Giveaways in Blogland!

Teaching Happily Ever After is having a HUUUUGE giveaway. $150 in Touchpoint Math materials. I looove Touchpoint Math so I had to get in on this one.

Mrs. Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching is having a super cute giveaway. She is giving one lucky winner a Personalized Portfolio! Aren't these the cutest?!

My Favorite Mac Tip EVER!

I commented this on my "How to Download Fonts on a Mac" post but just in case you missed it...

My favorite trick is screen shots. If you hold down "command+shift+4" it will give you a little crosshare that you can stretch around whatever you want to take a picture of on your screen. It then saves it to your desktop. It is so much faster than the PC "print screen". Try it! 

How to Download Fonts on a Mac

I have had some questions about how to download fonts on a Mac. Ohhhh how I remember the days of switching to a Mac. It can be very scary but I am a firm believer that once you go Mac, you will NEVER go back. Sometimes I am forced to, like at work but it's nice that I know how to use both. Anyways, I made this quick little font downloading tutorial that may interest some of you. 

Donna at Peace Love and Learning is giving a way a super cute Classroom Birthday Packet. Hurry over and get yours. I mean, how cute is this?! Love it.

My Favorite Fonts

Jenn from Finally in First is having a linky party for favorite fonts. I am one of those teachers that cringes at Times New Roman or (gasp) hand written worksheets. My coworkers know, if you give me something like that, it is instantly going to be retyped and turned "cutesy". Anyways... back to the linky party. Here's my favs! 

If you can't find any of these fonts, I am more than happy to share. Just leave me your email in a comment! I have been known to be a "font-pusher" at school. :)

Happy "Tea"cher Appreciation

With lots and lots of time on your hands comes lots and lots of organizing. I've been going through my files and cleaning them up and came across this "Tea"cher Appreciation gift we made and gave out this year. It was very inexpensive and the teachers really seemed to appreciate it. All you do is print and tape a bag of tea in the middle. I'm sure you can change it around and bit and make it a Back to School surprise for teachers, or let's be honest... it's never to late to celebrate teachers! Enjoy!

Classroom Behavior Stuff

Linking up with The Lesson Plan Diva for this one...



I'm sure most of you can relate, but I just have to say that I get sooooo excited when someone sees something on my blog and wants to use it or gives me a thumbs up for it. We all work so hard and I feel like Blogland gives us all a chance to make each other feel the love. Am I right? Okay so the number one thing I get requests for is my Ooops Behavior Log. I'm just going to go ahead and post everything I use for behavior purposes in my classroom and hopefully you can get some inspiration. If you are missing on font, or want some of the wording changed, just feel free to leave me a comment with your email. It's summer and sadly, I am still laid off so I have A LOT of time... 

Here is the behavior chart I laminate and hang. Just print them on to different colored paper.

This is the infamous Ooops Log! 

Here is the weekly behavior notice I send home to parents. It took me a long time to figure out a way that I wouldn't have to write in the date... Headers and Footers! Each student gets one page. For example, Student A's name would be on page one, twice. Student B's name would be on page two, twice. (Each kid is getting their own page... is this making sense? Geeez it's been a long day) So I have 25 students and they each get their own page. I change the header to week 1's dates and then the footer to week 2's dates and then print. It works for me bc I don't have to do ANY writing this way. All I do is color in the kids suns. Also, I send these home on Thursday and the kiddos bring them back Friday, when their homework is due. I had a lot of these get lost over the weekend. Which actually leads me to my next reason why I love this layout... if someone loses it, I just quickly print them a new page and color it in then and there. No copy machine trip.

A teaching friend found this contract online and I just did a little bit of moving around on it. (I wish I knew where it came from) For students that need a little more "attention" I use a daily behavior notice that I fill out several times throughout the day. I have only had to do this for about 4 students and it works well.

Here is the daily in a template you can edit. (no pictures)

And for all those amazing students that need a little note home...

Again, let me know if you want some changes or for me to email it to you so you can make your own changes!