Tag: Back to School

Tue
21 Aug
2012 by

Linking: My teacher Must haves

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I am linking again with blogger hopper

This post is a little late because it all started yesterday… But I didn’t want to miss it so here are my Must-haves Monday.

I have made three groups. Must haves at home, in the classroom and my must have clip art! Yes I drew all that because I would love having all those things in my classroom.

click on the picture to go to the Teacher clip art set.
I will be linking some with a technology tip. Now I am going to check all your must haves. 🙂

Thu
16 Aug
2012 by

Shopping linkies and giveaway winner

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I have been shopping too much: TPT, stores… Every where!
I found these cool linky parties to show off some of my purchases:
The first one is from  Blog Hoppin‘:
I bough some things on Teachers Pay teachers during the big sale. But I won’t be teaching English next year, and just 3 hours of Spanish so I could not use all those super units for back to school.
I have to create almost everything I need so I spent some money on CLIPART. You already know that we have great TPT clipart sellers because most of you joined our giveaway. 
Congrats to Jenny Q.(from Australia)
She sent me a wonderful e-mail thanking all of us for organizing it. She will use the clipart during her pract. weeks.
I also want to thank all the people that participated. We will definitely have another one!
So as I was saying, I spent some money buying from fellow clip art sellers:
These two sets come from Graphics from the Pond. Mel is just great. I love her work. You can visit her blog to read about her great clip art and her Premium club.

Click on the picture to go to her store:

I also got some clip art from Ginger Snaps Clip art. I just discovered her neon classroom set. You can check her blog too.
Click on the picture to go to her store:
And this was something I will be able to use with my students this year. It’s math and it’s in English, BUT it has minimum written parts and I will be able to use almost everything. I love the Bingo boards!
To visit her blog: The teacher wife
Click on the picture to go to the product.


I am also linking with The School Supply addict.
Her link is related to shopping too:

I had a great back to school shopping trip to buy everything I needed and and a little extra just for fun.
I am glad our students always bring their supply list. And parents even replace broken/lost items. Aren’t they great?

Here you have a big photo with everything I bought.
I have numbered the items to make it clearer:

1-plastic boxes that match my classroom colors.
2-Stick glue.
3-Multiplication flashcards.
       I will be looping with my firsties to second grade. Last year they loved reviewing math facts so I thought I could give each one of them a small pack of flashcards to review at home.
You can read about our math reviewing game clicking on the picture.
I know…. disgusting …. but FUN!

4-Elastic bands to make masks.
5-Construction paper.
6-Card games for indoor recess.
7.Some new scissors, these also match my colors 🙂
8-100€ napkins that we will use during our 100th day party.
9- Rainbow springs, I still have to think about how I will use these.
10- red-blue two sides coloring pencils, these come very handy when you want your students to circle in different colors.
11- MY FAVORITE:
LIQUID CHALK MARKERS!!!!
I can’t be more excited. I haven’t been able to try them. But I will show you as soon as I do.

I hope you are enjoying your back to school shopping. 
Thanks for reading the whole post…. It was long!

Fri
10 Aug
2012 by

My vista Print order finally arrived!

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Back to school is still far away (we don’t go back until September). But all those sales, linkies and classroom photos make me feel like I am ready to go back.
Checking all those incredible blogs I decided joining  CHRISTINA BAINBRIDGE linky party about vistaprint:
. She has hosted a wonderful post with great ideas for Vistaprint orders. I assume that most of you know about Vistaprint. But if you don’t you should check the site: Printed resources for almost nothing!
I could hardly wait for my Vistaprint creations to arrived and here they are! I know I could have been a little more patient and have done the photos on my table to make them look better… (But it is actually full of some back to school projects).  So here I am opening it on the floor and spreading everything to show you some pics:

We are required a test every month or so on each subject and these are my little cards to inform families about the results of a test. It says something like ‘I got an __ on math/science…’
These stickers are to announce a test. Students stick them in their diaries to remember the date. They say something like: ‘Math test: do your homework and study the multiplication tables.’
I always send home homework related to the test during that week to reinforce it a little bit.
I have some blank magnets too. What can I use them for? I don’t know yet, but they were free so I got them!
 And last, I did this Reading club cards to inform about the reading rules. They use them as a bookmark.
I also got those diplomas. It says something like ‘Congratulations! After so much studying you learned your time tables.’ It really sounds better in valenciano… On the back I can write down the dates when they master each table.
And now you have seen everything in my Vistaprint order. I can’t wait to show it to my students. 🙂
Thanks Christina for your linky party, now I can think of more ideas and set a new order!