Ready for the New Year - Organizing and planning!

Today was a workday. A TEACHER workday. With NO meetings. You heard me! It was GLORIOUS, I tell you!! Some people prefer to plan at home...me??? I don't get much planning at home because of my 2 little rugrats that I just HAVE to play with while I'm home.  So I headed to work...and I was the only one in my pod for a few hours, which is great because then of course all you want to do is talk, right? haha!

I didn't know exactly where to begin, I had so much on my to-do list, so I did something that wasn't even ON my list...haha! It had been bugging me forever though, so I did it right then and there...I made labels for all of my binders - that match! (and no, this isn't all of my binders...5 of the bazillion. lol). Something about being all uniform and organized, just makes this girl happy, you know?

THEN, I found a box from Scholastic that NEEDED my attention...again, not my to-do list, but it still NEEDED to be done AND it more organizing and labeling! haha!

So I looked up the A.R. levels of the books and labeled them. You can look up the levels on {THIS} site.

I also put my "Return this Book to Mrs. Ross" stickers on all of my books. These stickers have come in handy, let me tell you. I've had students a year later bring me back a book they found at their house...or when books go missing throughout the school, they know who's mailbox or classroom to give them back to. I highly recommending you label your books!

THEN, I finally got down to business. I did all of my report cards, PMPs, and my profile sheet that we have to turn in. Let me tell you, paperwork is the LEAST favorite thing about my job...well, one of the least favorites anyway.

I also started printing...Their spelling homework next week is going to be the spelling tic-tac-toe, a freebie I posted last year. You can find it on {THIS} post.  I also printed off The Applicious Teacher's New Years Freebie. You can grab that {HERE}.

I also printed off all of their non-fiction penguin books for them to start writing! We are going to do our planning next week, and then our neat copies. I'm so excited. I love these books! You can check out the ones from last year {HERE}.

Check out my Learning With Penguins pack!

I didn't take any pictures, but I also got ready more of my January Centers AND my Subtraction Sleuths...we need to do some review of subtraction when we get back, and this is perfect for it!

Ok, it's time for me to go catch up on Kelley and Michael. OH! I'm currently thinking of ideas for my February Lit and Math centers. Any thoughts on what skills you'd like to see included? Let me know -I'm making my list!