Ten Pin Linky {Classroom Management}

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My favorite linky is back! Ashley at Just Reed has the newest edition of her Ten Pin Linky. This week's theme is classroom management.

I couldn't be more excited with the theme of the week. As a soon to be teacher, it's basically all about the classroom management. Without a well managed class, nothing is going to get done. I will be sure to bookmark this linky and repin all the pins that I find so I can have access to all these fabulous classroom management techniques at my fingertips! 

Click here to be taken to my classroom management Pinterest board! 

Here are my top 10 pins that I can't wait to implement in my future classroom.

Aren't these such fabulous ideas! There are such genius teachers out there! What did we ever do without Pinterest! Thanks for hosting Ashley! I'm headed off to check out all the other pins!
 

Jump on the Bloglovin Bandwagon!

July 1st is only a mere 12 days away! Yikes! July 1st might bring plenty of pleasant things such as a new Farley's Currently. However, July 1st marks the end of a beloved friendship with Google Reader and Google Friend Connect. 

What to do with all those blogs! How will you be able to spend the entire Summer blog stalking and pinning new ideas for your classroom if you have no place to read them? Have no fear! Bloglovin is here to save the day! 

I have loved being able to blog stalk hundreds of blogs daily with Google Reader. I have loved seeing my number of followers grow on Google Friend Connect and being able to celebrate with each milestone. While I might lose all nearly 600 followers on Google Friend Connect, I won't lose all 200+ blogs that I follow on Google Reader! Bloglovin makes it easy to transfer all the blogs you currently follow over so that you will never miss a beat! And starting over with new followers on Bloglovin, I will be able to re-celebrate milestones! That just means more fabulous giveaways for you! Didn't you luck out big time?

Well after all that talk, you must be wondering how do I follow your blog already! See the Bloglovin button over to the right? Just click it, create a Bloglovin account, and you will be kept up to date with all the happenings on my blog! You definitely will be wanting to stay following The Polished Teacher because I have a HUGE giveaway coming up for my 1 year bloggy birthday in August!

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 July 1st will be here before you know it! Switch over to Bloglovin and join the fun!

Monday Made It + Big Giveaway Winners!

You know how you get all those catchy little commercial jingles stuck in your head? That has been happening a lot this summer seeing as I am watching way too much tv! I keep trying to come up with my own random jingles for all the fun linky parties going on in the blogosphere. I tried to make my own Five for Friday one based off the one for the Five Dollar Footlong from Subway. It went a little something like this...

Five,

Five for,

Five for Friday... 

with Doodle Bugs Teaching

Is this a good jingle? Nope. Why do I feel the need to do these crazy things? I have no clue whatsoever! However, I feel that the Monday Made-It linky party definitely needs its own too! Any ideas? I'll get working on it and let you know next week what I come up with!  

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I was on a roll these past 2 weeks with themed creations. This week, sadly there is no theme as I didn't go shopping once. I had to pull out of my magical Mary Poppins bag of crafting and use what I bought last summer. But have no fear! I will try and work on a theme again for next week! Maybe I will play guess the crafting theme and there will be prizes involved! That sounds like fun don't you agree?

As always, I'm linking up with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics to share my Monday Made It creations this week! 

 

Here's the random hodge podge of crafting that I was up to a couple of hours ago this weekend. 

First...

This was super easy to make! Buy a 16 cent tile at Home Depot, wrap it in washi tape, modge podge a fun graphic on top, seal with a top coat of modge podge, glue felt on the bottom so you don't scratch your table, bada bing bada boom all done!

Next...

Sticking with my one true love, washi tape are these adorable pointers! Once again a really simple creation that even I couldn't mess up! You take a tongue depressor popsicle stick and cover it in one strip of washi tape. Then you seal it with modge podge and stick a button at the end. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! 

 Then...

These glitter clothespins that have been floating all around Pinterest and I just had to make! Luckily I had glitter and clothespins that I bought last summer in my magical bag so this was just meant to be! This was the easiest craft ever! Brush a layer of modge podge onto the clothespin, sprinkle on glitter, seal with a top coat of glitter. Easy as 1, 2, 3!

Finally...

While at Lowes last weekend, I snagged these free paint swatch books. I wasn't sure what to make with it but then it hit me. All I did was tear out all the extra pages leaving just the paint chip samples. Then I took some animal stickers and added a random number from 1-10 to each paint chip. Then on the back I wrote the corresponding numeral and number word. This is a simple activity that the kids can use to practice one to one correspondence. I think it turned out quite cute! 

I think I am really getting the hang of this Monday Made It thing! These crafts keep getting better and better each week! I can't wait to see what's up my sleeve next week! 

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Finally, the moment you've maybe all been waiting for! My 500 follower giveaway winners! 

(This isn't going to be something fancy because I am writing this post after midnight and ain't nobody got time for that when you have to be up for work in the morning so like Teeny says, shield your eyes)

Drumroll please....

K-2 Prize Pack - Susan Casper

K-2 Winner's Choice - Doreen Bednarski

3-6 Prize Pack - Teaching is a Gift

3-6 Winner's Choice - Tara Witte

Congratulations ladies! 

And now for the lucky font pack winners! 

1. Andrea Halterman (#4)

2. lcooney (#69)

3. Erin Brummett (#42)

4. Molly @ Lessons With Laughter (#63)

5. Lindsay Paulson (#36)

Enjoy those fonts!

Didn't win this time? Don't worry, there will be plenty of other chances to win something in the future! Keep following my blog to stay up to date with all the latest giveaway news!

Have a wonderful week!

Ten Pin Linky + Giveaway Winners

My 500 follower giveaway ends at Midnight! Don't delay! Enter before it's too late! You don't want to miss out these fantastic prizes!

Moving right along....

Ashley from Just Reed is a girl after my own Pinterest loving heart! This might be one of my favorite linky parties ever! It has the most adorable name and linky graphic ever!

See? What did I tell you, adorable! Love the clever play on words! Ashley you rock!

The rules for this linky are so simple! You just link up with your 10 favorite pins that fit the theme. The theme will change each week meaning I get to proclaim my love for Pinterest each and every week! What could be better!

Let's get down to the decor! Here's my top 10 classroom decor faves!

I had a hard time choosing just 10 pins to share! If you want to see the rest, just head over to my Pinterest boards to see more! 

Thanks so much for hosting this fabulous linky party Ashley! Can't wait to see what's in store for next week!  

Finally....

I never drew winners for my font pack this week, so here are the three lucky winners! Thanks so much for pinning! 

Dora, I just need you e-mail address so I hope you see this post!

Five For Friday!

Aaah Friday! Made it through another busy week! I seem to be living for the weekends when I can sleep in and just relax. For all of you still in school trying to make it to the end I'm sure you understand! Today, I'm linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching and share! 

1. Celebrating 500 Followers - This blog of mine hit a big milestone this week! I am celebrating with a 500 follower giveaway! It ends tomorrow at Midnight so get those last minute entries in! Click the picture below to enter!

2. Monday Made It - After my huge Monday Made It fail, I was so excited with my creations this week! Washi Tape changes lives people! If you don't own any get on that ASAP! Click the image below to view what I made!

3. Candy Crush - Are you all candy crush addicts like I am? I was introduced to chocolate squares this week and let me tell you we have a hate-hate relationship! I have never lost so many lives before! This chocolate has to go! 

4. Rain, Rain, Go Away - It seemed like the rain was here to stay this week. I was not enjoying all that rain and neither were the kids. I think we got to to outside twice this week. Not to mention field day was cancelled. Hoping for better weather next week! Bring on the sunshine!

Clip art from My Cute Graphics

5. Erin Condren Teacher Planner - My lesson planner finally arrived! It made my week! It was definitely worth the wait! This planner is beyond amazing! If you don't have one yet, go online and buy one today! It is definitely worth the hefty price tag! 

Well there you have it a week in the life of The Polished Teacher! Hopefully my weeks get a bit more exciting in the future and include some travel! Can't wait to hear what everyone else was up to!