Back To It!!!

I am officially all settled into my new place and I am in LOVE!!! Now that I'm all settled, I can get back into getting ready for this school year! I'll share some photos of my new place! (FYI, I did a lot of DIY projects and am quite proud of myself)

First was the living room... I LOVE the fireplace and mantle. It makes it feel so much more home-y. I scored that big rug from Homegoods for $49! And that floral chair in the corner was from the little old lady that used to live in my sister's house. Isn't it adorable??

Next was my bedroom... major work in progress... but I love where it's going! I love my purple Anthro take-off from Target comforter and my antique gray dresser and nightstand! That huge gray rug was $20 from IKEA and it's soft. WHAT?!

Next was my great grandmother's old dining table (we found it in a back room, my dad have never seen it before... soooo guess how old that thing must be?!) and I found those chairs at a garage sale for $70! Score! I painted all 5 of those pieces in the July heat and man, am I proud of my hard work!!!

Last was a photo of my sweet little punkin, Charlie. He is used to living at home with my parents (we adopted him about a year and a half ago) with two big dogs and a large backyard that I can just let him run free in. It's taking a bit of getting used to being just us, no backyard to run free in, and no other dogs to entertain him. He LOVES the patio, though!!

Halloween Roll and Cover, Math Centers, and Flip Chips!

Yes, I know it's not even close to Halloween. I'm not that crazy. (yet.) :)

Anyway, I found this on my desktop just now. I had created it about a month ago but never posted it anywhere! Silly me!

It's a roll and cover game, very easy and simple for kinderbabies to do on their own! Plus, they LOVE Halloween stuff!

You can get it in my TpT store HERE!


Happy Tuesday! Who knows! I may even have another FREE thing for ya today!


OH!

I'm trying to come up with some math stations for both Kinder and First... sort of like BUILD stations... BUILD might be a bit too much for Kinder...

I want to add in more "play time" for kinder because... well, they are still babies and need to just PLAY sometimes. So for kinder I need some sort of "play time" rotation and a math centers rotation...

For kinder math centers, I've been playing around with:

1. Playing with Patterns
2. Counting Kids
3. Knowing Numbers
4. Coloring Counts
5. Cut, Glue, and Grow

Each station would have activities that go along with it.

Playing with Patterns - pattern blocks and mats, unifix cubes, coins, etc. I could go on for days.

Counting Kids - any number of counting activities, sorting and counting, etc.

Knowing Numbers - number matching games, flash cards, etc.

Coloring Counts - Coloring pages having to do with math and counting, eventually getting to counting then coloring to match

Cut, Glue, and Grow - more of a "craftivity" station


If you have ANY ideas for NEW stations (with catchy, rhyming names) or activities to put it any of those centers, PLEASE leave a comment! I would LOVE feedback!



Here's a game I'm sure you've all played in your classrooms, but may do it slightly differently or call it something else...

FLIP CHIPS!

You put those red/yellow counting chips in a cup, have kids flip the cup over and count how many red and how many yellow... ahhh yes, we do recognize that game.

I'm making recording sheets to go along with it. They will start with just circles for the kids to color, then add addition sentences to go along with it. It will start with just 5 chips, then go up to 10.

Here's the first example!

Happy Tuesday!

LABELS!

I knew I forgot something!

Everyone needs more help getting organized, so here's a little something to help!

Click here to get them!

They fit perfectly on the Avery 25395 Name Badges!

Enjoy!

Getting back in the swing... behavior clip chart

Well, I am starting to get back in the swing of things (in between packing up everything I own, cleaning, figuring out which electric, cable, and internet providers, oh my!) with school stuff.

I use the color behavior clip chart in my classroom and someone on TpT was asking someone to create one, so I did. She never messaged me back, so her loss is your gain!

Happy Back-to-School season!

Click here to get it!

Enjoy!

I've been bad...

I have been SO bad!

I thought I wouldn't be so busy this summer, but I have been SO busy!



With moving next week, and trips to see the boyfriend, short little vacation, re-setting up my classroom.... WHEW! So little time for much else!

To make up for that, here's a little freebie for ya! It's the cover for my "Meet the Teacher" night info packet! Gotta make it cutesy!

Enjoy!

MOVING!

SO!

I am moving to Dallas in less than a month! Wooooooo!

And between now and then I have:
- my birthday and all the events that come with it! (not a bad thing, just days I can't/wont' be working or anything) So this Thursday, my birthday, through Sunday, I will be out-of-commission.
- the next weekend, I will be out of town (and possibly leaving early and staying late... it's summer! Why the heck not?!)
- a day's worth of Number Corner (woohoo?) training on Aug 1
- then BAM! Move in days August 10-12.


That leaves me with 14 DAYS (being a little generous) left before I move to:
- paint my great-grandma's old kitchen table (vintage, shabby-chic... AKA free)
- paint the 4 kitchen chairs I just bought
- get the coffee table from Houston and paint it (or leave it... I can't decide)
- paint the little side table
- paint my bedside table
- get fabric to recover patio chairs, recover
- paint patio chairs and table
- spray paint old lamp bases
- find new lamp shades
- decide color scheme for kitchen/dining/living room area (BEFORE I PAINT ALL THAT STUFF!!!)
- figure out if my TV can fit on the fireplace mantle (I know! How many apartments in Dallas actually have fireplaces?! I LOVE it!)
- FIND A DRESSER!!!
- and many mooooooore.... not including what I planned to do over the summer for my classroom! AGH!


Whew! And I'm worn out just typing it all out.

You know what? That's the first time I have typed it all out.

Now I feel more stressed.

I have SO MUCH WORK TO DO!!!


So, you must excuse my lack of posts and projects. I HONESTLY have no time. But, I apparently make time!

I am still working on the Roll and Color unit! (It's harder than it looks, folks! Especially when your scrambled brain is flying a million miles an hour thinking in paint samples)

I'm also working on conjuring up some items for people who "request" certain things on TpT... hope it's not a waste of time or a HUGE time commitment. TIME is the last thing I need to be wasting right now.

And money.

Moving into your first "big girl apartment" is expensive, y'all! That's why you go to IKEA! And Target! And garage sales! And have a birthday right before you move so family members can buy ya stuff you NEED, not just random things for you to tear wrapping paper off just to go "ummmm... thanks!...(what am I going to do with this?)"


----------------- on to the teaching stuff ---------------------

Sorry about the word vomit on my personal life!

I'm working on a "request" on TpT for a behavior clip chart. I use one in my classroom, but it's not very cutesy... just colored paper, black ink, glued together in a long stream, laminated, stapled on the wall. Very simple. It's better that way for Kindergarten.

Anyway, I'm creating a cutesy one anyway. Come to think of it, I don't even know if the woman wanted cutesy.... oh well. Here's the first couple.

What do ya think?! Too cutesy? Too busy? Should it have kids on it? Or should it just have cute little designs on it? What would you have? I know the one in my room is VERY plain, and this is the total opposite. HELP!

New Roll and Color FREEBIE!

My summer laziness really set in last week! WOW! Can you say "couch potato"?!


I've got a new FREEBIE for youuuu!!!

It's a beginning of the year Roll and Color. I will be making a HUGE set/unit of these to be purchased in my TpT store, but for now, just a little sneak-a-peek!

You can download it for free HERE

Enjoy!