Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A New Year - A New Start!

Greetings friends! I am back to the blogging world. I had to make some priority choices and my poor blog got left on the closet shelf.

BUT I am following along with The Clutter-Free Classroom blog with


Each week, she will set out challenges, offer tips and freebies and a linky party so we can get into each others' classrooms and encourage each other. I am really looking forward to it! We don't start back to school until Monday, Jan 9th (we didn't end until Dec 23rd!) so I won't be back in my classroom until then. I will start my posts once I can get in to take pictures.

I will start today with my top reasons for getting my classroom organized. (Many of these are inspired and compiled from the comments on
the Clutter-Free Classroom Blog)


1. I am ADD and when things are unorganized so is my brain!
2. I want to spend less time at school and more time with my husband!
3. I need to know what I have to teach with - not fly by the seat of my pants.
4. I need to find things quickly.
5. If I'm organized it will be easier to "MODEL" for my students how to be organized! 
6. I want my room to be accessible to others (EA, Supply teachers, Volunteers).
7. I want more time to blog.
8. I want to lower my stress level.
9. I put this exact challenge on my Teacher Self-Evaluation with
my principal this year!
10. I like when things look pretty in their places!
Here's to a Happy and Organized New Year!


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Clutter-Free Classroom

Monday, October 10, 2011

Horse Power

Thanksgiving Weekend around here brings The Brigden Fair, our local, and largest, county fair. Each year, the schools in the area create a display board on plywood showing some artwork that fits the theme of the fair. This years' theme was "Horse Power" so our class created shoe print horses from the Busy Bee Kids Crafts website. They turned out very cute!






See You soon!
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