Amazon Favorites

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Amazon! I can think of something that I want for my classroom or for a lesson and like magic it appears at my doorstep within 2 days. I only need to worry about 2 things...1 planning my lesson according to when it will arrive and 2 will my husband, who travels a lot, be in or out of town when it arrives. (#2 it trickier than #1)

I have organized my Amazon purchases into my 5 favorite categories...

Books make up the majority of my Amazon purchases. These books fall into three categories...picture books, professional books and books that I want to read with the majority of these book purchases being picture books. 

Here are my recent picture book purchases...

My favorite professional books...

My favorite books for me...

I have read every book written by Liane Moriarty and Emily Giffin.

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My second favorite purchases on Amazon are things for my classroom. I love the elf that I found that I use for our kindness elf during the holidays. I ordered Michigan cornhole bags to use as talk tickets because my school name starts with an M and our school colors are blue and yellow. I use brown paper bags to wrap books for students gifts during the holidays and at the end of the year. (They come in different sizes so measure your books before you order.) I found smiley face tickets that I use for behavior management. I blame the teachers I follow on social media for purchases like the remote control doorbell that I got to get my students' attention. 

It makes me happy when things are organized. Amazon is my go to for finding things to organize my classroom. I used the mini clear drawers to organize my math manipulatives. I can pull out the drawers I need and then put them away in seconds. The 4 drawer cart is where I keep my word work activities for my students. I use the big clear tubs to organize my monthly themes and math units and the snap storage bins to organize my writing units. 

Amazon is a great place to find manipulatives for your classroom. I've found lots of dice to use in my classroom on Amazon and loved finding Scrabble tiles with lowercase letters instead of uppercase. 

The last category is a favorite only because it make me laugh. When things like a beard trimmer, a cat with a sword bag, bicycle handle bar tape and a Timex watch from the 80s show up in my order history I know The Bellboys have been taking advantage of my Amazon Prime account. It is not so funny when it comes with the I accidentally forgot to change the form of payment speech. 

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