Sweet & Simple Saturday Post #7

It's Saturday!! Time for a sweet and simple freebie! :)

Last week, I bought some flash cards from Target and thought I would make a cute little mat to go with them, just so it doesn't feel like traditional flash card practice when the kids are using them.

The kids will pull cards and place them appropriately on the mat, depending on which skill they are practicing. They can practice matching numbers or comparing numbers.

I love that these flash cards have pictures on the back and multiple copies of each number. If you'd like to grab this mat, click below!

Have a great Saturday!! :)

Math Bins MAKEOVER!

So one of my first grade BFFFFs texted me a picture of some BEAUTIFUL storage drawers from Walmart the other day...

My classroom theme is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, so I knew I MUST have some of them!! The orange is perfect! I decided to get rid of my blue math bins...

I love the color of the blue bins but they do not really match the rest of my classroom. And while I was changing things up, I also decided that I needed better labels for all of the bins. (Originally, the kids would go to a numbered bin during math stations and complete that activity. I decided midway through the year last year to keep daily activities elsewhere and use the drawers for math station games/supplies storage since the amount of games and supplies is ever-increasing.) Anywho, I did it! I bought 2 orange bins and switched them with the blue! I also made my cute little labels and this is what it now looks like:

Did you notice the drawer with no label????? I don't have a clue what happened to it!! For whatever reason, it did not make it to my classroom with the others! I guess I'll do that one tomorrow...

These drawers store partner games for Word Work (Daily 5) and daubers (Do-a-Dots).

I LOOOOOVE my orange bins!!! Love, love, love!! :) I would love to switch out the white bins with pink ones so my room is even more CCBB, but I haven't ever seen any that color. Let me know if you do! :)

I also made labels over the weekend for my math manipulatives:

I printed them last night, cut them out, and was able to adhere them to my containers today! If you follow me on Instagram, you've already peeked at them!

If you are interested in the labels, click on either of the product pics to check them out in my TPT store. They are available for the very low price of $1.75!

So excited for all of this cuteness!! :) Can't wait to catch up on Monday Made It and see what YOU have made!

Fun Finds Friday!

I have been shopping nearly every day this week, even online! :O This is what my guest room now looks like:

YIKESVILLE, I know. I did A LOT of shopping this past week! All of this loot is from Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Target, Really Good Stuff, Mardel, and Dollar Tree.

The time pocket chart was on sale at Really Good Stuff! So were the water pens (I have big plans for those). I am ELATED about the ten-frame dry erase boards, especially since I already have magnetic two-color counters! The back of the board is blank.

Sight word stuff from RGS. I have some plans for the adorable and fun sight word bracelets. There is a different list on each set of bracelets.

The storage bag was a free sample from RGS! I am super excited about the ten-frame/part-part-whole dry erase boards!!!! There's also 10 fun little five-frames and the cell phone valentine cards. Those were a HUGE hit with my last class because it has a scratch-off message. Figured I'd get them again since they were dirt cheap!

The cute pizza games were on sale, too! The Geo Shapes Outlines have some GREAT potential!

This is my Mardel loot--insects bulletin board set, butterfly and frog life cycle figurines, hundred charts (for calendar time), mini-hundred chart stickers (for math notebooks), pattern cards, fun tape, a magnet and rings set (for my wee one), student number lines, and transparent counters.

Also on sale at Mardel.

Michaels and Hobby Lobby stuff. You've already seen the crocodile and baseball in this past Monday's Monday Made It.

From Michaels! It was only 2 bucks!

The tray came from the Hobby Lobby party section, the ladybugs from Michaels, and the erasers from Target.

Stuff from Target. The digital camera bookmarks will make a great addition to the treasure box, the basket is to hold my ginormous erasers for writing, and the stickers are for sticker stories, ten-frames, rewards, etc.

Random beach ball from somewhere, paint brushes, coconut trees, tape, and mini easel from Hobby Lobby. The easel also has a chalkboard on the back. I was thinking of using it to display AR quiz numbers for books we have read together. It would go on the computer table.......I guess I need another since I have 2 computer tables.......back to Hobby Lobby!! :) :) :)

More from Hobby Lobby! Dowel rods for my pointers, pom-poms for my wee one, and the container.......

...for letter magnets!! The letter magnets included uppercase and lowercase, as well as numbers. Those are from Mardel.

Michaels!

The sentence strips were $1 at Michaels and the stickers are from Hobby Lobby. I used the stickers on my pointer storage bucket.

These were also $1 at Michaels. Love the simple time match cards! The alphabet ones are for my wee one.

How cute is this little owl and the tray??! For the guest room! Any ideas for what else to put on the tray...?? That's all I got.

Also from Hobby Lobby for my wee one's playroom. Isn't he cute?!

Dollar Tree loot--I haven't decided what to do with the vests yet, but I am thinking something to do with science. I also bought army men for counters, cute yellow baskets and a green bucket, measuring cups and cookie sheets for math, ping pong balls for an undetermined reason, spatulas for center games, and containers for base-10 blocks storage.

Stay tuned to see what I do with all of this stufffff!!! :)

And don't forget to come by tomorrow for your freebie!