Clothes Calendar

 

 

This is a handy dandy tool that I use every month.  My sister and I have planned our outfits since we lived in the ZTA dorms together. I used to do it on notebook paper and kept the notebook on my closet shelf.  Now with all the cuteness available, I use this printable. If you had room on the back of your closet door you could frame it and write on it with an expo marker :) Mine happens to be covered with a shoe rack.  I plan out what I’m going to wear during the school week, or otherwise I would just stare at my closet and wait for something to jump out at me. {know that feeling?}  I can also be prepared and know what I have to iron for the week.  August and September are pretty easy because in Alabama the temperature is HOT.  October can be kinda tricky with the weather changing.  I usually plan one month in advance.  I literally takes ten minutes off my morning routine.  Some days I just don’t feel like wearing what is planned so I’ll hunt up something else, only to regret not wearing what was already on the calendar.  I hope that you find the “clothes calendar” as helpful as me and my sister. Here is a picture of my current calendar.  We wear our faculty shirts on Mondays and then each Friday is a spirit dress up day so I’m waiting to fill those in.

Please leave me a comment if you download the printable!

Dress Happy!

Laura

Happies

Pretty stressful 12th day~

Taught one of my sweet boys how to draw a heart.  Yes I teach 5th grade and no he didn’t know how.  This is WHY I teach…he is just precious….challenging…even VERY Challenging most days, but then I step back and think…NOBODY! not his parents, not his pre-school teacher, not is kindergarten, first, second, third, or fourth grade teacher, took the time to help him learn to draw a heart!  It literally broke my heart. I’m already in love with him and I hope that he stays in my room long enough for me to give him a chance. {please don’t critique that immensely long run-on sentence}

I NEEDED some Dt. Dr. Pepper so I made a Target run tonight.  An hour later I came home with the CUTEST tissue paper to make some poms so I can hang my table numbers, oh so cute thank you cards, eye make up remover pads (best invention ever), a birthday card, an art box for one of my kids, 3 8 packs of coke, all of which I was SUPER pleased with… and I tried to find the perfect shade of fall purple polish like in this picture

So I tried: Essie, Revlon, Loreal, Sallie Hanson, and O.P.I

Nothing even close…ugh…I came home with Loreal Paparazzi Pleaser, which ended up being super grape… not really a huge fan:

Still on the hunt for a perfect purple and a new fall lipstick!  Any suggestions?

Check back soon for some more Reading Street Resources.

<3, Laura

Week Three Already

WOW!  It has already been 10 days.  I feel like it is taking me forever to get in the groove.  We are traveling for volleyball EVERY Tuesday and Thursday, I can’t wait for a home game. I have also been keeping my goal of being at school on time (7:40) and am proud to say with the exception of one over sleeping day I have been there by 7:30!  Let’s hope I can keep this up! My co-teacher and I are on a roll with our lesson plans and centers.  It makes us love teaching because so far we have taken the stress out of it.  Envisions Math on the other hand is a little stressful.  If you are an avid reader of Open House you know that we are starting a new math program.  Last year we used Go Math and really didn’t like it till the end of the year and now we are using Envisions.  I’m pretty sure its not the program it is Common Core.  I think that the kids who are starting as fifth graders on common core are getting the short end of the deal because “they are supposed to know” ALL kinds of prerequisite skills, that we usually teach during fifth grade!  AHHHHHH we will just go with the flow and do it the BEST we can.

I haven’t been an avid picture taker during the week, but we did do some cool stuff. One thing that the kids loved was a wrap up activity for plant and animal cells.  After we went over their graded tests, we got out our science notebooks and passed out the cookies!  The kids loved drawing the Cookie Cell. ( we originally had planned to get gummy savers for the vacuoles, but we forgot so we just went with a different color M&M)  Kids didn’t care!

 

On a side note… I got paid Friday and spent a little time at my Target.  I Love Target!  Seriously love. Usually I can find something to pick up, clothing, shoes, jewelry, home décor, school supply, and sometimes one of each of those.  Most of their stuff is oh so cute, HOWEVER…..see exhibit A below:

These are HID-E-OUS…. plus they are $35…. please girls…. stay away!

Gonna Get my Groove back this week!

Laura

First Day

It went great! I fixed the link to the lesson plans, they should download with no problem now.  I’m too tired to type much more.  I’ll leave you with before and afters of my classroom:

Before

       

Progress

  take the back off so it will hang better

epic fail with paperYay for Paint!

Finally Finished

Outside BB… some kiddos didn’t quite get finished, but they turned out GREAT!  Thanks Glyph Girls.

Gallery of Good Work

View from the door

Door and Cabinets with homework frames and discipline chart

 

We answer our daily data question here and I also post our guided reading routine on this board. The tree will eventually host circle of the names of books we have read throughout the year.

 

The paws have the students numbers on them with a ribbon hanging down.  For every ten AR points the students will earn a star! Below is our library.

Other Wall Areas:

My area:

Randomness

Classic First Day Picture:

Three Rules for the First Day:

1. WEAR A DRESS

2. WEAR HAIR UP

3. WEAR FLATS

And a few of my favorite things

 

 

I hope your first day is as fantastic as mine was.

FIRST DAY EVE..updated!

I took my camera to school to capture all of that hard work that I’ve been doing the past two weeks, and lo and behold the dang SD card wasn’t in there.  So I will take lots of pictures tomorrow during the day and recap what all we did.  If you havent started yet; where are my lesson plans for the week!

Click on the snapshot to download the entire week’s lessons. 

Have a GREAT First Week!

Laura

Sneak Peak of Classroom

iphone camera pics:

 

A few projects complete and a LOT more to come

Even my new BirchBox is school themed!  Love it!

Stop back by later this week for tutorials and more classroom pictures. 

Look at the fabulous wreath I made for my BP Friend Molly and her baby Huston.

Make It Monday

I’m a little late on joining the Make It Monday crew, but better late than never.  Tonight I made an adorable burlap door hanger that was OF COURSE inspired by pinterest!

via Pinterest

Hers is so PROFESSIONAL…mine not so much. I will take you step by step on how I made mine.

{Step One} Grab Your Gear

You will need:

Burlap, A Ruler, Scissors, Pliers, Wire, Paint (colors of your choice), Paint Brushes, Hot Glue Gun

Optional: Rick Rack, Ribbon, Glitter

{Step Two} Cut Burlap, I cut mine 16*8

Then I made the point by splitting the side at 4 inches and cut back six inches

{Step Three} Start Painting!

           

I painted 4 inches of pink and 1inch of silver. Then I marked off the curves at the end of the pencil. Painted the middle yellow, the end brown, and the tip black.  I forgot to take a picture but the tip is 1 1/2 inches across.

{Step Four} Add Rick Rack

Completely up to you if you do this step… you could just paint the lines.

{Step Five} Multi-Task

The pinterest article suggested using a lid to make the polka dots perfect.  I found the perfect lid… NUTELLA!  It was almost gone, so I took one bite of it and threw it away and used the lid.

Fill in your polka dots, and write your name.  I REALLY hate the way I write with paint, so I wanted to use the letters from my no name sign and I was just a FEW short.

This is also the time to sprinkle the glitter on. SPARINGLY!

You don’t want your sign to look like an advertisement for Toddlers and Tiaras.

 

 

{Step Six} Stuff and Glue

I stuffed mine with target bags, because Lord knows I have tons.  After stuffing just glue up the other side and Wa-La!

{Step Seven} Twist Your Wire

Just poke the wire through the burlap and twist it with your pliers or your hands if you can.

WARNING

Your table may look like this

and your manicure like this

but don’t worry, both are fixable!

The ribbon I wanted to use was a no go!  Choose a ribbon with wire.  I will add it after a trip to Hobby Lobby tomorrow. I am going to use my sign for my back to school bulletin board.

Mrs. Ledgewood Has a Sharp Class

and the kids are going to complete these glyphs from The Glyph Girls.

Best Part? It’s FREE!

Hello CUTE Bulletin Board.

15 more days till I go back, ahhhh the TO DOs!