I have a to-do list that keeps on growing!

My to-do list seems to get longer each day.  I inevitably find another great idea to try on Edmodo professional groups or Pinterest boards.  I do my best to work on projects from start to finish, but there are so many things that catch my eye that I find it difficult to complete something to the point of using it!  I really enjoy seeing tangible results, hence my weaning interest in long projects and eventual pile of unfinished starts.

A goal of mine this year is to whittle away at my to-do list by prioritizing project ideas on the basis of use and impact.  One of my first accomplishments this month was creating three of these flower clocks (one for each classroom I teach in) as visual aids for telling time in Spanish.

I got this idea from blog Señora Baxter's Spanish Class.  Each flower petal goes with a five-minute increment on the clock and shows the addition and subtraction of telling time in Spanish.  I changed up the design a bit by making the petals in two different colors - one for adding minutes to the hour and the other for subtracting minutes from the hour.  I think my students will find this wall reference very useful as we learn/review the subject of telling time.  My other two classrooms have different petal colors.  I also made my own ¨clock¨ because the classroom clocks were in less visible places along the wall.