Simply For Teachers

Check out the FREE table numbers I've posted on my TPT store  (<click there)! I hope you enjoy them. I love how mine look on paper daisies.  Thanks!

I LOVE having tables in First Grade! A couple of years ago there was extra money in our school's budget (I know, crazy right) and the administration encouraged staff to make proposals on how to spend that money.  My partner and I quickly responded with our desire to have tables in our classrooms.  We provided research and a great pitch!  The benefits have been huge and we love them.   I created some cute numbers a couple of years ago using paper daisies.  This year I adjusted the actual numbers and they turned out really cute (I think).   Stop back and I'll have them for FREE at my TPT store !!!! Thanks for stopping by,

I'm not sure that the picture does the event justice (it didn't look that fuzzy on my phone), but here are those cute bins at work.  The best part is….it worked!! Totally eliminated the traffic around the room and the kiddos took to them like fish to water.  Why didn't I do this sooner? I hope you enjoy the labels and the peek at the bins at work. Thanks!

This is an idea I can not take any credit for! My rockin grade level partner found this idea on Pinterest and we all know how that goes…..we have to share. The idea is a small/medium container that sits in the middle of your table groups during a craftivity.  Each table collects their scraps in the "Tidy Bin" during the activity and one person is responsible for dumping the scraps in the recycling once the table is finished.  This is a very simple concept and one I've seen around, but this year it just seemed to make sense to give it a try.  I believe it will really eliminate the traffic to and from the recycling and the "pit stops" some of my friends like to make on their way back to their own seat (you know what I mean).   The buckets I purchased are from the Dollar Tree and have the cute little holes all around them.  So I decided to place a plain label behind the one on the front of the bucket to keep it from peeling off or scraps getting stuck to the ba...