Great toolbox idea

I pinned an idea today on Pinterest that I'll have to try next year.   As soon as my budget allows, I'm buying this toolbox from Lowes.  My assistant will absolutely LOVE this idea.   Finally, a way to keep my materials and tools better organized than they currently are!   


Check out the Create, teach, Share blog for more details on this project.


So many of the blogs I run across are for K-2 teachers.  I was thrilled to locate this one with ideas for older elementary students.


  Create*teach*Share toolbox post link

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the site on the toolbox.

How Teachers Roll into Summer......

I almost named my blog What Teachers Do!   However,  our whole day is about what our children do (learn) so it wouldn't have been quite accurate.    As usual for a Friday night, I'm well past feeling like hitting the bed.  After all the testing the last three weeks, I'm more than ready for some pillow time.  Instead, also as usual,  I'm sitting here pinning ideas on Pinterest,  reading blogs and  stopping often to make quick sketches of ideas for my classroom.   I'm too tired to worry overly much about errors in my writing, so please forgive any mistakes my tired eyes fail to catch.


Like so many others, I've finally started counting down the days until school is out.  As much as I'm looking forward to the break, I realize I've committed myself to numerous workshops this summer and wondering just why I've gone full steam ahead when I really need the break this year.   I doubt many of us really take a break because we're constantly looking for ideas, saving ideas, creating lessons, or searching for the latest great activity for a special lesson we want to teach next year.   What a difference from other occupations where people just schedule time off for a vacation and leave work behind.   Of course, too much of society still falls under the misconception that we have "2 months paid vacation"--at tax payer expense, of course, when the reality is much farther from the truth.  In reality, most of us spend the summer taking at least classes or participating in workshops,  developing plans and materials for the upcoming school year and never really leave it all (school) behind for those sunny beaches.   Many of us will be in our classrooms this summer  working and setting up for next year or have those curriculum guides and standards out preparing when in reality we do need the down time in order to come back fresh and eagerly awaiting students in August.   But, that's the way Teachers Roll!