Monday Made It!

Today I'm using the Big Time Blogging Challenge from Big Time Literacy to also link up with Monday Made it from 4th Grade frolics!



Remember, the Big Time Literacy blogging challenge is for the month of July. Michelle is celebrating a year of blogging while also encouraging others to do the same. Please check her site out.

4th Grade Frolics is a blog that I am literally obsessed with and I have been for the last few years. I stumbled upon it when I was first hired to teach 4th grade 4 years ago and I haven't stopped stalking her site since! One of my favorite parts of her blog is the summer Monday Made It linky. It is a page I check every Monday to gather ideas for my class. From there, I create a list on my computer with links to all the ideas I like and those become some of my summer DIY projects!

This is my first time being able to link up with Monday Made It for this summer. I just have been so busy that I haven't had time to jump on the wagon yet. Then, even Monday night, I didn't start my Monday Made it until extremely late.

I've actually copied what is one of the new trends and started organizing my Pinterest Boards. With some new challenges coming my way next year, I figured it was time to start dividing what had been one large classroom idea board. Now, my Pinterest has blown up into 23 boards. ha ha

Event on my trip to ISTE, I heard many more and more people discussing how they are using Pinterest to gather ideas for education. With that, if I was going to start sharing my collections on my blog, I wanted to make sure that it was neat to look at....not only for my eyes, but for others.

So, I have followed the trend of making my own cover photos that match my blog logo for my pin boards. While it may be time consuming, it is so incredibly simple to do. After hours of organizing my pins, my cover photos became quite simple since I wasn't in the mood to spend much more time on it. ha ha You will see that Tara's and Kristin have much more creative looking cover photos. Maybe one day I'll go back to update mine.

I highly suggest staring by checking out 4th Grade Frolics, Monday Made It... see how Tara designed hers and maybe that will spark some inspiration.

Then, once you are ready to start, head over to Kristin's page at the Ladybug's Teacher Files. She has a great tutorial on how to do it HERE.

Mine is still a work in progress as I go back through and upload the photos, but here is an example of what mine are starting to look like.

Thanks for stopping by.....