School supplies are out at Wal-Mart.   I tried to walk by, I really did.  I even filled my cart up with groceries  and shampoo for my husband.  Then I made my mistake.  I thought  I would just *peek* to see if the composition folders were out because those tend to fly off shelves.

Oh my.

Suddenly, I had 25 red, 25 yellow, and 25 blue folders, 25 composition notebooks, 18 packs of glues sticks and 4 packs of cap erasers in my cart.  How did that happen?

Then I thought since I had already blown it, I might as well go down the college/ dorm room aisle (I am beginning to get a feeling of why my diets never work…hmmmm).  I found these awesome bath caddies of $1 each!  Score!  They are black and match my black borders!  I figure I will use them for communal supplies and set them on the black drawer sets at each table.  I thought six caddies for six dollars was a deal!

 

I need to make pretty labels for them… adding that to the to do list.

I am currently working on several things.  I like to start 200 projects.  Finishing them is not nearly as much fun!   One of them is a beginning of the year unit teaching students conventions of conversation.  So much of the new Common Core Standards revolve around students talking, but after my summer school experience I am learning kids talk AT each other, not with each other!  Right now it is about 6 partner activities.  I have two lessons around books planned- but  I need the books to ship from Amazon to make sure, and then I will move to conventions of conversations in a large group.  Whew.  Here is a sneak peak of everything so far…

I am hoping to get it finished  by the end of July     before 2013     soon. : )

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