Monday Made It! 7/20

Linking up with Tara again from 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It!
I absolutely adore all of the personalized colors that I keep seeing on the blogging world and I've finally decided that it's time to stop hunting for freebies and through TPT and simply make my own personalized colors!

A while back I showed my color scheme for this year...

I am mixing Creative Teaching Press painter's palette items with my old chevron borders from Teacher Created Resources. So here's what I've made so far to fit my own classroom colors this year! 

CAFE Posters!

I finished reading Daily 5 and the Daily CAFE book while lounging by the pool this summer and I'm going all-in this year with the concepts! When I have access to my classroom in August these babies will go on my magnetic blackboard so it will be easy for kids to put their reading strategies up quickly. 

You can find these cute guys on my TPT page for $1!

Sticking with the Daily 5/CAFE theme, I needed to make cute I charts to use with my students! Since I work at an IB school there are a TON of things that are nonnegotiables about what needs to be hanging on the walls. As I was reading the Daily 5 book I realized there was NO room for permanent I charts so I made them digital on SMART this week! 

Super simple no frills SMART with a title, stamina page, and the 5 charts to independence for each rotation of the daily 5. I find SMART documents to be so worth the pain of switching between nice home mac laptops and my work cheapo dell that actually has SMART downloaded on it, no recreating it year after year!!!(On TPT for $1) 

While I had my work laptop out I went a little crazy with SMART documents. For 3 years I have used my SMART board to take attendance, lunch choice, as well as morning message. The left side has all of the kids names under an "absent" column and when they get to school they simply drag their name to their lunch choice for the day "hot options #1, 2, 3, or 4" (and yes, we have 4 delicious worldly cuisine options for all of the different diets) or "cold lunch" and viola! I have attendance AND lunch choice done before the bell rings. On the right side of the split screen is my morning message. The SMART document I used years prior did the job, but I wanted to actually enjoy writing my morning messages so I made this baby!

a few of my morning message options

It's a SMART document with 8 different colored themes for morning message, that way I can match my room colors when I want but also mix things up when it drives me nuts. 

I put important things kids need to know/remember about our day in the "good morning" section and tasks that the students need to finish by the bell and IF they have extra time. It saves me from so many unnecessary questions in the morning and it fosters a quiet independence in the morning. 

pick one up at my TPT store!

And last but not least I created some labels/titles to use around the classroom! Get them for free here! 

for use on bulletin boards

labels for my IB peeps

small labels for crates

*******and a quick sneak peek for my project of the week...

Common Core math labels for my 10 drawer rolling cart!! Time to get organized : )