I bet most teachers could relate... the hardest struggle for a teacher is to not reinvest most of their paycheck back into their own classroom. It is easy for a teacher to spend more than $300 a year in classroom supplies, activities, decorations, furniture, etc. For those whom don't teach, what you may not know is that school often don't pay for these items. Many times a teacher may get $50 - $100 on supplies for a whole year. Often that money is spent on markers, crayons, pencils, erasers, calculators, paper, etc. Many teachers choose to spend their own money on the larger center items or classroom kid-size furniture so they can take the items with them when they change jobs or classrooms.
One of my favorite items I bought this year was an alphabet sorting center. With this center comes small durable plastic pictures with their words spelled out on the flip side. Many of my students enjoy sorting words by their beginning sounds. This is a must for pre-school, kindergarten, or first grade classrooms that use learning centers.
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