I'm Ready! AKA- Wanna see some pics? {and get a freebie?}

Well, the thing I've been planning for and working on all summer has finally arrived... tomorrow is the first day of school!

I think I'm prepared.

Yesterday I went in and made sure the evil elves hadn't messed up my organization and today I popped back in to drop off my Gerbil, run a copy, and laminate one thing.  Surprisingly enough... that is all I did!  I was home within the hour... which NEVER happens!  So, I think I can safely say that I've done all there is to do.

Here's what it looks like now...

^  Here's the view from the door.  ^

My bins are all ready for students to put their community supplies in to.

 And here's the board at the front of the room with directions and the schedule.

 

 Direction cards- I pull these down and add a note beside them to help students remember the steps to a project.  Keep reading to see how you can get a set!

 

Ok- it's really bright and hard to see... but see that curtain?  That's right.  I made it!  I made three of them!

 

 Even Gerbie is watching for kids to arrive!  She's got a long {hot} night ahead of her!

 

This is the last thing I need to do but I'm waiting until I teach about "Work on Writing" to stock this up.  I won't be able to have a true "writing center" like I did last year, so this shelf houses all of my writing stuff.  It'll be kind of a "grab it and go" type of situation.  Supplies are in the drawers, the blue thing is a little desk thing, the little blue and reddies there on the bottom are little lap desks, and I have September's word wall vocab card displayed so kiddos can find relevant words to September writing!

So there you have it!  Room 108 is ready to go!

You can pop over to my TpT store to get a free copy of the supply cards and the direction cards that I have displayed on my board.

Just click the picture below!

And, don't forget that I've put my most recent best sellers on sale at 20% off at TpT until the end of the night!  You can visit yesterday's post to find out which items that is!

PS- want to see what I've been reading?  Check out my latest review at The Best Endings!

Friday Freebie!

THREEBIE Freebie Friday!

I've had so much fun being a part of Blog Hoppin's "Teacher Week"! Today is the last day and everyone who links up is offering a freebie... so head over, link up, and scope out the awesome things that teachers are sharing!

I'm sharing the cover and inside pages for a class book to go along with another Nancy Carlson book- this one is called I Like Me. The students will write something they like that they can do and then illustrate. You could totally use this without reading the book to them first though.

I love making class books... we make one every other week or so. And the kiddos love to read them!

Here's one more. This one is for the book WOW! SCHOOL! by Robert Neubecker. If you aren't familiar with the book, there are great full-color illustrations with simple text as you tour the school in the book. It is a very cool book... I don't see it in paperback on Amazon. I bought it in paperback at my local Barnes and Noble store. It is a cool book and is PERFECT for a K-2 classroom!

I added several pages so there would be enough for my class, but we are going to read the book and make our own class book about our school. The kids will draw a picture in the center and a border around the edge. Then, I have these AWESOME dyes that I got when I went to a conference led by some teachers from New Zealand a few years ago, so after we do our illustrations in crayon, we're going to paint over it with the dye! I'll have to post pics because the dye really is awesome. It really makes the crayon "pop".

Anyway, here it is:Ok, ok... ONE more! I'm going to laminate, cut, and put magnets on the backs of these. Then, when we are doing an activity or project, I can put the cards in order so the kiddos know which to do first... OR these can go up so they know what supplies they need!

Enjoy the freebies! :)