Name Plates

Polka Dot name plates!

I needed some for my classroom and created these. There are two versions, one is made to be printed on 11 x 17 paper and the other on 8.5 x 11 paper. You can either send them off to staples to print or do what I'm going to do and just print them up at work. Cheap and cute!

I plan on printing them, cutting, and laminating (so they can be reused next year, or until they start falling apart.)

So, click on the pictures to download them!

Birthdays

So, last year I bought birthday pencils, made copies of the following onto colored card stock and attached them to the pencil for the kids. (I'll have to post what it looks like later when I go back into my classroom.) You can get the download of this file here.

But for this year, I will also be adding these goodies I found at the dollar aisle at Target. ( I love Target.) I bought one for my daughter and she LOVED it. So, I thought my first graders would like them as well. I mean who wouldn't? A coloring book, stickers, crayons/markers AND it's a favorite character?!?! And, it's good for me because it was only $1! LOVE! I bought 4 designs (there were some Cars packets too but they didn't have it at the first Target that I went to. I was tempted to buy them but I had already bought a whole bunch.) I'm planning on giving the kids a choice amongst the 4 designs. For my summer babies, we will have to celebrate their half birthdays. I have a summer birthday too so I know how it feels to not be able to bring in treats or celebrate it with the class.

Another year...

Well, my goal is to keep up with the blog this year. With the assurance that I won't be given a combo class this year, I hope I can keep that goal.

I changed my classroom just a little bit. I'm going with a turquoise, pink, purple with polka dot theme this year.

Here's the few changes this year. Forgive the bad quality. I used my phone.

Check out here and here for what my classroom looked like last year.

I am excited to go back to work. It's another year, with a lot of changes and seems like more work but I do love teaching.