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.

August Currently and Five for Friday and a Freebie!

It's officially August. I have conflicted feelings about August, with my birthday yesterday, moving to our new apartment on Monday, and my Dad visiting on Wednesday I'm excited. Then there's school starting, it's my first official year so I'm both excited and nervous. I have so much to do between packing and back to school preparations. August also means the return of Farley's Currently and Five for Friday!

listening: Sabrina has been my guilty pleasure this summer. :-)

loving: My hubby gave me the most beautiful bracelet from Catholic Bling for my birthday yesterday!

thinking: This one is pretty self-explanatory with school starting before I know it. My school to-do list is a mile long. Plus, I have to finishing packing and cleaning our apartment for our move on Monday.

wanting: We're super excited about our new apartment! I just wish we could skip all the grunt work that needs to happen in order to move in.

needing: I seriously need to buy shoes! I only have one new pair to start off the school year. Eek! 

B2s must haves: 

1. Have you tried out the new Pilot Frixion Pens? They are amazing! They come in multiple colors, and they are erasable! 

2. Last year I had the Erin Condren planner and loved it. This year I decided to upgrade to the teaching planner and I'm not regreting it. I'm most excited for the pages and pages of student checklists to help keep me on top of all my students paperwork. 

3. This year I'm finding the majority of my back to school purchases to be organizing solutions. I find organizing to be a huge challenge and anything I can find to help is worth it.

1. Printables!

This week I opened up my Teachers Pay Teachers store! My first freebie is up, click on the link to get it. I've had so much fun playing around with Photoshop this week. I have some more printables in the work, I'll post on here when I've uploaded them to my store. I would love it if you'd leave a comment if you like my How We Go Home Clip chart. 

I can't wait to get this printed out and up in my classroom!

2. Shopping

I scored some really good deals at the LOFT this week during a shopping trip with one of my teaching buddies! 

 3. Birthday

I celebrated my birthday yesterday with my hubby. We ate so much tasty food and found a great Vietnamese restaurant.

4. Books

I discovered Half-Price Books yesterday. I need to find the time to go back to look for more books for my classroom.

5. Classroom Supplies!

Five for Friday

1. I got "flowers" from one of my students this morning. I was at the door welcoming my students as they arrived at school. One of my kiddos was playing with toys in the classroom came up to meet at the door and said "Ms. A. I have flowers for you. It was one of the cutest things and totally made my day.

2. We had a lice egg scare this morning. Thankfully, the nurse found no live bugs, but it definitely gave me scary flashbacks to the horrible delousing process, and the horrible haircut from some lady at her house. First thing I did when I got home was to wash my hair and then threw all our bedding and towels in the washer. 

3. Sorry for the bad picture, but snapped a quick photo of  my wonderful hubbies work on boots for my Puss in Boots small group patterning activity. He cut like 60 out by hand, yeah he's pretty awesome! <3

4. We finished up our Ballads, Folktales, and Fables unit with Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed. Babe the Big Blue Ox helped us work on size differentiation. They did great, this little one worked on his handwriting skills!

5. My students help make Applesauce  for today's large group activity, and it went really well. "Cooking" is an interesting process with 3 year olds, but they enjoyed it and they actually a healthy snack today.