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March 20, 2015 3 Comments

Wooohooo Friday!

Happy Spring!

Today we sent home report cards. Crazy to think that two-thirds of the year have disappeared! I’m just going to keep shoving as much into these weeks as I can before I run out of time!

I kicked off my week at the Happiest Place on Earth! My nephews celebrated their 7th birthday {sniff sniff – I can’t believe they’re that old already!} We had a blast! It was crazy hot but those Mickey pretzels and ice cream sandwiches were worth the 90+ heat!

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We spent a lot of time working on that tricky OO sound this week! Our favorite activity came from Smitten with First’s adorable, Looking for Words pack!

The kids went lOOking for words around our playground! It was so fun to get outside and enjoy the sunshine!

We followed up this activity with a quick OO printable!

You can find this activity in Grab Bag Galore!

I think they are actually getting the hang of this sound now!

This week, we’ve spent A LOT of time working on our money skills. Oh my goodness – my forehead may be bruised!

Ashley over at Flying High in First Grade has a wonderful idea for getting kids to remember those coin values. She created Hairy Money! The kids loved it and totally got it! Her Cha Ching unit has a been a BIG help this week!

We also used these awesome money flip book from Mrs. Richardson’s Class Making “Cents” of Money unit!

To really test out their new knowledge of money, I whipped up this quick worksheet. Click the picture to snag this FREEBIE!

I think they’re starting to get the hang of it, but we’ll be spending a lot more time with this tricky concept in the days ahead! Do you have any activities or lessons you love to teach this concept?

I’m happy to say I finally finished up my Let’s Learn about the Seven Continents series of PowerPoints! This is a great resource to go along with my It’s a Small World Continent Study!

That’s my Five for Friday! Head on over to check out what everyone else has been up to!

February 27, 2015 3 Comments

What a Week!

Happy Friday! What a week!

The biggest highlight was my trip to Atlanta!

My first stop was The Ron Clark Academy {I’ll be blogging about that later this weekend!
Amazing! That is all I can say! Stay tuned for more details!

You may recognize a few other bloggers too 🙂

Of course I was stoked to be reunited with my amazing friend Deirdre {of A Burst of First!} We spent some quality time catching up, eating, and resting in our hotel room 🙂 We want to rendezvous once a month in a hotel to get a way from the stress of life! Those hotel beds get us every time. I’m already dreaming of our Vegas hotel beds.

On Saturday night, the bloggers of Georgia put on a fabulous meet up! So fun to finally put some names with faces.

I enjoyed spending time with Megan {I Teach. What’s Your Superpower?}, Kim {Live, Laugh, I Love Kindergarten} and Irene {Learning with Mrs. Leeby} These girls are a hoot!

I can’t WAIT for Vegas to see these gals again!

We spent our Sunday walking the ED Expo floor. All I can say is that there are some pretty amazing new tools/games/ideas in the world of education! I will be sharing some of the top products, as well as my own personal favorites very soon!

We met a celebrity there too!

On Sunday before we left, we got to spend time with a couple of our other bloggy friends, Jivey and Amanda before we left! It is so crazy to have such good friends from blogging, but it’s true. These people are rad!

While in the airport, on the plane and in the hotel, I was able to get started on my Let’s Learn About the World set of PowerPoints around the world!

I’m excited to introduce each continent to my class through these beautiful photographs.

Back to reality in the classroom too this week!One fun activity we worked on is fact vs. opinion. My oh my, is this tricky! Especially when you’ve taught it on the heels of true vs. false!
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Here are two fun examples!

You have NO idea how proud I am of this little writer! She’s come a looooonnnng way and it makes me smiles!

Thanks for stopping by!

Slainte!

February 14, 2015 4 Comments

Gotta LOVE Fridays!

Love is in the air…every time I look around! {Are you humming along as I sing?}

This week I fell in LOVE! One of my absolute favorite people had a baby…and he’s perfect! Here’s a pic of me and my new Godson!

I could snuggle this little bundle all day!!

Here’s a peek at a few other things we did this week!We made these fun valentine bags.

I saw Rulin’ the Roost’s adorable Owl bags on Instagram!

I let my kids go wild – we didn’t use any tracers, templates or mandated colors! Kinda fun for a change to let the kids have total free reign! They turned out adorable!We filled our week with some Valentine fun! We wrote some amazing Love poems using Primarily Speaking’s Valentine’s Day Fun! I loved reading their responses! So innocent at 6 🙂

We got up and movin’ using A Burst of First’s I Spy February Pack. My kiddos went bananas for the place value one! They have so much fun wandering around the classroom looking for the hidden numbers! I’ve already prepped the Presidents’ Day set for our first day back after break!

We also slipped in a little mystery picture, too! You can find it in Deirdre’s Valentine’s Day Common Core Goodies pack!

As a student was passing out the papers, I overheard another student shout, “I LOVE these!” Overall, Valentine’s Day in the classroom was a success!

I spent a little free time updating a few products this week! To my It’s a Small World Continent Study, I added “Around the Continent Spinners!”

I puffy heart these little spinners!

I’ve included country count, population, map, and biggest and smallest countries within the continent. There’s one included for each continent!

I also completely revamped by Super Star Spelling Dictionary and updated Super Duper Spelling Practice! If you own these, make sure to head over a re-download this packs!

Listmania got a fun new cover 🙂

Lastly, I added another component to the Smart Cookie Math program! I had a lot of people asking me to create another set of worksheets for students to practice the problems {without using the test sheet!}! The Smart Cookie Math Printables sets has 70+ pages of practice!

I’ve included a variety of options so your students don’t get bored with the exact printable over and over!

Here’s a peek at two activities included!

In other classroom adventures, we went on a field trip this week to a local aviation museum. Part of our “when we get back to school routine” is to write a thank you note to our drivers!