Print, laminate, cut, repeat!

I finally got new laminating sheets!  I should have ordered them online months ago but was looking for a deal....I found no deal and just bought them.  Then my ink ran out...sheesh!

I'm finally with all the necessary items to start getting all my school stuff printed, laminated, and cut. 

So one of the major items I wanted done and off my plate was my word wall.  Toward the beginning of the year I had it on my magnetic dry erase board.  I really like for the word wall to be interactive...I want the kids to use it.  This looks lovely but didn't function...the kids couldn't reach the top!

 

 

I knew I still wanted it to be magnetic.  So I turned around a couple filing cabinets, covered them with blue chevron contact paper and stuck them up.  It worked for our class and the students used it till the very last day.  {Can you believe I never took a picture of it?!}

 

This year I'm turning in the pennant to add a little common core into our word wall as you'll see with my alphabet headers.  My magnetic words had also seen better days so I made new ones.  We currently use the list in Month-by-Month Phonics as our sight words/word wall words.

 

 Here is where you can pick up the nonfiction alphabet headers.

 

How do you make your word wall interactive?

 

 

So for a little more practice with sight words I saw this awesome idea on Pinterest and traced it back to Two Can Do It.  It such a great idea.  They say to use poster board and hands by Lakeshore.  Well Lakeshore is an hour away, so I whipped one up on the computer.  And I have it as a freebie for you!

Break the Code!

 

 

I've also completed up a literacy and math unit with a circus theme. Yippee!  I love having all this stuff ready to go for a new school year.  There are 5 math centers working on addition, graphing, strategies, subtraction, tallies, decomposing and word problems.  There are also 5 literacy centers working on onset/rime, vowels, nonsense/real words, rhyming words, mixed up words, short and long e, print concepts, language conventions, sentences, nouns and verbs. You can pick it up at my TPT store!

 

The last thing is my crazy class lizard...Coo Coo Ca Cooh August Jones!  He is home with us for the summer.  When he gets wet or warm his color starts to change from brown to bright green and it looks like pixels.  Yesterday I gave him a warm bath {although he didn't love it} and right away he started to pixelate.  I love watching science happen.  I wish I could afford the time and money to have more class pets!

 

 

Doesn't he look pleased with me? Ha!

 

Now on to more print, laminate, cut, repeat!

 

Sunny Days

I have gotten started with my Teacher To-Do List...hooray!!  Today I have a couple things to show you that I've worked on. 

First, I love the great ideas on A Cupcake for the Teacher!  I love how visually appealing all of Teri's stuff is.  I saw her post My New Behavior Reward System and I fell in love with her clip chart.  I've seen many of them before and I like most I see but I loved her chevron!

 

Last year I didn't use anything!  I read Positive Behavior In the Classroom and decided that I would put effort into building our community.  I rarely had behavior issues and if I did I would give them a choice and let them figure it out.  It was BLISS <3 

 

This year our county is going through some difficulties and I don't know how many students I will have.  I thought it was best to be overly prepared and that's why I decided on a clip chart. 

 

 

I also love Teaching in Flip Flops' glitter magnets for the chart rather than clips.

 

 

So here are my projects mostly finished:

 

 

To start out this coming school  year I am going to have my second intern!  I loved my first experience and can't wait to try it again.  I want her input on how we reward students because I love trying new ideas. 

 

Speaking of interns, I made us both a grading folder...well I labeled both of our folders!

 

 

I have just finished up math centers for the beginning of the year {1st Grade Addition to 10}!!  They really work on building addition fluency to 10.  Check it out at Teachers Pay Teachers.

The pack includes:

Ten Frame Ideas
Sum It Up Game {addition practice with ten frames}
Lamb Lane {finding the sum, strategy}
Castle Creation {addition with the use of manipulatives}
Adding In the Shade {multiple addition strategies}
Make a Ten {finding the missing addend to make a ten}
Baby Deer {number line to add}

 

Now I'm off to enjoy Florida's sunny days!





Informational Texts

I have several days left till I head back to school.  I will go back with more thankfulness than ever.  I am lucky to be the teacher to 18 sweeties :)  I've been reminded several times lately to appreciate life to the fullest and I intend to.  I hope you do the same.

While thinking about heading back to school, I realized I would like a set of graphic organizers to align to the Common Core State Standards Informational Text.  So I whipped some up!  You can find them on TeachersPayTeachers.

Buntings, Owls and Much, Much More!

I just add a simply adorable new room decor set on to TPT....Buntings, Owls and Much, Much More!  Check it out if you get a minute :)

Owls by The 3am Teacher

Bunting by Cool School Graphics

Fonts by Fonts for Peas

Jen

Love me some PeACocKs!

Peacocks are so amazing!  They look like they belong in a Dr. Seuss book, don't they?  I love the deep, rich colors and the feathers are gorgeous.

I thought that peacocks and their coloring would be an awesome room decor.  I whipped up a TPT pack full of useful items:

Bordered paper

Nametags

Table Numbers

Cubby Numbers

Word Wall letters

Schedule

Birthday clip chart

We are at sign

Math Code

Give me 5

Job Chart

Subject Headings

Behavior clip chart

 Check it out!

Peacock Room Decor Set

Owl Graphic

Check out my TPT store for these adorable owls!

Owl Graphics

Almost there!

I have two days left!!!  Well then I start our summer reading program on Monday...so I basically have two days till the weekend. 

I'm starting to get pumped about next year!  Check out my new Owl Decor set on Teachers Pay Teachers!  It is uber-cute!!


Good luck to all the teachers out there still teaching!! For those of you on Summer Vaca already, well, I wish I were with you....haha!