Bright Idea Birthday Crown

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Please, please, please tell me that everyone has a box like this somewhere!!! Hopfully your isn't quite as messy as our is!  We are in the midst of packing up for a school renovation and this box seemed to explode!  Of course, putting border away is always like trying to catch a greased pig!

Have you ever finished putting border up on a bulletin board and wondered what to do with that little bit of leftover border?  It isn't enough for another board, but you feel like you are wasting money if you just toss it.  Well we have a solution for you!  Katie and I have always kept our leftover border...just in case.  Now mind you, just in case, didn't come very often, but we still kept it!  Then we finally came up with a great idea for it! 

What kiddo doesn't love wearing a birhday crown?? The problem that we have run into is that they are pricey!  As our school budgets have gotten smaller, so have our classroom spending budgets.  We now get $50 at the end of the year to spend on essentials for the beginning of the next year.  So we try to use it as wisely as possible. 

Enter the homemade birthday crown!!!  We let our kiddos pick out the type of border they would like from our leftovers box and then we turn it into a crown!  The kiddos love it because they pick the border and we love it because all we need to do for prep is to print some crown options on cardstock.  Easy peasy, mac and cheesy!!! Below are some of the different crowns we have used in our classrooms.

Enjoy!!!

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Fine Arts Fair Night = Craftivity & Writing Mania

Tonight is our school's Fine Arts Fair.  Our band and orchestra will be performing and our Art teacher has been hanging some fantastic artwork all around the school.  Parents and kiddos will come to school tonight and enjoy walking around the school and looking at all the artwork.  

Of course the kiddos will be stopping in their classrooms to visit and pick up their artwork portfolios from their desks.  That means that we needed to get our rooms and pod hallways artified!  So Katie and I went crazy with our Spring Craftivity and Writing Activities!  We made sure that our pod hallways and classrooms were colorful and full of writing.  We think out kiddos will have fun showing off their artwork to their families tonight!  

Does your school have a Fine Arts Fair??

"Somebunny" Loves Me Craftivity and Writing Activity

"Chick" Out What We Love About Spring Craftivity and Writing Activity

 Something to Tweet About Craftivity and Writing Activity

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April Currently

It has been awhile, but we are actually trying to get back into the swing of things, by linking up with Farley's Currently!

Listening: I have twin girls who will be 3 June 1st and they are SO into telling each other jokes. They are also in love with Frozen.  So they tell each other jokes like, "Do you want to build a pineapple? Ride a pineapple cake up and down the hall?"  Then they laugh hysterically and retell the jokes.  They get giggling so hard that even my 10 month old now laughs along with them!  At almost 3 it seems that pineapple is one of the funniest words in the world!  Who knew???   

Loving:  I love that we only have 2 months left of school and that April is always field trips galore month for 2nd grade at my school!!!  We have 3 planned already for this month and I have lots of great parent helpers.  This always help April fly by and then it is all the sudden....May!!!!

Thinking: My house could use a good spring cleaning and so could my classroom!  My house needs it because we have a 1st birthday coming up on May 30th and 2 3rd birthdays on June 1st. This equals tons of toys and we need to donate the ones they don't play with anymore to make more room!  My classroom needs cleaned out too! Time to send home all the teacher goodies I am done with to the houses of all my little girls who love to play teacher!!

Wanting: Starbucks...nuff said!

Needing: I NEED a to do list for home because I have Mommy ADHD and seriously move from dishes to diapers to bedtime without finishing anything!!! But I love to do lists, so maybe that would help me complete tasks???

I need a to do list for school because we are getting a HUGE remodel and we have to have our rooms completely emptied out by the end of the year.  This is going to be a big job!  Then on top of that I need to make sure that I have everything I need for the beginning of the year in boxes to take home in case the remodel runs long and we can't get into our rooms as early as we usually do.

Hours and Last day: May 22nd!!!!!!!!!!  Woo hoo!!!!!!  I love this class so much this year, so I am so excited to have a summer with my kiddos and am actually going to be job sharing 2nd grade with a friend next year, but I will seriously miss this class!

When do you get out??

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