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Hawaiian Teacher Blog Hop (freebie)

Aloha, everyone! I think most of you are still enjoying your summer break. Those of in Hawaii are going back to school TODAY! Yikes! Where did that summer go?

I'm super excited to join up with some of my favorite Hawaiian bloggers for some goodies for you guys.

First up, I have a freebie that is a little more geared to Hawaiian teachers. In Hawaii, we have General Learner Outcomes (GLO) for our students. Well, I got to looking at the GLO posters in my classroom and they were faded and old. I can't have any of that so I made these, which are much cuter if I do say so myself. Hawaiian teachers can click on the picture to download them for free.

I didn't want to leave all of you other teachers out, so I'm making my Aloha! Sight Word game a FREEBIE for today only.

And because I know many of you are starting to thinking about classroom decorating and getting back to school, I'm putting my whole TpT store on sale for 2 days!

If you're just starting here, you'll want to go visit my friend Nicole at Teaching With Style!

If you've already visited Nicole, you're next stop is my friend Corinna at Surfin' Through Second!

If you're still on summer break, I hope you are enjoying every second of it and that you feel bad for us poor Hawaiian teachers back at school. ;)

Classroom Makeover (the beginning)

School starts tomorrow for Hawaiian teachers, so it's time to get back in the swing of things. I've been up to my room a few times to start working. I got to move into a new room this year (yeah for no more sharing!).

But that means, I walked into this. When I opened the door, I found this. Not looking too bad!

But then I looked at the other side of the room and found all this piled up! That's a lot of stuff that needs to be organized and put somewhere.

I haven't gotten much done yet, but I did at least get my bulletin boards covered. I absolutely adore these borders. I used flat black sheets from Wal-Mart. Best part was that they were only $4.61 each. I love hanging charts and student work on black backgrounds.

I didn't get much done after I hung borders, because I have a billion books. Seriously, it feels like a billion. What in the world, will I do with all of these books? There's WAY too many. I pretty much left my room just like this today. I gotta get really busy tomorrow and figure out something to do with these books. Any suggestions?