Monday Made It

Hi sweet, summer friends!

Well... those of you that know me know that I am not that crafty of a person, so this is my first time to join 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It!

Knowing that I would need a new system for my mentor texts with my new book shelves, Katie Byrd and I set out to come up with something new and cute. 

This is what we ended up with....

We started by getting donations of paint sticks from a couple of local stores and spray painting them black to match my shelves.

We picked up some cute cut-outs at the teacher store...

added some bright stickers....

and here is the final result...just what I was looking for. I know this is a really simple Monday-Made-It, but I am very happy with how they turned out. So easy!

...the view from the back

I have spent a lot of time this summer completely reorganizing almost all aspects of my library...it has been a lot more work than I bargained for, but I am loving how it is all coming together!

This is the larger library in the back of the room...now just to get all 129 baskets labeled...even more work...haha...maybe next week's Monday-Made-It!

Look at some of the sweet kiddos that have stopped by in the past week to help me label books with new basket numbers...

 

I have a picture book recommendation for you....

The Three Ninja Pigs by Corey Rosen Schwartz puts a contemporary spin on this childhood classic, and I fell in love! Such rhyming fun! Dan Santat's lively illustrations add to the pace of this story, and although the kiddos will be doing a lot of predicting along the way...you can't help but root for these three little ninja piggies! I hope to have time to read this to my summer reading-hot-spot kiddos this week!

Well...guess with that I will say goodbye for now...

Happy Reading!