Fresh Start

YAY!!!!  I am so excited about this year!!!!  I am at a new school.  I had been at my old school too long and really needed a change.  My love of teaching had weakened and it's back now. 
This is my classroom, still in progress.  I have spent my whole summer cleaning and throwing away stuff and still have so much to do, but I am so excited.  I think I already said that.  Stay tuned to what's next. 

wish list

Look what I found at Hobby Lobby.  I would love to have this in my classroom. 

I wonder .... would Hobby Lobby want to make a donation?

 

Snow Day

What a hectic school year.  Common Core and data collection has become overwhelming.  I have taught for 20 years and never was good with paperwork, but always kept up.  Now It seems like there's some piece of data I forgot to collect. Does anyone else feel this way?
Well, I think I finally caught up.  We've had 2 Snow days in the past week which is very uncommon in Louisiana.  Hope your year is going well.
I would like to post some of my tpt items here, but can't figure out how to get the pic to come up.  If you have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.

Stop by and see what I have

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I love fall.  It makes me feel good all over.  It inspires me, so come on over to my store.  I'm having a sale and you might find something you could use.

Fall Math

I've been to Target again.

They had these great table scatters in the $$ spot.  Leaves, acorns and pumpkins, I think I see ten frames coming out of this computer pretty soon.  I only wish I had found them sooner.  Have you found anything great lately?

It's been awhile

I always start the year working on our names.  These are the first, simplest activities I use and the kids love them both.  When they can complete their name puzzle, like above, they can take it home.  The play-doh is more of a challenge since making the "snake" is hard as they usually don't have a lot of experience with forming the doh.

Do you have any standby activities that you use every year?

I'm ready to hit the bottle

This is a great activity I saw on Pinterest.  Now I've put out an all points bulletin for plastic Mrs. Butterworth bottles.  I hope this turns out as cute as the pin.  Have you been "pinning" like crazy this summer?