Wow! So it's been almost two weeks, guess I wasn't that great at updating more often. But I'll try to keep it quick so the last two seeks so end up as a short story! lol
I'll start by sharing the last of my two favorite purchases two weeks ago, and add another that I bought yesterday (I'm in love)!
The first is one of my favorite books. It's called The Shape Song Swingalong and it has a CD to go with it. It's such a fun song that goes with it. You don't have to play it, but if you play it once you will catch your self singing it rather than reading it. If you haven't heard it before it's one to check out for sure!
My next favorite it the Time Tracker Mini. You can set a time to go off and a time for a reminder. It took a while but I figured out that if you want a 5 minute warning you have to set the yellow one for five minutes after the green one. That took a while for me to figure that one out.
Well I haven't taken any classroom photos yet but I did get a few of my bulletin board and I can't wait to share. I really feel it came out awesome.
First I have to give props to my coworker who make the truffle tree's in the middle. I made the wording; I know super easy thanks to the Cricut but I still love the funkieness of it, random uppers and lowers. It's just so Dr. Seuss-ie!
So to go along with the saying I printed up a bunch of hot air balloons and put each child's name on a balloon. Sorry I don't have a close up of the balloons but I promise they are super cute! It almost makes me want to never change it. But I know the words won't last but a few days. Might need to make new letters to go up high above the bulletin board.
I've had a few nights of fun cutting out lamination. And by fun I mean yawn!!! It was so much I literally spent 4 hours cutting this stack out.
I though the pile would look smaller once I got rid of the extra stuff but I actually feel that it looks bigger. How does that happen. Anyways having 5 - 30 paged books, about 6 labels and 60 name tags cut out walking in on Friday felt great...until I left Friday afternoon and had yet another stack to cut out. Only 2- 30 paged books at 2 - 15 paged books.
I feel like this picture pretty much sums up my Target addiction. But this was an extra special day, 70% off the dollar spot for all teacher supplies. Don't have to twist my arm on that one!!! I got so much for classroom décor, class gifts and so much more!!! It's a teachers dream! Just wish I had been there sooner because It was already whipped out! but let me just say it's perfectly clean now! nothing left.
So I had a few projects for my Sunday afternoon. I was pretty proud at how productive I actually was today. I cleaned my room (long over do!), laminated these beautiful pages and worked on my chair all day (needed to seal it). The gorgeous "Cheer It Up!" cards are from Greg over at
Smedley's Smorgasboard of Kindergarten. I am so in love with them I can't wait to use them with my munchkins! I know it'll be a few days before we can really start using them but it's going to be super exciting.
And I can't forget making magic dough for all of my munchkins for their first day! If it changes color were going to have a great year. But let's not mention how making it made me break a spoon in half. lol I actually ended up "stirring" the rest with my hands. Thank goodness it was at the solid stage already.
Let me just say so hard to make even halves....
And even harder to make 20 the same size. Lets hope they don't notice or complain.
I am so thankful to my wonderful mother who helped me fill them with color and bag them up real quick. I just hope they don't change color just sitting there over night...or 3 nights for my group B who starts on Wednesday.
Well I've had desert (as I worked on this post, sorry it did end up being long. Maybe one day I'll get better at updating more often) and it's the first day tomorrow so I'd say it's time to get some sleep so I'm nice and refreshed to handle all the tears I am expecting.
