Saturday Snapshots {8/3} & a freebie

Hey there everyone, hope you're having a great weekend. For those of you who have gone back to school or are getting ready to go back this week, I hope you have an awesome year & for those of you like me who don't go back until after Labor Day, I hope you're enjoying the rest of your summer.

Today I'm linking up with Run! Miss Nelson's Got the Camera for Saturday Snapshots.

I didn't link up last week so these photos are from the last 2 weeks.

First up...yesterday we took our little guy to this park that's about 40 minutes away from our house, it's the coolest park ever. The park is actually called the Imagination Station. It has the biggest climber I've ever seen plus 3 smaller climbers, swings, & other activities. I tried to get a picture of it, but it's just too big for the iPhone to get all of it. The top pic was my best shot & the bottom pic is my little guy in a car on a spring. This giant climber & he just wanted to rock back & forth in the fire car. Oh this kid!

Monday we went to the Outlet stores in Atlantic City so I could finally get my Coach crossover. Working a summer camp with field trips, a crossover is necessary. I know a Coach might not have been necessary, but my sister has one that is similar & it was a reasonable price & I liked the size of it. I didn't want one that was huge. I love it. Here it is doing it's thing on our camp field trip to the movies {we were seeing Smurf's 2}.

Tonight, my little guy & I hanging out on my bed, after his bath, relaxing & watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 

My trip to Walmart this week. I needed to get stuff for someone else & ended up getting some stuff for me. I swear the only thing pictured in this cart that is mine are the dry-erase pockets. Walmart had them for $1.97, not as good as Target having them in the Dollar Spot, but none of my Targets had them & I really wanted them, so I figured $2 was better then if I got them from a school supply place. And of course my OCD made me get 2 in each color for a total of 8.

Last Saturday my little guy & I tagged along with my dad & step-mom to take the dogs to the beach. It was an impromptu trip on our part, we stopped by for a visit & they asked if we wanted to go, which is why my little one is only in his diaper instead of a bathing suit. But he had fun watching all the dogs (we were at a dog beach), playing, & being with Nan & Grandpa. 

P.S the Great Danes aren't ours but they came to the dog beach & I love Great Danes & my hubby grew up with them, so of course I had to snap a few pics.

Today these 2 handsome boys came for their yearly, week long visit while their mom is at the beach for the week. Bailey is 5 (going on 6) & is from our first litter. Benny just turned 1 & is from the last litter we had & he's a spitting image of his mother & has her personality too. I told you we are crazy about our dogs & have stayed close with the majority of them. So close that when their parents go on vacation they come to my Dad & stepmom to stay instead of a kennel for the week. Love these boys!!!

And have you checked out my Back-to-School Mixer Linky Party? Link up with me & share some random stuff about yourself that we wouldn't know from reading your blog. I love getting to know everyone! Hope to see you there!

And there's still time to enter my giveaway of The Quietest Classroom Sharpener. There's 3 days left, head over to enter for your chance to win.

And if you've made it to the bottom of this post, you shall be rewarded with a FREEBIE. Like my Facebook page & get a new Fan Freebie, just uploaded today.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!

Monday Made It & a FREEBIE!!!

I'm finally doing it, I'm linking up with 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It...I think I've only done this once before. I wanted to post this particular Monday Made It last week but I forgot...sorry...I remembered on Tuesday.

Stay tuned to the end of this post for a freebie!!!

This summer I'm working a summer camp, with students from 5 to 13 years old. I know, I know! It's pure insanity. The first 2 days were a nightmare...as you can imagine. Pure chaos! Even though my boss had the best of intentions with her format, it just wasn't working, not with majority boys & the personalities they brought with them. So by day 3 I was like, we need to do centers for the morning academic portion. {We're trying to prevent too much "Summer Slide" from happening} I wanted to make sure that the kids touched upon reading, writing & math with some easy stuff & interesting (at least to them) mixed in. Here are the centers that we have

• Read to Self
• Reading response
• Drawing
• Writing/Picture Prompt
• Math Facts
• Word Games
• Online Math
• Reading Online (which translates to Reading Eggs) 

I'll post another day about what each of these centers looks like, but today's post is about how I organized who went where when! This is what I came up with:

There are 8 centers, so the most groups I have on any given day are 8. Depending on how many groups we have, decides how many centers we do that day. If I don't keep it even like that then I just get myself all confused. These are just printed on regular paper & put inside page protectors so I could write the student's names for each group with dry erase marker & erase for the next day.

On this particular day we had 7 groups, so the students only did 7 rotations, with a break for snack in the middle.

Everything is held on with the sticky putty stuff, sorry I don't know what the technical teacher term for it is, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

Below are close ups of the center labels & the time labels.

My time & center labels I just printed on yellow & orange card stock, then laminated with my Scotch laminator (another reason why it's so wonderful to have a personal laminator at home). Then I color coded each group, no I did not intentionally make them striped. That happened because my printer is running out of ink. Then I laminated the group cards with my personal laminator. 

It's nothing fancy folks & I don't even know if this is the exact set-up that I would use in my own classroom (most likely not), but it works for summer camp & I thought I would share it. Maybe it'll inspire you to come up with a version that works best for your class. It does let me at least get a visual of how I could potentially set up my rotations.

Now onto the freebie I promised you.

I have 99 likes on my Facebook Page so to celebrate the close proximity to 100 I have set-up my fan freebie page. Thanks so much to Ideas by Jivey and Ms. Fultz's Corner for their blog posts & video tutorials, I was able to set it up easy peasey!!! As some of you may know I've been working on a polka dot classroom decor pack & am slowly moving through it, but in the mean time I've added an item from my pack to my fan freebie page. I just wanted to thank those of you who have liked me on Facebook, just another way for us all to stay connected & share our fabulous ideas!!!

I can't wait to see what everyone has made for Monday Made It & I hope you'll check out my Fan Freebie!!!