Okay, today has been a busy day. I think I worked on school stuff all day long. With of course a few breaks to cheer on team USA in London. I finished up the vocabulary decks for Lauren and I today. I ran out of 3x5 cards, but know that I have lots more at school, so I will use a day at school to put cards in those. Here is a picture.

I had this idea last spring and don't know if it will work, but I sure hope it will. Giving the kids one place for their vocabulary words will help keep them organized. They can use them to study with a partner. I also used an idea from Pinterest to make a classroom mail area. I don't have a lot of free space in my classroom, and I didn't know what to about mail. It was always a mess to hand out papers. I was so excited when I saw this idea that I ran out to Target to get the crate, file folders and hanging files. I used the Cricut to make the letters. I love this!

This will look so good in my room. I am so tired of being disorganized and this will certainly help out. The kids will like putting the mail in the folders. I was also thinking that the kids could take home their folder on Friday's. Just a thought. Here is a photo of a writing idea (again from Pinterest). I plan on infusing a lot of writing into Language Arts this year. One of the activities at the writing center will be to write at least one page in a class book once a week. The prompt is taped to the outside of the binder and there will be paper inside. As time goes by, I'd like to have them go through the writing process with their stories.

Finally, I wanted all the students to have a 3-ring binder for language arts. I know that this isn't on the school supply list, so I got 30 binders, card stock, dividers, and labels. I cut the card stock to fit the front and spine, put the label on the front for identification purposes, cut cardstock for dividers (premade ones were to expensive) and put on the tabs. Thank goodness I have done a lot of scrapbooking! I had lots of tools to help with the cutting and labeling.

Tomorrow I will post pictures of the objectives frames, and what I hope will be the class motto.