Special Delivery

During my lunch, one of my friends, brought me this box, from the staff room....

I was a little confused considering, I was not expecting a book order.  Then after reading the label, I realized it was from another first grade teacher friend, who has an adorable etsy shop....she sent me a present.  It's a new pretty-fied clipboard!  

In the words of Sophie Grace, "So Good!"  (My class was as excited as I was....only it was due to the bubble wrap packaging).  My clipboard is my second in command.  Lesson plans, check lists, important daily info., etc are all kept within easy access.
I took some before and after photos so you can see the makeover:
Old and Ugly...if I scrape the tape off the residue leftover will collect all kinds of good stuff....moving this clipboard into the student clipboard bucket.

Before...

Two of my favorite colors!

The Back

Ready to go with my lesson plans.

For those of you still in school, looking for a fantabulous teacher gift or parent/secretary/principal appreciation, check out It's My Party.  She has personalized tumblers and can do all kinds of different colors and fonts to fit your friends!
 

Valentine's Day Survival!

Ryan Gosling and my little Chickadee:-)

This week at school we had "Secret Sweeties."  (Like a secret Santa, but for Valentine's obviously)  All week we left little goodies for someone at school.  I am pretty sure, that this is the best gift.  Some of us teachers are loving the "Hey Girl"  Ryan Gosling blog.  So my secret sweetie made me a personalized one and framed it!  It says,
"Hey Laurie,
I bought you two season tickets to the Dodgers.  The second ticket is for me!"  -Ryan
Too funny!



Some other "secret sweetie" evidence.  

Passing out Valentine's is pure craziness!  I love the end where "Thank You!" is being shouted from person to person, as they open their little cards.

Then we  had ice cream sundaes for a Valentine's treat...completely calm and organized:)  All the 2nd graders went to two different rooms.  One room watched a Charlie Brown Valentine video and the other group did Valentine art activities.  Then I pulled groups of 10 at a time to come make their ice cream sundaes.  They ate their Sunday and then went back to their group.  After about 30 minutes everyone switched classrooms.















What to do with all the cards kids give me.....

Thank them of course.  I simply cut a big heart out of butcher paper and then glue all the cards on!  The kids love seeing it when they come in the next day and play "I Spy" trying to find their card.

Happy Tuesday!
Laurie