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 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 […]

Do you have to give district assessments that require bubble in answer sheets? I’m so worn out from filling in bubbles!!! 40 questions per test, 30 answer sheets per test … I only teach 1st grade math – but I know that is A LOT of bubbles!!!!   Assessments for report cards almost finished, so […]