Class Easter Baskets On a Budget!

If you're like me, you spend trillions (yes, trillions) of dollars on your classroom each year! I don't mind spending money for my kids' benefit (though it would be ideal not to have to spend my own money!) but I do like being able to spend less when I can, especially for something we do not use for very long. Also, I am not a minimalist, but I do believe in having and storing as little as possible! I don't buy certain things for my classroom simply because I don't want to store it!! No pumpkins or Easter baskets for this girl!! Next week, we will be using Easter baskets and eggs for math manipulatives and I almost hyperventilated at the idea of having to buy Easter tubs or buckets or whatever for all of my students to use AND THEN store for the next twelve months!! Also, I wanted each of my 22 students to have enough eggs to work some of the problems we will have (with sums going up to 18). Ain't no way I'm buying that many baskets and eggs! My solution??:

Easter egg cups and pom poms!! The cups were 4 for 97 cents at Wal-Mart and the pom poms were around $3.00 for about 100 of them! Now I have enough baskets and eggs for all of the kids AND I can store them easily! Winning!!

Use the bigger ones for a more eggy look.

What do you think??? How do you feel about storing things?

Also, don't forget to check out my writing post from yesterday! I explain how writing is set up in my 1st grade classroom.

I have a writing pack giveaway going on it right now that I am actually extending until tomorrow. Here is what is at stake:

Check it out by clicking here! Have a fun Friday night!!! 

WInnah! Winnah! Winnah!

Here are the winners of Eggy Math and Literacy!

I will email you--I hope you three enjoy the pack!

You can check it out in either store!

My post tomorrow is allll about writing and how I do it in my classroom. After that, I will finish up My Math Block Mini-Series as I am lacking a few pictures for the explanation. See you then!

Eggy Math and Literacy!

Hey, hey! Hope you are having a great week so far! I wanted to share an eggs-citing new product with you! ;) Over the weekend, I bust out the plastic Easter eggs and got to thinking what fun, new thing I could do with them. Here is what I came up with:

I tried out the sight word games with my students today and they were a big hit! I plan on using some of the math ones tomorrow.

The pack includes practice for:

-sight words from Pre-Primer, Primer, 1st grade, and 2nd grade Dolch word lists

-number words

-color words

-vowel sounds

-basic addition

-basic subtraction

-subitizing

-number recognition

I would LOVE for you to check the pack in my store!

As always, I would love to give out some freebies! Comment with your name and email and I will randomly choose 3 winners tomorrow.
The winners have been chosen! Thanks for entering!