I don't know about the rest of you, but once the school year gets started and the State Mandated Testing looms over my head, I get caught up in the swing of things and don't always have time to focus on the accomplishments and celebrations of my students. So to make things easier, I prepare for birthdays at the very beginning of the year (just one less thing to do during the busy school year). I always have a bulletin board dedicated to birthdays (right by my word wall) and because I have over 130 students each day, I must update the board monthly.
This year, I decided to do an owl theme, not because I think my 8th graders will even care, but because I think they are so darn cute. I created a poster using one of my new faves (
http://www.blockposters.com/) and some decorative 3 inch circles and 3 inch owl circles with room for each student's name and birthday. All of this is available for $1.00 in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

And I just have to share my new favorite crafting tool... it seriously cuts the job in half (or even less than that!) Fiskars Lever Punch!!
And for 2 inch circles I love the Fiskars Round-'N-Round Squeeze Punch!!

These two beauts take a page full of circles that used to take me a couple of minutes to cut out down to literally SECONDS!! I'm all about Teacher Timesavers!!
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