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Intermediate Elementary Classroom Tour

Welcome to a tour of my Intermediate Elementary Classroom! I teach a multiple disabilities class for grades 3 – 5 at a public intermediate school. Diagram of my classroom designed with the Classroom Layout Builder This is my first year in this classroom. When I found out that I would be moving rooms, I went right to the Classroom Layout Builder from the Simple Self-Contained 101 to help me plan! I was able to plug in the built-in features like the cabinets, sink, windows, and bulletin boards. Then, I could easily plan how to set up the rest of the room by clicking and dragging furniture, carpets, and other items exactly where I wanted them! It made it so easy to envision...

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Intermediate Elementary Classroom Tour

Welcome to a tour of my Intermediate Elementary Classroom! I teach a multiple disabilities class for grades 3 – 5 at a public intermediate school. Diagram of my classroom designed with the Classroom Layout Builder This is my first year in this classroom. When I found out that I would be moving rooms, I went right to the Classroom Layout Builder from the Simple Self-Contained 101 to help me plan! I was able to plug in the built-in features like the cabinets, sink, windows, and bulletin boards. Then, I could easily plan how to set up the rest of the room by clicking and dragging furniture, carpets, and other items exactly where I wanted them! It made it so easy to envision...

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The Iconic Cookware We Just Can’t Stop Collecting

If there’s one object in my kitchen that gets more oohs and aahs than anything else in the room, it’s my Dansk Købenstyle butter warmer. A small-scale saucepan in a warm shade of plum, it never leaves my stove except to get washed. Lest you think it serves aesthetic purposes alone, let me underline the fact that I use it every single day—no, multiple times a day. It is quite simply the prettiest little workhorse I’ve owned. Dansk has been a familiar brand to me for a while; before I bought my first piece I'd seen pepper mills and trays in the homes of friends, and fawned over casseroles and silverware in vintage stores. The name Købenstyle, however, was less...

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The Iconic Cookware We Just Can’t Stop Collecting

If there’s one object in my kitchen that gets more oohs and aahs than anything else in the room, it’s my Dansk Købenstyle butter warmer. A small-scale saucepan in a warm shade of plum, it never leaves my stove except to get washed. Lest you think it serves aesthetic purposes alone, let me underline the fact that I use it every single day—no, multiple times a day. It is quite simply the prettiest little workhorse I’ve owned. Dansk has been a familiar brand to me for a while; before I bought my first piece I'd seen pepper mills and trays in the homes of friends, and fawned over casseroles and silverware in vintage stores. The name Købenstyle, however, was less...

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Five Frugal Things | the small things aren’t pointless

1. I filled out a Nielsen survey I got an envelope from them with two visible dollar bills in it. Soooo, I opened it and found a little survey to mail in. I took a minute to fill it out, popped it in the mail, and I will get another $5 from them for my time. Sometimes these small frugalities feel pointless to me because I am currently hemorrhaging money in the direction of my lawyer. Like, ok, great, I’m getting $7, but I have paid my lawyer WAY MORE than $7. However…what I know is that I will not need to pay a lawyer forever. And my frugal habits are part of what will help me to rebuild financially...

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