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May 22, 2013 by: Jennifer

Cleaning Desks at the End of the Year

It is the task that we all dread….removing name tags from desks at the end of the school year. A friend has been hassling me suggesting I try using shaving cream, which I finally did.  And guess what? It worked!  It actually worked better than Goo Gone…and it’s less expensive! I let the shaving cream sit on what was left of the name tag, and

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February 17, 2013 by: Jennifer

How To Organize Your Fonts! Freebie, too!

 This is it.  I have finally found a quick and easy way to keep up with all my fonts! Since the days when I moved away from comic sans as my “go to” font, I have accumulated a lot of awesome, sometimes decorative fonts that I {heart}.  My problem has been that when I am creating a pack or working on a document, I don’t

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January 4, 2013 by: Jennifer

Letter Naming Fluency Idea

At least in Alabama, with Kindergarten comes Dibels…which in turn means we must assess letter naming.  It can become tedious and boring at times.  Here is a little tip I shared at the beginning of the year over on TBA in case you missed it:   I like to let kids tear out word searches from coloring books and use them to practice “reading” (or identifying)

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August 9, 2012 by: Jennifer

Thrift Store Gold

I finally got a chance to go to some thrift stores, something I rarely get to do with two toddlers.  I was looking for a chair, but instead I found a great little table, which I was incorrectly calling a telephone table…it is actually a step table (but I think either works =)  I got it for only $4.99!!  I forgot to take ‘before’ pictures…but

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June 21, 2012 by: Jennifer

A Day at School with THE SINK

So as I was saying yesterday, I covered THE WALL (see post here) and had an entire roll of shelf liner left.  I couldn’t just let it sit there all lonely, could I?  As I looked around the room, I remembered the area I painted before school got out- it isn’t finished, but I painted a section of the wall black and added the white.

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June 20, 2012 by: Jennifer

A Day at School with THE WALL

I spent yesterday at school….working.  I arrived with shelf liner in hand, but soon realized I needed to move all my furniture back where it goes, otherwise there is no way I would be able to concentrate on the task at hand. Once the classroom was sort of put back together, I started with  THE WALL.  See, I have this wall that divides up my

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March 14, 2012 by: Jennifer

Best thing I have ever done! ~Helpful Hint~

Well, one of the best things I have ever done maybe… Last year I got so frustrated when I tried to find a book I was looking for -and couldn’t remember where it was.  So I decided to fix that problem once and for all.   Here’s what I did: Little by little, I would take a group of books from a location in my

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March 6, 2012 by: Jennifer

Some Pointers & Currently

I know how hard it is to get started blogging…and so many things seem like a mystery.   I struggled in the beginning and had to do a lot of investigating to solve some of the mysteries.   And then factor in TPT and TN…creating documents…WOW- that was a learning experience.   Well, I was thinking the other day how it might help some of

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February 24, 2012 by: Jennifer

New table? Not Quite…

Do you ever just need a change?  Well, I do.  My room is sort of small, well…at the very least it is jam-packed with furniture so I am limited as to what I can move around and where.  With that said, I got the urge to change my guided reading table.  It is bright yellow…and had had some abuse/paint/stains.  I was at TJ Maxx the

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December 12, 2011 by: Jennifer

Quickie!

It is coming down to the wire for holiday crafts and I was sort of at a loss of what I could share tonight, seeing how I am knee deep in about three units I am trying to get ready to share with you guys…SO, then I remembered the craft I did last year… that I am planning on doing later this week.  (crossed fingers)

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