My First Monday Made it! Better Late than Never!

This is my favorite linky of the week. I love seeing all the different ideas and so finally I can join for the first time! (I know I'm so late to the party!) Yay!

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Here is what I have been crazily working on to get ready for my classroom makeover and Monday Made its! Cutting and Laminating!! It seemed to be Never. Ending!

Once that was done I could actually create! 

 

 

I have finally finished my crate seats! I have been looking at these forever and I finally got myself to get with the program. It actually took less time that I thought it would!

 

First, I had to have my husband cut 4 pieces out of plywood to fit my crates. Oh, how he loves back to school!

 

 

Then I got my materials together. I bought 1 in foam from Joann's in a big piece and then cut it into fourths. I only bought a yard of fabric but it was enough to do all 4 crates!

 

Here is how I put them together:

Fabric right side down

foam

plywood

Then you just staple like you are reupholstering a chair. I did have to make sure to pull tight so that there were no creases!

 

One down! 3 to go!

 

Ta Da! 4 crate seats ready to go for my 5th graders! I can't wait to get them into my room!





 

I am going to try the Homework Club in my room this year from Lessons with Laughter. What a great idea!  Check out her original post here. So I had to make them my color scheme for my room!

I cut and laminated all the numbers and attached them with Velcro for easy take off. I seem to have trouble with magnets falling off so I thought this would be easier!

I also got this cute little magnetic container to hang by it for kiddos who have to take their number off the board. My teammates and I are going to do a Homework Club Prize monthly and then a big one at the end of the year for those students who have made it all year. I still need to think about how to track these each month so let you know if you have any ideas!

To get your own freebie of these numbers visit my TPT store!

 

 

 



I am trying out the Donors Choose site to get my students some great binders for Reading/Writing. I am going to try all of these awesome interactive notebooks this year! Click the picture of my cute kiddos if you want to check it out!

Have a wonderful Monday!