Monday Made It

Today it is time to get down to business.  I return to work on Monday.  We have a system wide in-service day with a guest speaker.  Everyone in my small county reports to our local board and we have a day of professional development.  Does your system or district do this?  More on this later....

Today I am going to link up with Tara over at 4th Grade Frolics.  This week I have a mix of school and home related projects.  I should point out that my hubby helped a great deal in my home projects.  These small projects are supposed to make my life easier when I return to work next week.         

I am finally starting to organize my kitchen.I started with the area above my stove that usually stayed cluttered.  I searched pinterest and found this idea and loved it.  I had my hubby add in vertical shelves.  I loved how it turned out and how these necessary items have an organized home.

I then went to Lowe's and purchased two of these Rev-A-Shelf.  We put them under our cooktop.  Now my pots and pans are organized.  YAY!!!

 

I am sure many of you have seen or even use the Homework Club idea.  I think it may have all started from Molly at Lessons With Laughter.  I am planning on incorporating this into my room this year.  I have decided to use an extra calendar chart to hold the homework club.  I have it located near the "turn in cubbies".  I have this as a free item in my store.  These numbers can be used for many different things.  The possibilities are endless in you need super hero numbers.

 

Monday Made It

 

I am so exited!  This is my first "Monday Made It" of the year.  Thanks so much to Tara for hosing this each week. I have a long lists of projects that need to be done and hopefully this will keep me excited about accomplishing all that I want to do.

My first "made it" is for the home.  We are having a few people over on the 4th and I wanted to have something new to hang on our door.  I searched Pintrest and settled on our initial painted like a flag.  I love how it turned out!!

Next, I made a Superhero Scoot Game for my classroom. This game was created as a way to teach the students how to play scoot.  There are 24 cards in this game.  Seven cards have general back to school information such as teachers name, student name and grade.  On five cards students must identify a color.  Five cards have a picture of an item that students will have to name.  All pictures follow the CVC pattern.  On four cards students identify a basic shape on the remaining cards students solve a basic addition fact.

If you would like this game it is the facebook fan freebie.  You can find my facebook page HERE.

Monday Made It

It is the last Monday of July!!  Only two weeks left of my summer vacation.  Thank goodness for Tara and her weekly Monday Made It.  I feel as though I am getting back into the swing of things and getting some stuff done.

My first "Monday Made It" inspiration this week came from Stories by Storie and her Parent Communication Binder.  Inside the binder is a tab for each student in the class. I am going to copy her management by numbering my tabs by the student's class number.  Behind each tab she keeps a parent communication log page, student information sheet, and permission to photo.  There is also a section for volunteers. My binder cover and spine came from Amy over at The Resourceful Room.


Parent Communication Log

Next, I turned two old Pop Tart containers into my "Stamp It" Word Work Stations.  The idea to use containers came from The Meek Moose.  I am just thrilled that I didn't have to purchase a container.  Loved that I found something at home I wasn't using.  I just "modgepodged" the container to cover up the Pop Tart graphics.










Last, I used my cricut and made the Welcome sign that is to hang in between my room and my teammate.



The Winners of the giveaway were Mrs. Peggy P and Dana C.  Congratulations ladies.  Mrs. Peggy, please email me about the giveaway.

Monday Made It

Can you believe it is mid-July already?  Where is the summer going?  

I decided to get busy this week and work on a few things for my classroom.  

First up, "Missing Parts" Bucket from Mrs. Shannon's First Grade.

Here is my interpretation.  I could not find a printable so I made one.  I made a square and circle.  You can get it HERE.  

Next up, is this project from Peace, Love and Learning.  

She has all the printables you need to created these buckets.

Here is how my pencils buckets turned out:

  Last, I made these word work pebbles.  I saw this idea from Ms. Jasztalville, she used prefixes and suffixes.  I purchased my pebbles from Dollar Tree.  I attached ABC stickers, then, "modpodged" them so the students could not peel them off.  I am storing them in the bowl.  Students will be able to make words with these pebbles.

We need a dozen more states for our postcard exchange.  If you live in one of the states we need please consider participating in our exchange.  Email me for more information.  We need the following states:

Alaska

Delaware

Idaho

Maine

Maryland

Montana

North Dakota

Rhode Island

South Dakota

Vermont

West Virginia

Wyoming

 

Don't forget about my giveaway!

 

 

Now I am off to read the other entries at Monday-Made It.

Monday Made It

Can you believe it is Monday again?  Time is going by way to fast!  I only have 5 more weeks of summer.  That is why I like this linky party so much.  I can make one thing a week and have 5 less things to do once school starts.

First I made the famous "Pick Me" numbers from Teri @ A Cupcake for the Teacher.  Here is the inspiration:  Her numbers are FREE.

I decided the keep my sticks in a magnetic tray I found at Dollar General.  I plan to keep them on my board.  Here is my interpretation:

In my classroom I LOVE to participate in different exchanges.  Last year we participated in three exchanges.  I have kept them on the wall and then placed them in a binder for the students to look at.  The students loved this.  They looked at it every changc they got.  However, the binder began to look messy.  

See:

 

So my inspiration came from Club Creating Keepsakes--Found on pinterest 

I headed over to my closest store, The Dollar General and found this:

Well, orange is not one of my classroom colors, so I had to spray paint it black.  I added rings and page protectors and now I have a new way to display all my exchanges, like the postcard exchange.

We need a few more states in the exchange.  Here are the states that are available. 

Alaska

Delaware

Idaho

Maine

Maryland

Montana

North Dakota

Rhode Island

South Dakota

Vermont

West Virginia
Wyoming

If you see you state please contact me at mechele.barrow@gmail.com.

 

 

Monday Made It....On a Tuesday

I am once again linking up with Tara over at 4th Grade Frolics.

This week I made a Zip Lock Bag Quit inspired by Tara herself.  You can find her post here.  I just used Duct Tape and Zip Lock Bags.  This will be perfect to hang in the hall to display student work.

 This is what I purchased.  I purchased the cheap storage bags to avoid writing on the bags.

The Finished Product!