Working on classroom supplies

Middle and I worked on bulliten boards all last summer. As an RA she had four large boards in her hall (60 girls on her end of her floor, big dorm). There were a few boards which are really only appropriate for a girls/college/dorm floor (great naked yoga article, std's, getting along with your roommate, etc). The vast majority of her boards contained holiday, seasonal or general topics that would work for college or age 3 - snowmen, food, sunglasses, turkey, etc. She has a supply for a teacher's lounge board too - reducing stress, posture, Dr Mom Says, exercise, communication.

We continue to add to her stash (great Olympic stuff on sale after they ended earlier this winter).

She has a wide variety of teaching clothes and shoes too. I worked very hard on this last fall.




Middle did not know it, but I started picking up classroom stuff a couple years ago.

I gave her these things over spring break, because she is in the classroom more and more. If you are trying to remember - duel early childhood ed (ece) and early special ed (espce) major.

She has a bin with larger size, plastic mammals, bugs, reptiles.

She has funnels and measuring cups/spoons for science experiments.

She has finger puppets.

She has three sets of animal dominoes.

Etc.




While she was home over spring break, we hunted through a great resale shop which is run by a local church.

We found a pair of large (1 1/2") dice, and Junior Boggle and Junior Yahtzee.

We found a tunnel. It needs a little sewing, but is good otherwise. She has a second tunnel we got (new) with a 40% off coupon.

We found the deal of the century on a Cranium Super Fort. We paid $44.99 for what we have seen
listed from $250-350 on ebay and amazon.

The pictures below are of her actual pieces. They came in four large totes that originally came with the set.

60 red ball joints
80 red C clamps
23 blue feet
4 purple square walls
5 blue panels
3 green panels
4 purple panels
4 orange panels
3 red panels (larger)

78 poles, the yellow ones are flexible, the orange ones rigid

these were the only broken pieces out of the whole thing -
6 poles (end connectors are broken) she is saving them for other uses

We also found this gem at a local store on clearance -

Preschool catch - where ever your thumb lands, you make the sound of that animal. They come in all different topics for many ages and are called THUMBALLS,

There is a huge flea market/garage sale event in our area (geared towards families) later this spring. We are going to attend and hunt carefully.

Also, long ago, when I packed up the kid's books, I packed up all kinds of things for middle to use as teacher reference materials - craft books, science books, lists of reading books, etc. There are two huge bins of them. I also saved actual projects the kids made in school. There are some great things in that bin too. Middle did not realize until last week that those bins existed. They are a wealth of resources too.