Hi, I'm Nicole and I'm a Nut...

Um, yeah... I'm kinda going overboard with this Pete the Cat thing... if I start buying prints you need to commit me. I don't even like cats!!!!

But this guy is blue and smiling and mine! Chalk Talk had some AWESOME ideas for using Pete that I had to share. And buy my own Pete for.

Miniature=cute

Lets face it. Small things are cute.

Like tiny boxes...

Really Useful Boxes from Staples for $.25 this week.
Don't know what I'm using these babies for yet!

And tiny bins...

Metal Storage Bins from Office Depot for $1 each and Vinyl Pouches for $.05 each this week.
Can you tell blue is my color? And those pouches will be great for student binders. (I'll return throughout the week to get more, hehe!)

And tiny water squirters. 

Gotta love Dollar Tree!

I think the puzzle pictured above will be the one I use for my 100 days of school project recommended by Peace, Love and Kindergarten. I will purposefully build the puzzle from the bottom up so they have a challenge in figuring out what it is! 

The water squirters can supplement my Write Out of the Box kit (another great training that I failed to mention). Inside this fun box are fine motor activities like Squishy Fish, which these little creatures could imitate. 

However, the cutest thing of all are the tiny prices! :)

I'm Back!

Whew, my trip to California with my mom was so much fun, but catching up in blogland is a lot of work! A big HELLO to my new followers, postdating some entries while I was gone really worked!

As always, how can you go on a vacation without thinking about the classroom... even just a little? In my souvenir shopping I found some really neat things:

I am SUPER excited about the 2 decks of mini playing cards I bought at the San Diego Zoo for under $6. Every face has a different zoo animal on it... I'm thinking math stations... matching to dominos, ten frames, whathaveyou, greater/less than, memory games... the possibilities are endless!

My mom also found me this great book the Muir Woods giftshop and was sweet enough to buy it for me:

I absolutely love it!

You'll also notice the "Great Work!" stickers on the upper left... yes, I dragged my mom to Target. I don't know what I was hoping for- it carried all the same stuff as the ones in Texas. We learned a new rule traveling, "never pass a bathroom." Well, the teacher's rule should be, "never pass a Target!"