HEY Cachey Mama's Readers!
I'm Jamie and I USED to be a preschool teacher. I was also a kindergarten teacher. Both at a Catholic school that had to close due to financial reasons. :( It was the best job ever though. At that school, we didn't have a whole lot of resources as it was in a very poor area. But before I worked at that school, I student-taught at a public grade school in a more affluent area, which did have a lot of resources and they had some awesome stuff!
Last week, Cachey Mama mentioned a cricuit machine to do dicuts. That would be number one on my list too! That little gadget is awesome - great for decorations, projects, fun; it's just awesome. So, the next thing on my wish list would be...
a Book Binding Machine: It adds a spiral binding like this:
If you have this amazing tool, you can have all your students illustrate / write a page and bind them together to make class books. Or individual students can make their own books. The possibilities are actually endless. Here's an example:
See, isn't that the cutest?! These are AWESOME for parent-teacher conferences! You set up a desk and a chair outside your classroom, put out some candy/breath mints and a few class books for your parents to scope out as they wait.
I didn't have one of these fancy machines at the Catholic school where I worked so I simply 3 hole punched all the pages and used yarn through the holes to bind the books together. My principal loved it when I put these books out for parent-teacher conferences and so did my parents. :o) Win Win Win!
I hope you liked this post. Thank you Cachey Mama for letting me do a guest post on your blog!! :o) If you want to follow me, I would LOVE to have you! My blog is For Love of Cupcakes and I'm also a Twitter Fiend! @4LoveofCupcakes.
I love how you say youre addicted to my tweets! Lol... I will tweet on!
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