Five for Friday

I'm joining up with Doodle Bugs for the Five for Friday linky party. So....here are my 5....

1. Moving in to my classroom.

As of yesterday, we were all able to start moving in to our classrooms. Unfortunately, the rooms haven't all been completely painted/cleaned/etc yet, so not all of us (including me) are allowed to set up our desks or put stuff up on the walls yet. I did at least get alot of my stuff moved into my room...

Ignore the way the bins are set up...they are out of order and not yet properly labelled.

2. My sharp pencil dispenser.

I jumped on the bandwagon and surfed through Amazon and found one of those acrylic straw dispensers, added some of my alphabet stickers to it and turned it into my pencil dispenser. 

3. Target sales/dollar section

I went to Target the other day, and got 2 class sets of composition notebooks and 10 books for my classroom for $40. The notebooks were bundled in packages of 5 for $3 and the books were in the dollar section!!! They were good books too...junior adapted editions of classic stories!!! The dice in the picture I got at Dollar Tree..packages of 10 dice for $1 each. I plan on using one class set of the notebooks for interactive math notebooks, and I'm not 100% sure what I'll use the other ones for, but I'll come up with something...I'm actually thinking of using it as an interactive writer's notebook for grammar and such...we'll see how it all turns out though. 

4. Wet 'n Wild

Two words... Water. Park. When you live in Las Vegas it gets HOT during the summer (we had a slew of days that were between 117 and 120 a few weeks ago) and I was just thankful that I made the decision to get a season Gold Pass. I went earlier this week to the water park and am going again tomorrow (and as many times as I can before the school year starts and my summer is officially over).. I can already hear the lazy river and the wave pool calling my name...

5. Home Depot & Sound Board

For whatever reason, when my school was built (it's only 2 yrs old), they didn't think to put bulletin boards in the classrooms. The past two years, teachers made due with using colored butcher paper and bulletin border stapled/taped/pinned directly into the walls. I For this upcoming year, a coworker came up with the idea of using sound boards to create bulletin boards in the classroom (which is awesome when you keep in mind the fact that actual bulletin boards can cost upwards of $100 a piece). I decided to do the same as my coworker and today we both went to Home Depot to buy our boards. The boards are only $10.95 and the bonus is that for what should have cost me well over $500, I was able to only spend $43. I left 3 of my boards at the full 4ft by 8ft size, and had the 4th one cut at Home Depot so that I will also have 2 4ft by 4ft boards as well. My principal loves the idea because its affordable AND the boards help reduce noise! So once my room gets painted, I'll be allowed to install my boards (more pics to come once they are up on the walls).

So what are your 5 for the week? Head over to Doodle Bugs and link up and let us know!

Five For Friday

Okay, so I know I just posted a little while ago, BUT.... Doodle Bugs is doing Five for Friday and I completely forgot to link up with it earlier....I blame the heat...it was 114 degrees here today and is supposed to go up to 117 degrees by Sunday. I'm a bit tempted to move somewhere where I can live in an igloo until this heat goes away.  So... putting the scorching weather aside for now, lets get down to my 5 things.

My dogs Apollo (the brownish one) and Spencer (the white one). I think I need to send them to etiquette school... they are developing a nasty habit of stealing food off the table or in this case, right out of my hands. In their defense though, my mother encourages it and lets them eat from her plate despite me telling her not to do that AND it has been hot so I can see why they would want my fruit bar....I was just sitting on the couch watching TV while eating it and Spencer jumped up next to me and just started licking it. Apollo gave me the whole "well what about me" look so I just let the two of them have at it....it was peach flavored in case you were wondering...

Three words: YA Distopian Books. I love them. I can't get enough of them. These two are currently high up on my books I love list. I just finished reading The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe and am now about halfway through No Safety In Numbers by Dayna Lorentz. Both books also have sequels which I will need to go buy ASAP because I want to know what will happen next. 

This yummy yummy beverage... I got it while I had friends visiting and we went to Sugar (it's a candy bar with an actual bar in it too)...well technically we all got it. It's 36oz of yummy goodness and it also cost $36. We ordered one and split it between us. The drink was actually just fun to watch because it bubbled and smoked too... The drink actually came with two big lollipops in it and they were tied together with a candy necklace... I got one of the lollipops after we finished the drink and left my two friends to fight over who got the candy necklace. 

JABBAWOCKEEZ!!! My mother and I managed to snag free tickets to their show the other night and it was really really good. They have parts that include audience participation and I must say it was quite amusing seeing the almost 70 yr old grandma in the row ahead of me doing the harlem shake...yeah...I'll just leave you all with that image and see how long it takes you all to giggle. 

My classroom theme!!! Carson Dellossa finally stopped futzing around and sent me all the stuff I had ordered A MONTH AGO... they were "back ordered" on like half my stuff for my theme...which by the way is their Boho Birds collection. I absolutely love it and can't wait to put all of the stuff up in my classroom come August. Here's what some of the birds looks like... Aren't they cute?

Darn.. I tried to get this all typed and posted before the clock struck midnight, but alas I have failed and am late by 11 minutes. Anywhoo.. be sure to go and check out everyone else's Five for Friday too!