Head over to TPT to check out some great deals! We have our It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas math centers marked down. They are normally $3 so this is a great deal!!
Thursday, December 11, 2014
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
Bright Ideas Link Up-Neat and Tidy Supply Tubs
This month's tip is another simple one! We keep supply tubs on our kiddo's desks. This year we each have 16 kiddos and our desks are set up in groups of 4. In the middle of each group is a tub. This is what is in each tub.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
One Day TPT Boost Sale!!!
Tomorrow is the big TPT Boost Sale! Don’t forget to stock up on items that you missed in the last sale:)
Click on the pics to check out some of our back to school products.
My husband loves taking pictures and has decided to open up a TPT shop. He has some great sets of photos at a great price available and more to come! If you are needing pictures for anything make sure to check his store out! He will also take requests for photo sets:)
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Bright Ideas Link Up-Student Information Cards
We have a quick and easy Bright Idea for you this month. For years we received the enrollment forms that parents filled out at enrollment. They had tons of great information, but it was all in different spots on the form and we always had to hunt for phone numbers, parent names, etc. Then our district switched to having student information online. This sounded great to us until we realized that every time we wanted to look up a phone number for a kiddo we would have to log in to the system.
This did not work at all for us when we were trying to make a quick call during our lunch break or to let a kiddo call about a forgotten lunch at the beginning of the day.
So we decided to create our own parent information card! At our Parent Information Night (this is usually within the first 2 weeks of school) we have parents fill out this card.
Then we add a hole punch in the top corner and put them all on a ring. These are hung on our teacher bulletin board right next to the phone and computer. This has made our lives soooooo much easier!
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Check out this Giveaway!!
Happy Summer to all of you! We are both having a super busy summer at home with our own kiddos! Katie's youngest will be entering kindergarten next year so she is busy taking her kiddos to activities and play dates this summer. My twins just turned 3 and my little man just turned 1 so I am busy just trying to keep up with them!
Our friend Katie from KTP on TPT is having a 30th birthday giveaway that we are part of. You have got to stop by and check this giveaway out!
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Bright Ideas Link Up-Supply Notes
This month we have a very simple Bright Idea for you! In our corner of the world 2nd graders run out of supplies constantly. We are never sure if they have actually used them, lost them on the playground, given them all away to a friend, or eaten them! :) What we do know, is that we used to spend a lot of time either having kiddos write notes home to their parents asking for supplies or emailing the parents ourselves.
So we finally decided to create a supply note. It saves us SO much time!
We just print out a stack of them, clip them to the side of a file cabinet with a magnet, and show the kiddos where they are. Now when they run low on pencils they just grab a note, fill in the appropriate sections, and take it home.
Easy Peasy Mac and Cheesy!!!!!
For even more Bright Ideas from many other bloggers, please browse through the link-up below and choose a topic/grade level that interests you. Thanks for stopping by!!!
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Bright Ideas Link Up Dismissal Sticks
Hello and welcome to another Bright Ideas Link Up!
I love writing these posts and I really love reading Bright Ideas posts from other bloggers. I get some fantastic ideas that I can usually implement immediately into my classroom.
This month I am sharing how we dismiss our kiddos at the end of the day. At my school K-2 goes out one door and 3-5 goes out a door on another side of the building. We always have tons of parents waiting for their kiddos at the end of the day and it is a crazy mess of parents grabbing kids out of line to leave before they have checked out with the teacher, kids trying to run off to play on the playground, and older siblings trying to get back into the building through our door to grab a book they forgot from their classroom.
Enter dismissal sticks!
The dismissal sticks are soooooooo simple and the key to our now smooth dismissal process. They are popsicle sticks with the kiddos names and numbers on them. They are handed out at the end of the day and the kiddos hold onto them. At the end of the day we walk out to our class line, which is spray painted on the blacktop outside of our dismissal door. Before they leave they have to raise their stick in the air and wait for a teacher to come and take it from them. This way we can grab the stick, give the kiddo a handshake, hug, or high five, and make eye contact with the person who is picking them up. This way we KNOW they have gotten to the right person for pick up.
Another reason why we LOVE this idea is that it is brilliant for subs. We all know our kiddos and could probably semi quickly determine who is missing if we can’t find a student, but a sub doesn’t know everyone’s names! This way they can quickly look through the sticks they have collected and say they are missing number 5. With a student list they can very quickly determine who number 5 is.
This has been a total win win for our K-2 this year. I would love to know if you have any other great ideas for dismissal!
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