Monday Made It & a GIVEAWAY - Brights & Polka Dot Classroom Decor

I feel like I've been neglecting this little blog of mine because I haven't posted anything since Thursday & honestly I've barely been blog stalking either {gasp}. I know, I know. Shame on me. But my Monday Made It is the reason why I've been so absent lately. I'm FINALLY FINISHED my classroom decor pack. I got a spurt of inspiration to finish this weekend. So I'm linking up with 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It to show it off & host a win-it before you can buy it giveaway.

First I have to give a shout out to Jivey for her post about using Picasa to make collages to use as previews and A+ Firsties for her post specifically on Picasa. I've used Picasa before but it's nice to have a point of reference when doing something for the first time.

With that here are the previews for the different components of my Brights & Polka Dots Classroom Decor pack. Each picture will be linked to my Tpt store by the end of the week, but for now I will be hosting a giveaway to win the entire pack before it goes up in the store.

Alphabet Posters

Calendar Pieces

Days in School Cards

Do you keep track of how many days you've been in school, as a part of your calendar area? These pieces will be perfect for that.

Daily Schedule Header

Let your kiddos know what will happen during the day with schedule cards.

EDITABLE Schedule Cards

Use these editable cards (in Powerpoint) to fit your specific classroom schedule.

Name Tags

Perfect for the kiddos desks.

Number Posters

Class Set of Numbers

Need numbers for your students cubbies, folders, book bins, etc. Here they are.

Word Wall Headers

I will be creating Dolch Sight Word cards for the different lists to go with this pack & if I have time I'll also make the Fry words.

Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow

WIN THIS WHOLE PACK!!!

Everything will be up in my store by the end of the week, individually & as a bundle. Enter the giveaway below to win it!!! The giveaway will run from July 22 to July 26. 

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Voice Level Chart & Fonts- Manic Monday & Monday Made It

I'm linking up with Charity from Classroom Freebies for their Manic Monday freebie and with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics. It always seems that I create something last minute for this.  This week I've re-done my voice level chart. This is what it looked like this year. Sorry this isn't a great picture.

I wanted it to match my polka dot decor. So I created a new one with a polka dot background {click the picture to grab yours from Google docs}

Then I decided to make one with a striped background, for those of you who prefer stripes. {Click the picture to grab your copy from Google Docs}

And one more for the chevron lovers. {Click the picture to grab your copy from Google Docs}

On my old chart I liked the descriptions of what each level meant, how their voice should sound, and in the first few days of school we practiced this. On my new chart, I like the visual aspect of a graphic so my littles can look at the number & picture & know how their voice should sound depending on the situation they are in. 

I've also included a mini version of 0, 1, 2, & 3; I plan to put those at my centers, so my littles have a reminder directly in front of them of how their voice should sound.

And looking at my pictures above, when I actually print & laminate these, & go to put them up I'll most likely put 0 at the bottom & 4 at the top, to indicate that 0 is low and quiet & 4 is at the top and loud. Sorry I wasn't even thinking about that when I made the above pics.

And here's one more freebie I made for you. 5 new fonts that I just created this weekend. I downloaded iFont for my iPad...it's one of my new obsessions. Click here to check out my post from Saturday & grab my free fonts.

Manic Monday Freebie: Student/Class Rewards

Hey folks. I'm joining up with Classroom Freebies again this week for Manic Monday.

This week I'm sharing my polka-dot clip chart and some free-to-me student and classroom rewards.

If you are familiar with the clip chart method you will notice right away that my colors are flipped. For me, I prefer to have yellow, orange, and red be at the bottom as clip down colors, because these are the colors we associate with warnings/danger, etc. in the real world. 

Click the picture of the clip chart to grab your free polka dot clip chart. 

With my clip chart I also use warm fuzzies (click to read her post about it), this great idea of Mel's from Seusstastic Classroom Inspiration. 

At the end of the day my students earn 1 warm fuzzy for being green (which usually only happens if they've just clipped up from one of the clip down colors, other than that most are usually on Good Day). 2 warm fuzzies are earned if they are on blue, 3 if they are on purple, and 4 if they are on pink. They can also earn warm fuzzies throughout the day as my way to reinforce positive behavior and good choices. Students store their warm fuzzies in a paint cup (the no-spill kind, with just a little hole at the top, like these ones from Lakeshore). Once they fill their cup they get to choose a prize (the free to me kind or at least very inexpensive).

Click the picture above to grab your freebie of my polka-dot free to me/inexpensive student prize cards.

My class also has a paint cup as a whole and when they earn a compliment from another faculty member they can earn a warm-fuzzy, usually a larger warm-fuzzy and if they are making good choices as a whole class I will put a warm-fuzzy in their paint cup. Once the class fills their cup they can earn a class prize. 

Click the picture above to grab your freebie of my polka-dot free to me/inexpensive class prize cards.

For the class prize, I'll either let them vote which one they want or put all of the cards in a box and we'll randomly pick one. 

If you're a lover of polka-dots like me I hope you find these sets useful in your classroom, but even if you're not as big of a lover of polka dots, I hope you enjoy them.

Remember to head over to Classroom Freebies and link up for Manic Monday.