Well.. It's here...summer is almost over which is slightly depressing but not too depressing to me. I am DYING to get into my classroom and get to work organizing and getting ready for the 2014-2015 school year. My school takes our keys so we can't get in over the summer. They want us to "relax and truly enjoy our summer" but how am I supposed to when I'm going crazy thinking of all the things I want to get done in my classroom. Plus, I relax enough over summer - TRUST ME. I have been a pretty big bum when it comes down to it. One reason I'm actually looking forward to going back to work is getting my body back to a regular schedule. I stay up until 11 or later, which is pretty darn late for me, and get up around 8 or so and I usually end up taking a nap during some part of the day. It's TERRIBLE. I'm welcoming the return of waking up for school with open arms... Okay, maybe not completely open arms but they're somewhat open..
One thing I have been doing this summer is creating a few things for myself and more products for my store on TPT. Which you can find here! I just wanted to show a couple of things I've created.
I made my first set of task cards this past weekend and I had fun making them. I really had fun designing them. I spend way too much time when creating things for TPT on the design aspect. I love playing with different graphics, backgrounds, and fonts.
Anyways.. Here is a peek at the task cards I made which go with 5.NBT.2 which requires students to be able to move the decimal based on powers of 10. I'm sure that not the "proper" way to describe the standard but that's what I think of in my head when it comes to that standard.
I'm really happy with how these turned out. I'm a HUGE fan of Krista Wallden's Clip Art.. I own a ton. The cute kiddos, the borders on both the cover and task cards, and the cute circle borders are all her work. So cute!
Another thing I did was get my binders ready for this year. Last year I just did a Language Arts binder and a Math Binder.. but I didn't really put anything in them. I know.. Bad girl :( but it was my first year and it was a whirlwind. This year I've decided instead of just 2 binders I would have a binder per strand for the Common Core - with a few exceptions. Under the Language Arts standards I don't really worry too much about the RF and SL standards. I figure those happen more days than not in my classroom and I don't really have too many resources just for those strands so I didn't make a binder for them. I also combined my writing and language strands into one binder. Here are some of the covers I made. I still need to create the spine inserts for them. (Note to self!)
There are some of my binder covers for this year. Again, I'm really happy with how they turned out. I love Melonheadz Kiddos.. Okay, I'll just come out and say it.. I just really love clip art! I'm debating putting them in my store. What do you think? I also created what I'll call standard sheets to put in my binders to help organize all the resources under each strand. They're simply the standard listed and typed out put in a sheet protector with a cute little divider added to it. Here's what my standard sheets ended up looking like...
Well those are some of the things I've done this summer. I did one more product that I posted in my store which is a Common Core Standards Tracker for Fifth Grade in both ELA and Math. My plan is to all grades K-4 (6-12 if there is a demand) but they are seriously time consuming so I put them off by doing things like creating my binder covers and such.Oh! I also set up my students interactive math journals yesterday but they're not 100% complete so I will do a blog post on those when I get them all done which will be before the school year.
My goal is to get into my classroom next week so I'll post pictures of what I accomplish. My first official day back is August 13 with the kids returning on the 18th. When do you go back? Are you ready or do you want a little bit more time to yourself?
Happy Teaching! :)
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