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Five for Friday Back To School Madness

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I’m linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her weekly Five for Friday random pictures of my week, because quite frankly friends, I am WHOOOPED!  This back to school mayhem is killing me.  So with that, here is my Five for Friday humble pictorial offerings.
I have quickly come to the sad conclusion that I am in need of an intervention. Would someone please point me to the nearest ‘Teacher Tote Hoarders Anonymous’ meeting.  These are the ones that I haven’t yet found a home for in my classroom yet.  And ‘No’, I won’t be getting rid of them anytime soon.  You know, if you have cute totes you just HAVE to find some place to use them.
This is my starting point…I wish I could say it has gotten much better, but . . . not much unfortunately.  I’m still working on it.
On a good note, however, I do have all my center/station activities organized into totes by theme.  Yippee!!! It’s always good to have at least one area where you are ahead of the game.  (Is it weird that I’m bothered that all these totes are not the same.  As expensive as they are though, I just can’t bring myself to get new ones.)

I hauled my boys to Michael’s (that’s an hour trip from my house by the way, no short trip) so we could pick up some goodies and found these little wooden insects that are going to work great for my lunch choice board.  I also found monkeys for my behavior management ‘monkey tree’ too.  I know you’re thinking ‘huh?’  I promise, I’ll show you when I’m done.  Trust me!  They’re perfect and so darn cute.  And…most importantly, I survived with three boys in Michael’s.

They were so good for me, in fact, that I bagged all the other shopping I needed to do and decided on an impromptu trip to the children’s museum.  We rocked the water table.  I love this thing.  I just need to figure out how I can get one in my kinder room. Hmmmm….

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Marsha Moffit McGuire

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15 responses to “Five for Friday Back To School Madness”

  1. Debbie Deck Avatar
    Debbie Deck

    LOL!!!! I retired 3 years ago and can really relate to your “tote hoarding”!!!! So funny!

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  2. Brittany Leathers Avatar
    Brittany Leathers

    AHH I LOVE TOTES! 😀 I am a first year teacher, and I have already started my collection! They are so useful! 😀

    Brittany
    tractorstoteaching.blogspot.com

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  3. Amanda D! Avatar
    Amanda D!

    Amen to storage container overload!!! I moved this year, and it took SEVERALlarge uhaul boxes to pack all my totes. Even still, I can’t help myself from buying new ones. It’s definitely an addiction =)

    -Amanda @
    Teacher at the Wheel

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  4. Karen Rowland Avatar
    Karen Rowland

    Girl, I thought that was a picture of my room with all the totes! I just cannot say no to buying a cute tote! I must be addicted too!
    Karen Rowland
    Adventures With Firsties

    karenrowland112677@yahoo.com

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  5. Kara Avatar
    Kara

    Totes are so addicting!! I love the color theme of yours, too!

    Kara
    Spedventures

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  6. kraftykathy Avatar
    kraftykathy

    I have a very similar stack and I just bought some more!! It is truly addictive.

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  7. Sherry Lumpkin Avatar
    Sherry Lumpkin

    Marsha,
    How many of those lovely totes do you have???? 🙂
    Sherry

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  8. Lesson Plans and Lollipops Avatar
    Lesson Plans and Lollipops

    Lol, I bought some really cute baskets last weekend and I haven’t decided what I’m using them for yet so I put them in my empty sand table and covered them up so no one can see my addiction.

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  9. Mary Ann Jose Avatar
    Mary Ann Jose

    I have a pretty identical collection and I just purchased some more!! It is truly obsessive.

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  10. Julie Stowe Avatar
    Julie Stowe

    Lol when I saw your container collection I instantly wanted some of the shapes and colours even though I don’t need any! Must be an addition of distinction I think!
    Julie 🙂
    Mrs Stowe’s Kinder Cottage

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  11. Susan Edge Gillespie Avatar
    Susan Edge Gillespie

    I have a huge collection as well! I saw your bins for organizing your themes ans was at a target today. I had 4 of them in my cart. I put them back….I have so many already. I will use what I have.
    Please post more on your daily 5! I did daily 5 last year, and my Work Work was not strong. I purchased $100 of your items to make it better and can’t wait to use them! I really love your blog as well. Very excited to get it up and running ( that is the hard part!)

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    1. Marsha McGuire Avatar
      Marsha McGuire

      Susan, we start school on Tuesday so I’ll be doing alot of training, we’ll be building stamina, assessing and such. Stay tuned.
      Marsha

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  12. Jeannie Partin Avatar
    Jeannie Partin

    Yep! You are a container hoarder…..along with every other teacher! 🙂
    jeannie
    A Kindergarten Lifestyle

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    steve7876

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