Whole-Class Writing Journals

I saw another idea on Pinterest and knew it was a great idea for my classroom. Today I made 10 whole-class writing journals. I plan to let these journals circulate around the room during Daily 5 (Daily 3?) and want to encourage my kidlets to share their writing with the class. Some of my topics are hobbies, pets, vacations, deserted island, music, and college. The original pin links back to a really great website you need to check out. This teachers has some really wonderful ideas and a few freebies, too (I used her doc for my journal labels and then just threw in some graphics.) Click Here: I Love My Classroom

Writing Journals: Ribbon Bookmarks

I saw this idea on Pinterest (sorry--I don't know where the original post is but if it's yours please let me know). It was a pretty simple project. A little hot glue, ribbons, and now my student's new writing journals have a permanent book mark. I think they are so cute.

My Teacher's Toolbox

After seeing these all over on Pinterest and various blogs, I decided to make my own teacher's toolbox. I found the Stack-On at Home Depot for $16.99 and quickly made a pattern for both sizes of drawers and simply cut them out of scrapbook paper. I made the labels in just a few minutes in Word. Saved a lot of ink, too. :-) I think the whole thing took me about an hour and a half...most of that time was taping the cards to the inside of the drawers.



I'm not sure if I like it or not, but I added wall stickers from The Dollar Tree because the tops and sides looked boring. I chose the flowers because of our Universiity of Hawaii connection. The stickers are removable so they may not last long.