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Workin' on It Wednesday

A super-quick post to share that I got something done today!  :-)

After some cleaning, and QUITE a bit of time trying to work on my blog design (unsuccessfully!), I finally made myself get around to working on something for my classroom.

I made "horizontal" and "vertical" signs to put above/beside my door frame. This idea was on Pinterest, and I believe it came from The Applicious Teacher's blog.

Just need to get them laminated, and I can put them up in my room. Yay!

Since I didn't get much school stuff done today, I better get myself moving a little earlier in the day tomorrow!


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