Sunday Smorgasbord

Hey everyone!  I am going to try another linky party today from Michelle at Fab-u-lous in First:

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Did my weekly Sunday Back-to-School shopping trip today.  It started off at Office Max:  poor Gracie got buried by the 25 cent packs of glue sticks (20 of them: teacher limit!).  She loved it actually!

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Then we headed over to Target to get pencil boxes for my kids behavior tickets (I need to do a post on that soon!) and Grace had to try a chair.  Then her baby needed a chair.  Then she needed to get a bucket, went back to sit down and realized baby didn't have a bucket and had to get her one, too.  #shopping with toddlers (That is the first time I have ever done a hashtag!)

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I need to get an order into Creative Teaching Press ASAP.  I need want this border so badly -- it would go perfectly in my classroom.  Also, I think I am leaning towards birds, trees, and nature type of classroom this year and they have a lot of cute stuff there!

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I saw these at Target today and I just got giddy.  Why do I love smelly markers so much?  I need (no, I am not crossing that out -- because it is a need) new ones badly.  I will be getting them on my next trip there!

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Three more days left of summer school.  I love teaching summer school, but I am ready for a break and ready to start really planning for the upcoming school year.  I do have a pretty awesome group of kids this summer though...

Clipart by Blair Turner

And that is it for my Sunday Smorgasbord!  Hope everyone enjoyed it!

Chevron Finds & Rewards Bracelets Freebie

I have all these ideas in my head of what I want to write about and I let it get so overwhelming, that I don't even post!  Ugh!

Well, today's post is dedicated to my chevron finds (I think I could do a whole blog on it!).  I went to another Target last weekend and I found not only the gray and pink desktop calendar, but a thin monthly calendar that matches!  So I had to get them both!

It would have been better if it was gray and yellow (like my awesome school bag that my hubby got my last Christmas - it's yellow inside!), but I can't have everything in those colors (or can I?) 

Follow the link to look around this Etsy shop!

THEN!  I was at Wal-Mart with my mama and Gracie the other day and I saw all these notebooks.  Yes, if you know me, I did freak {a little}!

The chevron and the dots were a dollar each and weirdly enough, the little half notebooks were two dollars (eh, half the size and double the price?).  I still brought one because it was cute!

That's about it for my shopping lately...I did finally find the teal pocket charts at Target and got those, but nothing else too exciting.  Now, if you made it this far in the post, it is time for a freebie!  Now in my Teachers Pay Teachers store I have Reward Bracelets for Super Students (in Spanish or English)!

Each of these packs have 13 reward bracelets that you can download, print, and tape, glue or staple your students' wrists to tell them how awesome they are.  There are bracelets for doing homework all week, being a good friend, being a good helper, being an awesome writer, mathematician, and reader.  There are even ones for birthdays! Click on the picture or here for English and here for Spanish to get them for FREE (have I mentioned that?) at my TpT store!

I think that is it for now!  Off to play with Gracie for a bit before bed time!

Target Dollar Spot and Calendar Love

We're back from St. Louis and we had such a great time!  Those little capsules that you ride up to the top of the Arch were probably the scariest thing ever, but I loved all of it!

So the weekend after the fourth of July is the unofficial start of back-to-school shopping.  The Staples penny sales have started and everyone is marking their Crayola markers down to 99 cents.  This all makes me giddy!!!  A few of the blogs I follow started posting all of the cool things they have gotten at the Target Dollar Spot, so I dragged asked my mama nicely to go to Target with me!

So, at my local Target, they haven't started to put the teacher stuff the Dollar Spot, but everything is 70% off, so I went a little crazy (and when I say crazy, I got all of this for $13!)

First off, I need some blogger picture taking 101.  I took these with my phone, so they aren't the best...but I promise, I will learn!

Lots of 30 cent prizes for the prize box!

I found these readers (for 30 cents!  Can I say that enough?)  I am super excited because they go along with some of our thematic units in second grade.  Yes, they are in English, but I think they will be good to read when we bridge the units to English.  Then there is this Brilliant Reader book and it is a journal that kids record and write about the books they read.  If I taught an English general ed class, I would easily pick up a class set of these (for 30 cents each!), but I think I am going to look at it for ideas for a Spanish one!

These guys...I have some ideas for centers from them.  A lot of my ideas come from here and I have some of my own Spanish centers up my sleeve, too.  The baskets in the back are strawberry baskets...Hmmm, what can I do?

Then my calendar dilemma:  These pictures are from Target because I didn't buy yet:

Look at all this chevron, stripes love at Target.  I can't decide which one I want for my personal planner, but my desk planner will definitely be this one...

This is seriously my most favorite time of year.