Kagan Day 1 and a BAG!

When I first started teaching I went to a two day Kagan training on Cooperative Learning and I loved it!  As a new teacher I felt so impowered with these amazing tools and then I remember the car ride home at the end...I cried.  I was so overwhelmed.  I knew the the Kagan structures would nwork in my classroom but my head was already so overfilled with the things I learned in school and now I just felt like I had more piled on top of my plate.  Fast forward to my training today, which was mostly a light overview of the cooperative learning structures, and I realized that as my teaching style has evolved I have incorporated a lot of those structures into my classes.  This realization was followed by a little internal "Whoot Whoot" and happy dance. Yay me!  If anything this review day has served to remind me how to best use the structures.  I cannot wait until we get into more science specific activities tomorrow.  You know it must be good for so many teachers to give up a weekend over summer vacation.

Okay so now onto fun stuff.  If you haven't noticed I have become a little obsessed with chevrons and as I was scoping out other blogs I saw this bag from thirtyone gifts that I am now in love with.  In addition to that I can get this cute file box to go inside of it to take home my papers to grade.  I really don't need another bag considereing I have a massive slight obsession with Vera Bradley and Coach, and lately my eyes have been wandering towards Michael Kors... So I guess what I want to know is, should this impulsive blogger get the bag and file box and be adorablym matchy every day at school, or not?