Favorite Things Linky: Beach or Pool Day (And a preview for my spelling pack)

I'm joining up with Across the Hall in 2nd for the My Favorite Things Linky!

This weeks is your favorite things for a beach or pool day.

Since I live in Florida and about 30 or less minutes from the beach this is a fun one to me!

Here are my essentials!  I am a Thirty-One consultant and have TONS of products. These are a few that I love for the beach :)  Find them here!

I also have always worn sunglasses so I would not survive without them.  I am a flip flop girl and I love my reefs. The most important is my sunscreen. Since I am a redhead and fair skinned I would literally last about 20 minutes without my sunscreen. And even them I would be burnt!! haha

Setting up my room

Ok so I am changing my classroom theme a little this year. Instead of owls and brown and green colors, I am having owls with rainbow colors. And I've become obsessed with chevron like most people. So there will be a lot of chevron.

I went in yesterday to begin decorating my bulletin boards and start getting organized. I can't bring any of my bookshelves in yet since the floors won't be done for a few weeks.

But here's what I got done so far...

 My CAFE board :)

 These pictures are blurry, but you get the gist of it. 

These are all of my back wall.  I have 3 chalk boards and then 2 bulletin boards covered in black.  So it's a line of 5 black squares.  

This is one side of my room with my numbers from last year.  I don't know if I'm going to keep these numbers up since they are green and brown but I just don't want to waste them. haha!

One thing I'm super bummed about is that I don't have anywhere to put a word wall. This room is just WAY too small so I'm thinking I'm just going to add a word wall section to their OWL binders and have them refer to that while writing. 

If you have any other suggestions for a word wall. Please let me hear it. :)

Teacher Toolbox Trio

I am linking up for the...

1. An item I've made and can't live without is my...

2. An item I've bought and can't live without is Deedee Wills and Deanna Jump's...

My students just loved the writer's workshop. 

3. I am planning to buy the rest of Sarah's literacy centers. I own two different months but plan to have them all.  

Ready, Set, Show Me Linky Party - Week 1

I am linking up to JD's Rockin' Readers' Linky Party!  

This is my first time doing one of these so I'm excited.

I have already decided how I am doing centers this year.  I'm praying it works and I won't have to change anything this year. 

First thing is my reading block is only 90 minutes so it's hard to fit in everything that I want. 

I am using the Daily Five this year. I have used it in the past but not correctly.  This year I intend to use it correctly except with only 2 rounds of Daily Five since I won't have time for any more than that. Each round will last 25 minutes. Once the WHOLE class can independently complete each activity then I will allow them to pick their own activities for each round. 

I made this a few weeks ago for my bulletin boards. Click the picture to see it at my TPT store. 

I also REALLY love Sarah's literacy center menu's. So I wanted to incorporate these somehow.  I couldn't find a way to fit it into my reading block without making it too packed so I decided that I would make this my daily morning work.  When student's are finished unpacking and ready for the day they can pick out a center to complete. Each literacy center menu comes with 16 different centers.  So I will require (probably) 10 centers to be completed each month.  That way if they are tardy they don't have to worry about completing their morning work later. 

You can find her TPT store here!

I also like the fact that I'm not going to have to print out a bunch of worksheets for morning work anymore. And then try and find something to keep my fast workers occupied.

Don't forget to link up to the Ready, Set, Show Me linky party!