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found some bonus 3 packs.

These make fabulous gifts!

Usually they are 2 packs.

I am going to paint these and personalize them for my co-teacher.

car freshener (they are a little strong) 

Sequins for sensory bottles

I needed a new purple pencil caddy.

Plus I found these adorable frog earmuffs!

Here are some pointers.

I take our the bottom pointy things!

felt garland from the Plus section

The game was at like a Bed Bath &Beyond (if they existed anymore lol)

so some home goods type store.

Mini Erasers

Here are ahem *some* of my mini eraser collection.

I have been collecting them my entire teaching career- 20+ years!!

I have a ton of them.

I have bought them from Target in the party section- they are the big ones in the bottom drawers.

ehhh.. not my favorite 

Target's Dollar Spot aka Bullseye's Playground

they sell them in mesh bags with 60 of them for $1 :)

They sell them at Target, 5 Below, Party City, Oriental, Amazon.

This is how I store them. 

I take out a drawer and hand it to a child.  

I love love love mini erasers!!

These were $3 

There were 50 in each box. The package contains 4 boxes.

Random ones in Bullseye's Playground 

These are the mesh bags.  They are usually seasonal. 

 These were at Dollar Tree.

I will be publishing some stories to go along with these,

stay tuned!!

Uses:

sorting

patterns

math counters

bingo markers

use on play dough mats instead of play dough

Why:

Working on fine motor (muscles) for better writing

Grab some printables here:

 Life Over C's (many free, some cost)

Pocket of Preschool 

Here's a video from her.

Here are some other ideas:

Fun a Day

Frog-tastic Labels

If you follow me on Instagram, you have seen these in various stages of creation. 

One may have had a poop emoji lol

After some help, I added months-  what else could you use??? 

Leave a comment, send a message, smoke signal?!

In action. This is so far.  

Looks great!!!

organized, uniform, works. :) 

Great!   

THEN... 

reality sets in... 

right next to my orderliness is this hot mess!

Keepin' it real people.

Especially with today's Pinterest Perfect classrooms.

So much is not shown.

This is real life, everyone has it, even if they don't show it!

Organization

Those super cute organization boxes are all the rage.  

I was so ahead of the curve lol

I have stored my things in mine for almost 18 years lol

No photo of that :)

Additionally, I use several for my students.

No it's not cute.

But you know what?

It works and my students loved it and

used it daily!

This one is in our writing center.

Each letter has two drawers.

Letter stamper markers and stamps that begin with that letter.

Last week I wrote about those eraser containers I bought,

here are the drawers I've used in the past.

You see those missing drawers? 

Yeah, my mother took those for some unrelated need lol

I mean who takes the drawers?!?!?!!?!?!

I also use one to store my letters for Making Words.

I pull the drawers we need and the kids take the letters we need.

When they need more than one letter a make an additional row right above,

They really giggle when there is a third row, because they get to take 3 letters!

No photo, it's at school.

Dollar Tree Tuesday's

Here is a little organizer that I got at the Dollar Tree.  It has some covered pockets.  Inside one of the pockets a small bag of paper clips.  The part that can be covered isn't very closed, so I didn't want those little buggers to fall out everywhere. 

Inside the pockets:

*shaped post-it notes for my Cafe menu

* erasers

*a large frog clip

*those post-it tabs

*pencils and high-lighters

*little post-it flags from the Dollar Spot

*regular post-it notes

                                      

Here is the back:

It has one big pocket. Here are my sharpies and more high lighters.