Overwhelmed!

As you can tell from the date of my last post it has been a while. After finishing my graduate credit courses, I was on a mission to get ready for my little Cubs to join me. Well, school started! I have 33 students, 5 of which have special needs. I am completely overwhelmed! The challenges of this year are unlike any I have ever faced before. However, things are looking up! We are getting a 5th Kindergarten teacher!!!!!! That means, I will be losing 6 of my little Cubs, super sad. But, with 6 gone, I will be able to better service the needs of the remaining students. As soon as I have reformed my class and finished Kinder testing, I will be back blogging on a regular bases. Thank you to those who have continued to check back.

Give With Target

Don't know if you have heard about Give With Target, it is an amazing way to get gift cards for your school. My school is working hard to get the 10,000 votes and could use your help. Please click on the link below and vote for my school. As soon as we reach 10,000 I will be willing to vote for your school.

Give with Target

Finally Done!

I have been MIA for a while. I have been taking 2 graduated courses (need to renew my license). These classes took a lot more work than I thought - could be I'm a little obsessed with getting an A. So, now that I have those classes done (I promise I won't wait until the last minute next time) I am ready to focus on my classroom. I just finished these clipboards. 

. I love my clipboards. One side is a traditional clipboard and the other side is a whiteboard. I use these everyday with my class. Last year I painted them my table colors and used coordinating colored ribbon. This year I changed my classroom theme to "Wild about Kindergarten" so I HAD to change my clipboards. It's pretty easy, just time consuming! I bought my clipboards at the Dollar Store and the whiteboard is a shower panel cut to fit (Lowes cut them for free). The covering is a large piece of vinyl I found at Walmart (in the clearance section for $2.50 - I love getting clearance items for 50% of clearance prices)

Each piece of vinyl covers about 20 clipboards. My biggest expense was the ribbon. I didn't realize that there was only enough ribbon to cover 2 boards. I need to make 36 yep, 36! I bought the ribbon at Walmart. I have 6 tables each assigned a different color. So, my ribbon coordinates with the color of my tables and they are either zebra or cheetah print.

Once I covered the clipboard, I glued the whiteboard to the back of the clipboard.After they were glued together, I went around the edges with ribbon. There you have it! My wonderful clip/whiteboards.

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Ways to Save Wednesday!

Today my tip for savings is, you never know where you will find the perfect school supply. Today while running around, I ran into Walgreens. As soon as I entered the building I checked the 75% off table. I ALWAYS check this table. What I found was these wonderful pointers:

They light up and have glittery paper inside. I am so excited to show them to my Cubs! BYW: I paid $0.74 a piece.

Never Hurts to Ask!

I went to Walmart today to do some grocery shopping. One place I always make sure to visit while there is the clearance aisle. I have been searching for storage containers for a while and never found one I like that cost something I was willing to spend. So, they had these amazing boxes to store Legos. They were $11 a piece. NOT going pay that. So, I asked how much the sell price was, $7.00. Still not going to pay that.  I asked to speak to the manager, because each box was suppose to have a Lego plate and most were  missing. When asked how much she was willing to sell them to me for, she said she would sell them for 50% of the clearance price. Well, I was will to pay $3.50 for them. I could only buy 10 today. But, I may go back for 10 more. Here they are:

Thank you Walmart for helping to organize my classroom! I love a great bargain!

Thank you Chris at The Kinder"garden" for awarding me the Liebster award. Such a nice thing to find in my inbox. 

This award is named for the German word "Liebster," which translates to "beloved" or "favorite", and is given to a "new, up and coming blogger."

Here are the rules:

1. Link back to the person who gave it to you.

2. Post the award to your blog.

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