Frankenstein visited our classroom!

 I made this fun Frankenstein Monster journal as an example for my Special Education classroom as we made these. We read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for the month of October and wrote in our journals as we read. I had students glue the STOP and JOT strategy inside the front cover so we could refer to it. I was lucky to have all the supplies on hand from my store (: 

Journals made by my students - didn't they do a great job!!!! When we are finished reading our book this week, they will take these home to share with their families. I have to say between these and my Frankenstein earrings we have been very excited about this classic story. My students don't know it, but when we finish our story + take our final test on this book, we will enjoy a green treat of some sort. I would like to make it to Target to pick up the small jones soda Frankenstein sodas. Any ideas?

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School Lunch Packing Made Easy!

 I found these pretty plastic containers at my local Dollar Tree store in the perfect colors for my home! I bought four and labeled them with my children's names. Now, we "pack" our lunches on Sunday in preparation for a BUSY week. Everything is packed in their containers, with the exception of sandwiches and fresh foods of course. I do have one shelf in my refrigerator for grapes, apples tossed with lemon juice and whatever fruit we have on hand, already packaged in plastic-containers ready to go. I also have organic carrots, dip, guacamole packs available on that shelf for packing. We do have a few rules 1. NO ONE eats out of the containers as snacks after school 2. Pack enough for five days 3. You must have a nice variety picked out 4. Put your container back in the pantry in the morning after packing your lunch.

 This is my Sunday shopping haul that my children have to pick from. If I put all this food in my pantry without a purpose for it each day two things would happen very quickly: 1. It would be GONE in two days 2. They would get sick of all of it in one month of gorging their little faces.

the remainder of food gets packed up in storage and placed in an secret location away from greedy hands. This has saved us a lot of time, money and not to mention sanity! You may think that it is not nice that we "put up" the lunch box foods, I must tell you that they have unlimited access to fresh fruit,  vegetables + dip, popcorn and other healthy after school foods.
***I hope that this tip helps you if you are currently dealing with lunch making/pantry chaos (: 

Have Fun!!! Let me know what you think!!!!