omigosh y'all!
I was up until 6:30 this
morning finishing up my first calendar kit. Seriously! I went to bed as the sun
was rising… I have so many things on my mind that I just could
not sleep! Anyways! So… two newest items are up in my TPT shop, neither
are free, but I promise I’ll get a freebie out to y’all soon! Any ideas on what you’d like? Another file
folder game… themed calendar kit… word wall set? Suggestions, please! J Both of my
paid products on TPT are on sale though! Yippee!
This first activity is a
dominos game that has students identifying and matching initial letter sounds
to the corresponding letter. Only $1!
The next activity is one
is a calendar kit and, seriously, lucky for y’all, I am incredibly indecisive, so
you will notice that in several of my products, I will include different
designs/colors/fonts because, hey, why not? Also, I do this because while I
have been teaching students with disabilities, I have found the importance of
not having too much hullabaloo (for lack of a better word) in the classroom and
in tasks/worksheets/activities. While
the extra color and clipart on worksheets, or elaborate decoration around the
classroom makes me happy and inspired, all of that extra detail can be way too distracting
to students with learning disabilities.
Sometimes when buying products on TPT, I find that the
activities/decoration is too “busy” for my kiddos. Therefore, I want to have the simple option
as well as the more detailed option available for my followers. So… lucky you! J
Anyways, back to my newest
product. last week, I wrote a post about
classroom themes and how I set up my rockstar classroom. Going back to the decoration and details, I used
a lot of zebra print, glitter, and paint splattered patterns. I updated and improved (basically… I completely remade it) my calendar kit from last year and now it
is available to y’all! It is a paint
splatter theme (see pictures below) calendar set that includes 3 sets of month
headers, 2 days of the week sets, 1 set of ‘yesterday, today, tomorrow prompts’,
2 sets of number cards, 38 special event cards (i.e. Christmas, 100th
day of school, no school, MLK Day, Happy birthday, special event, etc..), and 4
sets of year headers (2013-2016). The kit and elements are made to fit most
calendar sets and/or a standard 3x3 in pocket chart. If there are any problems please let me know!
J See below
for even more information and dimensions of the materials.
So… just to keep it going with the whole “paint
splatter” theme, I picked up these two essentials: duct tape from walmart and cardstock from Michael's.
FYi... this picture is not a very good representation of the paint splatter cardstock i purchased. it's actually a not as bright as the picture and has a very pretty soft shiny-almost glittery texture on top.
I used the duct tape as bulletin board borders and I cut out
letters from the cardstock to use throughout the classroom (see picture below).
Well… wowweee! I think that is about enough for today.
I am going to go and take a nice long nap! Have an absolutely marvelous
Wednesday, y’all!
wMariah
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