Cat Themed Classroom Shower Curtain Ideas

This is a beautiful shower curtain that I found on Amazon. It was about $30. I bought two of them for Jessica's classroom. We put one on the wall near the group time carpet. It's colorful and showcases the names of different cat breeds. 

The yellow curtains that I got her last year never were really long enough to block all the playground action out the windows, so I had a plan for the other cat shower curtain, as you can see. I cut off the top row and the bottom row and sewed it on to the yellow curtains, to brighten up the room, AND to lengthen the curtains.  Our black silhouette cats still peek playfully out behind them. Don't they look AWESOME? 

That left the middle two rows of the second cat shower curtain, ( two groups of 4 cats) so I had Jessica pick her favorite section and I sewed a quick hem edge around 3 edges of the banner. (one side edge was already hemmed) 

See below? We hung the "cat banner" outside the classroom door, just over the desk that holds popsicle sticks with their names. They put their name in the cup that ways "school lunch" or the one that says "packed lunch."  I especially love this section because the Norwegian Forest cat looks like Jessica's cat, Mac, and my sister, Annette, has two Ragdolls, Slate and Cocoa.

This still leaves me with 4 more cat faces, and I think they are each going on a floor cushion cover. It's on my very long to-do list. Ha!

Magnetic Student Job Cards

We bought a booklet of animal print large index cards at Hobby Lobby, choose some our favorites, and added student jobs that we'd printed out earlier.
Next, we hard laminated them.
The last thing we did was to put magnets on the back of the Student Job Cards with a hot glue gun.

We put them on the front of the teacher desk, which is turned toward the student desk area.

Each student had the same kind of magnetic card with their name on it, and would put their name under the job they wanted.  Choice is so important for children and many times a student would earn the right to choose first for the next week.

How do you do your Job Cards?

OMG, Olivia Marie! on Sale this week on Amazon

Jack and I visited Olivia Marie recently and I took an iPad so we could read OMG, Olivia Marie! together and have some laughs. It was interesting to see her reactions as we read a book about HER.  She also has a sweet little singing voice - we had fun singing the song and taking the 2-question quiz when we were finished with the story.

Garrett got in on the fun also, as you can see, above. I think he only likes the page that HE is on, and no wonder. It is a book about a girl. I did get a chance to show him where he shows up in the second OMG, Olivia Marie book and he liked the illustration and the storyline  - he is trying to cheer his unicorn-loving sister up by finding her a unicorn movie!

Back to Olivia Marie - I talked with her about her love of unicorns and ran through the basic storyline of the book I'm working on now.  She immediately ran out of the room and came back with a stuffed unicorn that she didn't think I'd seen yet. (She was right) She said this was her favorite unicorn at least for the next few days!

Then she decided that I should draw this unicorn and that she would color it - for the book, for the book!  That turned out pretty sweet, don't you think?

OMG, Olivia Marie! is on sale this week on Amazon for Kindle. I'd be thrilled if you downloaded it and talked about initials and choosing to do the right thing when you would rather do something wasteful or annoying.  You both might have a good laugh together.  You might also find yourself saying OMG, Olivia Marie at opportune times in your lives!

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