Monday Made It {July 14th}

Today I have I few simple Monday Made Its to share with you.

Kale Salad

Photo and Recipe from Gimme Some Oven

I had a picnic to go to this weekend and made this yummy {and healthy} kale salad. It was easy to make and super delicious so I thought I would share the recipe with you all!

Cupcakes!

Caramel Appletini Cupcakes

On Sunday I made these Angry Orchard-inspired cupcakes. You can click on the picture above to link back to the recipe. Here are how mine turned out:

(Note - not the best photo but I remembered last minute to take one!)

The frosting was VERY sweet but overall they were quite yummy and the smell of them cooking reminded me so much of fall! The hubby really liked them, so that is a success in my book!

Prefix and Suffix Freebies!

I have been back into full-blown planning mode this week. This week I focused a lot on guided reading and literacy related activities. I wanted a quick and efficient way to make sure I taught my kiddos all the prefixes and suffixes covered in our Journey's Reading Program (2011-2012 ed.). I teach 2nd and 3rd Grade, so those are the two grades covered in these freebies. Click here for the 2nd grade set and here for the 3rd grade set. 

Lastly, I've been working really hard on being more organized! So I started working on organizing my teacher binder. I created only the files I actually used last year to go in it... click the link below if you want to snag a copy of them for free!

I hope to work later this week on my Guided Reading Binder but we are going away for our {1 Year Anniversary} later this week, so it might have to wait until next week! 

Thanks to Creative Clips and I'm Lovin' Lit for the great clipart, frames, and papers to make these so adorable!

That's it for me for this week! I can't wait to stop by 4th Grade Frolics and see what everyone else has been up to! 

Monday Made It {#1}

Today I am linking up for my 1st {Monday Made It} of the summer! Thanks Tara for creating this fun linky which I {hope} will keep me motivated to create all summer long! 

My first Monday Made It is a a gift I made for a good friend's wedding. I had seen these jute wrapped monogrammed door hangers all over Pinterest and Etsy and finally decided I would try and make my own! 

This was my inspiration via Etsy:

And here is how mine came out:

I was pretty happy with it and look forward to making one for myself! I might even make some fun letters for my classroom - I'm thinking READ or WELCOME wrapped in different colored yarn! :) A small warning though - this is very time consuming! 

My 2nd Monday Made It was a quick, easy craft I made with some of my favorite teacher buddies. It is a post-it note "holder" to keep on my desk at school. Cute, easy, and functional - works for me!

My last Monday Made It involved covering letters for the word READ that I've had on my bookshelf forever in scrapbook paper. I've had these letters for years, I got them on sale at Hobby Lobby and always wanted to make them bright and colorful. I finally got around to it. :) Here it is along with my summer reading pile - I can't wait to get through all these books! So far I have read Beautiful Chaos (from the Beautiful Creatures series) and am now in the middle of the final book in the series, Beautiful Redemption. I loved this series - they are definitely YA but that seems to be my thing all of the sudden so I'm just going to throw caution to the wind and enjoy it! 

That's it for this week! Check back next Monday to see how my current work in progress turns out! Hint - it's an adorable welcome sign for my front door. :)