Classroom Tips!

Happy Thursday & Happy Birthday to my marvelous husband!! This is one of the Molten Lava Cupcakes I baked at 11pm last night, so that I could wish him a happy birthday with one right at Midnight! It was a wonderful time together & I wish him many more years of love and happiness. He is an awesome dad and the best husband a girl could ask for.

Worried about class behavior? Do you have some outspoken students? Try rewarding GOOD behavior instead of giving attention to the bad choices being made. This is a pail in which I put names of students that I catch being good. Whether it's helping out someone else, sitting and working quietly, achieving something awesome...anything at all of the sort. At the end of the 2 weeks I pull a name and that person gets to pick from the treasure box. Our treasure box holds a variety of items (Special eraser & Pencil packs, Art Supplies, new books, craft supplies, games etc.) but the most popular items in the box??? TIME WITH YOU cards! They are simple postcards with fun outings on them, that take place outside of the home with a parent and just the winning child. The kids go MAD for these! It's completely obvious how much they love that one on one time. 

One negative about schooling year-round? The non-stop ringing of our doorbell with different neighborhood children asking my kids to go out and play. After the first week of this, I had the kids make a door hanging sign that will go on the backdoor. Now the kids know when to ring the doorbell and when it's not a good idea. I am slipping this through the laminating machine and then we will be in business for the rest of the Summer!

Looking for ways to display art work or to use as a drying rack? This cafe rod is sold inexpensively in a multipack and just hooked onto the wall using cup hooks. I used curtain clips to hold the art work and it's done! Simple, inexpensive and awesome! It allows for multiple small gallery displays throughout a classroom!

Brave the storm and a rainbow will follow. Enjoy every minute my friends!

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Snow Table Play!

When we got word that our first snow (and only) of the season was on its way, I ran outdoors and lifted the lids of the small water table! We had emptied it of water at the end of the Summer and were ready to see what we could capture this Winter! The kids awoke to a table full of snow and they could not wait to play. All the water table toys came out and new fun was had. What a neat idea this had been. By the end of the day, all the snow had ended up on them and on the ground, the table was nearly empty and the children were exhausted! What more could a mommy ask for? Before night fall, I asked them to fill several of the water tub containers with water and leaves and other outdoor goodness and let them sit outdoors...

The next morning we brought the containers in for them to see and play with! They noticed that they had frozen over and were left to explore on their own. Here they sit over the heating vent to see how long it would take them to melt for a bit! Later they chiseled away at the ice, banged on it and even tried putting it in the microwave for a bit. We all had a lot of fun coming up with different things to do with the ice blocks.

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