Yesterday was my first official Christmas party as a classroom teacher. It also happens that we don’t have room parents or parent volunteers to help with our parties. And, also, my Friday special got moved to Thursday since the art teacher didn’t want them after a party. I’m flexible like that. It also meant that we had the entire stinking day together. What’s a teacher to do? Lose her mind. Well, the morning was relatively
I’m linking up again with Denise from Sunny Days in Second Grade for her My Truth Monday. This week is your favorite app. I spent a while thinking. I probably most love Pinterest. I’m a teensy bit obsessed. I’ve recently spent a lot of hours browsing their humor feed laughing to myself hysterically. Seriously, if you’re having a bad day, check it out. Or, you can follow my I Loled board here. I’m also obsessed
As educators, we remember and honor our fallen colleagues and their students from Sandy Hook School. We honor them each day in our classrooms in which we continue their dream of teaching our children. We honor their memory with our service. Join with teachers everywhere in committing random acts of kindness to show our love for Sandy Hook. #love4SH
If you’re a Pinterest stalker like me, you’ve probably seen pins from a variety of places showing the marvelous idea of using cheap, stretchable book covers as chair pockets. I first saw it from a colleague last year and I loved the idea. I know I’ve also seen it from Cara at The First Grade Parade, though I can’t say with any certainty who the idea originally came from. As I set up my classroom
A few weeks ago we went to the local apple orchard and got ourselves some apples and a pumpkin. We were studying apples as part of social studies (way more than you might just think). I knew I wanted to spend a bit of time doing the standard math and science that they experienced in the younger grades with them when we swung back around to science. The way things worked out, we hit it
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