As a teacher, one of the greatest sights is seeing things that I have created being printed, cut out, and laminated! It is one of my obsessions. Everything that I want to keep or have the kids use gets laminated. Our laminator at school is very temperamental, so on the advice of one of my co-workers, I purchased my own and it has been WONDERFUL! It actually laminates things a little thicker than the one at school, which makes flash cards and other things sturdier. Here is a picture of the laminator that I purchased, along with the box of laminating film. The laminator was bought at Wal-Mart for under $30 and the pouches I got at Sam's Club for $20 . Wal-Mart sells a 50 pack of these for $10, but since we have a Sam's Club membership it is more economical to get them there.
Here are some of the products that I have created this summer that coordinate with my Bright Polka Dot classroom décor. I am a little OCD when it comes to school décor and like all of my things to match, so I started making my own things. You can get any of my products by clicking on the pictures, which will take you to my TPT store. I will post pictures this week of these things hanging up in my classroom, with my classroom tour once I can get back into my room this week.
These are color word posters for my kinders to learn their color words. I chose not to put these on the polka dot backgrounds, in order to not confuse them.
These are number cards from 1-20 that I also hang up in my room. There is pictorial representation using 10 Frames.
These are the cards that I use for my literacy station rotations. I print off two sets of these, as the
students go to two stations a day.
I use these numbers to label my student cubbies. You could use these for numerous things though...and since you made it to this post they are FREE!!!!
These are my alphabet posters which I will put on the table side of my room to help with ABC order, letter sound association, and spelling.
Be sure to check back next week to see these products in action in my classroom!
