Flipping for First: Teacher Tool Gift Exchange

Last weekend, I had the most amazing weekend! I spent the entire time with over 100 teachers! I loved being in a room full of like minded people! Relationships are easy to form with this group!

One of the events I was looking forward to the most was the Teacher Tool Swap!
We played a left/right game written and read by the amazing (and my roomie) Amanda Pauley at Mrs. Pauley's Kindergarten!

We divided into grades so we could have more manageable groups. Here are my first grade comrades!

This is the gift I gave! It is paper by the wonderful Blair Turner! She has the cutest paper and calendar products!

Jessica Tobin was the winner of my gift! She is from Second Grade Nest. She teaches first grade now and has great ideas on how to incorporate close reading into the classroom!

The gift I got was the talk of the meet up! It's a laminating station!!! In my opinion...best gift ever! Before this meet-up I didn't own a personal laminator (which I found puts me in the minority).

This awesome gift was from Abbie Jinnings at Tales from the First Grade!

Abbie said that she sets this up as a station for her firsties to do! What a great idea! For now, I'm being selfish and playing with it at home.

Who would have thought that laminating at home could be so fun! I seriously haven't had this much fun since paper trimmers were designed for the home as well! (Teachers know how to have fun huh?)

I did have to get a plastic dessert lid (See! Desserts are good for you!) to put behind the laminator so the paper doesn't bend (fall) when it comes out. It worked perfectly!!!