Cutest School Posters

I was flipping through a Carson Dellosa catalog (teacher books, posters, supplies, etc.) and came across these scientific method posters.  So cute!

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Laptop Lunchboxes (Bento)

My husband and I have started using tupperware for our lunches.  In turn, we’ve had to buy larger lunchboxes to fit said tupperware containers.  I use a backpack lunchbox and my husband uses a traditional, insulated, square lunchbox.
Why do I have such a big lunchbox?  I pack lunch, morning & afternoon snacks, often breakfast, and [...]

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Posters, Posters, Posters

One of the things that I did to prepare for the school year was make posters.  Yes, I already have a box full of posters, but I like making updated ones that I feel would work better with my students.  I made reading response posters, journal starter posters, a scientific method poster, a poster with [...]

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Sheep in a Jeep

I teach many of my science lessons from Picture Perfect Inquiry Lessons for Teaching Science and More Picture Perfect…
One of the lessons teaches force and motion using the book, Sheep in a Jeep. During the inquiry part of the lesson, students measure how far a sheep in a jeep will travel after going down a [...]

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Back to Work

I go back to work on Monday.  It will be a week of preparation for when my students arrive on the 25th, but I still have to be there at 7:30.  I thought that I would start waking up early today, but I slept in until 10 A.M.  Oh well…
It’s eleven and I’m eating breakfast.  [...]

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Creating a Spiral for Anecdotal Notes

Teachers love to write notes about student progress, behavior, parent communication, etc.  Keeping track of them so that you can refer to them on a later date can be difficult.  Sure, you can write on a sheet of paper on a clipboard and later put it into a binder, but then you have two locations [...]

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My Very Messy Home Office and The FlyLady’s Help

Sweet Husband’s words:  “Your office is no longer messy, Honey.  I can hear an echo.”
The first half of July, I collected items for my classroom.  To be specific, I nested.  What did I do with everything?  Well, I put everything in several piles in my home office.  It got to the point where I couldn’t [...]

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Good Deal on Chairs

Last year, I purchased 2 dorm chairs from JoAnn’s (turquoise chair on right of picture) for my classroom.  Not only did they survive the entire year, but the kids loved them.  We used the chairs for the classroom library, read alouds, centers, and even at students’ desks.  What’s great is that they’re big enough to [...]

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Teachers Can Do Nesting, Too!

Recently, I found myself hanging around Half Price Books, The Dollar Store, Big Lots, and the teacher store.  In fact, I found myself stopping at every Half Price inside and outside of town.  I was armed with a typed list of books and their costs on Amazon, as well as another list of materials (plastic [...]

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Scrapbooking Mania

This weekend, I embarked on a journey that I don’t normally take:  scrapbooking.  Last year, I made a portfolio with a few scrapbooked pages.  This year, I decided to get a bit fancier.  
I printed out 100 photos (color printer on regular printer paper) at 6 photos per page.  After cutting out each picture, I [...]

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