Wishlist Wednesday: Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives

Mrs. Lirette from Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives has been kind enough to guest post for Wishlist Wednesday this week. If you haven't had a chance to check out her blog, you are missing out! There are fabulous ideas and lots of marvelous freebies. Also, she is a contributor for Teaching Freebies too, the new spin-off of Teaching Freebies. Please stop by and leave Mrs. Lirette a comment!


Hello there everyone!  I feel very honored to be guest blogging for Lori at Cachey Mama's Classroom for her weekly Wishlist Wednesday post!  I am a mother of an almost three-year old and a classroom teacher to 18 fabulous 2nd graders!  I have also taught kindergarten and first grade and can tell you that there is nothing I would rather do than spend all day inspiring and learning from little people!


There are definitely two things that have been on my mind lately that I would love to have. 


First up {for the kiddos}....

An endless supply of glue sticks!!!


Why is it that January hits every year and I am always begging for more glue?  It doesn't matter how many glue sticks a child brings at the beginning of school, they always seem to disappear.  I'll admit, we use glue sticks a lot in my room.  There is definitely no shortage on art projects, student-made vocabulary flashcards or "notebooking" activities and all of those require that wonderful stick of glue.  I realize that liquid glue last longer but I cringe every time I see a student with a bottle in hand.  I've "just a dot, then you stop"'d my heart out and liquid glue still ends up making a wet mess.  Boy, does that make me grateful for glue sticks- even if they do dry up quickly!


And secondly {for myself}...

I would LOVE to have my very own binding machine!


I can definitely work my magic with a little laminate and some binding!  Don't you just love making class books for your library?  Not to mention, a bound copy of a child's writing masterpiece makes me grin from ear to ear.  There is something to be said for the published look!  If I had one of these sweet things I would bind away!  Wouldn't you?


Thanks to Lori for inviting me to ramble on about my wish list! :)  Drop by and say hi at Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives!

Wishlist Wednesday:For Love of Cupcakes

I would like to thank Jamie at For Love of Cupcakes for her guest post this week! Check out her blog and follow her. I guarantee you'll love it. I am totally addicted to her tweets as well, so you might wanna follow her on there too! Oh, I might have a special place in my heart for her because her baby, Cupcakes :) was born the same day as my baby boy! Enjoy!!!








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.