I took a little road trip with hubby to a nearby town with a Walmart, and just look at what I found!
These little babies were under a dollar! Now, what to do with them? Well, that’s easy. I will be loading them for extra practice writing friends’ names, writing the alphabet correctly, writing sight words and more!
And here is a free template for creating your own
student name book to practice friends’ names! There are 24 pages that can be loaded front and back in these little albums, and the plastic protector is slick (as opposed to textured). Dry-erase markers will wipe off sooo easily! Love this because I use the slick sheet protectors for my name toolkits too!
Click the pic to grab your copy of this “editable”.
What else did I find, did you ask? Well…ta-dahhhhh! This beautiful chevron tote! No, I did not find this at Wally-world, but I did find it at one of my favorite clothing merchants: Cato Fashions!
This cute bag was under $20, and it is purr-fect for my 17″ laptop computer! I have been cripling along with a bag that I bought three years ago. I acutally had punched new holes for the snap clips on the shoulder strap just to be able to carry it back and forth the school. Yes, I take my laptop every day. I am so paranoid about needing a file that may not be on my school computer. We live in a rural area with slow internet, so Dropbox and other online storage are not a fast option for me. Love this tote!
Here is my FREEBIE for this post: Our school uses Journeys, but the poems are not available for our smartboard. I typed a bigger version of them. Feel free to use if you are in need of these.
I love comments! Let me know how you use mini-photo albums! I am so excited to add these to our writing centers.
Julianne Zapatka says
Hi Maggie! I love your letter formation rhymes but I noticed lowercase b is missing a few words. Could you just let me know the rest of the rhyme?
Make a long line down.
A circle from the
Middle.
Nice and round.
Not too big—it’
Thank you!
maggieskinder says
The end of the rhyme is “It’s a b, small b.”
I need to load the correct file that I repaired. Thank you for commenting! I had forgotten about this.
Maggie
EB says
Maggie, just a heads up that the B is still missing the words. THANK YOU for this, though! As a teacher new to Journeys it is extremely helpful! Now I can just laminate these and stick them by my board for easy reference. I appreciate it!
maggieskinder says
Boy! I thought I had all loose ends tied up. I’ll try to find it and fix it. Thanks!
maggieskinder says
It is fixed! Open the link from the blog post pic. It is now hosted in my google drive. You should be able to download from there. I think B still looks okay.
Maggie
Michelle says
I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I click on “letter formation poems” but nothing comes up. Thanks!
maggieskinder says
You need to open them in chrome. They are located on web pages. Could it be that you are opening them in tabs?
maggieskinder says
Here is the link to them. 🙂 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwugBzJawFTadS1xTXlpUkFJVUE/edit?usp=sharing