Hi friends!! Um, how excited am I that Cassadee won The VOICE?!! Pretty sure our whole house screamed when she won!! I stinkin’ LOVE her!!! I cannot believe we have 1.5 more days until the holiday break. I have enjoyed this week so much with my little loves. Today, we had some fun with Mr. Grinch! After reading the story, we listed some different things that we could do to make the Grinch smile. I wished I would have had some heart Post-Its … [Read more...]
Silence for Sandy Hook
“May the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.” 2 Thessalonians 3:16 … [Read more...]
Santa’s Helpers {Contractions}
I had lots of little helpers in my room today! I always have some good helpers, but today I had some *extra-ly* good helpers! I had SANTA’S HELPERS!!! This week, we are learning about contractions! I told the kiddos that Santa sent me a lot of words that really needed some work!! I told them that Santa needed these words to be taken apart and put back together to make one word instead of 2. Of course after all this, they were pumped to see what … [Read more...]
Wrapped up Prepositions, slides, and left over pumpkins….
There is just NOT enough hours in the day to squeeze everything in. SOOOO….tomorrow, we are in deed, playing catch up!!! Tomorrow, we will work with prepositions {mainly prepositions for *where*}. Geez. Those little things are TRICK.EE!! I wanted to make it fun for my kiddos to learn so, after brainstorming with Mr. Hudgeons, he helped me come up with this little idea!! Santa’s bag and a present! The plan is to have the kiddos discuss all … [Read more...]
Early bird Christmas SALE!!!
Wanted to pop on real quick before we head out to dinner to let you all know that I am throwing a little early bird Christmas sale!! My store is 20% off until Tuesday, December 11th. If you read my post here and here you can get those Christmas craftivities in the sale! They are in my Jingle Bell Rock unit! Happy Saturday sweet friends :) … [Read more...]
Naughty and Nice visitors
After Duck Dynasty, a Sunkist, and going on a night time sight word hunt with Rapunzel, I am ready to share what we have been up to. Last week, in phonics, we learned about the *th* brother! He is the naughty one that likes to stick his tongue out. So after formally meeting him…. we were ready to go on a *th* hunt! We used our story in our Journey’s reading book to find words that had Mr. TH himself! After finding their words, the kiddos … [Read more...]
Moosletoe, Reindeers, and Funky Trees…
Hi friends! I wanted to show you all some little Christmas-y activities we have been working on this week so far. First up, we read one of my all time fave holiday books…Moosletoe! After reading the story, each kiddo wrote a story about what makes their holiday so “perfectly perfect”! I LOVE how these turned out! Everything about this writing melts my heart….especially the last sentence :) Next up, we summarized our weekly … [Read more...]
Thankful hats, freebies and polka dots!!
Tomorrow is Friday…which is one day closer to the weekend….which is EVEN closer to that special day of endless amounts of FOOD and family time!! I LOVE Thanksgiving time! Tuesday evening, we had our small group {our Bible study group} Thanksgiving dinner and oh.my.larry friends….seriously why is food so dern good?!? A.D.D totally set in after I ate my way through tons of carbs and butter. :) ok..’nuff about food before I find myself sneaking … [Read more...]
Candy corns, fact families, and turkeys
We have been all sorts of mathematicians these past few weeks. We have been hard at work with fact families! We use CSCOPE in our district, and the past 2 weeks we have been building sums and minuends to 10. So to jazz up our math time, I brought candy into the mix!! Whoop, whoop. Anytime the candy is revealed, it is an instant attention getter! To start off, each of my littles got ten candy corns, a part part whole math mat, and a white board. … [Read more...]
Place Value Pumpkins and goodies!!!
Today was most definitely the Monday before Halloween. :) The kiddos are on the countdown for endless amounts of sugar and dress up!! Honestly,.. so am I. Any excuse to devour piles of sugar makes me THIS HAPPY!! Today, we reviewed place value. During the middle of our little review lesson…I totally had one of those moments were you switch gears and revamp the lesson plans! Ever had one of those??? Love ‘um. Rather than building numbers the … [Read more...]
Drugs Stink, Freebie, and a SALE!!
Ok, so, I don’t know bout y’all, but anytime I tell my little ones that something is a contest they are all over it! This week, the contest was a Drug Free poster! I always love doing these each year. The kiddos always get so stinkin’ excited to see our class poster hanging up in our school cafeteria. Well, this year, the contest had a HUGE incentive for the kiddos. The class that wins, gets $30. Oh yes! So of course, as soon as I said that they … [Read more...]
Oh Happy Day!!
I am enjoying every stinkin’ minute of my 4 day weekend. I’m back to work tomorrow. I spent the day with the ones I love and enjoying this beautiful “sneak peak” of fall weather here in Texas! Days that you can actually sit outside without being soaking wet come few and far between here in good ‘ol Texas. Because I am loving this *Happy Day* I have a little freebie for you all. Bah-bam!!!! 39 pages of sight word practice including … [Read more...]