Changes and an awesome Dollar Tree find!

I haven't posted in quite a while. Shortly after my last post, I heard from a friend about an opportunity to work at a preschool in our town. The school is a daycare/preschool which serves children with special needs as well as children who are typically developing. I started as a substitute as they didn't have any full-time positions available at the time. About a month after I began subbing, a position became available to be an Education Specialist in the 3-4 year old classroom. Since then, I have grown to love working with little ones. I have been in the classroom for a year and a half now - we have so much fun every day!

Like most teachers, I have an obsession with Dollar Tree. You could say that Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree, and some stores on TPT should just take most of my paycheck and deposit it directly in their accounts/registers. Sigh. Our local DT doesn't carry many new items, so these might have been around for a while before I found them :)

Anyways, I found a great new item at DT yesterday when I was out trying to kill some time before picking my up my son. I wasn't shopping my local DT as I was in a different town - it was a MESS. Apparently the whole store was out of stock because they had about 5 full pallets of boxes to put out on the shelves. Needless to say, I wasn't expecting to find anything good. Lo and behold, I walked by the teaching supplies section and down on the bottom shelf were these cute little test tube sets! They had green, red, and blue so I got 2 sets in each color. Think of the amazing things you can do with these little boogers! I'll be sharing some of the ways I'm using them in my class this week :) Stay tuned!