look!!
I love the fresh, clean look!
I love the colors!
I love the femininity!
It just feels like me!
Alexis from Laugh Eat Learn Designs did an amazing job!
If you are looking for a blog designer, look no further!
She was so easy to work with and put up with my indecisiveness!
I can’t wait to meet her at the Teachers Pay Teachers Conference in Orlando!!

Today, I am celebrating my 5 year anniversary of blogging!

 AND I’m giving you the gifts!
Look at all the teacher goodies you can score!
{giveaway near bottom}
I love blogging and I thought I’d share my online journey with you!
When I first started teaching 12 years ago, there was no teacher blogs.
So I was thrilled when I found ProTeacher a message board site!
Does anybody else remember ProTeacher?
Teacher websites became popular and I enjoyed visiting them, 
but I knew nothing about creating a website.
One night, while reading the messages boards on ProTeacher, 
I followed a link to Just A Girl Blog who had written a post about hand sanitizer!
{LOL…only a teacher would click a link like that!}
She was a teacher, but wrote her blog about home decorating!
I immediately fell in love!
I loved how she decorated her house!
I loved how she communicated!
I felt like I knew her!
So I thought I can do this!
On January 11, 2011, I wrote my first blog post!
In the next 6 months, I blogged about reorganizing my desk…
and my closet.…
and several other crafts and projects around my apartment!
I linked these posts up to a couple of linky parties and had a lot of traffic.
I felt proud of my little ol’ blog…
BUT…
I didn’t keep up with it.
As a teacher, things often get put on the back burner and so did this blog.
2 years went by and during that time the Teacher Blogger was born!
I started following all the teachers I had found in ProTeacher plus so many new ones!
So in July of 2013, I started blogging about teaching!
It was a game-changer, y’all!
It led me to become a TPT seller.
I have “met” so many educators from around the world!
And although, I don’t blog nearly as much as I want to…
This will always be my home!
I said all of this to say….that we all have a journey.
My journey has always been some sort of online teaching community!
When I tried to blog about home decorating, it didn’t work!
I lived in a one-bedroom apartment for crying out loud!!
What works for me, is to blog about my journey.
My teaching journey.
My life journey.
I encourage you to BE your journey!
You were created to be you and nobody else!
Thanks for reading about my journey!
I hope you embrace yours!
Now back to the GIVEAWAY!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

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    1. Unknown says

      January 11, 2016 at 8:44 PM

      Congratulations on your milestone! I found you through bloglovin.
      Emily

    2. Lena Troxtell says

      January 11, 2016 at 9:59 PM

      I found the teach community by searching Google for help. I however cannot remember how I stumbled upon you! congratulations on 5 years!

    3. Lena Troxtell says

      January 11, 2016 at 9:59 PM

      I found the teach community by searching Google for help. I however cannot remember how I stumbled upon you! congratulations on 5 years!

    4. Bon says

      January 12, 2016 at 12:03 AM

      Congratulations Rachel!! I had no idea you were such a vetran teacher!
      I love the new blog!! It is so professional looking!!
      I started blogging about 9 years ago, and like you I blogged about life… when I made the decision to go back to school for teaching, I started following a few teacher blogs…. But, I really connected with the teaching community through periscope this summer. And, I'm so grateful, because that's where I connected with you! 😀

    5. Mrs Brown says

      January 12, 2016 at 1:19 AM

      Oh gosh, I have been following you for a while…I am not really sure how I found you!

    6. Tina says

      January 12, 2016 at 5:09 AM

      I found you a while back thru Bloglovin. Congrats on your 5 years!

    7. Mrs. Bartel's School Family (Alyce) says

      January 13, 2016 at 1:43 AM

      When I got back into teaching 6 years ago, I stumbled by a blog homes, which lead to different blogs, and finally teacher blogs. I LOVED looking at all the blogs on the "blog roll" for new blogs to search and follow. Way to go on 5 years!!! Congratulations!
      Alyce

    8. Cassandra says

      January 13, 2016 at 4:49 AM

      LOVE this Rachel! Congrats on five years! I am so thankful to have found the online teaching community thanks to IG, Facebook and TPT!! LOVE the connections, and I can't wait to connect with you in person this summer!!

      Mrs. 3rd Grade 

    9. Unknown says

      January 16, 2016 at 12:43 AM

      Five years and going strong!! Congratulations!

      Jamie

    10. Unknown says

      January 16, 2016 at 1:06 PM

      Congratulations on five years! I love your blog -I am a teacher in the Charleston area as well ( but not a blogger).

    11. Unknown says

      January 17, 2016 at 12:20 AM

      I found you through Bloglovin. 🙂 Congrats on 5 years!

    12. Kelly says

      January 17, 2016 at 4:41 PM

      I found the teaching blogging community through the message boards and the old Scholastic blogs.

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3️⃣ Turn & Talk - Everyone shares their answer with a partner
4️⃣ Hand Signals - Perfect for multiple choice questions
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4️⃣ Non Instructional Goal - What other area are you trying to improve?
Here’s my 4 goals!
1. Vocabulary Instruction 
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3. Leave by 3:00 3 out 5 days
4. Clean off back counter once a week
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