Spectrum Readers: Nature's Helpers

    This was a cute book to read to the students and is great since it will match with our upcoming science unit! It had lots of colorful pictures that the students liked and seemed durable which is extremely important when the books are left to a group of 5 year olds! Here are a few pictures so you can see what the inside is all about.

You can find more here!

AND a video here!  

I participate in the Brand Ambassador Program for Carson-Dellosa and I received this

product for free to try and review.

Common core and making sure the kids know why the heck we do what we do!

          My next goodie to work with from Carson Dellosa was perfect with all our upcoming changes.  For us we will be switching over to the common core next year for Language Arts and already switched over for Math this year.  So a big box of all the standards nicely laid out and with kid friendly language on the opposite side was perfect for checking out.  I have wanted to start posting these in my room for awhile but just lacked the time to type it all out.  These were nice because they were a pretty heavy duty material instead of printing something out that I would have to laminate.  We also frequently talk about WHY we are learning and how we progress and grow as learners.  I would love to eventually scatter them throughout the room but for now I kept it simple and put them with our daily schedule so they could see there was a reason for all those crazy things their teacher makes them do!

A bulletin board and game in one

        I was sent my brand ambassador assignment and I was extra happy because bulletin boards take time and that is something we don't have a lot of as teachers.  It also gives me and my fiance time to come up with puns which I feel is a requirement as a teacher.  The goofier the better.  I lucked out because this set had SO SO many pieces to it that I figured I could easily come up with something else to do with them!  

        So first is the bulletin board which is the original intentions for the product.  I lucked out and also was sent the border that is with it.  What you cannot see is that the border also happens to be reversible and yellow on the other side. Feel free to click on the pictures they should open up to a much larger size to get a good idea of the border and of the frogs.