2023 Teacher Haul: TEMU, Target, & Hobby Lobby

hey guys welcome back to Mama teach so I am here with a teacher haul I have broken everything down into um category based on the stores that I purchased it at so I'm just gonna run through this I'm going to do it a little fairly quickly because I do have a lot of stuff so um without further Ado let's get started I'm not going in any particular order I'm just gonna reach around to have everything set up on my table here so um if you can tell I am back in my classroom I have not started my classroom setup yet so everything is still piled up behind me there's almost lovely stuff on my desks over here so classroom setup has not started yet um when it does I will be sure to post some things so all right without further Ado let's get started so the first thing I um I'm going to show you is a Hobby Lobby haul I did go when their fabric was 40 off I think so I got these two Fabrics I'm going to try to add some Greenery to my room this year a little more than I had last year and then this is just like a black and gray it's almost like the chalkboard effect but not really um this is a five foot glue stick rope and it is in the mini because of my cordless mini glue gun if you do not have a cordless glue gun add that to your Amazon wishlist which I do have I will link it down in the description box below if you are feeling the need to donate so next thing I purchased from Hobby Lobby were these jumbo popsicle sticks um I think they were labeled as super jumbo and I don't have the price of them anymore um but anyway I took those and I trimmed them I trimmed the bottoms and made them a little more round and the tops and then I painted all of them and I put a DIY video already out there on how to make these so if you're interested in that you can take a look at that one um and I'm going to use these as Equity sticks I also use my Equity sticks for mystery Walker if that's not something you're familiar with you could probably be interested or YouTube it or I could make another video just let me know down in the comments but Equity sticks mystery Walker sticks um if you don't go in order of your class list you could do it for helper of the day there's lots of different ways you can use those so I'm going to put numbers on them instead of student names every year I sorry my air conditioner is really loud I don't know if you can hear it um every year I just make new popsicle sticks and put their names on them and every year I have to throw them away so I thought this year I would make new ones and I'm just going to put a little number right here so that I can reuse them every year um all right next is Bath and Body Works so this could be a debate um it's not one I'm willing to debate with you about but I do use a um what are these a Wallflower yes a Wallflower in my room I just started it this past year for um like right after Christmas time these kids stink and I need something again I know it is could be a touchy topic but I haven't had any issues yet and I am very mindful of my students and their needs so if it ever became a problem obviously I would stop using it but Bath and Body Works does puts these on on like a mega clearance um they've done it twice already over the summer so the ones I got this time were I think they were five dollars each caramel pumpkin swirl and usually there are 750. um pumpkin pecan waffles they started putting out their fall scents these are their spring summer scents Strawberry Pound Cake and black cherry Merlot I also purchased This was um half off I think I'm not sure I can't remember um but it was 14.95 originally but it's just a new lanyard I have a I have my other one I was making lanyards for a while but I got this one this year I had another one of these that a student had given me and I really did I really did like it but it fell apart pretty quick so it only lasted me one school year so I got another one um this is where your ID goes it has a pocket back uh holder on it which is really why I like these um lanyards because I'm obsessed with their pocket backs and this is the Strawberry Pound Cake which is the same scent as the Wallflower these were also on sale when I bought my Wallflowers and they were five for eight dollars I think so made of like a dollar it's not my piece um anyway I'm also obsessed with these pocket bags so that is all from Bath and Body Works uh the next is Target um pretty much just the target dollar spot I try to be very picky when I am purchasing from the target dollar spot because I don't need everything um and because I have been teaching for so long if you're new to my channel um this is gonna be my seventh year teaching so I am very mindful of what I purchase and know that I don't need at all so I try to only buy things that I absolutely know I'm gonna need but with that being said here were a couple of frivolous purchases um I did purchase this little pencil they're calling it a novelty vessel and the lid does screw off of it I'm going to use this as my candy jar um I give out Skittles and M M's randomly and so I'm going to use that for that I had the glass gumball machine last year and I set it down on my table too hard and it shattered so um this one's plastic so I don't have to worry about that it may crack if I drop it on the floor or something but I don't have to worry about it shattering because it was kind of scary for my kids anyway um I also purchased this little toast guy it's a LED lamp phone stand um I do like that I can put my phone on here because I'm always misplacing it in my classroom but I mainly got it for the light feature because I'm going to use it for my small groups I put batteries in it already and he is actually really bright compared to what I was expecting um another maybe frivolous purchase I had an idea for them and I think I'm changing my mind on my idea so yeah but my mom bought these for me um these are the wood Clips the kindness wood Clips they are rainbow colors they just have kindness things you matter more like affirmations I also purchased some index cards I reach for index cards more than I reach for sticky notes um a lot of my like Student Response things if I ask questions and I waiting on a response for them or we write down a response I use sticky notes or I use index cards instead so this is the rainbow pack this is the white pack both 100 and they were on sale at Target and they the price ended up coming out cheaper than buying them at Dollar Tree um these are colors of kindness eight dough tubs they are Crayola brand I opted for these this year instead of the Dollar Tree version because the Dollar Tree version did not last me very long last year and so I'm hoping the Crayola ones will but on the first day of school every child has a tub of dough a pencil and a coloring sheet and that is what they do to waste the first few minutes of our first day of school they can keep the tub of dough in their uh chair pockets so they can get them out after each if they finish something early or something like that they can get them out um there are three different colored bags there's a pink a blue and a purple and the bags look different but the dough inside is the same color the same smell the same quantity so um also from the target dollar spot I purchased these sets of blank books I purchased three there are eight books in here each page has six each book has eight sheets 16 Pages front and back um they're just blank I'm gonna use these as my for my um sticker store I used something different last year and they won't have access to those to that thing this year and so I can go through that in a different video also how I use them for that for my classroom management um this is a building block game I bought this for my small group table for math I just like how it has the plus and the minuses already in the equal signs and then these are the manipulatives that they use to stack here is and this was three dollars um the books were also three dollars each and last but not least from actually no I have two more things from the target dollar spot I purchased these dry erase Pockets I have these every year I use them religiously my class this year did not take care of the ones that I had for the last six years so I'm slowly buying new ones because I had to get rid of a bunch this at the end of this year this past year but um what I like about these is these are horizontal instead of vertical so they had blue red and black and the blue and the black were horizontal and the red were vertical so um typically they came with letter and number tracing but since I'm going to be teaching second grade this year I swapped one of the papers out for the fraction action which is not only shapes but also fractions and also shots and on the back it has the time what time is it um those are big things in second grade they're big things in first grade too but um I think I'm gonna hit them more in second grade I also purchased this tub uh it was five dollars I'm gonna use that we all know teachers to never have enough storage so I'm gonna put these things away and try to grab to my next set of stuff so all right um next is from Dollar Tree so first I have just these little magnetic Clips there's two of them they're really heavy duty I tested them out in the store magnetized into something but they're pretty heavy duty I thought they would be good for anchor charts I think my mom also bought me these pack of pencils because we we all know that this brand is usually pretty decent so I bought me a pack of those there's 10 in there and they are not they're not pre-sharpened which is not fun but that'll be easy to fix next I purchased six of these for my morning tubs my morning Choice tubs there was red green and blue they're just spinning tops if you can see in the side if you spin them they do light up so I purchase six of those when I purchased six of them I had something different in my head for them and so I won't end up needing six of them but if they end up ranking or something I'll have some backups um I purchased sorry I have to keep leaning up I purchased some binder clips I never have enough of these I purchased a new broom head and got pretty disgusting last year and I also purchased from Dollar Tree um these travel jars there was a three they're three pack blue purple pink and then a three pack of white they didn't have any more I literally bought the only two they had so I gotta get to drink my coffee I bought the only two that they had I've been on the hunt for them for a while so I finally found some if I find some more later on in the year I will purchase some more but I had purchased um a few years ago I purchased a little I think it's like a 10 pack from Dollar Tree and they're just little like box storage organizers they're not much bigger than these are they're just Square um and I used those but again my class this year did not take care of much of my stuff so they all broke and so I'm trying to go with something a little more heavy duty now we'll say I thought these were going to be acrylic and they're plastic but they are a very like thick plastic and the lid is pretty decent okay so what I'm going to use these for are my dice holders two dice to fit in there perfectly put the lid on this will already be done when the kids get here but they just shake it they actually use them upside down but I'll just shake it and then there's a three and a two and those are the numbers I use if you only need one dice you could take one out but this just keeps the dice from flying all over the floor so that is what I'm gonna use those for uh let's see I also purchased these educational posters uh two-piece there is uh types of graph poster and word Clues I already have um word clue posters that I like that I got off TPT um that I'm going to put up on my board or that I keep you know I keep up on my math board but I got this one for the types of graphs just so that they can have a reference all year but they look like this and last but not least from Dollar Tree I purchased just a 12 month calendar this one is the farm life my room if you cannot tell is farmhousey when it's all set up so that's what I got this one for um this one's just gonna be for me though I just like to have multiple reference points as to when stuff is due I never seem to know what any things do so I got that um moving on from my local parent teacher store if you do not have one of those um you can order a lot of this stuff off Amazon honestly I went to Amazon and looked it up afterwards and noticed that some of the prices were cheaper but things like this were not any cheaper so you can get a lot of it off Amazon I think um I think these are Carson deloso but uh I'm not positive on that so don't quote me on that but these are seat spots and normally they have Velcro on the back so you can put them to your carpet but I'm actually going to put them on my floor they are stickers they are repositionable and removable so I'm not worried about them tearing up my floor and my custodians don't really or my Administration don't really care about stuff like that so I'm not worried about it um so there's I think it goes goes to 36. I don't have 36 kids I won't have anywhere near 36 kids but just in case um next I purchased these mini posters Farmhouse these are also Carson doloso um pelosa there's 12 of them in here there's just like a preview of what they look like and then I'll run through them quickly so you can see them they're I guess about this you know size of a sheet of paper I'm going to use these for my affirmation station I bought a full-length mirror um I purchased that from Target it was seven dollars so I'm not going to show it to you but it's over there um it's just black so this one says Welcome to our classroom so instead of putting little affirmations around the mirror I'm just going to hang these up around it I saw a picture it actually looks really cute so there's this one this one um again you can purchase these off Amazon I like this one because I have a lot of Buffalo check already in my room and um I didn't see these this exact set but something very very similar lots of things very similar I also have a lot of burlap in my room already so this one's my favorite I'm not a fan of these but I'm gonna go with it anyway so yeah I'm gonna use those with that I purchased these designer letters they kind of gave me redone Vibes they're five inches I'm gonna replace some of my letters around my room this year I purchased two borders um this one's a black shiplap it just says black wood and then this one is green and white polka dots with the scallop Edge I'm not sure how I want to do my boards this year they're very like basic and just white shiplap with Buffalo check border and I do like them but I think I'm ready for a change I've had this up for two years in this classroom so I'm just ready for a little bit of a change okay last place is Teemu so I ordered some water bottle stickers this is again my classroom management strategy I have a sticker store um I do recommend looking at sizing on Teemu because these are smaller than I thought they would be probably my hand size um and also when you get them make sure you go through them even if you get them off Amazon because they have some inappropriate ones but these are all just smiley faces lots of colors lots of designs there's hearts there's tie-dye lots of different lots of different ones solid colors pink green so cute um all right then I ordered this match Stickman the Box looks like this it has challenge cards that show you the level of difficulty this one's a little reindeer basic shapes and then it comes with these tiny little matchsticks um these things I'm showing you now I'm going to use for my stim bins in the morning my morning toy spins and I do plan to make a whole separate video on that so stay tuned for that video um this one is sticks and rings I have all the materials now for my stem bins but I do not have all the boxes for my stem bins so because I I'm doing it different than I have done in the past um all right so this one's called sticks and Rings I don't know if I just showed you this this is similar to the osmo sticks and Rings if you're familiar with that the only difference is is that these are wooden shapes instead of the osmo is the shapes are rubberized um it does come with the challenge cards and the difficulty level and then it has this little thing where these can sit inside of it also came with a little carrying bag all right I tried to purchase stem bin options that had challenge cards for some things but some things did not have challenge cards so again this box came from Dollar Tree up no um Target it was 99 Cents but this is what I'm going to use for my stem Bend boxes and I made labels that I purchased off TPT and adjusted so these are the connector snowflakes these are really good quality nothing up purchase off team who has been a bad quality um strong plastic they just snap together lots of different uh color options also I think there was 120 pieces in there the six in ring says there's 120 sticks and rings or another option that I purchased these are the suction cup toys the Box looks like this there are 40 of them all these different little suction cups and they just suctioned together to each other they suction to the table so they'll have fun with those um two more things this is tangram for kids see there's um 60 designs and seven pieces seven wood pieces they the designs come on challenge cards they look like this it tells you at the bottom what it's supposed to be like that's a cue um this one is a penguin this is misspelled so it must be written in maybe another language I'm not sure pink why penguins I'm not sure but it comes with all the pieces it also has a book that has all the options in it as well so I think they will enjoy that last but not least is the ring ring game it was labeled as an elastic ring game the Box looks like this it's in its own nice little case I'm not gonna leave it in here though but it came with a bell I don't I guess they're supposed to time themselves but this is going to get annoying so I'm not using that um but it has challenge cards this is what it's supposed to look like on their hand lots of challenge cards and then the elastic bands they feel more like a ponytail like a just a cloth ponytail um and then they just have to slip them on their fingers or as this one there's this one and then there's that purple one on his pinky so this is what well it looks like this I guess so they just have to slip them on and match the picture so I thought that would be fun and they're kind of brainless so they don't really have to think about it I mean they gotta think that's a whole point of them but it's not work thinking um I don't do morning work I we don't eat breakfast in our classroom but kids are always late you know and um it just doesn't work out for me so I'm gonna do I'm going to continue off my stim bins um so yeah so that is all I have if shopping for your classroom early on is not something you like to do if you don't want to think about your classroom early on that is totally fine it is something that I enjoy and um spending money on my classroom again is not usually something that bothers me because I purchase what I feel like I need we do get like nine hundred dollars in state money every year for me to purchase things so I do not come out of pocket for a lot of stuff um just things that I want again none of this stuff is an actual need I could have gotten away without any of it this year um for things like paper and not I don't even have to buy paper we have coffee paper here but um like ink and things like that I can purchase with my state money we uh all the kids bring their own supplies so I don't have to purchase supplies or anything like that so it's been great um I have a great school I'm in a great district and I purchase things that I want to buy and not because I have to buy so again if this is not something you enjoy then that is totally fine but it is something that I enjoy doing so without further Ado I'm going to wrap this up I'm going to get started setting up my room all this is overwhelming to me and it's like a daunting task but it's also something that I enjoy which is why I am here three weeks earlier than I have to be it is July six th and we don't come back until like after the 24th so um I have roughly three weeks to play with so I'm gonna sip on my coffee and start moving some things around bye

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Published: Fri Jul 07 2023