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Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!

I just had to have this chair!
I've been on a shopping spree lately! The costs can really add up when setting up a new room! I've recently found some great deals I wanted to share with you on this thrifty Thursday!

Walmart offers free home delivery with a minimum purchase of 45 dollars on certain items. I found this zebra task chair and ordered it this morning! It was more than I wanted to spend at 59 dollars, but justified it with the free shipping and the convenience of having it delivered. Love, love, love this chair! I want one for home too!


Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!
Also at Walmart and quite a steal at 15 dollars each, hot pink bean bag chairs!

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!

These plastic stacking trays and paper bins are in the Target dollar aisle. The stackers are the perfect size for task cards. I will keep my book club question cards in one of them, partner pairing cards in the second and my math word problem task cards in another.

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!


I bought these baskets at the local dollar store for a dollar each. They are the perfect size for forward facing chapter books. I stocked up on these!

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!


Poms are all the fashion right now, so I was happy to find these at Party Adventure. They are 16 inches and you get three for 10 dollars. Another wonderful blogger, sorry, I can't recall who it was...shared a tip for rounding the edges, which I plan to do. Everything you need like ribbon and wire is in here and the tissue already folded! I recently saw a site selling single poms for an outrageous amount per pom and charging shipping to boot. I had purchased a much more expensive kit from Martha Stewart and promptly marched it back to the store! There are lots of online tutorials out there to make your own in the event that you have a hard time finding the perfect colors. Party Adventure also had tissue flowers and matching banners.

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!


Next on my list is to find a good deal on fabric for my enormous bulletin board wall and to locate some cheap but durable magazine bins for Ipick book boxes for Daily Five. If you know of any good places to get them, please let me know! I signed up for the Jo-Ann and Michael's coupon apps. They will come in handy!

I made a set of sight word shaker bottles with candies and sprinkles I had laying around the house that no one was about to eat. I only put in a few words for demonstration purposes because I can't get into the building to laminate them right now. 

My plan is to put only ten words at a time in there for a Word Work activity during Daily Five. With 220 words and 95 nouns, this center will last a long time! They're cuter and more colorful in person! The kids will love this! I'll have to tell them the candies are old or they fell on the floor! There's always one kiddo who will want to taste-test whenever we use candy manips!

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!


Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!

You can get the set at my shop for only two dollars! I made the mini-slips for all Dolch words and a recording sheet. You get to do the fun part~ assemble the bottles!:) These are little Tropicana raspberry lemonade containers filled with Nerds, sprinkles and Skittles. Click on the first picture to see it at my TPT shop!

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!

Since my last guessing game was so much fun, we'll have another go at it!

Once upon a time... a long, long time ago.... (hint, hint), I received a whole case of Nerds, which had just come out, as a birthday gift from a friend who knew how I used to love them so...
If you can be the first to guess how old I was, the shaker sight word center download is yours! I got this image off My Favorite Retro Candy Site! At the time, these were the only two flavors.

Leave me your email in the comment with your guess! :)

Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!

Off to visit another dollar store!

New Doodle Border Papers for Daily Five and a Freebie

New Doodle Border Papers for Daily Five and a Freebie

New Doodle Border Papers for Daily Five and a Freebie


I've been thinking ahead to next year and changing things up a bit. I just created these fun writing papers that I plan to use for Work on Writing during Daily Five. I thought they would make for fun journal or class book pages too! You can download the previews at my shop at Teachers Pay Teachers for a fun doodle freebie!
New Doodle Border Papers for Daily Five and a Freebie

 
New Doodle Border Papers for Daily Five and a Freebie

On another note, today was the last day of school and the kids had a blast with shaving cream on their desks. Rather than a free for all of flying foam, I decided to make this a structured activity and I was pleased with how well it went. Each child was given a pretty generous squirt of the stuff and, like clouds, asked to imagine what it looked like. Next they were allowed to touch it with one finger. We shared describing words as a class. Next, one hand went in, then two....they could hardly stand the wait! Then the fun part~spreading it all out and drawing pictures and writing in it! It was a super fun activity and more controlled than usual which made for better clean up afterward. Note to self to do it that way again next year!

Daily Five I Charts

I love that my classroom has so many windows, but I think every bit of wall space has been filled! I created these Daily Five I Charts (anchor posters) and decided to hang them on the windows! Students can refer to the posters for the expectations for each of our Daily Five rotations!
Daily Five I Charts
Daily Five I Charts
Daily Five I Charts

Taking Turns

In order to encourage fairness and respect with attentive listening during sharing time, I use several different turn-taking methods such as 'pick sticks', pass the talking stick, and Turn-Taking Teddy. We pass Teddy on for Daily Five rotation selection. Students who get Teddy are prepared with their materials for another rotation.
Taking Turns
Taking Turns
Taking Turns

Read to Self

The children have learned all of the expected behaviors and have 'built stamina' for our Daily Five Read to Self. This week we learned the expected behaviors and expectations for Work on Writing.Students are able to choose the order of their Daily Five rotations. To encourage fairness, avoid rushing and to help to get started right away, the children pass off Turn-Taking Teddy to their friends who have their materials ready for Daily Five.
Read to Self

Read to Self

Fall Journal

The children were excited to decorate their new fall writing journal covers. During Daily Five Work on Writing, students will be the authors and illustrators of their own journal where they may write freely or write on an assigned topic. I will share these with parents at conferences.
Fall Journal
Thrifty Thursday Deals and Steals and a Freebie for One Lucky Winner!!New Doodle Border Papers for Daily Five and a FreebieDaily Five I ChartsListen to ReadingPumpkin WeekReading GroupsTaking TurnsRead to SelfFall Journal

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