I'm Baaaaack! And with good teacher finds!

Just returned home from 2 weeks in Southen Cali visiting family and friends.  Such a great break and fun time with my kiddos too!  I pretty much ate my way through the L.A./Orange County area :)  And my other discovery is that teacher supply stores are WAAYYY better there than here in AZ!  I found some great ideas and bargains at CM School Supply. 

My favorite was the clearance area....which was the size of a warehouse!  I found great teacher resource books from Scholastic for $1.50!  Glyphs are one of my favorite activities to do with my kids.  I was able to get a book for Holidays and All About Me.

If you haven't done glyphs with your class, YOU SHOULD!  They are a great way to integrate reading, writing, and math.  They also make great class bulletin boards.  It's important to include a key on your bulletin board so that people can figure out the meaning of each child's glyph.  I like to have them up for Back to School night or conferences.  I hope to post a picture of this year's class birthday glyphs when school starts....which by the way is only 2 weeks away for me.....AHHHH!

Free Stuff Alert!

For those of you who know me, you know how I love to find a deal when I shop!  So when I come across free stuff it makes me down right giddy!  We all know teachers are on the low end of the totem pole for pay so I like to make my money stretch and prefer to spend it shoes and purses rather than workbooks and bulletin board sets :)  I am making it part of my mission on this blog to share all the freebies I can find.

One of my FAVORITE blogs is Erica Bohrer and she has oodles of files for free right now on her Teachers Pay Teachers Site.....click below and go forth with the freebies!