I Love Target

I think I go to Target probably three or four times a week.  I am always looking for classroom stuff.  (I do buy all of my groceries there as well as housewares.) It's pretty much my home away from home.  There are people I never seem to see except for when I'm in Target! Oh, and I just got the Cartwheel app for my phone (the Target Cartwheel, because there are others).  It is pretty cool, and you don't have to carry coupons around with you.  You just let them scan it and will take off any available coupons automatically!  I'm such a fan!  I'm actually a little offended that the sales people don't greet me by name when I walk in.

One of my all-time favorite purchases from Target was a few years ago. Next to my favorite book boxes for Daily 5 that I bought this spring, this one thing was my other favorite!!!!  It's a shower curtain we use in the classroom!  That's right, a shower curtain.  It's a map of the world.  I had the custodian take down my pull-down maps several years ago.  This one is all I need.  I love it for so many reasons:  #1 It cost $9.99 at the time. (Now it's $14.99, sorry)  #2 It is clear and my wall is blue, so it looks like water behind it!  #3 I put it down low just inches above the floor, so I can stand in front of it to teach and bring the kids down to the floor, and it's just right there.  #4 It's very colorful and detailed.  It even has the Sandwich Islands labeled (the kids laugh at that all year - what do they eat there and what grows on the trees? Well duh, sandwiches of course!)  #5 They look at the map every time we line up, and they have to be learning from it even when I'm not teaching. #6 Because it is shiny, clear plastic, I can write on it with Vis a Vis markers and it cleans right up.  I don't use dry erase because I'm afraid wiping it will stretch the plastic. I guess you could use a wet wipe and dry erase would come off easily.  #7 It looks super cute with the border (I layered two CTP borders going around it.)  I'll try to remember to post pictures of it actually up on the wall.  #8 It has lasted about 7 years now and shows very little wear.  I wish I could think of ten reasons I love it - because that just seems appropriate, but that's all the reasons I can come up with.  Definitely enough to make me recommend it to y'all! Honestly, I haven't seen in the store in quite some time.  They do still sell it online, click here.