blessed teacher

Saturday I was checking my email and I got an update from freecyle. It was an offer for Kindergarten and early childhood manipulatives, games and teaching materials. I called the girl and high tailed it to Germantown. When I got there, the woman was having a garage sale, but freecycling a bunch due to not many people showing up at the sale. She was a Kindergarten teacher and was transferring to teach high school. She pretty much told me to pick through and get what I wanted. It took 4 trips to get it to my car. I went through and sorted and cleaned and organized everything and ended up putting some of the things (the were old or too babyish) in a bag for Fayette Cares. I ended up buying somethings too, since I felt bad she was giving this away. Tim got new booster cables for $2, I got a Dr Jean CD for $2, a yoga mat for $3 and Houston bought some stickers, pipe cleaners and paints for $1 to make one of his super cool art projects!

These are some of the things I got, tons of boxes of flash cards (alphabet, number, words). Phonics board games, sequencing cards, alphabet bingo, number puzzles, abc puzzles, tub of brand new manipulative shapes, games, tons of awesome learning file folder games already laminated for stations, a computer headphone jack, pocket chart, and posters. There is so much more to list, but I can't remember and I already packed it up for August.

I am so excited about using these materials in my classroom next year!