Equationfreak.blogspot.com Website Review

     guess what? i'm back for awhile. those of you who follow me know that i retired a year ago and haven't posted anything since then. our family has been very busy with a wedding and a graduation. it was so nice to have the time to really enjoy and savor every moment of these very special times with our kids. so just as things were slowing down a bit, a friend of mine that i taught with for many many years called me to say she was going back to teaching after 7 years off. she wanted to use interactive notebooks with her clas*es but didn't know where to start so i told her i would help her in setting the notebooks and would create some foldables for her as well. so i decided to start blogging again about what we are doing. i've missed all of you! what i had created and it would not get thrown in the garbage. well i accomplished that and am so happy so many teachers and parents are using my materials. now my goal is to just pay for my paper and ink i use for printing and i am hoping that many of you will like what i have to sell. with that said, here is the first foldable that i made this year. check out my store i have one freebie and four other hi everyone. well it is official, i actually retired in june. during the summer i didn't feel any different but with the school year beginning last week, it now feels real. i'm looking forward to taking a fall vacation, something i could never do when i was teaching.  as much as i wanted to do lots of posts last year it was just too hectic. but now i have the time to clear out the over 60 posts i started that are sitting in my draft box. so i will be coming back from time to time to share them. i know the first unit we covered in 8th grade was exponents so here are a couple of interactive notebook pages i made last year. these were used in my 8th grade pre-algebra my students enjoy coloring so i used numbers that could be filled in. they loved it!  (the arrow by the word base should be pointing to the 5, not  away from it,)