More Dollar Store Deals

 

Here are more ideas for your dollar deals!

 

Packs of Die-Cut Shapes

Visit "I Love 2 Teach" (Belinda Kinney's Blog) 

to see her cute ideas for how she uses them in her second grade class! 

Other Uses for Die-Cuts:

• Put students' names or numbers on them for a simple desk plate or cubby/locker plate  

• Use them on a bulletin board (book reviews, use them as a symbol on a graph, etc.)

•  They make great clipart for anchor charts

• Hot glue them to clothes pins to put student work on

• They would make great flash cards or cards for centers
• continents and oceans sort
• prefix and suffix words
• nonfiction text features

 

Plastic Baskets

• Organization - Store supplies in them and add a decorative label so that you know what is in each basket.

• Classroom Library - Categorize your books by author/genre/series, etc and add cute labels!

• Individual or Partner Reading Baskets - Students keep their independent reading materials (book, bookmarks, post-its, etc) in the basket and grab it during IR time.

• Center Baskets - Put materials for your center in the basket and students can grab it and take it to a clear space in the room to use.

• First Aid Basket - Put bandages, wipes, etc in the basket and a student can grab it to take with you to lunch, recess, field day, etc.

• Math Manipulatives - Same idea as the center basket (and could be applied to science experiments too).  Put materials in basket and then students can grab and go.

Plastic Photo Albums

• Flash Card Write-and-Wipe
• Math Facts
• Spelling
• Vocabulary

• Procedure Book - Put your procedures in the protectors and keep one at every table for students to refer to whenever the need arises.

• Small Groups - Keep titles and descriptions of the various small group roles and have the students grab a book whenever small group work is involved (or put it in a plastic basket ^).  If you like using the necklaces for students to wear, those can easily be stuffed behind/beside the description of the role (ex: Director, Illustrator, Timer, etc).

• Reference Books - Use them in any subject!  Keep reading or comprehension strategies in them for students to use during independent reading.  Do the same with nonfiction text features, genre descriptions, etc.  You could put vocabulary cards for the various units for science and social studies to make mini glossary books.  Endless ideas!

I know this item isn't $1 (I WISH!), but it does have multi-purposes.

• Stack to make student cubbies for textbooks, reading bins, etc. (See Below)
• Use to organize picture books that won't fit in small baskets in your library
• Transport student library books in them
• Setup a student file system for graded papers, writing samples, etc.
• And my favorite...make storage seats for your guided reading table! (See Below)