I'm BACK! Candy Themed Labels

This post is long over due! I have soooo many things to blog about: Debbie Diller's Summer Institute, new class layout, all the features of my room, Debbie Diller's Summer Institute (yes it was awesome), my back to school purchases, and a couple other things up my sleeve!


I've had several followers ask about the classroom labels they see in my classroom.  I just uploaded all of them up onto my TPT store! The BEST part is that ALL the labels are also provided blank.


Here is the preview file :)

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 You can see the labels in use in my classroom in the following pictures:

That's all for now! I'm in Georgia for some vacation so its brief and short tonight :)

Teacher Tuesday ~ Classroom Themes

Well I love MJ's style over at Teaching in Heels! I was just scrolling through my google reader and came across her post discussing classroom themes. When I was going into my first year of teaching it took me awhile to come up with a classroom theme. Did I want to go with a theme? Did I want to have a theme centered around an object or around color? After a good it of debate and searching the intenet I came up with a Candy/Sweets theme. Can I just say there is not that much made for this theme. Especially in educational stores. It required some thinking outside the box and creating things on my own. My mom really helped me out coming up with some cute candy/sweet connections and items for my room. So I stuck with a loose candy/sweet theme and chose to tie in primary colors. I have come to love it more and more. Especially now that I can create things on my computer! I've created some of the following things this summer to really tie in all the candy/sweet themes. 

Here are som things I've made, picked up along the way, and purchased to tie my theme together. Of course by September this year everything will be tweaked a bit because my classroom in an evolving learning environment. As teachers shouldn't we be willing to learn and grow since it's what we ask of our students? Just a thought. Now onto some more pics . . . 

2B Smarties ( as in the candies. . . if you look closely at the border I attached  smarties' wrappers!)

At the beginning of the year it say Welgum to 2B and write my students' names onto each gumball.

This let's you see the bright colors in my room and some of the candy elements. . . DOTS blanket, M&M umbrella, smarties board. . . 

My labels all have candy on them! And are all in the bright primary colors :)

M&M rug and on the hair there is a Laffy taffy pillow. That chair was a HUGE hit with my sweets :)

My library sign! It was my dad's idea and it's still SUPER awesome.
Another perk to using primary color sin your classroom is they are almost always for sale. Educational supplies almost always include primary colors. Finding bins and other things is pretty easy!

Hope you enjoyed. Go link up your thoughts on classroom themes with MJ's Teacher Tuesday!


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A Quickie! Candy/Sweets Theme

I created a short a, short i mini word work packet to use next year. I wanted to post about it so I could offer the first 3 people who follow my blog and leave a comment with their email address will get it for free!

Check it out HERE!

I am also creating a candy/sweet themed classroom packet to use in my classroom next year. I had that theme last year but didn't have everything I would like. I use Poppin' Patterns' accents for bulletin board borders, calendar, etc. There isn't that much quality cute stuff out there for that theme. I simply love the theme and am not willing to change. So I'm pretty focused at the moment on that. I don't want to forget anything (LOL). I like to be prepared! I need to get it done so I can print it off and get it laminated at my school! I would rather it all be done and ready to use before we go back to school for teacher work week/days.

Is there anything particular that you look for when using a classroom theme packet? I'm trying to make sure I have EVERYTHING I need. I got the basics down: job lists, labels, binder covers/spines, table numbers, cubby numbers, class schedule, library bin labels, to do list for students, student binder/folder home communication tool, . . . At the moment that is all I can think of. If you can think of anything else let me know!

Psss! I would love to hear what theme you have in your won classroom.

I'm off to be creative! I love it :) Enjoy your day!