Groupon Deal!

I love Groupon and I love Vistaprint...combine the two together and you've got one happy teacher.

I just received my order from Vistaprint yesterday (I'll share all that I got in a couple of days), but then I go on Groupon and they have an offer for $70 worth of things for.......$17!!!!!! Yep, you heard that right. How could I not get it?

So...now it's time to think about what I want to get with this! Any ideas or suggestions? I'm giddy with anticipation on what to create this time!

Click on the picture below to get your own..but hurry, there are only 4 days left!

Happy shopping!

Rebecca

Christmas in July

I've been ordering and working on things over the past couple days and they are starting to arrive/get completed.

The first thing I want to share is my brand new teacher's toolbox. Huge thanks to Mrs. Rojas over at Create Teach Share for the wonderful idea. Mine isn't quite as fancy as hers, but I still think it turned out pretty nicely.

I'm excited to have everything in once place that my students can access easily without having to get into my desk. This should help keep things running smoothly because I don't have to stop what I'm doing to get them supplies they might need.

Here is a picture of my creation:

I have a couple of the small slots that I can still fill with something. I used self adhesive labels, a metallic Sharpie, and some accent stickers to create mine.

Can't wait to find a spot for it in my classroom!
Rebecca

Classroom Economy

One of the big things I'm starting this year is a classroom economy. Because I'll have my students all day, I feel like this will be a good way to give them some responsibility, help keep things running smoothly, and also give some incentives for proper behavior, etc.  I want to keep it easy to manage, so I looked for a way to keep the students information online. MyKidsBank is the best one I found because not only can you give each student an account,

 but also you can create and print out bank notes to give to the kids for any amount.

This makes paying salaries really easy. You can also assign kids as bankers who have access to adding and subtracting money in the other kids accounts. Banker can become one of the classroom jobs for 2-3 students.

Because I like to work smarter not harder, I went onto TPT and found a good classroom economy to use as my base. I bought Ms. Thelen's kit. I'm also using the information Mrs Keller so kindly provides on here website here.

Use your resources wisely because as teachers, we can help each other all succeed!

Have a great day!
Rebecca