Cute and crafty

So, I've been busy being crafty, making new things for my classroom. Huge THANKS to my handy husband for his help. Pretty sure he built my little crate seats all by himself! :) Oh, and he cut all the triangles out for my banner. I'm so excited to actually FINALLY get into my BRAND NEW SCHOOL and set up my classroom next week! :) :) :)

A huge thanks to all the teachers our there in blog land. These 2 projects were made because of you sharing your awesome ideas. The darling banner I made was found here.

I was told about this blog by a fellow 1st grade teacher in my district and have blog stalked it all summer! Abby is amazing!

I saw the cute little crate seats on pinterest at the 1st of June, and love this blog too! Here is the tutorial from whattheteacherwants. We're going to make some of these for my little K's bedroom to store toys in. She loves the ones I made for my class, so we'll make her own to keep in her room.

Busy, busy, busy...

While at Walmart I purchased these materials that I'll be using to build cute little seats for my new class room. I'll also be making a cute little banner to hang up in my classroom.

I've finished making my sightword rings to pass out at the open house. Each ring has our district 100 1st grade sight words. The ring is set up with 4 colors, 25 words for each color.

Well, it's official! Teachers and staff will be able to get into our new school on MONDAY AUGUST 1st!!!!!! SO EXCITED, but I might as well say adios to summer 2011! I'm going to be crazy busy unpacking/organizing/preparing. Our open house is August 15th, so got a lot to do before then.

You know your a teacher if.....

You know your a teacher if...

You just spent most of your supply money at Walmart this week... While your husband was at Scout camp I went shopping to get stocked up for supplies I'll need this year at school. My cart was seriously loaded with just stuff for school! Yikes!

You know your a teacher if....

While at Walmart shopping for school supplies you are digging through the boxes of notebooks and folders to get enough of the color you need. I needed/wanted to get 25 red notebooks and 25 blue folders. Then someone walks by and says, "What grade do you teach?" yup!

You know your a teacher if...

You go crazy for good deals on school stuff. While at Walmart I found these little packs of 6 mini highlighters for 97 cents. So I bought 25 of them, well I paid for 25 but only made it home with 24?

Then when I got home, I sorted them by color and put the colors together in the packs. I mean who gives a table of 1st graders a pack of multi colored high lighters? I'd never hear the end of it.. "Mrs. Shaffer I want the pink but so and so took it first.. I want the blue but he does too..." Get my point? So If I have a pack of 6 yellow and hand it out to a table of kiddos there's nothing to argue about, they all get a yellow!

You know your a teacher if..

You 2 year old is sorting by color, counting 6 mini highlighters for you and building with the containers. Ya, K was pretty entertained with helping sort, count, and then stack the highlighter containers. Poor girl has to live with an OCD 1st grade teacher as her mom.

Birthday Freebie

This summer I have found some great teacher blogs and recently found this blog: http://peacelovelearning.blogspot.com/

She has a great birthday freebie for all those teachers out there.

Play dough fun

Just found some great recipes for play dough. Going to try this one out with my little K today: Koolaid Playdough

I think she'll love it!