Currently March

I'm linking up with Farley at Oh Boy, Fourth Grade with her Currently Linky Party.. Be sure to check out what other teachers are "Currently" up to! 

Five for Friday

I'm pretty sure my 5 for Friday blog posts are ALWAYS done on Saturday or Sunday.. haha.. Sorry about the delay! Anyway- I'm linking up with Doodlebugs for their 5 for Friday Linky Party. Be sure to check out what other teachers have been up to this week!!

1. My husband finally (26 days after me) turned 30! :)

He requested a chocolate chip cookie cake. I found this recipe on Pinterest, and I thought it was delicious!  We also went to Bonefish Grill- his request for a birthday date night dinner. We had never been there, but it was so good! We'll definitely make it a place we visit again!

2. Alright, Groundhog...

 

I made this little Groundhog's Day prediction graph set. You can find it for free at my TpT store- maybe pick it up for next year! My kids were predicting that he did NOT see his shadow... We were hopeful.. I'm just watching and saw that he did indeed see his shadow.UGh. We have had ENOUGH of this winter already.. We may get more snow tonight.. and it was 56 degrees in the Cincinnati area yesterday! :(

 

 

 

I found a cute free Groundhog's Day set at First Grade Blue Skies TpT store and we drew pictures to go along with their predictions!

 

 3. Teen Numbers Pack

Next week we're going to start composing and decomposing numbers. I'm very excited to use this set that I created. Be sure to check it out at my TpT store

 

4. Superbowl Commercials

 

You've probably already seen this... Buuuuut It's adorable! My daughter is obsessed with "doggies" so we have already watched this several times :) You can view it here on  youtube

 

 

 

5. I was able to put Amelia's hair in pigtails for the first time... Too cute not to share :)

I hope you all had a wonderful week! Pray for no more snow for me- 12 snow days  already and it's just February 2nd!

Currently February

I'm linking up with Farley @ Oh Boy 4th Grade! Be sure to check out what other teachers are up to!

 

Anyone else LOVE getting everything ready for the following week before they leave school on Friday? I'm not a big fan of staying after school, so I usually bring it all home on Thursday and work after my daughter goes to bed.. I'm so glad to have lesson plans ready AND actually feel like I'm starting to be caught up from all my snow days!


Thinking that I have had enough snow days.. 12 is a LOT.. Probably losing the first 3 days of my spring break.. boo... and we're now getting out June 3... I KNOW the end of the year is going to be tough.. but geezal- 4 days this week was a lot to ask! I think we need to ease back in to this working 5 days straight thing! :)


2 Truths and a Fib-
My parents' anniversary IS on Valentine's Day... Sweet right?
My anniversary is NOT! My mom is a teacher too, so I have no idea what she was thinking... haha.. Summer weddings are much more teacher vacation friendly! Agree? My husband and I picked one of the hottest days of 2010. July 16 :)
I married a younger man. Yep. Sure did.. Henry is younger than me by a whopping 26 days..hehe.. I'm just glad we finally got to January 26. Being 30 while he was still 29 was not something I liked to admit! hehe!

Five for Friday

Happy New Year!
Sorry it has been a while.. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and are enjoying getting back into the swing of things in your classrooms!
I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs for Five for Friday! Here are 5 random things from the past week. I hope you'll check out what other teachers have been up to as well!

 

1. Polar Vortex

How many of you had an extra long Christmas Break, as I did, thanks to the Polar Vortex?? It was absolutely frigid here. Negative temps with windchills around -25 Monday and Tuesday of last week. Due to this, we were off school. Although I have honestly had enough snow days to suit me for a while, I was very thankful that I didn't have to take Amelia outside! Here is one way we kept busy! My girl is not a fan of messy hands that come with finger painting, but she LOVED when I handed her this sponge brush! We had a ball!

 

2. Fun Christmas gifts

 

We had purchased a science kit from Learning Express for my cousin Josh for Christmas. It looked like so much fun! I insisted, and his mom appreciated, that he come over to perform the experiments! We had fun making all kinds of gross things like snot and vomit. We started "growing" a brain and also took some germs from my cell phone and put in a petri dish to see how much bacteria we could grow! Here are a few pics of him having a blast!

 

 

 

 

3. Cricut

 

I borrowed a friend's Cricut to make a baby shower banner for my friend's upcoming baby shower. She had helped me to make something before, but this is the first time I used one by myself. Such a neat machine! I think I've decided it makes more sense for me to buy a Sillhouette Cameo, but it was still fun to try out the Cricut!

 





 

 

 

4. Word Families

After we did make it back to school this week, we began working on some Short A word families. Here we were searching for words in the -at and -an word families in our book titled "Zac the Rat." We use Starfall's reading series called "More Starfall" which I truly love- but that's another subject :)

 

 

 

5. Adding and Subtracting

To get back into the swing of things with adding and subtracting, we played this little game with some labeled dice that I purchased from a teacher store. I wrote -1, -2, -3 and +1, +2, +3. Students work with a partner and have a container of 20 counters total. Each student starts with 5 counters and the rest stay inside the container. They take turns rolling the dice, and then adding/ subtracting. The goal is to end up with zero counters. They really loved this! We'll definitely be playing it again!

 

 

I hope everyone enjoyed their week! Be sure to check out what other teachers have been up to!



 

 

Five for Friday- Snow Day Edition!

 

Finally making time to write a new blog post! I guess I was just waiting for a snow day!! :)

 

 

1.SNOW DAY!

Yay! I, like many of you probably, LOVE a snow day! We get a lot of them in my district because we have a lot of back country roads! It doesn't take much to make them unsafe. However, most all districts around the Cincinnati area are closed today due to this ice/ snow mix that we have coming our way. My enthusiasm will dwindle when the snow days start to stack up, and they start to cut into my summer vacation. But until then, bring it on!! :)

 

 

 

2. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

It's coming- so quickly!! We're getting into the holiday spirit in my classroom!  I found this adorable FREEBIE Elf Craftivity at Mrs. Ricca's TpT store. We had fun applying for a job as an elf!

 

3. School wide Christmas Spirit!

My school is also having a classroom door decorating contest. I found this cute idea on Pinterest- and it was super easy! I love it, as do my kindergarteners!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Addition

 

We have really been working on our addition facts to 10. Here is a fun little way my kiddos have been working on mastering those facts! It's a pipe cleaner with 10 beads on it. I then put a piece of tape in the middle and wrote the number "10" on it. They can move the beads to each side and easily see the many ways to make 10! We take them out and tell a partner a few ways to make 10 from time to time. 

 

Here they are working on facts to 5. They had a cup with 5 red/yellow counters. They simply dumped their cup, and wrote a number sentence to show the number of each color counter they had. We also do this with 10 counters. 

 

 

 

5. Checking out my pilot husband's "office"

 

Since my husband Henry has been flying for a private charter company, we haven't been able to check out what it's like inside one of the fancy jets.. until this week! The plane he would be flying was actually at an airport close to our home, so we were able to go see inside! They hold 8 people comfortably. He has flown a few celebrities such as Paula Dean, Kelly Clarkson, Aaron Rodgers, and Kelly Ripa among others... Who he flies doesn't usually get to me, it's when he's flying them to the Bahamas or other Caribbean islands that I get a little bit jealous :P

 

 

 

I hope you all have a lovely week. If you too are at home enjoying a snow day- leave me a comment and let me know where you are! This snow storm looks like impacting a lot of the country!

Currently November

I'm sorry that I'm a few days late! This seems to be a recurrent probelem for me.. Anyone else feel this way???

 

 

 

1. Listening:
My house is silent! We are off school today for Election Day! I would have loved to sleep in, but it just didn't happen... my daughter however, is still fast asleep- and I'll take it!

2. Loving:
We are for Election Day today, and tomorrow is a "teacher contract" day.. So just 3 days with the kiddos this week! ...and it looks like tomorrow we will have time to meet with our teams and plan... I LOVE when we actually have time to do this on these days!

3.Thinking:
 It's already November! Holy Moly... Before we blink, it will be Thanksgiving, and then Christmas.. I LOVE Christmas, but I like it even better when I feel like I'm ready for it.. Shopping finished early, house decorated, and just enjoying the season... I've purchased 2 gifts, but I need to get my act together on the rest!

4.Wanting:
Between teething, and this crazy time change, Amelia has just been a little "off" from her normal happy self... I'm hoping we have a fun day at home today!

5. Needing:
I'm hoping my daughter decides to take a long nap today so I can get my pots cleaned up and put away... The plants really just started to look dead this week, so I guess I'm not TOO late at getting this done!

6. A Yummy Pin

 

Chocolate chip cookie dough brownies! They look amazing... I found them here from Pinterest of course. The site is "The Brown Eyed Baker... Anyone ever made these? Or tried this person's recipes? They look delicious!!! sigh.. I have entirely too many "pins" that look delicious! Good thing the Holiday Season is upon us and it's the perfect time to try some out! :)

 

 

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Happy Halloween!

I love Halloween! I'm trying not to let the crummy forcast for where I live get me down... I hope you'll check out a sale at my TpT store! It starts at midnight tonight... Click the picture for the link!

 

 

Please leave a comment of any cute costumes you see, or if you have a fun costume yourself! I am excited to dress my daughter up as a monkey! :)

 

Happy Halloween!