The First Grade Sweet Life

I have been excited about planning a theme for my classroom since about... oh.... October of last year. Last year being my first year of teaching I felt like it was all I could do to make sure I had a handle on teaching the curriculum. So summer has been in my sights for a while and here it is! Woo Hoo!

My theme for next year is going to be a Sweet Shop and I can't wait. I am using primary colors plus green and black. In addition with my solid colors I plan to use ALOT of chevron because well.. I'm obsessed right now and polka dots because, who doesn't love a polka dot?

I found ideas all over pinterest and teacher blogs. I also found some ideas for this theme at this website. Almost all of the clipart using is from Melonheadz. I love it!

I typed up my to do list (had to make it cutesy since I am going to look at it like every-single-day this summer) and I have been rollin' it out ever since.



 Did I mention that I live away from most of my family, have a husband in dental school and zero kiddos? Anywho, I have really enjoyed making all of these themed materials. I am trying to incorporate this theme into areas of my classroom that I know we will be using daily and not just adding in a ton of meaningless details.

Here's some of what I have made so far...

Hall Passes

CANDY Binder  It was inspired by Michelle at Fabulous in First and her Go Book materials and tutorial. It is  AWESOME Tutorial you should watch it :) I found the idea for the CANDY words at Teacher's Clubhouse (More about this later).

Table Signs 

Today's Scoop--These will be hung above the learning targets.

Take Out -- Labeling my student mailboxes (not quite sweet shop, but close right?)

Will be hung on a WOW Work border

Poster for the classroom library. I plan to copy covers of books we have read aloud as a group and hang them around this poster. 

The postcard that I will be sending to all of my kiddos in July!

If you would like copies of any of the materials above I would be happy to email them to you. Just shoot me an email at diedremdphillips@gmail.com 

Happy Summer Y'all! I'm headed to school tomorrow for a little bit to take on the Clutter Free Classroom challenge from clutterfreeclassrom.blogspot.com.