Chasing Checkereds With Cannon: classroom crafts

2:26 PM

I saw the idea for a board like this on Pintrest and fell in love with it. I don't know how many times I was in the middle of working with a small group, and someone comes over the loud speaker..."Mrs. McCumbee, I need little Johnny to go home please?" I sit there for what seems like a minute thinking is little Johnny in DI (direct instruction) or is he still in the bathroom. Not that I'm a spaz or anything, but hey it happens.

This little board will be very helpful to me. I love that during fire drills you can quickly assess who is where, or when a child asks to go to the restroom and someone is out they can see who is out and when they come back.

I got the board for $5 at Walkmart and the stickers for $4 at ACMoore I have magnets at school and I am going to use calendar pieces as students numbers. The lines that are drawn on the board will eventually be erased and I will replace them with ribbon (once I find a super cute ribbon).

This is a close up of the stickers. I love all those sparkles!

Trash To Treasure

8:26 PM

I am linking up with Oh' Boy Fourth Grade because they are hosting an awesome linky party called Trash To Treasure! This is right up my alley because my mom and I spend most weekends shopping for classroom finds. My best Trash To Treasure find is my classroom couches.

BEFORE

Yikes! Those are gross! A few months ago my mom and I found some pitiful, stained orange couches at a thrift store. After bargaining with the owner I got two orange couches for $25. Then my mom who is a wonderful sewer helped me strip the couches down to the frame. We sanded the wood frame down and painted it white. We searched over 100 miles for fabric to fit my classroom perfectly. In Wilmington, NC we found the perfect fabric for $73. My mom spent the rest of the week working on her sewing machine. Five days later we had two beautiful couches. If you could see tyhe couches in real life there is a lot of time and detail put into the. My mom made the cushions so they can unzip and be washed. We also found the table in the corner from a church who was giving it away and we painted it pink, it was multi colored before that.

AFTER

* The Book Nook letters I bought at AC Moore and I wrapped in newspaper.

On another shopping spree at Goodwill my mom purchased a $20 white bookshelf for my classroom. When I got it, I knocked out three of the shelves and painted it pink (it's my favorite color!). I moved it into my classroom, but it was too tall so I decided to lay it on its sides. Now it is the perfect place for students to buddy read! Sadly, I do not have a before picture.

We also built the benches below for my class using scrap wood my dad found on a job. We are pretty crafty people!

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Trash To Treasure

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