They brighten up the room! 🙂 I love it when we study plants. 1) The kids really enjoy it. 2)Spring is upon us! YAY! I’m excited to *Spring forward* and have the sun set much later. LOVE IT. Last week we did our Sunny Sunflower Plant Science mini-unit. It includes a writing activity: a little […]

I have a little March poem FREEBIE for you today. As I’ve mentioned before, we do a poem each month to help with the Oral Language/Speaking standards and grades. I have never liked our March poems. We have never kept one more than 1 year. I need to send a poem home with my Friday […]

Do you use attention grabbers or class call backs? They are a MUST HAVE in my opinion. However I truly LOATHE “class class, yes yes”. And sometimes you want to change it up from the clapping pattern repeat. So I have some fun alternatives. I leave them out so that any of our classroom visitors […]

Oh my … where’d the time go tonight? I’m wrapping up February with assessments and a few tooth things. We read this book today. Have you read it? It’s cute. Funny. Poor Andrew has a tooth that is hurting him and he can’t get it out of his mouth. His mom couldn’t pull it out. […]

I have a FREE 100th Day of School activity for you. Our 100th day of school is coming up very soon. We don’t always have a ton of time for many activities on that day, but I always squeeze this one in. I do a very simple and fun writing plan with every writing assignment […]

I have no idea what it is this year… my kiddos are REALLY struggling with writing a simple sentence that includes a capital, spaces, and a period. {Nearly all of them are doing well with being neat, though, (AND THAT IS NEW) so maybe I should focus on that!} Anyway, I was thinking about that […]

I’ve been so good about relaxing, not fretting, not working this break. But then I went and read Reagan’s post {yep, I’m totally blaming you 😛 } and started to get a little bit nervous. Winter break is coming to an end REALLY quick. I should be putting some thought into January. Getting prepared. Square […]