As we approach the holidays, one unit we always get to do is Holidays Around the World. To get started, we’re going to dive into all about Kwanzaa. I love getting to expose my students to holidays that they may not be familiar with. Plus, it helps build a strong, solid classroom community with empathy […]
WARNING…this first part is NOT teaching related! 🙂 I can officially play my Christmas music without my hubs saying, “ugh…again? Poor Thanksgiving…” Here’s the obvious truth. I love it. I love every bit of it. The crazy shopping. The hustle and bustle. The red Starbucks cups. The music. The decorations. The extra kindness that people […]
I love this time of year! Thanksgiving and Christmas are both just around the corner. I am one of those people that my drives my husband crazy. The red Starbucks cups come out, the cooler weather is sticking around longer, and so what else do I do?? Naturally, I listen to Christmas music! I. Love. […]
I’m still here!!! It has been almost a month since I last blogged. Kindergarten is just keeping me busy, busy, busy this year! Along with our adoption, family, trying to stay healthy, and Aggie football games my little blog has just taken a back burner. I thought I’d pop in to share a Peek at […]
This summer I decided to start a little Facebook Fan page for my blog. What started out as just a summer project, turned into a page with 700 followers!! I am so excited and humbled that there are 700 people who would want to follow along! I thought it was time for a little giveaway! […]
WHEW! Where has the week gone?! September has come and gone and I am excited as can be for this cooler weather that is in the forecast for the weekend. I thought I’d pop in and share a little bit from our week! We needed to hit compound words hard this week! We covered them […]
Well it has been a while since I have shared my plans for the week. It’s a lot of work to put them together visually, but it really does help me! Back to sharing I go!! Let’s see if I can do this two weeks in a row! HA! 🙂 Next week is all about […]
I thought I’d pop in a share a little bit about sight words in our classroom. We have a list of 100 words to teach throughout the year. This summer I had spent time mapping out how we would teach the sight words the adoption introduces while also teaching color words, number words, and others […]
Teaching phonics has not always been a strength of mine. As a matter of fact, my first 3 years of teaching, my phonics instruction was rarely explicit and direct. There was never a rhyme or reason to the sequence, either. I taught phonics as they came up during our shared reading and guided reading time […]
Math has always been difficult for me. I was throughout high school and continued through my college days! Oh, how I hated going to math classes in college! Because of all of this, though, it really makes me strive to be a BETTER math teacher. I really want my kids to have a strong understanding […]
Photography by Life in Low Aperture Since April, my hubs and I have been on a beautiful journey. Through lots of prayer, seeking wisdom from others, and more prayer, we have decided to adopt from the Democratic Republic of Congo! We are so excited these days we can hardly contain ourselves! You may be thinking, […]
September 17th is Constitution Day. This year Constitution Day happens to fall on a teaching day so I have been working on just a few ways to integrate it. **Amazon affiliate links are used below at no cost to you. We will start with a poem. I wrote this little poem with rhyming words […]
It’s Hump Day, ladies and gents! That means we are done with more than half of our week! WAHOO! I thought a little “Pin It to Win It” would be fun for this mid-week celebration! Only a few more days to take advantage of this great deal we have with Educents. Over 1400 pages of […]
I seriously have told myself about 100 times lately, “I must sit down and blog. I really need to blog. I should spend some time and blog.” As much as I want to, I just haven’t had time. When I have had time, I’m busy working on things for my classroom! With going back to […]
I think that as teachers we spend from October to mid-August forgetting how exhausting the first week of school usually is. All last week I would come home and be in my pajamas on the couch by 8 o’clock. As a matter of fact, my husband even said to me last week as we were […]
Two weeks ago I shared a few pictures from my classroom as I started decorating and setting things up. You can read more about that by clicking {HERE}. Last Friday before I left the school after my 13 hour work day, I remembered to snap a few more pictures. Our Book Nook. The little […]
I’m just poppin’ in to announce our little winner! Thanks so much to everyone who was a part! I loved it! 🙂
I am sure you have heard the great news by now! Teachers Pay Teachers is having a back to school sale tomorrow and Monday!! I am joining them and marking everything in my store 20% off! Enter the TpT code: BTS13 to get the full 28% off! Go fill up your cart and get ready […]
