Weekly Goal Setting

Hello ATUE Readers,

It's Kristy from the 2 Peas and a Dog blog. It has been a while since I last posted due to report card writing and moving. I do not recommend combining these two major events together as they are both stressful and time consuming.

While I am writing the learning skills part of my report card - I report on the student's ability to set, monitor and follow through on their goals. This can be difficult to monitor without a formal goal setting tracking program. Where does the time come from? How can this be managed? These are all questions I asked myself when I started teaching.

I have tried different systems: goal setting duotangs, writing in their agendas, handing in loose papers. IT WAS ALL TOO MUCH TO MANAGE on top of our required teaching duties. Then I saw a Grade 5 teacher at my school use cue cards on student desks as a visual reminder to each student of their goals. This was a brilliant idea so I asked her if I could borrow it and make it rotary applicable.

How Does This Work?

1. Hand out a cue card to each student once a week, once a month, once a term - what suits your schedule.
2. Have them write one academic goal and one life goal. Depending the length of time the goals will need to be adjusted. "Getting an A in French won't happen until the end of the term." but "Reading 20 pages a night" can happen on a weekly basis.
3. Use packing tape to tape the cue card to the desk as a constant visual reminder for your students of what they need to be working on. 
4. Walk around once a week to have an informal chat with each student on how they are doing with their goals and offer them ideas on how they can keep up their goals. Use a class list and create columns that say: Goals Met, Still Working, Starting Over or something similar that meets your classes needs. 

Got Rotary?

Clearly this taping system will not work if you have more than one class visiting the classroom on a daily or weekly basis. 

Some other ideas include: 

• having students store them in their agendas, binders or notebooks and put them out on their desks when they arrive in your class
• creating a goal setting bulletin board and use smaller cue cards so all your classes can fit on it
• buy one of those 3 panel stand up display boards and adhere the goal cue cards to the board - this can be easily folded up and taken out as needed. Plus it uses less space than a traditional bulletin board
• collect them for the students and hand them out on an as needed bases

I hope this goal setting tip helps reduce your stress level come report card time as you will have great anecdotal notes to work from.

Thanks for reading,

Kristy @ 2 Peas and a Dog

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Guest Poster Corrina Allen: Student Behavior Charts

This year I lucked out and have an amazingly polite and well-behaved group of students. Their focus and manners have impressed me since the first day of school and make our classroom environment pleasant for everyone. However.... occasionally there is a child who struggles to follow most classroom expectations and needs a more individualized plan.  This behavior chart template can help you monitor the child's progress as they start to take more responsibility for making better choices throughout the day.

Download the template here.

Steps:

1. Communicate and Coordinate with parents / team members.
Meet with the others at your school (counselors, psychologists, administrators, team members, etc..) to plan what goals would be most appropriate for the child and determine the extent of the plan. (Will it include special areas and lunch? Who will fill it out each day?) Discuss the plan with the child's parents. Some may wish to get involved and reinforce the positive reports from school with a reward at home. Sometimes parents may decide to leave it up to the school. Either way, parents should be informed.

2. Conference with the child when you are both calm.
When a child repeatedly misbehaves, it can be very frustrating.  Getting the child to open up and get on board with a behavior plan will go more smoothly if the meeting is not emotionally charged. Schedule a private conference with the student to talk about their behavior and keep the focus on their success, rather than the disruption to others.
You might say something like....."I want to do whatever I can to help you be really successful and happy at school. Could we meet tomorrow morning to talk about that together?"

3. Enlist their help in creating goals.
Help the child to create 3-4 attainable behavior goals. They should be doable but also stretching the child toward positive behaviors. For example, if completing all their classwork is going to be difficult, you might adjust that to just one key assignment per day to start with.  Then, ask what would help them meet their goals. (Moving their seat? Organization help?) Having the goals be their idea (or at least making it seem that way!) is ideal.
You might say something like....."What are some things that are difficult now that we could work on improving?" Or "One of our classroom expectations is respecting school property. What would that look like?"

4. Set up a reward trigger.
Decide together how many yeses circled will result in a reward and what that reward will be. For children who need more immediate feedback, having a reward in the morning and then in the afternoon can work until they can develop more self-control. Here are some ideas that have worked well for my students:

• playing for 10 minutes on the iPad / computer
• helping out a younger student in another class
• picking an item from a class prize box
• having a piece of gum or a mint
• telling a joke to the class (this works great with attention seekers!)
• drawing with special markers or pens

5. Follow through
This may seem obvious, but staying on top of a behavior plan takes time and it's vitally important to be consistent. If your student sense that you are half-hearted about it, they won't care either. 

6. Analyze and share the data
Don' just let the chart get tucked into a drawer. Send copies to parents and team members who may work with the child. And take the time to analyze what is happening throughout each day and notice any patterns. Are Mondays especially difficult since they've been at a different house for the weekend? Are they avoiding writing? Is independent work a struggle? Try to find the source of the problem and guide them toward solving it.  (This documentation can also be essential if the child's behavior escalates and you need to conference with administration.)

7. Reassess and Adjust
Meet with the child again after a set amount of time to discuss their successes and make any adjustments in their goals or rewards.

Hopefully, all your students will be perfect angels all of the time.  ;-)  However, even the most fantastic classroom management plans don't work for some children with complex challenges and I hope you'll find this template helpful. The entire document can be edited and customized to suit the specific needs of the child.



Corrina Allen lives in Central New York with her husband and their two young daughters. She's been teaching for over 9 years - most recently 5th and 6th grades. She is the author of the blog, From Mrs. Allen's Teaching Files, where she shares teaching strategies, free resources, and reflections on her classroom experiences. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram.

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Quality Counts Board

It's about this time of year that students get antsy and don't always put forth their personal best.

I find myself saying over and over, "Is this your best work?" or "Did you rush?"

So, this week I'm bringing out my trusty Quality Counts Board.

I ordered a large size car magnet from Vista Print a few years ago titled "Quality Work". When needed, I simply display it on my white board. Then every so often I will pick a few model work samples to hang underneath it.

The work I pick has to show quality effort. If I pick a student's work he then gets to write with a special pen until I replace their work with someone else's. It works like a charm and saves some of my teacher sanity as the "holiday-itis" sets in.

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Keeping Kids on Track

If I'm being honest, I'd have to say that I have a pretty challenging class this year.

In addition to the academic needs of my students, many of them have behavioral and attention needs that need to be redirected. How do I keep them on track?

Let me share some ideas that work for me.

I conference with my {LARGE} group of kids that have on task issues and teach them how to use the SLANT cue chart and "What Level Are You Working" prompt. Then I place the cuing charts on their desks for a constant resource. I can then ask students, "Are you SLANTING?" or "Remember, N = Nothing in your hands".  I also hold them accountable to rate what level they think they are working by holding up fingers. 5 fingers is actively engaged and 1 or 2 fingers mean they are off task or distracting themselves or others. I ask them, "Are your choices helping you do your best learning?"

Both these strategies have been beneficial this year and I hope you will find them useful too.

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Conquering the Paper/Notebook Monster

Hello Again,

It's Kristy from 2 Peas and a Dog, writing to you from balmy Ontario, Canada. The weather is not normally this nice during the fall season. Well I have survived a month of school and am excited to share a new to me strategy for taming the paper monster in my classroom.

I have serious interactive notebook envy. I am slowly trying to update my teaching style to incorporate more purposeful and interactive use of notebooks.

I cannot believe it has taken me seven years to finally discover how to effectively and neatly store worksheets and photocopied papers in notebooks. The best part of this new discovery is that it came from an eighth grade student in my homeroom class. I had previously asked students to fold the paper in half and glue half of it a whole page in their notebook. Eek! I always felt guilty because the glue made their notebooks messy and it used up a whole page.

This year I suggested students keep a binder for math and use loose lined paper instead of a notebook. The majority of my class has switched to this system and are enjoying feeling more like high school students.

I have a few students who love their notebooks and won't make the switch. This past unit I handed out a few practice sheets or lessons on photocopied paper. These notebook students had the papers in a few different states:

• in their lockers
• shoved into their notebook in no order
• hole punched and put into a binder with no connection to the lesson or unit
• stapled neatly into the notebook

The last student had stapled the sheet into their notebook only at the top of the page with two staples at either corner. This meant that the paper could easily be lifted up and the work could be completed underneath - loosing no paper space.

The student completed their work in their notebook and when they were finished they stapled the paper into their notebooks only at the top. This meant that the student did not have to keep flipping the paper back and forth during practice time AND their notebook stayed neat. I am so excited for this idea. When I checked everyone's binders and notebooks before our first unit test, I used this notebook and staple strategy as model for the rest of the class. 

What tips do you have for making students keep neat notebooks? How do you tame the paper monster? Please leave your ideas in the comments below. I can't wait to read them.

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Fifteen Ways to Give Positive ClassDojo Points: Guest Poster, Flapjack Education Resources

ClassDojo is awesome and you probably already know this, but I just wanted to share with you some ways I reward my students with positive DoJo points. If you haven't gotten around to learning about ClassDoJo, just google and you will find umpteen amazing resources.

Thankfully, I have a fantastic class this year, and I rarely have to resort to giving negative points. It seems focusing on the positive points has been more than enough motivation for them up until now. So I'm always looking for more ways to award them the points they want so badly.

Here Are 15 of Those Ways:

1. Completed Homework (my students get one every day)
2. Getting All Math Homework Problems Correct - Since we can't grade homework, I still have students put up pencils and self-check with highlighters. On some days I will choose to give Dojos to anyone who had every answer correct. This really motivates them to do their best on these assignments.  
   
3. Giving 110% Percent - Students receive A's in my class if they do what I ask. But if a student goes above and beyond on a project or science journal activity, I also award them a positive DoJo.
4. Awesome Answer in Class - Sometimes a student just says something that is pure genius. This earns them a point. I also give challenge problems in math. Students answer on individual whiteboards. Positive Dojo points are given to correct answers.
5. Being Quiet in the Line, Fire Drill, Cafeteria, etc. - This could be whole group or individual.
   
6. Getting a Hall Compliment from Staff - They earn 1 point as a class for teacher compliments and two points for administrator compliments.
7. Helping Classmates - If a student finishes early, I often have them help others. If a student didn't listen to my instructions, I ask another student to explain what I said (this also helps my sanity). If a student spills their water or box of school supplies, I observe to see who helps. Then I add DoJo points from my phone or desktop.
8. Solving a Dispute Amongst Classmates - When students are in groups and I see them solve a dispute without me, they deserve a positive DoJo.
9. Saying a Kind Word - I'm always on the lookout for kind words, encouraging words, compliments, etc. that can be awarded points.
10. Picking up Trash
    
11. Tidying Up - Students earn points all the time if they tidy up something that was left undone. This happens a lot with my math station materials.
12. Finding Lost Materials - We play lots of math games, so inevitably materials will go missing. If a student finds a bingo chip or game card that was not put up, they earn a point.
    
13. Taking Initiative - There's a wrapper at the lunch table that nobody wants to claim, so Jerry puts it in the trash. Jerry just earned a DoJo point.
14. Beginning Morning Routine Well - If students are having trouble getting started, just start awarding students who are working with Dojo points. Make sure the volume is turned up on your desktop. You don't have to say a word. When students start hearing the positive DoJo sounds, they will get the message and start preparing for the day.
15. First One Ready- While transitioning to another activity, I often look for the first CALM student or table of students and give them points for being ready.

I know many of these we obvious, but hopefully a few were helpful! Have a great week with ClassDoJo!

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11 Ways to Build a Classroom Library on a Budget

Well, it's about that time! The back-to-school clock is ticking and there ain't no stopping it. Some of you may even be back already! For new teachers especially, this is such an exciting - and scary - time! One of the questions I hear come up for new teachers time and time again is "How do I build a classroom library with limited resources?"

I have a few ideas and tricks that have worked for me over the years that I will share with you here today. I also posted this question on my Facebook fan page and the response was overwhelming! No can ever accuse teachers of not being creative and resourceful when it comes to gathering materials - there were so many wonderful ideas, many of which I had never heard of, that I'm super excited to share with you. If you are willing to do a little work, you will be able to find some amazing books at little to no cost.

11 ways to build a classroom library on a budget:

1) Scholastic Book Clubs

Scholastic Book Clubs are popular - and for good reason. The excitement of a new book order form is like a present under the tree on Christmas morning to most students. It's a great way to get books into the hands of your kiddos at a great cost. For every order your students place, YOU get points which you can then redeem for free books. If you are a brand new teacher just starting out, you may be thinking, "That's great, but this doesn't help me RIGHT NOW." Fair enough - BUT just know that by using Scholastic Book Clubs from the beginning of the year, you are basically investing in the future of your classroom library. It doesn't cost YOU anything, and you will reap the benefits sooner rather than later. Definitely 100% worth signing up over at www.scholastic.com. Now, let's get to some ideas that will give you more immediate access to books.

2) Scholastic Warehouse Sales

Scholastic Warehouse Sales are a great way to get books at crazy discounts. Visit this site to see if there's one near you. Drink a coffee beforehand and wear comfortable shoes. :) AND, here's something I didn't know until a teacher shared on Facebook: If you volunteer at the warehouse sale, you can get paid $10 an hour in books! Here's a link to the volunteer page. How cool!

3) Yard Sales and Garage Sales

This is how I've gotten TONS of books from my classroom. We still have a few weeks left of peak yard sale season - make sure to keep your eye out for signs around your neighborhood! People are usually thrilled to unload their used books at cheap prices. Make sure to mention you are a teacher - sometimes this gets you a better price!

4) Thrift Stores

Good things come to those who treasure hunt! Check out your local thrift stores, as well as Goodwill and Salvation Army for children's books. Apparently, some Salvation Army stores will even give you a flat rate if you let them know that you're a teacher.

5) Dollar Stores

Check out your local dollar stores for deals. I've found tons of books at both the Dollar Tree and the Target Dollar Spot. The quality of the books at the Dollar Tree definitely varies, but they are cheap and generally high interest books. The Target Dollar Spot often has classic books adapted for young readers.

6) Booksalefinder.com

Visit booksalefinder.com for local book sales. You can search by state and find some great deals.

7) Booksbythefoot.com

I've never used this website personally but booksbythefoot.com looks like a great way to get a box full of books for a crazy cheap price. It's been repinned on Pinterest a ton, so the shipping may take up to 5 weeks based on the high demand, but it's definitely worth looking into. 

8) Craigslist.org

I've had a lot of success finding books on Craiglist. Search in the garage sale section or try search terms like "children's books" or "teacher". 

9) Freecycle.org

Freecycle.org is a nonprofit site where people post things they want to give away for free. As teachers, we LOVE free! You may need to dig around a little, but you can search by area and find free books.

10) DonorsChoose.org

If you are a public school teacher, look into donorschoose.org. You can set up a project page and ask for donations for books or other classroom supplies. I've had some pretty big projects fully funded through this website. 

11) Utilize Social Media

Ask your friends and family to donate books they no longer want or need. Post periodically on your Facebook or Twitter page that you are a teacher and looking for books to build your classroom library. Follow teaching blogs, Facebook pages and teachers on Instagram, as many post great deals they find.

This list will hopefully help get you started - but it's definitely not complete! Building a classroom library on a budget takes some legwork, but it can absolutely be done! If you have other ideas to share, PLEASE post them in the comments below - the more ideas, the better! I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

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Vista Print Creations

Summer for many of us is a time to rethink, plan, and organize for the upcoming school year.

Over the years I've had a love/hate relationship with Vista Print materials.

I love it because I get lots of classroom tools, but I hate it because I always fill up my cart to the max.

 Vista Print is a online shop to buy business or marketing related material. This could be business cards, stationary, labels, notepads....You name it.

Here are some of my creations over the years.

I use the car door magnets to display on my white board.

Business cards can be used in all kinds of ways. I've used them for homework passes, exit tickets or brainstorming and bucket fillers.

Address labels can be used for writing revisions, AR labels and folders.

These a just a few of my favorite ways I've used Vistaprint in my classroom. I usually wait to order until I get a good deal email that offers free shipping or a sale of some kind.

Have you used Vista Print? Share your ideas with us.

~Denise

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Taking Time for Interactive Notebooks in the Classroom

Whew, time sure does fly at the end of the school year when you are literally cramming in all the last minute activities to make sure you reach all of the necessary standards, completing paperwork (my nemesis), attending last minute activities and meetings, etc.

Last month I brought up planning as what I think is the most important factor in implementing Interactive Notebooks into your classroom. After that blog post I received numerous questions and comments asking, "How do you fit everything in during each class time?" What a great question! After giving a few quick responses, I decided that I had to share with all of my friends here at All Things Upper Elementary just how I fit it all in.

What is your time frame?

Do you have a 45 minutes class? a 90 minute class? a rotating schedule? a self-contained class that has rough timelines? As soon as I saw on my schedule of classes last summer that each were between 48 and 52 minutes long, 5 days a week I knew that my time frame for fitting in all the necessary components of my lessons was a magical 48 minutes.

How do you plan for your time frame?

From day one in my classroom I was notorious for being a "Structure Sergeant"; yep, that's a nice way of putting it.

When students walking into my classroom they quickly gather all materials needed for the daily lesson. Once they are at their desk they spend NO MORE THAN 3-5 minutes prepping their Interactive Notebook for that day's activities. This includes updating the Table of Contents, writing the date on the page, and cutting out anything and everything and gluing down the bones of the lesson.

I always post a skeleton copy (bare bones, nothing completed) as a picture on my computer to project for all students to see as this gives me the necessary time to complete those teacher tasks such as attendance, etc. before getting stated.

Once the prep time is complete, we move right into our intro of our lesson. This is when I have a student read the "I Can Statement" for the day and we talk about what we will be doing as a component of that statement and break down some key vocabulary that might be in it and if one of those words happens to be a vocabulary word, we complete our Frayer model at that time. We are now roughly 7-10 minutes into class.

Rocking right on it's time to get into the "meat" of the lesson for the day. Typically I did a flippable version of notes so that I could have something interactive to draw my students in for the lesson by keeping them on their toes. There are different ways to do this such a cloze notes, sort and stick (gluing notes that were already typed), or even having groups break into parts of the lesson and report back.

The most important part of this is to keep things flowing so that students are engaged. Doing this in my classroom made my off task behaviors virtually non-existent. Once I had done significant modeling with each individual class of students, I began picking a teacher helper during each class. This teacher helper was my INB Vanna during lessons and uncovered areas or completed their lesson under my document camera while I was monitoring and assisting while also teaching around the room.

There were days that I picked a student who was on the more active side and they were typically the BEST at modeling how a "Structure Sergeant" models a lesson. It's amazing what they had picked up non-verbally from me over time.

After roughly a 15-20 minute mini-lesson it was time for practice and application of skills. I am a huge proponent of not drilling and killing my students but rather relating it to a real-life problem that they may face sometime in life as well as making it interesting to them in some way. This lends to word problems so well. There were days where we only completed 2-3 problems and that was perfectly fine because then there were other days where we were able to complete a lot more through whole group practice, workstations, small group work, etc.

By this time we are ready to wrap things up. This is when I would pull in an Exit Ticket or my favorite, a "Post It, Prove It." These two strategies give me immediate feedback on what each student has internalized and connected with in the lesson for the day which in turn allows me to determine students who need extra support, are on target and even those that are ready to move on to the next step.

So, until next time...

Mathematically Yours,

Jennifer Smith-Sloane

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Change the World...One Lesson at a Time

ATUE friends: I have entered the blogosphere. Cue the celebratory applause! (From myself. Woohoo!) I'm late to the blogging game, but I've loved getting my feet wet here at ATUE and loooooove reading the fabulous posts at my fellow collaborators' own blogs. I'm so excited to jump in myself!

On my first day ever as a teacher, my principal said something that stuck with me. He said that teaching is a huge responsibility, but with responsibility comes opportunity. That really resonates with me. As educators we have the opportunity to change the world....one day, one student, one lesson at a time. And so...One Lesson at a Time was born! 

I'm excited to have another little corner of the internet in which to share ideas about education and connect with inspiring teachers. Here are a few things I've blogged about so far:

My classroom management system:

Although I have several systems in place (including a Bucket Filling program, which you can read more about here on ATUE), my whole-class management is centered around "Team Turner Time". Click the picture to read my post detailing my system - it's a way to promote positive behavior and teamwork while working on elapsed time every day!

Foldable multiplication fun:

This year, I really took my cues from Pinterest - and that meant LOTS of foldable fun in the classroom! Click the picture to read about a quick and easy way to incorporate foldables into multiplication fact practice. 

End of the Year Class Compliments:

I think the end of the year is such an important time for students to reflect on their year and the relationships that they have developed with their classmates. This free activity has colorful slips for students to write compliments to each of their classmates - the best kind of end of the year gift! Click the picture to read more about it on my blog or click here to download your copy for free at Teachers Pay Teachers. 

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Dollar Tree Deals!

I'm pretty lucky in that my school provides pretty much everything we NEED. We always have pencils, markers, and paper at our disposal. There's a copy center for printing and at least one computer in every classroom. But it's generally understood that if you WANT your classroom to be a pleasant and appealing place to be, you're going to end up shelling out some of your own hard-earned moolah. I don't mind that so much, but I do like to find a good deal. 

I've recently re-realized that....brace yourselves....not all teachers go to the Dollar Tree. GASP!!!!!!!!!! I know. Ok, so I know that there aren't Dollar Trees everywhere, but most towns have some similar version of a dollar store. 

I vividly remember my first Dollar Tree awakening. It was my first year of teaching and I was about $600 in debt thanks to Lakeshore Learning (home of the most beautiful and overpriced teaching resources on the planet). A veteran teacher looked at me and said, "Are you crazy? You know you can get all this stuff at the Dollar Tree, right?" My. Whole. World. Changed. 

So it's likely that you are thinking, DUH. But if this post reaches even ONE new teacher in need of supplies who isn't in on this very important secret, I'll consider it a success. 

On a recent pilgrimage to my mecca, I wanted to buy everything and *needed* nothing. So the inspiration for this post struck - I had almost as much fun snapping pics of everything I wanted as I would have actually buying it. I didn't get much of a chance to take pics inside my classroom, but trust me, they could restock the store from Room 302. 

Mind you, the folks at the DT are no dummies. They're on to us. They have an entire Teacher's Corner. It's amaaaaaazing.

It's where I buy pretty much all my little incentives and reward certificates - so much cheaper than the teacher supply stores. They also have sentence strips, parts of speech cards, maps, etc. 

This is where I buy my "Turner Tickets" - a BIG deal in my classroom. :) Three of those bad boys will earn you a trip to the prize bin.

As you may have guessed, my prize bin is stocked entirely from the Dollar Tree - sure it's all junk, but there's plenty of junk that will actually work well enough to satisfy a 9 year old. Like these bubbles that are 6/$1 and a huge hit with my kiddos. 

I probably have 100 of these foam dice in my classroom. They are perfect for math centers because they don't get lost or make noise, plus kids love taking them as prizes from the prize bin.

They have books. They aren't amazing, but they are books that cost a buck. They are awesome for giving away as prizes. And they are generally about high-interest topics and the kids like them. 

I only made the mistake of spending big money on my recess bin one year. It would have been more efficient for me to just drop kick my wallet over the fence and into oncoming traffic, because that is what happened to all my expensive kickballs that year. In addition to stocking up on cheaper balls and jump ropes at DT, I also love this egg-shaped sidewalk chalk. 

And ohhhhh the office supplies!! So many office supplies. I love office supplies. HOW CUTE are these composition books? I could not justify them on this trip, but I am determined to find a reason to go back for them. 

Another AHHHHHHHH moment in my life: realizing that spending $5 on a gift bag from Target or CVS was uneccessary when good ol' DT had an entire wall of them.

This is Ringo. You can't buy him at the Dollar Tree, but he's the cutestlittlesmooshieintheworld and I snuck him into this picture-heavy post because I felt it important to share his cuteness with the world.

Love these little dry erase boards for a buck each. 

 And then....the bins. This is what sealed the deal for me on my first trip. I could not believe how ripped off I'd been on BINS before coming to the Dollar Tree. Seriously, I will never buy a container anywhere else in my life. 

Tupperware:

Baskets:

Bins:

More bins in action:

And to clean it all up....

Do you have a favorite dollar store deal to share? How do you save money when you need to buy supplies for your classroom? I'd love to hear your secrets in the comment section! :)

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