New Pencil Pails!!! Label Freebie!

let me show you my little treasure I found!

I went to FOUR {FOUR!!!} different Targets looking for this baby! :)

Now, it will accompany its sister that I bought yesterday:

See the little red bucket on the left???

This is my plan for them:

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Thanks to the awesome idea from 2nd Grade Pad... I'm going to use these for my sharp and dull pencils!
This is what I did last year:

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Sooo, I love these labels from Peace, Love, and Learning and the adorable pencil buckets that I had gotten from Wal-Mart but my kiddos didn't really see the difference and had to constantly check each pencil... blah! So I decided to make similar labels that go with my theme {brights} a little better and put them on the red and green buckets! Green = good to go pencils and red = not so ready! :)
Here are mine!

Love, love, love!
If you are interested in the labels click {HERE} or on the image below!

Off I go to buy a birthday present! :)

Have a fabulous Saturday!

Target Finds = Pinterest Ideas

Lovelies!! How are we all doing?
I am doing fabulous! The husband had his citizenship ceremony today! So exciting!
To celebrate we went to Target! Ok, we stopped by Target after lunch... I just HAD to stop by!
I usually don't like to go to Target because I will come out with a TON of stuff that I really don't need but that I love! Well, today was NO exception!
Look at my loot!

All from the infamous One Spot!
So here are my thoughts on what I will do with all of these awesome buckets!

First up, these super bright green and pink buckets! They match my walls perfectly!

In case you haven't seen:

EW! Please only look at the walls!! OK, look at that mess... that was from the time I was SUPPOSED to organize {haha} well one wall is a bright green {along with the sink area} and two other walls are pink! <3 

I love them! I plan to paint the other 2 walls next month! {PURPLE and YELLOW}

Back to the buckets! 

I would love to do this...

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This is an awesome replacement to those darn popsicle sticks!!! I always drop them and they GO EVERYWHERE!!! Haha and then all of the kids rush to "help" me and chaos breaks loose!!!
This post is from the amazing Laura over at Peace, Love, and First Grade! I saw this a WHILE ago and right away I went and bought more clips, I painted them with a coat of yellow acrylic paint and never finished my project! They are sitting somewhere packed up in my classroom... which I won't be able to get to until 2 weeks before school :(
I might have to take another trip to Wal-Mart and buy more so I can have this ready by then!
Look at my bucket with my new label that I just made for it!!! So pretty!

MMMM... look at my latte... YUM!

Back to the bucket! I love it so much! I just whipped this up for this post and I can't wait to laminate it for durability!

If you love it, I made 2 different color labels, grab it at my TpT store for FREE! Click {HERE} or the image below!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!

Well, I was planning on telling about the rest of the goodies but I think I will make a Part II for this! 

Writing blog posts take me forever!!!

Heading out to my 3rd Target right now to see if I can find a green pail {like my red one above}!!

I'll let you know if I find it and what I plan to do with it! :)

Before I leave here are some pics of today!

Took my nephew and daughter to watch the new Madagascar 3 in 3D! It was pretty cute... and look at my little hipsters! Haha!

The sweeties and I after the movie!

Yes, that's the same latte... I have yet to finish it!

Just the kids! So cute!

Have a super evening! 

Laters!

Room 20 Pictures!

Wooooh! It has been a long day! It was my first day back and my sweeties were angels! They were following expectations and doing their best! I was a little anxious to see how they were going to behave but we quickly reviewed our class rules {more on that later--- maybe tomorrow because this post is getting super super long and I don't want to bore you to death} and our scoreboard {keep reading---- again probably tomorrow because it just keeps getting longer and longer and I don't know why LOL}.

 We reviewed some phonics skills that we have been working on {glued sounds and digraphs}, read The Gingerbread Man {talked and wrote about the beginning, middle, and end}, did 3 rounds {YAY} of the Daily 5 Daily 3 since we are only doing read to self, read to someone, and work on writing {for now!}. I was super impressed with my kiddos and their eagerness to learn! I hope they are like that for the rest of the year! After lunch, We wrote a thank you note to a company that "adopted" our class for a holiday party before break! They were so awesome to us! They read The Polar Express to the kiddos, gave them cookies and hot cocoa, gave them silver bells, and brought Santa with a big bag of gifts! Wow! They were soooo generous! I even got a little gift, too! :) After writing the thank you note, we began to learn The Doubles Rap! Ha! The kids loved it. On Friday, we will make "iPods" to store our rap in! Check it out here! She has an awesome tutorial on how to make the iPods! Then, the bell rang! The day zoomed by!

Now, on to some pictures of my dear old new classroom! First, let me give you a couple of warnings:

1. My classroom is a hot mess! I left right after school on our last day of break and didn't get a chance to tidy up! I can't work in my room on weekends or on vacations because it's locked or something and they don't want to give us codes :( boo hoo
2. This is my first year in this classroom and my dear old hubby painted the walls for me! WARNING! The two walls that are painted are bright. I love them and it really changes my whole room's look.
3. I was am a hard core blog stalker! I have already implemented a ton of ideas from other classrooms! If I don't give you credit... that means that I can't find you original post!! Please help me if I miss anything!
4. I think that's it... but I'm not sure... so let's start with the pictures:

OhMiWord! How embarrasing! I can't believe I am sharing this with other teachers! LOL This is the view from my soon to be gone teacher desk! I have a document camera, projector, tv, a bathroom {that the kids don't use}, a pink rocking chair, and 22 little desks! Blah! I plan to move things around but I just can't find the time {where do I get extra of that!}

This is my Brag Tag Wall. It says, "Get on pink, earn a bead! Mrs. Matadamas' Superstars!!!" I won a class set of brag tags from a giveaway over at What's The Buzz in First. Here is her post on them and I just noticed that she got the idea from The First Grade Parade! Nice! I love them and the kids get so excited to earn a bead. My school used PBIS {clip chart - picture below} and whenever they are a Superstar {on pink}, I add a bead to their necklace. Once they have 10 beads, they can trade them in for a fun shaped bead and a trip to the treasure box! I am trying to persuade my principal into getting them as a whole school! Let's see how that goes!

Close up of my Brag Tags. They say, "Star Student Mrs. Matadamas' First Grade Class"! I {heart} them! Check out ImageStuff {HERE}. They were super fast and I really mean it... I put my order in and got them within 4 days! CRAAAZY FAST!

This is our behavior chart. I number the clips with the number that a student is assigned in the beginning of the year. They start on green and move up and down depending on their behavior. I want to revamp this one and make it way cuter but I just need TIME! :)

This picture is for Erica at The Honey Bunch. We are both going to get rid of our teacher desks and I bought these to put my pens, markers, stickies, and stuff I store in my desk. I got these at Staples and they were 50% off so I got them for 15 bucks each. I'm not sure if that's a good deal but we will see how well they hold up!

O.K. {in cheerleader voice} that was a super duper long post! I hope I didn't bore you or miss anything. I just wanted to add some pictures and see if anyone has any questions or suggestions. I will upload more pictures and talk about my class rules soon! 

I need to rest up now. After I blog stalk a bit of course! 

I also wanted to thank all my followers! Wow! I have 34 of you sweeties now :) 

Please comment and tell me this is WAY TOO LONG!

Talk to you later! ;)