Five for Friday {September 6}

I'm linking up with Doodle Bug Teaching's Five for Friday.

It has been one crazy, crazy week. I am blessed that today was a great day at work, and I am looking forward to spending some quality time with my hubby to celebrate our anniversary.

{1} You know your a teacher when...you find color connect cards in your backseat  after getting your car washed.

{2} My morning coffee got the fall treatment. I love this pumpkin coffee with a hint of vanilla creamer. It's a perfect start to my morning, and a small reminder of fall back in Illinois.

{3} At our Staff Meeting on Wednesday we celebrated all the August and September birthdays. We each got one of our favorite cupcakes! 

{4} This week we learned about the theme Physical Me. One of our fun projects was to identify where our eyes and mouths are. They did great picking out the pieces they wanted and showing us where to glue them on. I love how this project turned out.

{5} I am one lucky girl. This morning I realized I was missing my flash drive. It had been on my key chain when I left work but when I looked this morning it wasn't there. After retracing my steps all day, I was lucky to find it laying in the parking spot next to mine. It's slightly bent, but it still works! 

Five for Friday {August 30th}

I've finished up my first week of school. It was a long, hard week, but I it's going to be a great year. I was so tired yesterday that I didn't get around to linking up with Five for Friday, so I'm linking up a day late.

{1} My hubby is incredible! He made me this cute weather guy for my classroom!

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{2} Just another day in the life of a Preschool teacher, making visuals for a making play dough and classroom rotation PECS.

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The Materials

The results

The aftermath

{3} I made No cook play dough with my class on Wednesday. The results were great, and the kiddos loved it.

The recipe: 

1 cup cornstarch

1/2 hair conditioner

 Stir it together and then hand kneed the dough! That's it! It was a very messy project with my 3 year olds, but it helped teach us how to keep the play dough on the table. I'm definitely going to make this again.

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{4} This month I participated in Lessons with Coffee's Slant box exchange. Slant box is a gift exchange with two other teachers. You send a box to one teacher, and another teacher sends one to you. It was a lot of fun getting to know the two women I was paired up with. Plus receiving my Slant Box on Thursday was definitely a great way to end a really hard day. I signed up again for September's Slant box. The theme is: Oh My Gosh I Forgot (blank).

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{5} I came home on Thursday to a wonderful steak dinner made by my hubby. It's great to not have to cook every night when I come home.

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Five for Friday {8-23-13}

It has been one busy week! I can't believe school starts on Monday! I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching's Five for Friday.

1. I completed my teacher tool! I love how it turned out. It was my first attempt at spray painting, and now I want to do more!

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2. This is what happened Sunday when I tried to season the chicken I was preparing, a whole container of Trader Joe's sea salt emptyed on top of the chicken. 

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3. I received my Christmas in July giveaway from Simply Kinder in the mail. It's super cute!

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4. My classroom is officially set up with the help of my teaching assistant and my floater. I don't know what I would do without them. I walked in on Thursday after my second day of all day training and all the bulletin board spaces,and the classroom tree was set up. This morning we were able to figure out a great furniture configuration, I'm loving the way it's set up!

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5. I got my tubs labeled and organized! 

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I have a ton  of work to do over the weekend to get ready for the first day back at school.