Does anyone else feel like the worst part about blogging is using the time that you would normally be stalking everyone else’s blog to post to your own. These quick reads are not cutting it! I am one happy girl right about now! We have a 3 day kid week this week, a 4 day work week annnnnnd my sweet niece turns two tomorrow and
Sorry it took me forever to get to this. Friday was the worst afternoon and left me in tears very challenging. I have just not mastered having 37 kids for my afternoon and at this point I am not sure I ever will. I am not giving up though and I took this weekend to brainstorm and really pull myself back together. Beyond thankful for
Well, for starters my principal nominated me to win Office Max’s teacher dedicated to education award. On Wednesday morning my principal and an entourage walked in with mega goodies. I was so confused at first, trying to process what exactly was going on. It was pretty darn incredible and I definitely felt the love. I think my favorite thing about it all was the premise
Hey there sweet darlings! Freebie here for you because…. well, there isn’t a better way to start a Monday! Just the usual, click here or the pic below! Are Mondays ridiculously hard for anyone else?? My goodness, Sunday I get all teary. I sure miss this guy when I am gone!
I feel like all I have time for lately is these itty bitty posts so tonight I will make up for it and then some. Let’s just say that by the end of this post you will be sick of listening to me talk!! (Let’s hope that’s not the case 😉 First up, the FUN stuff! I grew up and teach in a little town
One thing I love about the bloggy world more than anything else is all of the sharing and collaboration that happens. It goes beyond what I had ever imagined I would learn from my fellow teachers. We are only a month into school and because of everyone I have met through this blogging adventure I have been able to implement some incredible lessons and pieces
Daily math is THE best! I have made some adjustments this year and have worked hard at introducing each piece individually and allowing students to build their stamina (just like Daily 5 reading). Boy, imagine that taking my time and not rushing gets better results! I am just always in such a dang hurry to get my groups up and running. Right now my darling
Friday was International Day of Peace. In celebration of this day my little sweeties and I read the story Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya. This is a sad story but really brings a perspective of war that kids can understand. This story takes place in Japan during world war II and the bombings of Japan. The zoo keepers had to kill the animals of the
Things are beginning to settle in and I am really loving my class. They are so smart! The past couple of years have had some difficult circumstances and I was not expecting my class to be so ready for third grade standards. I was expecting to need to spend so much more time reviewing and practicing things that they should have already mastered. Boy, have
In writing this week we have maintained our focus on ideas. Now that our Writing Workshop is up and running it is important for my wee little authors to be able to choose a thoughtful idea quickly and easily and write about it while being engaged in their own topic. Our goal each day this week was to stick with the same idea for the
