Tag: Back To School

Top Labelling Tips From The Teacher

Brought to you by Nuffnang and Brother   Organising Chaos, With Labels That Stick. I am part of that special breed of human that is both a mother of small children and a school teacher.  Although sometimes this is a curse (oh gosh it is hard to stand back...

Back To School: Buying Name Labels

 It’s no secret that I love to label.  I have dedicated much of my life to ensuring everything and every place in our home is labelled!  Labels ensure items find their way home.  This is never more true than all those items that leave your home to visit school,...

Delicious Bento Lunch Ideas

 Let it be known, I am the mother of THE PICKIEST EATER.  Little Miss A started out well and as a baby would eat anything that came her way, but somewhere after the age of 18 months we found our selves with a child living off vegemite sandwiches and...

and so the planning begins…..

I am a planner.  A procastinator, but a planner. I make lists upon lists.  I find it very hard to live in the now.  But I am starting to embrace it.  So now, even though you can feel Christmas in the air, I am starting the New Year organising....

Love it? Label it or Loose it!

Boy could I go on and on about my never ending search for the perfect labels!  Even before I had children I was a label addict and purchased my own name labels for all my books!  Teachers beware nothing was going missing from my stash! Ok so here is...

Where is that note? Creating a “School File it Folder”

  This where I admit, that over the years, as a teacher, I have destroyed a small forest with the amount of paperI have sent home.  The discussing, planning, seeking approval, writing, editing, copying, sending home of notes only to be often asked to replace them because they have...

Back to School ~ The List Making

I know I am a list maker.  I know that there is not a day without a list.  I know there are usually more than one list on the go at any given time!  I know I am currently drowning in lists like the Christmas present list, card list,...

School Book Covers ~ The Easy Way!

I know it is still two months until school goes back but a conversation over at Mummy Smiles had me wanting to share these great school book covers!  A few years ago during the Back To School sales I discovered these great “Spencil” plastic slip on book covers!  I...

Back to School – The Booklist

The Booklist.  That little piece of paper either brings out feelings of love or loathe. It’s that time of year again.  You are just getting your head around the Christmas Concert and wham, you now have to think about next year.   This week we received our booklist for...