What I love Wednesdays

It's that time again...WEDNESDAY! (half way over the hump) 

You know what that means. Here we go.

On Pinterest:
CandyCorn vases

Sometimes when the odds seemed stacked up thick against us, we have to keep pressing forward

Source: createfindadmire.tumblr.com via Melissa on Pinterest

2. Twitter Find:

it's science week in blog land and this awesome link showed up in my twitter feed for science journals

science journal template

3. Personal Choice: My "Dorothy" emerald city flats. the kids love when I wear these. 

4. Classroom Related:

we are working on Properties of Addition. Today we covered the Zero and Commutative Properties. We explored with manipulatives to demonstrate and show how the commutative properties work (pictures coming soon) and tomorrow we tackle the Associate property. I am going to use the above example with unifix cubes to allow students hands on exploration. 

Happy half way through the week day!

What I've been up to...

So I have been making things for back to school. Getting folders and journals prepped and ready to go and I thought I would share:)

1. BOOK BIN LABELS

I went to my class a few weeks ago to sort through my books and get them organized. I typed out these bad boys, printed them and then.....

 self laminated them.

you know with some packaging tape.

Now all they need is to proudly smile from their new place on the book bins in the class library. 

2. FOLDERS

 morning work folders: these are on their desks each morning and students are taught the expectations for morning work.  At the end of the week I average and grade their completed work.

 I do a direct instruction program called Language for Writing so this is the folder that will house their work. 

PS: I LOOOOOVE ducktape. I had to buy some from Michaels to spruce up their folders. 

3. NOTEBOOKS

I saw this on Pinterest where you use ribbon in the back of a notebook for a bookmark/placeholder and said YES pLEASE. So I got out my hot glue gun and some ribbon and started gluing. 

 i ran out of the fun blue kind but had a lot of green so just finished up with that.

see? you must do this. It's fabulous!

Finish, done, complete

I'm on a roll.

PS: I'm thinking once I hit 100 followers a GIVE AWAY needs to go down.