Finished Birthday Buckets and More

So here is my finished birthday bucket with birthday balloons:

{all finished, finally!!}

 {i def. underestimated the size of the pixie sticks}

{the bucket up close - pink, lime green glitter paper, and glitter zebra paper}

{birthday balloon toppers!!}

 {glued to the top of the pixie sticks}

So I originally didn't have fur on the top. So I was telling the BF last night that it needed fur. He was like how exactly do you buy fur? Do you have to go hunt an animal? So funny. I went and did a little retail therapy with my best friend today and I found this:

I may or may not have spent way too much on it, but that's okay. Look at it!! I also found zebra Yahtzee and a little zebra eraser that will find a home somewhere on my desk. I finished my Welcome! sign and my Ms. Hilliard sign. I tried to take a picture, but it wasn't cooperating. I'll try again tomorrow or maybe you'll just have to wait until I have it hung up in my room.

I am about halfway through book bin labels for primary classrooms, so those of you who are looking for more non-chapter themed labels I'll have those coming for you!! I threw together a few other things yesterday and today. I'm going into super panic mode because in a week I can get into my classroom.

{supply labels for bins}

{zebra themed homework passes}

{zebra print specials signs}

 {printable reading log}

make note it looks funny for some reason on google docs,

but it does not print like that

{shipping label size labels for birthday balloons}

Question for everyone that is 3rd grade or higher... Who uses the Daily 5/CAFE? Coming from 1st it was easy enough to incorporate. Many people have said they don't use CAFE in the higher grades? Daily 5 is easy enough to use in the upper grades, I'm just not really sure what I'm going to do about CAFE. I'm stopping at school tomorrow to (hopefully) pick up my Good Habits, Great Readers manuals so I have some time to look over them. I'm also going to make some math bin labels within the next few days, along with some more games and maybe a few units. 

Have a good night ya'll :)

Birthday Balloons

So before I proceed to post this, let me add my *disclaimer*

I had the most difficult time ever trying to find a balloon template I could/wanted to use. So much so that I really had to play with my graphics program, and I didn't even erase/edit enough to get the balloon outline all by itself. Now with that being said, I printed a page of these, laminated them, and then cut the balloons out around the inside edge and everything worked out perfectly and you could even see the hazy edges. If it's too much for you I understand. I was desperate to make this work for me though and I thought I'd share anyway.

Birthday Balloons


I should probably tell those of you who have no idea what these are for about the wonderful idea on Proteacher. Rachelle over at What the Teacher Wants! made these originally. I have to give all credit to her for finding and sharing the idea! So I will do something similar to this with my balloons.

Find the post here: http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/2010/11/student-birthdays.html.