Library Labels

I've been M.I.A. for a while.  Busy doing nothing.  I have this tiny plaque on my desk at school that says "I have not yet begun to procrastinate" -- it fits me to the T.  I've gone to my classroom for for the past couple of days and have managed to make it look worse, not better.  Eh.  I have a love/hate relationship with the beginning of the school year and setting up my classroom.

I did finally manage to decide on a design for my library book labels.  I don't have tons of books, and I manage to lose books every year, something I have decided to just accept.  I teach math, science, and social studies, but still want my kiddos to have a selection of books to read in my room.  Feel free to use these labels if you find them useful.

Library Book Labels

On another note:

I went to two different WalMarts today looking for composition notebooks (I have students who don't come in with supplies every year, so I always have a few on the side) and both were sold-out :(

And after dealing with the mess disaster catastrophe that was WalMart's back-to-school section, I realized I should've just gone to Target.

I walked in to Target and it was like the Heavens opened up.  It was clean, quiet, peaceful.. everything WalMart wasn't.  And alas - I found my composition notebooks... thank goodness :)

From Teaching 4th

Capacity Visual

I wanted to share a simple activity I use with my 4th graders during our capacity unit. We use math journals in our class and before/during/after the concept unit we add something to the journal. When we add to the journal depends on what we have time for fits the bill... I use these as a visual reminder of what each unit is.  They are made to be like windows.  They cut out on the solid lines of the words and put glue only above the dotted line and paste the corresponding picture underneath the word flap.  It works nicely as a reminder in case they ever forget.

Capacity

 Please enjoy :)

From Teaching 4th