Planning for the fall

School just got out and to top it off I was on maternity leave for the last five weeks, yet I'm already chomping at the bit to get started next year! Since I needed to rest (and my baby loves to sleep on my lap!) I have been spending a lot of time looking online for ideas. My two favorite places are Teachers Pay Teachers and Pinterest. Google searches for specific things I'm looking for are always great, of course.

The things I'm working on, in no particular order, are

    Spelling City lists

    Creating various decorative documents (instead of buying them!)

    A google site for my teaching team to hold onto documents

    Planning for my iPad - we get AppleTV in our rooms to hook up to the projector!

    Fixing my class blog

Here are some pictures of my home iPad with the apps I want to use (my school iPad is at IT for updates):

    For the projector 

   For kids - not all math

   Various planning and writing apps

So you can see I'm pretty busy! I think that trying these apps out now will make me more knowledgable, which will help me do my job better and in less time. My goal is to have a forty hour work week by Halloween, and if these apps and my proficiency in using them will help me achieve that I think this is time well spent. Besides, it's so rainy outside there's not much for me to do in my garden!!