This is what I’ll be doing on Monday. I really love it! I think my kiddos are going to love him. Do you know about using embroidery floss? I vaguely remember embroidering something long ago… but I have used embroidery floss forever for tons of stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with embroidery. It’s […]

Here are the winners of my Past and Present unit. Excuse the not so pretty display… it’s 3:30am and I am getting a little too lazy! Congrats Michelle and Cathy…. check your emails. Val – email me! 😀 If you’d like to check out the unit for yourself – just click the pic below. 😀 […]

Monday was canceled for me today – THANK YOU VETERANS. But I forgot to tell my alarm. That didn’t stop me from going back to sleep, though! 😀 This month our social studies unit of study is Past and Present – Compare lives of long ago to our lives today. I like doing this unit […]

As I said in my last post, there are 3 basic LOVES/NEEDS/MUSTS I have in teaching. They are what I think most define my teaching style and philosophy. Parent Communication Know Your Standards/Pacing and Planning Tracking & Demonstrating Student Progress Tonight I’m addressing: In my opinion, there really isn’t anything more important than knowing your standards […]

I’m seriously longing for some sleep. I have been so busy trying to catch up on things this weekend. I can’t believe it’s already 11:00pm! This was NOT the relaxing weekend that I really need to have. I had about 3 hours of sleep last night. I’m thinkin’ this might end up being a long […]

I’m not proud of myself. I probably shouldn’t even admit it. I hit a boiling point and… well… boiled over. I was at another -pull me away from my needy kids, make sub plans, discuss unnecessary things, waste of time – development thing this afternoon. I was trying to be positive about it. It was only the […]

I’ve been knee deep in patriotism stuff lately. I recently added some clipart and backgrounds for you to use on your own teacher created contraband. There are 34 images in the pack. I can’t wait to see what ya’ll make with it. You can get it at TpT I’m going to be making these to […]