One of our sweet Kindergarten teachers organized a door contest this year for our parent teacher conferences.  We decided to go with the Dr. Seuss theme with his birthday coming up and all.  So let's go on a little tour, shall we??!! This was my door.  I went with the Lorax theme. Holly's door was SUPER CUTE!  I love the maps everywhere.  She also had her kids make maps of their classroom.  The background on her door is made up of maps.  She's so creative! Mrs. Emily is our title I teacher. Her door is above.  She also has a blog and a TPT shop with some great 4th grade Treasures resources! The door above was the speech teacher's!  How clever! I realized while posting these that I forgot some of the other doors.  I was so excited to tour the school and see all of these super fun doors!  It's like our own little real-life Pinterest board!  ;)  I hope you enjoyed the...
Well, we finally got some snow and a snow day!  I was so thankful for this three day weekend!  I had told you earlier that I am incorporating "busy baskets" this year in math.  These are my baskets: I picked them up at Ikea the last time I was there.  Each table has a basket.  They basket is filled with 5 or 6 different math games that we have played before in class.  Each week I will try to fill you in with a different math game you can use in a busy basket. The objective of the basket is to keep students engaged during downtime.  If they finish early, they can pull the basket and play the games.  They are so into it!  This is also super easy management for the teacher.  I change out the games every two or three weeks.  It's so much easier than changing centers weekly.  You can just throw centers in the baskets and switch them around.   Their favorite so far is "Salute."  You will need a deck of cards per basket with the King, Queen, Jack, ...