Monday, June 3, 2013

Must Have ...Made it Monday & a Facebook Freebie!

Happy Monday to everyone! :)
I am linking up with Sabra over at Teaching with a Touch of Twang for her Must Have Mondays and also Tara from Fourth Grade Frolics for her Summer Linky Made it Monday!
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Ya'll are gonna laugh at me, but...now that we are in the last stages of clean up before the summer, I've been working on cleaning up my mini-white boards and my classroom white board.
I swear by...
Windex with Vinegar Multi-Surface Cleaner - 32 fl. oz.
Nothing gets my boards as clean as this...short of Expo cleaner...but that is SO EXPENSIVE...so I use this, instead...and it is just as good! :)

Years ago a teacher friend of mine gave me a few of her shower board whiteboards for my classroom.  You can get shower board over at Home Depot.  You can use dry erase markers on them and then erase with mini erasers.  These are a wonderful resource for small group work...and they sure beat dry erase markings on DESKS. Ugh! :/
It's inexpensive, and will save tons of paper, too! :)
In my first grade classroom, we use these shower boards EVERY DAY, so they can get pretty grimy. The vinegar in the Windex helps to cut the grease that's in the marker ink and gets it as clean as it was when it was new! :)  Try it out!


Next up...what I have made lately...
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Well, lately I've been dabbling in making digital paper. 
It really is a ton of fun once you get a pattern established! :)

Check out my most recent sets! :)



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7 comments:

  1. Your new papers are SO cute!!! I love the Halloween papers! Which program are you using?

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  2. LOVE your new paper. AND I'm LOVING your blog design! I love, love, love daisies (I have 3 big daisies tattooed on my foot) and love purple.

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    1. Thank you so much! ;) How sweet of you! :) You'll have to blog about those daisies so that I can see them too! :) I LOVE daisies! :)
      Thanks for stopping by! :)

      XOXO,
      Tamara

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  3. Thanks for the tip about the Windex! I have a nice stash of Expo spray thanks to a retiring teacher but it will go away soon, :o( so it's nice to have that little tidbit! I am beyond impressed with digital papers by the way!

    Thanks for linking up!

    Sabra
    Teaching with a Touch of Twang

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  4. Great tip about the cleaner, and I LOVE your papers!

    Lisa

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