Mistakes...

I know it's been a while, but I'm very excited because I just finished my student teaching so I have a TON of fun ideas to share with all of you! I will be adding so many things so soon that you will be overwhelmed with happiness! I hope that you will forgive me for the lack of posts. Meanwhile, I found this picture that might get everyone through this last week of the semester.

http://120-in-june.tumblr.com/page/56

Thank you for your continued support! 

Looking to do a good deed and/or pay it forward this holiday season? PLEASE PLEASE keep reading!! 

As many of you know I am doing my student teaching right now at an elementary school. I am in a special education classroom with 15 students ranging from kindergarten to 3rd grade. As you may have guessed, I have grown to love my class and I want to do something special for them when I leave, December 12th.

After taking to my teacher today I realized that these kids need something of their very own that they can use. Since this school is so impoverished, I would like to help my kiddos out by making each of them a fleece blanket. This will be a personal gift that I will make for them that will give them something to remember me by, and keep them warm when the heat may not always be on this winter. For some of my kiddos, this may be their only gift this year.

Doing some math, I realize that this project will cost me $150 or so. Seeing as I am a poor college student, what I am asking of you lovely people is a donation! Any amount will do! Please help me make this holiday special for my little friends 

I would like to collect the money ASAP so I can buy the fabric on sale and get to work. If you would like to help me out, send me a message on here and I will send you my address so you can mail a check!

If you have any questions please let me know!

Thank you in advance for your generosity 

 Brittany

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! I hope your holidays were wonderful and that you were able to spend some quality time with family and friends! I've had the last couple days off from subbing due to a giant snowstorm that recently hit the Midwest. So during that time I've been working on updating the pages of my blog. I've been very busy, as I'm sure you all have, so you understand the lack of postings.

However, I hope to do better this year with posting things and sharing new ideas! I'll be spending a lot of time in the classroom this upcoming semester so I'll hopefully have a lot of great ideas to share!

Until then, here's a little something to tide you over:

http://nerdyteacherconfessions.edublogs.org/category/organization/

This is what the teachers call, DIY erasers! I found this idea -of course- on Pinterest. It's a great way to have students work with white board markers without fighting over which color they get. This just uses long white socks, then stick one or two dry erase markers into each one and put them into a bin. This way, students don't know what color they're getting, and they can't fight about it. Also, the "marker holders" do double as erasers. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to start out with new socks at the beginning of each school year so the students can see that they started out as clean socks, and they're not Uncle Jerry's leftovers. :)

Enjoy!