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Temporary Update to TOU

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Hello all!  In an effort to help my buyers and followers, I’m doing a temporary update to my Terms of Use (TOU).  Please read below for the complete update.

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With the current situation of schools being closed and masses, as well as religious education/Sunday School classes being cancelled, I’m opening my TOU to try to help you get the resources to the students.  Please note that these are temporary updates and there are stipulations, so please read thoroughly. 

Here are the changes to the TOU….

  1. You may upload resources to a site, BUT it must be secured.  That means that parents/students require a password or something similar to access the resources.  That way, others can’t do a random Google search and it shows up in the search results for just anyone to download.
  2. You may use my resources on Google (Drive, Classroom) for access by your students/families.  They should be the one ones allowed access and the link shouldn’t be shared with anyone but your own class.
  3. You may send my resources via e-mail so that your students/families can have access to them.    
  4. You may print off my resources and put in packets to handout to your students/families to work on at home.  This should only be done for class.

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Here are the Terms for being able to do the above….

  1. My name/copyright must stay in-tact on each page.
  2. The resources you purchase are only for your classroom and must not be shared with other teachers/classes.  You can purchase additional licenses for a discount price if other teachers are interested in the resource.
  3. These temporary changed to my TOU are only effective until 30 April.  At that time, I will re-access the situation and see how many schools and churches are still closed and/or doing distance learning.

I hope that this is of help to all of you.  I know that this is a trying time for all of us.  I want to help as much as I possibly can.  Additional things that I’m trying to do is update the freebies on my blog and make sure that all the links are working to download.  This is quite time consuming and not going as quickly as I want.  I’m trying though.  Don’t forget that if you sign-up for my newsletter that you also get a password to the resource library for subscribers only.  There’s not a lot there, but I do try to reward my followers.

Everyone, please stay safe and healthy.  Remember your social distancing.  And please, contact me if you have any questions or concerns about my resources or these updated terms.

 

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Taking Longer Than Expected

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I just thought that I would pop on with a quick message to update you all about what’s going on. 

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Well, basically it’s nothing!  Updating my site after moving to a new host is taking way longer than expected.  Really most of it is done, but I haven’t been able to get all my images uploaded.  I’ve just had so much going on that I’ve had little time to devote to adding the images.  On top of that, it’s very time consuming to try to find all the missing images.

I truly appreciate you all being so patient and sticking by even though you rarely hear from me.  I couldn’t ask for better followers!  I’ll be coming up with something for you all soon so that I can say “thank you” in a proper way.  In the meantime, I’m honestly doing my best, but you know how life can be.

Take care and I hope that you’re having as beautiful of a Spring as we are here!

 

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It’s Time for a Sale….and a Giveaway

That’s right, it’s time for a sale and a giveaway! It’s the prefect time because Spring is in the air. Alright, I realize that not so all over the country, but this girl sure is happy that the sun is out and the days are getting longer with nice temps during the day. I love warm weather!

First off, let’s talk about the giveaway! There are 4 possible ways to enter and you can do one or all of them for your chance to win a $10 gift card to TpT. The ways to enter are….

  • Visit (and follow) me at The Treasured Schoolhouse on Facebook
  • Tweet about the giveaway
  • Follow me (SchoolhouseLife) on Twitter
  • Leave a blog post comment for:  Spring is just around the corner. What are you most looking forward to?

The giveaway ends at 12am on 27 February. I will do a blog post with the winner shortly after that and send the gift card via e-mail to the winner within 24 hours (but it’s always way less).

Now, let’s talk about the sale! Everything at The Treasured Schoolhouse is on sale for 20% off. It’s going to be 25-28 February. You can use code TICKTOCK for an extra 5% off 26 & 27 February. That’ll make the total discount 25% off! Lent starts next week and Easter is just around the corner, so grab the materials that you need now. I also have some resources for St. Patrick’s Day, which isn’t that far off either! You can just click the banner to be taken to The Treasured Schoolhouse on TpT….

Now for something that I wish I didn’t have to say, but it must be done because of my last giveaway. I had many enter the giveaway and say that they had done certain things and upon checking, they hadn’t done any of them. Please follow the rules and follow through and do what you say that you’ll do for your chance to win. I mean honestly if you say you leave a comment, I can clearly see if you do or not and I can see if you tweet something. So please, let’s keep is honest and fair so that we ALL can have fun! That said, you can enter the giveaway here….

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Recover a Lost Blog Post

Have you ever done a blog post and then lost it?  There’s number reasons why one might lose their blog post.  I just had it happen to me recently and the reason why was because I had to do a restore of my blog.  That’s fine in itself, but I went back further than that particular blog post date.

Here are a couple tips in case you ever need to recover a blog post:

Post Revisions

The first method is to check your post revisions.  If your blog post is there, you should be able to go back and look at the revisions.  Select the revision that you want and save your blog post.

RSS Feed

Check your RSS feed to see if it’s saved there.  You could find the whole post, which you could copy/paste into a “new” post.  Save it at the original post date and time.  When I lost my post I tried this, but all my feeds (Bloglovin’, RSS Reader, and another one) only had excerpts of my post.

Newsletter

Do you send a newsletter to your subscribers?  If so and it contains your blog posts, you just might be in luck.  You can copy/paste it from there, then save it with the original time and date.  Unfortunately for me, my newsletter is set-up with my RSS feed but it only shares excerpts in the newsletter.

Archive

Check out a site like the Wayback Machine  to see if your blog or post is archived there.  Unless you have a popular blog, you likely won’t find it here.

Cache

This was my last resort and what finally worked!  If you know the URL of your lost blog post, type it into the Google search.  Click on the drop arrow and select “cached”.  If it was saved, hopefully you’ll find it here.  I found my complete post, so I did a copy/paste into a new blog post.  I then dated it to the original time and date and saved.  

I hope that you never “lose” a blog post, but if you do, maybe this will help!  Most of these procedures can also work on lost blog or site pages as well.

 

 

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Gift Card Giveaway

Would you like a $10 gift card to Teachers Pay Teachers? If so, then this is for you because….

 

$10 Gift Card for TpT

There are 4 possile ways to enter and you can enter just 1 way or all the ways!  Possible ways to enter are….

  • Visit The Treasured Schoolhouse page on Facebook
  • Tweet about the giveaway (and it’s already typed up for you to tweet!)
  • Follow The Treasured Schoolhouse (@SchoolhouseLife) on Twitter
  • Leave a comment to this blog post about What is your favorite part about the Christmas season

That’s all there is to it!  The winner will be announced at midnight (CST) on 27 November.  I’ll send you an e-mail with your gift card after the giveaway ends.  Now enter….and good luck!

 

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Exclusive for Followers

I’m going to be rewarding my newsletter followers with exclusive freebies just for them!! This is something that I’ve wanted to do for awhile and I’ve finally gotten ready to implement it, so I’m really excited to tell you all about how to get exclusive freebies.

The best way to keep up with The Treasured Schoolhouse is to sign-up for the newsletter.  That way, you’ll know every time I post to my blog.  You won’t be spammed or anything else.  You’ll just simply receive an excerpt of the post and you can click on the link to come back to the blog to finish reading it.  Best of all, you only receive the newsletter when I post something….and not for anything else!!

So now onto the exclusive offer for followers of the newsletter.  YAY!!  If you sign-up to receive the newsletter to The Treasured Schoolhouse, you’ll receive a password the next time I post to a freebie.  To access the freebie, you’ll be able to click on the link in the newsletter or you can come here to the blog and click on the “For Subscribers” tab.  You’ll have to input the password, which will give you access to any freebies that are on the page.  Sometimes they will be forever free and sometimes they’ll be free for a certain amount of time.  

My goal is to offer a new freebie at least once a month.  I can’t promise that though, so we’re going to say a new one will be posted as often as possible.  I don’t want to disappoint anyone or break a promise, so for now,  that’s what we’re going with!!  You never know though, so you’ll want to check back, as there won’t be a notice when a new freebie is listed.  I plan on having the freebies that I list be both Christian and educational so that I can cover both of my types of followers.

Also, the password will change often, so you’ll want to check with the newsletter to make sure you have the newest password.  You don’t want to lose access to the “For Subscribers” page to grab the freebies!!

If this sounds good to you, please just sign-up to receive the newsletter.  If you don’t already subscribe, you can enter your information on the sign-up form over in the right hand column of this blog.  If you already do subscribe, then the password will be included in the next newsletter!!

 

 

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Back to School Sale!

Not only am I having a giveaway for a $10 gift card to TPT, with a chance to win an additional $5 gift card to Teachers Pay Teachers, but I’m having a sale!!

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Everything in my TPT store will be on sale for 20% off from 31 July to 3 August. It’s the perfect time to find some great deals!! Not only are there great deals in my store, but there’s a coupon code for an additional 10% off. That makes the total savings of 28% off!! Just enter code: BestYear at the checkout.

Just click the banner above to be taken to The Treasured Schoolhouse on TPT to find your deals now!!

Not only am I having a sale on TPT, but I’m also offering a coupon for 20% off my shop at Etsy and here at my blog shop.  To keep things simple, just use code BESTYEAR at checkout at both of those shops to get your savings at those locations.  Oh, and this coupon code is good until 6 August at both locations!!  You can find The Treasured Schoolhouse at….

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Thank you for taking the time to read and follow along, and….

Happy Shopping!!

 

 
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Almost to 100

I’m very happy to say that I’m almost at 100 followers at my store on TPT!!

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I’m so close in fact, that I’m just 2 followers away!!  Can you believe it??  It’s been a long road and I’m happy with the way things have developed for me.  It’s been a great learning process and I know that there’s more to come.

I have several things planned for when I do hit that big personal milestone.  I’ll be holding a giveaway here on the blog.  There will be 3 great prizes available!!  I’ll also be uploading some new products to my store just for this, holding a sale in my store, and more!!  Oh, one of the “more” things will be that I hold “flash freebies” for some of my products and you can find out when I set the up by following me on Facebook.  You can do that if you click here.

So, stay tuned and if you love The Schoolhouse, let your friends and family know!!

 

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Currently: June

Well, this is my first time linking up with “Currently”. I’ve seen them on other blogs, but never done it, so here goes my first time….

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As you can tell, I’m obsessed with CSI right now.  I’ve loved that show since day 1 and still do.  Thank goodness I own the DVD’s so I’ll never really be without it.  At least Grissom will be back, and Catherine too.  Hoping that Nick and Brass both make an appearance to make it complete.  

Are any of you fans too??  If so, what do you think will happen to reunite the cast??  I’m hoping for Sqweegel because it’s a weird case that was never solved.

Please click the button below to check out the link-up and her great cause this month….

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Newsletter

I know I haven’t posted in awhile, but I promise that I have several free printables coming your way.  They just need tweaks done to them.  Then you’ll be able to have access to my latest printables!!

MC_MonkeyReward_05I want to let all my readers, and especially my followers (by e-mail) know that I’ve changed clients.  If you currently follow me via e-mail, you’ll have to re-sign up to get my newsletter.  I’m no longer using the one that comes with WordPress and have switched over to MailChimp.  

I’m sorry for any inconvenience that this might cause.  However, it’s my hope that this will make it easier for everyone to keep up.  The new newsletter is set to be released every evening at 6pm on any day that there’s a new post.  I was going to go for a weekly newsletter, but I figured that I don’t post that often, so daily (or whenever I post) will work for everyone.  Also, the newsletter will just be a snippet view, so you’ll have to click on the article to read it in full.

Please sign up for my new MailChimp newsletter updates to follow my blog via e-mail by using the form in the right hand column to “subscribe”.  I appreciate it and look forward to you following along!!

If you have any questions, problems, or comments, please leave me a comment or use the “contact” button in the right hand column.  I love to hear from my readers and followers!!
 



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Blogoversary #2

Today marks this blog being 2 years old. I can’t believe it’s been that long already!!  I remember people thinking that I was crazy for starting another blog, but I really felt that all my printables needed to be separate from my daily life blog.  I stand by that as I mark today’s blogoversary!!

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I always like to give a few stats on an ocassion like this.  It’s fun to see where the blog has come from, where it’s at, and where it’s going.  So without further ado, here’s some stats for my 2nd blogoversary…..

I’ve had 89,760 views with 327 comments.  The best day ever was 968 views.  There’s 189 posts with 33 categories and 1,800 tags.  My followers include 56 blog, 8 comments, 163 Twitter, and 76 Facebook.  The Schoolhouse has been shared 131 times in media like Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and so on.  The top shared post is “F is for Fiery Furnace”.  There has been 7,182 spam comments blocked.

Top 5 Posts –

Home page / Archives 33,115
V.B.S. – Amazing Wonders Aviation 1,817
Nativty UNO 1,602
Clifford – The Big Red Dog 1,377
CVC Words 1,006
Seuss-icle Day 2: The Lorax with Thing 1 and Thing 2 882

Top 5 Search Terms –

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clifford 425
animated happy new year 423
happy new year animated gif 304
new years animated 215

Top 5 Referrers –

Search Engines 27,201
oneprettything.com 3,899
pinterest.com 3,231
armyfamilyok.wordpress.com 2,181
scrapbook.creativebusyhands.com 2,053

Top 5 Views by Country –

United States FlagUnited States 52,347
Canada FlagCanada 3,499
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 1,601
Australia FlagAustralia 1,255
Spain FlagSpain 612
Germany FlagGermany 545

I think that about covers it!!  I want to thank all of you who visit my blog.  I love sharing my printables with you and I know that even when life gets in the way of me being able to make new ones, when I return, you’re still here.  I appreciate you voting for me, referring others to The Schoolhouse, following me, and just allowing me to keep this blog going!!


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The Seuss-icle Followers Contest Winner Is….

Mary!!

I’m sorry that I’m running a little late with this.  Kinda got wrapped up in life!!  I let my daughter hit the “generate” button to choose are winner and she had fun being able to help RANDOM.ORG decide who our winner was. 

Thank you to everyone who participated!!  I only wish that I could give you all a certificate.  Without you, my readers and followers, my blog couldn’t exist.  I appreciate all you do and the time you take to read my posts and download what I create.

Mary, your certificate will be in your inbox no later than 8pm tomorrow night!!  Congrats and I hope you enjoy your gift certificate.  Thanks for following and participating!!

**PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Seuss, Books, and Characters © Seuss Enterprises – I in no way lay claim to ownership of the character, images, books, or anything else pertaining to Dr. Seuss.  Any printable is for educational purposes only!!**

 

 

 

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