Robots!

I had a request for these :)

Click HERE for the "Welcome To Our Class" labels.  These fit on Avery 5163 labels (or you can print, cut and glue them).

Click HERE for the postcards.  There are two pages to this document, these are meant to be printed front and back.  Page one is the front, page two is the back.  I print these on cardstock so they are thick like a postcard.  These are four to a page.

Hope you can use them!

Welcome Back Bags For Open House, Mega Smarties and other stuff :)

I started making some"Welcome Back" bags for open house.  We still have a month before school starts, but I am crossing some things off my to-do list early :)

I found these cute chevron bags at Michaels yesterday.  There are 5"x 8" and have 24 in a pack.  They were originally $2 but they were 40% off plus I had a coupon for an extra 25% off my total purchase so I got them for 90 cents a pack.  Yay!  I also got some in red and white chevron, black and white chevron and blue and white stripes.  

I made some labels to go on them.  I have a robot theme in my class :)

This is what I put in the bags (for now, I'm sure I will add more before open house!!!):

A postcard (front and back shown):

A personalized pencil (it says "Mrs. Gilchrist's Class") with a robot topper:

And the Pop Rocks goodies I made earlier in this post:

I also found some other fun things on my shopping trip yesterday, one thing was.....

I found this awesome rolling tote at Home Goods for $19.99.  It's BIG!  I got the blue one (its really an aqua color).  It has straps so you can carry it like a large tote bag or pull the handle up when you want to wheel it around.  I will get a lot of use out of this between school stuff and all of my daughter's volleyball tournaments out of town!  Here's a better photo off the internet:

I also received something pretty exciting in the mail today from Amazon....not a book, MEGA SMARTIES!

  Oh my goodness, have you seen these????  I saw them the other day at AC Moore, they were $1.69 for a roll.  I knew I had to have them for school so I found them on Amazon - a case of 24 rolls.  They were about a dollar a piece.  More than I wanted to spend, but they really are awesome and I HAD to get them.  I thought I could give them out when the kids get all 220 sight words or at report card time or open a roll and give them each one piece of candy right before a test, to make them "smart".  Lots of possibilities!  

It's hard to see how big they are, here's a photo I took compared to a pack of gum:

and holding them:

They are giant!!  :)  And FUN!  Sure to make my class Super Smarties!

First Grade Rocks! {A Pop Rocks Treat for Open House}

I decided to make a little treat for open house - just to let my new students know how much FIRST GRADE ROCKS!!!

I made little slip on wrappers to go around packs of Pop Rocks.  You can get Pop Rocks at The Dollar Tree.  They come in a pack of 3 for $1.  I used scrapbook paper for the wrap around band (see bad phone picture below) and designed the label below to stick on top.  

 I've included a copy of the label below if you'd like to use it (I left my name off for you :)  Click on the photo below to go to Google Docs to get it.  It is a JPEG that you can size to the size you want.  I made mine pretty small to fit the band.

I found an easy science experiment to do the first week of school with Pop Rocks too.  I am going to tell the students that eating the Pop Rocks are "homework" because we will use them in a science experiment the first week of school (to introduce the Scientific Method).  They are "homework" because I want them to be familiar with Pop Rocks before we do the experiment!  Here's the experiment:

Steve Spangler Pop Rocks Experiment