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Five for Friday (EOY Fun and Slideshow Edition)

Today was work day number one!
I got ~~absolutely nothing~~ so much done!
I found out my teammie and I would be moving classrooms/hallways.
So 2nd grade will have two rooms on one hallway
and the 2 of us will be on another hallway
I must say I'm kinda excited
I've been in my classroom for 5 years and it needs a good purging!
I threw every single thing from my file cabinet away
and
I'm not bring the file cabinet with me!
We both bought binders for filing
and I'm hoping it will help us remember what we already have!

I am the ultimate procrastinator. Tuesday night I was up until 1AM working on our slideshow for Awards Day the next morning! Why or why do I do this every.single.year?

I really didn't think I would get emotional either, but I needed Kleenex just making the damn thing!

It's funny how memories make you miss someone so much

I used Smilebox again this year

and it was the first time I ever bought songs for the slideshow

I usually just use what they have

which is a lot

but I just found the perfect trio!

Started with Here Comes the Sun (Glee version)

then to Bruno Mars Count on Me (obsessed with it now)

and ended with Taylor Swift Never Grow Up (tear jerker, just try and listen to it!)

SMilebox is just so freakin' easy!

I click add song and wa la!

easy to share through email, facebook, blogger, twitter, wherever!

I generate a link and emailed it to parents

I also chose to disallow sharing on facebook

I like having that option since not everyone wants their kid's face on there

And with Smilebox's Teacher Toolbox program, you can get it for a whole year free!

Lots of the designs are free anyhow though

Just my opinion here, they are not paying me to tell you all this

though Smilebox, if you want to just email me!

The Carson Dellosa Lookbook was mailed out this week
Guess who's in there???
She's fake blonde.
She has some tattoos.
She is wearing a strange headband on the back cover.
Yep
ME!
and some amazing other bloggers!
Like
Cheryl from Primary Graffiti
Kristen from Ladybug's Teacher Files
Denise from Sunny Days in Second Grade
Erica from Erica's Ed-Ventures
Erin from Kleinspiration
yea, I know! right?!
I was like the odd new girl among the popular ones!
But guess what?
they are human just like me!
and simply the sweetest!

I was very lucky to be asked to work with CD this year
this was the 2nd year they had teacher bloggers design rooms for them
I won't lie
it's hard to design a whole room in 2 days
including planning and shopping!
But we did it!
Monday the interactive online version will be posted and I'm pumped!
I mean, this is as close to famous as I'll ever be so it is exciting!
My room was also on the email you *hopefully* received about their annual contest!
I'll be sharing more soon!

My babies all finished up school last Friday,
so I was the only person in the house that had to get up before 6AM!
Boo!
But my how they have changed in the past 10 months...

But these crazy boys aren't my only kids!
This right here is why I love my job most every day!
this gorgeous young lady was in my first 2nd grade class
and she "graduated" 6th grade yesterday
so we said goodbye
so sweet
and bittersweet
and that cutie is another one of my babies!
oh! some kids you just never get over
Happy Friday Everybody!

2014 Classroom Reveal pictures!

Well, I have lived in the room for a week now and so far it is my favorite room I have decorated! I took out all the reds and pinks from last year (I used Schoolgirl Style's Summer Soiree) and just stuck with the blues (I use a few things from her Paisley, Turquoise, Blue and Green line)! I love how it tones down my green wall! There's still a few areas that need some work and that's ok! Sometimes there are things I want to try, then I meet the kiddos and it's not for them. So I don't fret about a few areas! The new rug really brings all the blue together, too! I think their favorite thing is the screen saver-it looks like lightning!

Enjoy!

here's the view when you walk in.

this is my closet and one group area to the left of the door. This area is not well defined right now! It will change as I figure out a few things! I covered the closet door in fadeless paper from pacon! I love how it looks!

Wood grain fadeless paper from pacon

mirror from IKEA

orange chalkboard from Hobby Lobby (clearance last summer)

artwork mats from Michaels

green wrapping paper from Target

royal blue border from pacon

book tub from Target (beverage tub)

giant flowers from Hobby Lobby

pink desk and chair from IKEA

Books in the Spotlight sign from Amanda Nickerson

Author posters from Amanda Madden

poms from Schoolgirl style

facing the door

this is the area right beside the door. It's a cabinet area and I set my mailboxes on the counter to save some space that I don't use anyhow.

I also remade our School Expectations matrix and just included the classroom ones. the whole poster was too jumbled to see!

Mail center from Really Good Stuff (it's covered in teal duct tape)

artwork from Hobby Lobby

Navy striped border covers the ugly cork strip (Teacher Created Resources)

this is the front of the room

I have 19 kids, so there are 3 "table groups" I added a table to the front of each to keep table supplies on instead of in their desks. I love it so far!

The crates above the cubbies WERE going to be my files last year, but they have literally set there empty. I took out all my red and pink, so when I can open my closet again, these will be put away!

I didn't get a picture of that area, but there are 2 student computers and our 7 Habits display above them.

schedule cards on the board from Ladybug Teacher Files

Whole Brain rules subway art from my shop

word wall alphabet from my shop

word wall sight words from Darlin' Little Learners

clock minute labels from Amy Lemons

quarter hour clock arrows from my shop

Reading board title letters from SchoolGirl Style

READ display (made after seeing Amy Groesbeck's board-hopefully she'll be selling it!)

Comprehension posters from my shop

Fix Up strategy posters from Amy Groesbeck (I printed them 11x17 at Office Max)

parts of speech posters above board from Leslie Ann

paint cans from Michaels (bridal section)

can inserts from Schoolgirl Style

I loved this borrow bucket idea from Natalie and Rachelle! Each table has one and it has glue bottle (students have their own glue sticks), extra pack of crayons, scissors, and pencils.

this is my corner. It has already changed a tad from this picture! I added two more drawer sets and made new labels from them so they'd match.

poms School girl Style

teacher toolbox labels from Schoolgirl Style (three different sets-teal, lime, red)

big birds are cut from scrapbook paper and mod podged on the back of a bookcase I threw out!

more striped border

frames from Michaels and Hobby Lobby

subway art from Hope King

book hospital ambulance from Hobby Lobby

Sterlite basket from Target

picture book bins from Really Good Stuff (neon blue)

library labels from Ladybug Teacher Files

Darth Vader is a bank from Old Navy. He keeps my box tops safe.

and yes, that's my Sanrio pencil box!

signs on the tv are free from Jen Jones (they are sentence frames for our Picture of the Day)

chevron contact paper from Amazon

my desk! LOVE my desk!

Desk and green chair from IKEA

bucket from Target (easter bucket)

our printer was a donorsChoose project

lamp from Hobby Lobby (it has all my Wizard of Oz figures from McDonalds)

framed a card for some artwork!

math board letters from Schoolgirl Style

lime, rich blue, and azure bordette from pacon

rich blue fadeless paper from pacon

my double drawer cart is under the desk and holds math manipulatives with my labels

I painted these ceiling tiles a couple of years ago with some friends and hung them for awhile. I popped them back in the ceiling this year above my desk! I love it and now I have two new ones to paint!

this is the end of the built ins that hold fiction books. Right now the writing center is home to all our books that will be passed out to students! I covered all my cork boards in paper and border so they'd look like my bulletin boards.

punctuation posters from Lindsey Kuster

What do Writers Write pencil from the teacher wife

desk and stools from IKEA

here's the window area beside the writing center

rug from walmart

student book boxes from Really Good Stuff

this is beside the student book boxes. This is my guided reading area. This board will hold our word chunks from Letterland as we learn them (poster is also letterland). Einstein over there is my favorite poster in the room! He's 5 feet tall! and I found a little "do the math" sign on a notebook one year and made a name tag for him! This was open house night so all the school supplies are thrown in the baskets. I also did not have the seats out yet.

Number line from Carson Dellosa

touch point numbers I cut from scrapbook paper

evidence display from Leslie Ann

I printed the title Evidence = Proof on the printer

chevron rug from target garden section

cart from IKEA

This is the rug area and focus board. I have written our daily agenda on the back of the chart stand each morning this week and we go through it during morning meeting. I am loving it!

Rug from Target (this one is close)

the calendar is gone now and replaced with a pocket chart one

Month labels and round alpha from SchoolGirl Style

I keep my old curtain rods from our first house to use as pointers to use on the number line!

Job chart from my shop

tiny clothespins holding "leaders" and ribbon from Michaels

chart stand from Really Good Stuff

chair from Hobby Lobby

clipboard bucket from target

crates from Michaels (I spray painted them navy)

number word display from Amy Lemons

woodgrain fadeless paper and rich blue bordette from pacon

I haven't gotten a picture of the area beside this yet! oops! It's the nonfiction library.

Well, I'm off to nap now! Week one is done, and so is my brain!

Artskills {Decor you never knew about!}

Many, many, too many months back I was sent a tremendous package in the mail! I do love free stuff!

This is the company that has all the cool poster making products (I use the sticky letters on my pennants!)

But they have a full line of learning decor available at Dollar General!

I mean, who does handwritten cards!? Super awesome!

Literally full of goodness. There are incentive charts, incentive class posters (smart cookies!), notepads, markers, scratch off coupons, certificates, posters, birthday display, borders, erasers, window clings, and about anything you can imagine!

I figured I could use a lot with our 4 year old like the handwriting tablet...

and the incentive charts...

but as it turned out, our 3rd grader needed both! When he saw the handwriting tablet he said his teacher had one just like it for cursive. Well, babe, I cannot read your print! practice ahead!

And when he gets 10 smiles for getting up without drama or tears, he gets a reward too!

I cannot wait to use these! I thought they'd be too young, but I made a sheet where they justify the sequence for our writing time. Love them!

Here my man's using our Big Word of the Day cards!

These are all perfect for math centers! I love that shape spinner for "read" the room!

and sticker for my sight word books from Sarah Cooley!

every package is labeled with areas it meets

So go check it out next time you stop by Dollar General to pick up some last minute food or toy that you need for a lesson the next day!

The opinions in this post are mine. I was given the products in exchange for my honest opinion.

favorite pins and classroom library organizing part 1

I'm taking a break from cutting out library labels to link up with adorable Cara and share my favorite pins from this week!

first is a home with the boys pin. I love this idea from The Modern Teacher {she is ah-mazing btw} for the week before going back to school. My up and coming third grader loves school supplies almost as much as his momma! I have been hoarding away some cute notebooks and things for him!

I am planning on recovering my ugly burgundy office chair I use at school. I have the fabric to cover it {and those crate seats I was going to do LAST summer} I just need to figure out how to get it apart! and I cannot trace this pin back...

I adore this little video clip of Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. Looks like a match made in heaven!

and here's something I want to do at Open House! Do the math to find your seat, but I want to use it to find their "number" for cubbies and desks, etc. this is another pin that leads to nowhere though...

I love this sight word money from the Moffat Girls. Annie is a doll! and so is here stuff! These are on my B2S list!

and here's what I have spent every morning this week doing! I added contact paper to the back inside of my built-ins. If they weren't built in I'd spray paint those bad boys!

I got all my craft supplies into 6 modular shelves from Walmart. I still have more organizing to do in this closet!

and here's my nonfiction section. I also need to recover that chair. It was a throw away I snagged. and those frames will frame something!

I still have to attach all the labels to the book boxes. I ordered new boxes at the end of school, so I need to add my new ones. I used the editable Bright and Clear from Kristen. I really ended up using the blank template more than anything! I get a little specific with my labels! Luckily she thought about that ahead of time!
I wrote down each genre and box number so I could work on them at home.

and I got one on today. I sure didn't realize they were this big, but it'll work! I will not let it bother me. No.I.won't. The stickers are probably the only thing I still hand write in my classroom! I have 43 full boxes and I will not be tackling renumbering all those books. Never, Like ever!