Hi Guys!
It has been over a year since my last post. Since then I have been teaching 3rd grade and I love it!
There are some things from primary that I do miss, however I love the independence and that I can do more with this grade. I also had another baby! Now I am a mother of 2 and I am on maternity leave. It was a bit overwhelming to take the first 6 weeks of the school year off, however I have such an amazing maternity leave sub that I feel much better. I will try to upload some things that I do from time to time, but I can't make any promises. ;)
For Christmas last year my husband bought me a new Cricut Air, and I finally sold my really old old old Cricut. I was so excited to have a new one! Here are some projects that I did with it:
First of all the Bullseyes Playground in Target just takes all of my money!
It is so dangerous...everything is so cute!!
I bought all of my projects from there.
My first project was to cut iron on vinyl and personalize this pencil pouch with my name.
I love how it turned out!
During my first year teaching 3rd grade I had a lot of early finishers. I needed some extension for them, especially in math, so I created a "show what you know" anchor chart. I wrote their classroom numbers and with a sticky they would write their answer to a problem and put it on the chart.
A few months later when I was in Target I saw this calendar pocket chart and I immediately knew this was going to be my new "show what you know" chart! I used black vinyl and glittery silver vinyl on this chart. Regular stickies are a little big, so I had the students either trim their stickies a bit so it fits or I would have them fold their paper and put it in the pockets (I need to try the smaller sized stickys next time!). However, I do like it when they put their sticky directly on it so I can quickly scan who did or didn't answer and what their answers were. This evolved from an early finishers activity to more of a quick check. For example, I teach cursive, so I would have my students write a word in cursive. Or for example when I taught grammar, I would have them write an example of what an adverb was. This chart is fabulous!
My last project was creating a new place where students put their pencils. I like my system of students putting a dull pencil in the box and taking a sharp one, but I didn't want to use my two buckets that I had them in anymore and was looking for other ideas. When I was on Instagram I saw someone use this box for storing their pencils in the classroom, so I was inspired to make one of my own. I rushed to Target to see if it was still there, and I created my own version. I love it! I have used this for two years and it is still in great shape!
These are just a few projects I have done, however I know there are many more to come!
Take Care!
