Monday Made It- Behavior Chart, Candy Jar and STUTELAGE INNOVATIONS (Hobby Horses)

 I am SO excited for this Monday Made It. I am linking up with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics today

My first MMI is my behavior chart for next year. I decided I needed to change up my program in my room and I came across this from PINTEREST (of course!!) Here is the behavior chart. I LOVE the idea that all the students start at Ready To Learn and they can move up and down depending on their behavior. The first picture shows ribbon I used to connect them all. The middle picture is the final product :) absolutely LOVE. I don't know if I am going to use names or numbers yet for their clothespins to move up and down. The far right picture is the individual bookmarks for each student to take home (parent communication!!) as well as to keep at their desks for personal reference. The Hall of Fame is for the end of each week if a student was in "good choice" "great job" or "super student" for all 5 days will be placed in the Hall of Fame :)

I did laminate each indiviudal page so that it would last all year long!


My SECOND MMI is my desk candy jar. I found this year that I had a candy jar on my desk (not for students) but for teachers! The only problem I had with it was...it was a SNOWMAN (and I kept it up probably until March)--yikes! I wish I had a picture of it to show you! It's super cute...but we already get enough snow I didn't want to have a snowman in my room too! But I didn't find another jar that I loved..I looked everywhere!

I was at Michael's the other day to get those little chalky clips which you can find HERE and I found the jar that I wanted--It was on SALE. All I had to do was add the pop of color that I wanted and Presto a 4 season candy jar!

 My THIRD MMI I am SO excited about! On Friday I went to help my friend who started her own business called Stutelage Innovations (check it out its amazing!) If you live in Buffalo, NY or surrounding areas you should REALLY look into this. Stutelage is a center that provides tutoring, community programming, party planning, summer camps and MORE! I helped out with a summer camp called "A Horse is a Horse of course"  You can find all the other community programs HERE for the rest of the summer. Not just for children, there are programs for young adults and adults too (especially teachers!! Since my friend is a teacher too---her philosophy is that you learn something new from everything they offer!)

SOOO..A Horse is a Horse of course Stutelage description said-- "Come learn everything there is to know about horses in this week long camp.  We will read stories about horses both wild and tame.  We will learn what is needed to take care of a horse and the many different jobs that a horse can have.  We will even learn important information about owning, riding, and caring for a horse." How exciting right?! A whole week to learn about

Friday was the last day for the camp and I was soooo glad it was the day I went. For the end of camp craft they were making Hobby Horses. HOW CUTE RIGHT! I thought this would be a perfect Monday Made It for all sorts of different reasons ( to use at school, at home or just fun for your own kids!).  Now you are probably thinking...how are they going to make Hobby Horses without it costing a fortune! Welll....Think. Pool Noodles, Felt, Twine, Sharpie Marker and DONE.


Pool Noodles-- $1.00 at Five Below
Felt- $0.29 at A.C. Moore
Twine- $2.99 at A.C. Moore
(then use your teacher discount!!)

Here are the materials that you need!!  Make sure you draw on the felt the mane and the ears for the horse!!

Fold the noodle at the top to make the head for the horse.           Cut out the felt for the mane and ears!

 Have an adult help tie the twine around the noodle. This helps to keep the folded part down as well as makes the reins for riding!In the picture below you can see the reins hanging!!

After that you will want to hot glue gun the ears and mane to the noodle. Put the ears on first like above!

 Now it's time to add the mane to the back of the noodle! Hot glue gun it down . Look at all the pictures :) How cute!!!

 Now...your horse cannot be a horse without some eyes. Use a sharpie marker or googly eyes to make your horse stand out!!

Aren't these Hobby Horses adorable!?! It is a quick and easy craft project that you can make at home or at school! Here are the 5 Final products

Bright SUMMER COLORS and a FUN Summer Activity! Now after you make the Hobby Horses--the best thing to do is have a horse race right?!?!

On Your Mark Get Set....GO!!! The campers had such a great time the whole week learning about horses and then being able to ride a "horse" on the last day!!

Don't forget to Check out Stutelage Innovations for more fun this summer and into the school year!

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July 1st and my First Monday Made It--pinterest obsessed!

Monday July 1st and my FIRST Monday Made it-- a lot of firsts today :)

Since I just started my blog last week, I am linking up with my first Monday Made It with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics I love this idea and wanted to share some inspiration I had before even starting a blog. I absolutely LOVE pinterest and made many gifts from there for the end of the year. Super cute ideas some of which I have pictures from and will link back to where I got the idea so you can take a look there too!
Being a FIRST year teacher-- I wanted to make sure I thanked some people! Starting with my "pod." I worked in the 6th grade pod and these ladies were such a wonderful help throughout my first year, especially Morgan-- who was in her 3rd year of teaching and was able to answer any question that I had!! Thank you!! Marge and Mary were very experienced teachers and were able to help me out in that way-- so I go the idea from Joanne over at Head Over Heels for Teaching you should check out this fun easy gift for teachers!

This picture frame post it holder was such a cute idea-- I couldn't pass it up! I went to get 3 small plastic picture frames (you can get them at the Dollar Tree). Colorful Post It Notes, some glue, sharpie and colorful scrapbooking paper! I just wanted to do something simple, but with a pop of color! I loved the pinks/oranges together in this scrapbook paper so that was my inspiration! I secured the post-it notes with a little glue to the photo frame. I cut the paper to fit inside of the frame and just wrote the teacher's names on the front with a sharpie marker!


The next gift I made were for the two secretaries in our main office. Izzy (main office) and Kathy (special education department) were incredible this year and answered any questions that I might have had.I got this idea again from PINTEREST---Erin over at Making Memories with your Kids gave me the idea for this awesome printable! I loved the idea of a water bottle for summer and of course the delicious Starbursts inside!

For the two teacher assistants in my room, I found this AMAZING idea over at What the Teacher Wants I first LOVED the printable to go along with the pitchers and that inspired me to find colorful pitchers to go with it! I purchased these at Wal Mart. Inside the pitchers I put a Country Time Lemonade Mix and 2 lemons for an extra touch. Both Cherry and Cathy loved them and thought they were sooo cute! (I would have to agree!)

Last but not least I made these gifts for my principal and cse chairperson. It was my first attempt and creating and although I think I could have done a better job--it was a good try and they both really appreciated them :) I can't find the link to where I got the Pinspiration--but here is a picture and as soon as I find it I will link it back here. I know it was a combination of a couple of blogs! so thank you!! This is a picture of Mel's (a little blurry-I am sorry!)

Now my favorite gifts were obviously the ones I made for my 6 WONDERFUL students. I wanted to give my students something to enjoy over the summer and really remember what a terrific year we had together and of course how hard they worked. These six students don't come from a lot at home and don't have as many opportunities as some others. They are the 6 greatest kids you will ever ever meet!! Some of them I will have again next year, however, 3 will be moving on to the middle school and I will miss them soooo much!

Teri over at A Cupcake for a Teacher  inspired this next gift. I first saw it on Pinterest and was absolutely in love with the design and the idea! I went to the dollar store that day and found 6 krazy straw water bottles, grabbed 6 kool aid packs at Wegmans and printed off the printable from HERE. This is how they turned out-- pretty cute right? My students loved them and filled the water bottles up with at the water fountain right away!

I also found this on--you guessed it---pinterest. The printable came from Me and My Insanity blog. I didn't want to get whole packs of marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate so I divided up into 6 little ziplock bags and stapled the printable to the bag! Easy and simple and a delicious summer treat :)

 

Here are both the gifts together! 

I also made my students Bookmarks-- for summer reading! Reading was a very important aspect of my classroom community this year (as I am sure it is with all of yours)-- It was a struggle at the beginning of the year, students who are not motivated to read and are 3-4 grade levels behind, do not even want to pick up a book! So-- to get my students to enjoy reading I used the DAILY 5 and CAFE (which I will be blogging about at a later post) to pick good-fi t books and build up my students reading stamina. By the end of the year my students loved to pick up books-- from the classroom library--which I am obsessed with! (Again at a later post)-- But I didn't want the reading to stop on June 19th when they walked out of the door for the summer...so here was my idea. 

**By the way-- I love that when I write one post-- I already have ideas flowing for future posts! LOVE IT!**

Summer Reading is Cool Bookmark-- that looks like a Popsicle!  I found the idea from Pinterest and it linked to this blog Tip Junkie and summer crafts and activities! I LOVED this idea so I went to Barnes and Noble and picked up 6 books with summer as the main focus around my students independent reading level. I printed and colored the bookmarks to look like the Bombpops--one of my summer favorites as a kid!

Judy Moody and the Not So Bummer Summer and Magic Tree House Summer Sea Serpent were the two best picks!

Last gift of the year was inspired again by Pinterest and The Very Busy Kindergartner Since I was a self-contained classroom of 4th 5th and 6th graders-- I needed something to give them that showed they were still going on to the next grade level (even though I would still have the 3 students going into 5th and 6th grade) the other 3 students will be going to the middle school in 7th grade. I went to the grocery store and bought 6 $1 individual containers of goldfish and printed the printable from HERE -- I loved this one specifically because I was able to do all 3 grade levels without a problem, so thank you!! But there are so many variations of this gift that they are all so wonderful!

All of these gift ideas were found on pinterest and now with my blog, I am glad I get to share them and give credit to the blogs I found them from!