Teacher finds!

It has been a busy first few weeks of school. We are learning our classroom routines, how to solve problems between peers, and recalling all of those kindergarten skills that seem to have been forgotten over summer.

 This three day weekend I got all of my teacher prep done on Friday night so I could enjoy the rest of my extended weekend. I found some great little deals for my classroom that I'd like to share with you today,  as well as share with you a few things we've been doing in the classroom.

 These simple little dry erase boards with primary lines on them from the  Target Dollarspot have been such a huge success. My students love using them to blend out and spell words. 

 I bought a super simple stopwatch to time my students with their reading for fluency, and it's really great even for students to use. It's very simple with only three buttons start stop in clear. I also bought a digital timer to use for various activities during class that is magnetic.

 Buzzers. Do you have buzzers? If not you should get some it makes any learning experience that much more fun. There's something satisfying about hitting the buzzer and hearing a silly sound  that makes answering addition sentences listening for rhyming words and other activities more fun. 

We were learning ways to make 10 and I used the book called 10 Little Fireflies ( I think that's the name of it ) ,  this print out of a mason jar and little yellow fireflies. Each time one of the kids in the book how to firefly we would catch a flyer flies well and write a number sentence and that would let us know how many fireflies  there were all together.

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 I got this cute little Caroline Gardner pencil case to put all of the random pens, markers, pencils, paper clips that usually end up in the bottom of my purse. This little pouch will stay in my purse to keep all that contain for when I have to take my correcting, and other prepped things on the go to work on. It's the perfect size and fit in small purses as well as my large ones. 

This cute butterfly basket I found it target for $6.34. I thought it would be perfect to put some of our reading pillows in to store them.

 Each year my students and I study lifecycles of plants. We usually do pumpkins in the fall and other plants in the spring. I found these great pumpkin shaped box 643 dollars in the Target Dollarspot. This is where we are going to record all the information we learned about the lifecycle of a pumpkin, before we take our field trip to the pumpkin patch. 

Just like with the buzzers you need to get some flyswatters as well. Amazon has great deals for bolt flyswatter's. Here we took our flyswatter's in some colored true and false paper to practice some math facts. I would shout out a math fact and they would have to figure out if the math fact I said was true or false by slapping the correct piece of paper.