Motivational Posters

This week Kathy (the Resource Special Ed. Teacher that I share a classroom with) and I are busting our rear ends to teach and also figure out how we are going to spend the money that Special Ed. is allocating us for the 2010-2011 school year, because our orders are due THIS FRIDAY!!!. We each get $1000.00. If you just fell off of your chair, you know where I am sitting currently. What an awesome amount of money, right?!? We each asked for a computer for student use in the classroom each computer is $905.00.... SpEd. said no.... argh....
So what the heck do you spend $1000.00 on!?! Well I decided I needed a new easel, headphones for the student use computers, some other organizational items, and teaching supports like math manipulatives and posters that explain key ideas for reading, writing and math.

What I landed on today in a magazine was the Motivational Message posters.... Here are a few I liked!

• We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others are bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. 
• Experience is what causes us to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
• When it snows you have to choices: shovel or make snow angels!
• Our five senses are incomplete with out the sixth...... a sense of humor!

And my favorite!!!

• Give people a bit of your heart instead of a piece of your mind. 

I hope that you can find ways to give your heart instead of your mind. I know that it is hard for me to do! (gotta run I need to give some of my heart to SpEd for not letting me get a computer..... that would have been easier and much better in the long run for my students..... give heart, give heart, give heart........)