So. Like I said.
But it's spring break!
Wooooo!!!
Wooooo!!!
However, I'm not spending it boozing or showing off my bosoms.
Instead, I'm catching up on my blog!
Woooooo!!
Anyhoo, today I'm talking about teaching.
Specifically, teaching supplies.
A lovely new teacher came to one of my teaching classes last week,
and explained that when she got to her brand-new classroom
at the beginning of the year?
It was empty.
And when I say "empty," I mean
e-m-p-t-y.
e-m-p-t-y.
She wasn't just in charge of getting cutesy stuff for her bulletin boards...
...she also had to somehow wrangle her own dictionaries.
She told us how she's been getting items through Donor's Choose,
but that's crazy, right?
Having to depend on the kindness of strangers
for basic teaching supplies?
for basic teaching supplies?
Let me tell you,
when folks say that education's problems can't be solve by
when folks say that education's problems can't be solve by
"throwing money at it,"
I roll my eyes Liz Lemon-style so hard it's a wonder they don't
fall out of my head.
So, yeah. I've started amassing supplies now for my future classroom.
I hit the sales and dollar bin at Target,
but the best source of classroom books?
Just look at what I've found!
I found some sweet Golden Books for my Little Free Library...
... Calvin and Hobbes! Yay!!!
Both old friends...
... and new.
Crazy bargains, like these books on tape for FIFTY CENTS EACH...
... and these pristine, hardback copies of the My Father's Dragon trilogy.
The one on the right?
One dollar.
The one on the left?
FIFTY CENTS.
And yep, I even found some class dictionaries in excellent condition,
ranging in price from fifty cents to a measly three dollars.
SCORE!!
Bottom line: I don't have the patience to spend my weekends
combing yard sales for bargains for my house.
But when it comes to my future classroom?
I'm happy to visit the library used bookstore weekly.
Because, as any teacher knows:
I found some sweet Golden Books for my Little Free Library...
... some nonfiction, poetry, and a cool dragon "handbook"...
... Calvin and Hobbes! Yay!!!
Both old friends...
... and new.
Crazy bargains, like these books on tape for FIFTY CENTS EACH...
... and these pristine, hardback copies of the My Father's Dragon trilogy.
The one on the right?
One dollar.
The one on the left?
FIFTY CENTS.
Look what they originally cost!
And yep, I even found some class dictionaries in excellent condition,
ranging in price from fifty cents to a measly three dollars.
SCORE!!
Bottom line: I don't have the patience to spend my weekends
combing yard sales for bargains for my house.
But when it comes to my future classroom?
I'm happy to visit the library used bookstore weekly.
Because, as any teacher knows:
