Even though it's the Summer Holidays, it doesn't stop me from buying odds and ends for next year's class! Our first topic is Muck, Mess & Mixtures (it's a Cornerstones topic if any of you lovely people use Cornerstone say hi!) and one of the key texts is George's Marvellous Medicine. The cushion cover I found on eBay, as I brought a similar Matilda cushion cover last year, which cost around £6 and the book was £6 in WHSmiths but you can find cheaper on Amazon here. The Gruffalo Rhyming Game I found on eBay for £4 and am intending on using it to track rhyming words from ELGs to Year 1 as a Guided Reading independent activity for Term 1; I read The Gruffalo to my new class on transition day and they knew the story well, so figured picking a story they knew would settle them in a that little bit easier!
The Focus Boards are from PTS (Primary Teaching Services) and come in a range of colours; I already owned a green and blue one which I used to put next step instructions in, or used to display work. This year I want to use them for different group targets and my new class has coloured pencil pots and trays in matching colours, so I ordered purple, red and yellow to match and make a set of 5! I'm planning on sharing a lot of my next step, mastery and targets throughout next year, so if you're planning on following along on this blog, you'll see a lot of them over the next year!
Last, from PTS again, a personalised stamper. One of my displays is 'Work to Be Proud Of' - I tried this last year but unfortunately it was underused and unseen a lot of the year. My new classroom is very child and parent friendly (huge windows, means a lot of light and viewing for displays), and on my Work to Be Proud Of display I have 3 laminated sheets ready to blu tack up work from books on a weekly basis, and to correlate with that I wanted something to mark it in the books - If there is a time saving short cut, I'm all for it and this stamp I thought was an easy way to celebrate successes in the books. I brought a personalised stamp last year saying 'Miss Morgans Says Excellent Effort' and I used it a lot on homework and topic work last year!
Expect another haul later this summer - I'm on the lookout for Reception style outdoor area furniture and updated toys and bargains to fill my new class with!
Now what I really want to know is what are you buying in preparation for September?
