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November 15, 2014

Five for Friday!

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for some Five for Friday fun!  1. Today we worked on synonyms. I LOVED the turkeys Cara from The First Parade posted last year, so I knew I had to tie them in to something this month! Synonyms it is! I added a pilgrim hat to the top for the students to write their word on. After making a list of different synonyms for each word, they wrote their synonyms on the feathers!  Don't Be A Turkey! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Five for Friday, synonyms, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized

June 5, 2014

Math-letes, Poetry and David Shannon!

We celebrated all that we have learned in Math this year with a MATH-LETE Day today! It was loads of fun and super busy! We played games and did a few crafts. Needless to say, I am pooped! We started off by making our Mathlete hats and writing what our favorite thing about math is! I had lots of my kiddos pick basketballs for their hats, but footballs and baseballs were huge hits too! You can download the hat template for free {here}. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: End of Year, Freebies, Literacy, Math, Poetry, reading, summer, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized, Writing

November 17, 2013

Math & ELA Freebies!!!

 It’s time to do some catching up! If you follow me on Instagram, you have probably seen that we are expecting our 2nd baby in June!!!! {Insert me jumping to the roof right here} We are on cloud 9!! We could not be more thrilled about this precious blessing! Although I have not had any sickness {praise tha’ lawd},….I am completely exhausted every.single.day!! I’ll take that over being sick any day of the week! This whole exhausted and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Daily 5, Freebies, Literacy, literacy centers, Math, math centers, Nouns, Teachers Pay Teachers, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized

August 26, 2013

Butterflies

Do you still get them?!? I certainly do….even after 5 years! Tomorrow is my first day back, and I still get SO excited to see all the little souls that God has given me to love and teach each day. I can’t wait!! Tomorrow is also a huge day for our family! My little miss starts Kindergarten. I am not sure who is more of a mess right now….the hubby or me!?!?  While out shopping this weekend {shocker, I know} I let her pick out different … [Read more...]

Filed Under: back to school, Freebies, meet the teacher, Uncategorized

July 20, 2013

Center FREEBIES!!

Today marks exactly one month until I go back to school. Can you believe summer is almost over?!? It flies by crazy fast! This year my little cutie will be with me everyday at school. I’m so darn excited! We have been hard at work trying to get ready for Kindergarten! The two centers below are centers that I made with her in mind, but will definitely use during the first week of school. The first one is matching colored dots to their color word … [Read more...]

Filed Under: back to school, Freebies, Giveaways, Literacy, literacy centers, Math, math centers, Uncategorized

May 30, 2013

#6moredays

6 more days and this chick is sleeping in!! Can I get a “HOLLA”?!? Even with 6 days left, we have not missed a beat. This week we are having lots of fun with our David Shannon author study. Is it terrible for me to say that I am so thankful we are done with our basals?! Those things drive me nutso! Here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to so far! Tuesday, we started off reading A Bad Case of Stripes. I was so surprised at how many of my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: End of Year, Giveaways, Literacy, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized, Writing

April 21, 2013

EXTREME Makeover: Center Edition

Ok, I am going to be real quick…the in-laws are headed over for dinner so I have some cleaning to do!! I recently updated my Surfin’ into Summer Literacy Centers from last year. Y’all, this file was so hard to look at while I was revising it! Terrible, blah, yucky, boring, and no directions! The old file was SO deserving of a 3.7 rating!! Seriously?? What was I thinking when I first started selling stuff on TPT?!  Anywho, I have revised … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Literacy, literacy centers, SALE, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

March 27, 2013

Tops or Bottoms?

This week we are wrapping up our plant unit. I am pretty sure that my kiddos are going to be way more successful than me when it comes to having a green thumb. Everything I plant….dies. It is a tragedy. I mean you would think after refreshing up on plant needs every year that I would be able to open up a vegetable stand or something, but notsomuch. Anyways, yesterday, my kiddos made these little plant flip craftivities about the needs of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Easter, Freebies, Plants, Spring, Teachers Pay Teachers, Uncategorized

September 20, 2012

Classroom Management Linky

Hi friends! I am linking up with What the Teacher Wants to share how I do classroom management in my room. I cannot take credit for either of these ideas, but I had to share them because they are just that good!! When my amazing co-worker and blogging buddy, Shannon Kirby shared this idea with me of doing “Behavior makes Cents”…I knew I had to do it in my room. It is amazing. Check out her TPT store to snag it up. I also use Mel D.’s fuzzies … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classroom, Classroom Management, organize, Uncategorized

July 10, 2012

Our meeting place

One of my favorite times during our school day is our meeting time! I love when we all gather up on the rug and have a read aloud, or start a new lesson, create anchor charts together, have our morning meeting,…it’s just my favorite! Here is my 2nd little edition of this rug we will be using this year for our meeting place! I am very excited about it. After 2 months..I am finally finished with it. It could have been done 2 months ago…buut, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Linky Parties, Literacy, literacy centers, Uncategorized, Writing

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