Cute Clipboards!

Wow! Now it is August.  Time has been swift this summer.  I spent last weekend babysitting 2 of my favorite little guys, Oran and Mack.  We were very busy and we had a good time.   I was tired.
I have spent some time in the classroom.  I am still trying to get it organized.  I thought I wanted my desk at the back of the room, but the more I trhought about moving my laptop from the back to the front over and over I decided to move my desk back to the front.  I am still adjusting and finding places for everything.
My clipboards are looking ugly.  Previous classes have marked all over them and pencil will not erase.  I wanted to perk them up a little, so I bought some mod podge and painted mod podge on the paper to the back of the clipboards.   They turned out pretty cute.  A packet of 50 papers all in black and white was just the look I wanted.  Now all the clipboards look different and everyone can pick the one they want to take care of this year!  The mod podge dries quickly and washes up with water.  The mod podge leaves a nice shiny look to the back of the clipboard.

 I hope to use anchor charts this year.  These charts can be good reminders for the kids about what is currently being studied. I need to start making some that I might need at the beginning of the year.  I did however, get an all about numbers poster made.  I will use a dry erase
to write on it and then erase for the next number.  It is hard to see on the chart, but we will work with the number of boys and girls that equal the chosen number, money, time, tally marks, 10 frame, dominoes, addition facts to equal the chosen number, and ordinal numbers.  It will hit a lot of ways to make the chosen number.
So much to do!