Monday Made It - April

I love this linky, before I started my own little blog these were my favorite posts to read. There were always so many great ideas. Since I've started my blog I've managed to link up a total of two times (and one was really sad). I'm not sure that this one is much better but I just have to link up, I love it so much! Make sure your link up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics or check out all the great and inspiring posts being linked.

1. Home decor- my mom bought the door for me at the consignment store where she volunteers, I bought the background paper at chapters - it is from a box of note cards - loved the colors and now I have extra note cards and the letters were made by a teaching buddy who is lucky enough to have a Cricket! The letters are the initials of our little family - and yes they spell GAME if you re-arrange them. Oh how jealous I am of my friend's Cricket. I think it would be dangerous for me to get one though.

2. Calendar Cards - Header

Graphics from Krista Walden

I posted previously about my spring calendar cards that I made. At the time I was messing around with making a picture and using it as text fill. I made April and May using the picture I created and I really like how it turned out - I decided to use it even though I have a perfectly good April header. I just trimmed around the word and mounted it on black tag paper and trimmed it up again. You can pick up a free set of the calendar cards and headers by clicking here.

3. Time Unit




Graphics from Ashley Hughes

 I was talking with one of my teaching buddies and she was looking for some new time activities for her class so I created this unit. It is for grades 1-3 and has activities for telling time from half-hour to the nearest 5 minute mark. It also has elapsed time work and creating a timeline. Click here to check out the preview in my TpT store if you want to see more.

4. Inference Notebooks

Graphics from Scrappin Doodles

I stole this ideas from the super sweet and super creative Joanne at Head over Heels for Teaching (click here to see her post - you will notice it is from a Monday Made It post - told you I love to read them and steal all of the ideas!). I bought these mini-composition books at Dollarama - they were in packs of 3 for $1.00. Then we added the little labels to the cover. We are using these books to hold our inferences during our current reading unit. I will talk more about how I use these tomorrow when I link up with Holly for her
Tried it Tuesday linky (yes that's a teaser). Notice the cutting skills of my not-so-little ones! There is not much to the covers but you can click here for a free copy.

5. Decaf coffee

You might be saying "Good for her, switching over to decaf" but you would be wrong - I am not switching over to decaf, I bought the wrong coffee and have been drinking decaf since Saturday morning. That's right the best coffee of the week the Saturday morning in my jammies coffee was a decaf! How did this happen, I was shopping with my husband - and he was not in the mood to shop - so I was rushing and not paying attention and now I am paying for it!! Only10 more to go!

Oh and I made a Facebook page for this little blog - if you want to go over and like it you will be one of the first (not THE first, but super close) and you can tell everyone you are a trendsetter! : )

https://www.facebook.com/LookingFromThirdToFourth?ref=hl