Star of the Day Chair and Birthday Freebie

I was super excited today, when UPS came a-knockin' at my door.  I ordered a special little seat for my Star of the Day.  I have a Star of the Day which is like my little assistant.  See my Star of the Day post here.  We spend a lot of the time at my carpet, and I wanted to have a special seat for just my Star of the Day.  I didn't want something that was going to take up a lot of space, I really needed something that could be stored easily.  I was on Pinterest one day and found...the PERFECT seat! Here's a picture of my cutie pie Greysen trying it out.  Actually I'm  not quite sure how I'm going to get it back from him.  It seems he's already staked his claim on it :)

The seat is actually a physical therapy exercise/balance cushion.  It's made by Isokinetics.  They have lots of fun colors! I got the neon orange. 

I also have a Birthday Freebie.  I wanted to have a card for my students on their special day.  I created this printable, and my plan is to have all my students sign the center of the card at the beginning of the year.  Then, I just need to run off copies.  I will probably only run off a small number of copies at a time, in case I need to add a name for a new student.  I'll add the birthday boy/girl's name on the line and sign it before giving it to them.  The song at the bottom is to a Christmas tune, but my second graders love it, promise :)

Click on the image for your freebie.

Star of the Day

It's Monday....time for Monday Made-It! Monday used to be the dreaded day of the week, now I can't wait for Monday. Who'd-a-thought?!?  I have a daily Star of the Day in my classroom.  I wanted a new way to track who the new star is for the day.  Here it goes...

I fancied up a yard stick with scrapbook paper and stick-on numbers and ended up with a brightly colored Star of the Day Tracker.  I'm a little crazy about color!!! It also gave me a chance to play with the Mod Podge, which I have a love/hate relationship with!  I assign my students numbers at the beginning of the year, and we really use numbers for everything from Star of the Day to Choosing Caps to Cubbies.  Each day, I'll just move the clip down to the next number- this will be the Star of the Day for the day.  If someone is absent, I can just hop to the next number.

I also decide to make a poster that shows everyone's number. This is really most helpful for a sub, since my kiddos seem to memorize their own numbers as well as their classmates' numbers before long.  This is my very first time making an editable PDF, who knew it was so simple???  You will notice text boxes once it downloads, but they will not show when the document prints.

Check it out- it's a freebie.

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