Product Swap- Treasures Vocabulary!

Oh how fun!  The brilliantly amazing Jessica from Mrs. Stanford's Class shared this amazing idea for a product swap... where two TpT sellers would be paired up, choose an item from the other person's shop, and figure out how they'd like to use it in their classroom!

I was partnered up with Fern Smith... which I was super excited about since she teaches third grade and I'm beginning my first year in 3rd after 6 years in 1st and 2nd!

I'm not going to lie.  I've had a B-U-S-Y summer both professionally and personally, so I wanted something I could use without too much prep work.

I was so excited to find her file of vocabulary words for the 3rd grade Treasures reading series!  This has made my organizing life so much easier... I have printed off each page and placed them in my file folders so I have the words at my finger tips when I begin planning for my units.

There is so much you could do with these- print each list, cut the words into strips, and use them at a center for ABC order... print, cut, and pass words out to students and ask them to define them... print, cut, hang around the room for "Read the Room" activities...

Fern's amazing original idea is to use them on a word wall... this picture comes from her packet (don't you love when teachers include pictures of how the item works in their classroom in the stuff you buy?!) so you can see how she uses the word lists...

I love that the lists are nice and clean and easy to read and it's so helpful that they are just all organized for you in one spot!

Fern has TONS of great items in her store including center games, SO MANY FREEBIES!!!, and lots of Powerpoint presentations to make introducing word families super fun, easy, and interactive!

I hope you will hurry over to Fern's TpT store and pop this item in your cart- as a new teacher to 3rd grade, I have found there aren't a ton of Treasures resources out there for 3rd... so this was definitely a great find for me!

Taboo Double Post for Today!!!

Lock me up.  Throw away the key.  I am breaking bloggy etiquette by doing TWO posts today... but I wanted to remind you that there are two more hours where everything in my Teacher's Notebook shop is 40% off!

 That means flippy books are only $0.60 and classroom theme sets are just $6.00!

Hubby and I are heading to Detroit for two days... going to Greenfield Village & Henry Ford Museum and the zoo!!!!  I'm hoping I can sneak in a dinner to PF Chang's while we're up that way... cross your fingers for me!

I have blog posts scheduled... including an exciting product swap for tomorrow!

See ya this weekend!

If you missed my first post today (I know... double posting=BAD!) it's got lots of Vistaprint goodies and a link to a Groupon!  Click the pic below to check out what I made and link up your creations too!

Vistaprint Fever!

 **UPDATE- here's an off topic addition to this post... I'm having an impromptu FLASH SALE at Teacher's Notebook until midnight... everything is 40% off!!!*

Can I believe I just made my FIRST order of the summer last night?!  This coming from the woman who placed about 12 orders in 5 days last summer.  No joke.

So... I had a deal for lots of cheap stuff, free uploads, and free priority shipping if you spent $50.00!

And here's what I got!

This is a large car magnet that I put these signs on- I have already made these on cardstock and put magnets on the back of them, but they aren't sticking well... so I'll just cut this in fourths!

This one is the oversized postcard- front and back.  I will just cut them in half so kids can check out books from my library!

Here are some small magnets I will give out at open house for kids to display their good work on the fridge at home!

This is the small poster.  I put my classroom rules on it and now see that I left out an exclamation point... so I guess I'll be drawing one on when the items arrive.  On well!

Next up is the rack card.  I have made mine for silent and partner reading...

Sticky notes for kids to hang up when they are invited to "Lunch Bunch" on Friday...

And cards for kids to write out "Bucket Fillers" for each other- the backs are blank so they can write a message to their friend and then put it in our "Bucket Filler" pocket charts...

I also got some address labels for me and the hubs and a pad of boring sticky notes because they were the free ones.

Here's the greatest reveal... a screenshot of what I spent and what I saved.  Are you ready for this?  It's pretty awesome!

Love it!  Have you Vista Printed yet?  Did you blog about it?  Please remember to follow "Linky Party etiquette" and link back to this post if you join my linky party!  You can also click HERE to purchase a Groupon for $20.00 to get $80.00 worth of stuff!  Thanks to Kristen Kimbell for leaving me a comment about that.  I just bought one!  :)

My first "official" Monday Made It!

This summer I've made a ton of printables for my classroom, but I have just completed my first "official" Monday Made It!

I say official because I'm actually blogging about it on a Monday!  :)

Here are the two unofficial made its I've done this summer:

A new clipboard...

 

And crate seats...

And now for the big reveal of my first official Monday Made It!

These are currently being displayed on top of my microwave... but I'll be moving them to school soon!  I bought thick letters at Hobby Lobby.  I traced them on scrapbook paper, cut the letters out, and used Modge Podge to affix them to the letters.  Then I Modge Podged the heck over the top of the paper!

There were a few bumps in the paper which, for someone like me, was very distressing!  I hid them on the R and D with flowers!  To stick those brads in the A, I used my poker tool to poke a hole and then I just stuck the brads in.  It worked well- the flowers are stuck in the same way.  I put a brad in the middle of each, poked a hole, and stuck the brad in.

There you have it!  I can't wait to see what everyone else is sharing today too!