Year: 2012

December 28, 2012

Are you loving winter break? I am. I love wearing my PJs pretty much all day and actually reading a book. I have also been able to finish my Valentine centers for all of you early planners. That’s so not me but I wish it was!  Here are some images from the pack. You can…

December 12, 2012

I’m joining the fabulous ladies at “Miss Kindergarten” and “A Teeny Tiny Teacher’ for the 12 in 12 linky party. Here are 12 of my favorite things! (12) Favorite movie you watched I absolutely loved the “Hunger Games” books and the movie was just as good. I usually can’t watch a movie more than once…

December 12, 2012

Have you started writing opinion pieces as part of the common core? This was our first year to teach opinion as a writing genre and I have really loved it. Usually, we do how-to as this time of the year but that has gone away. I was kinda upset about not teaching how-to anymore because…

December 10, 2012

We’ve had our elf for two weeks now and he has been up to lots of mischief. The kids decided to name him Elfred and I have no idea why. I keep wanting to call him Jingle since that’s what we named him last year.  Elfred decided to draw himself on the board. The kids…

December 8, 2012

This past week, I went to a conference for Title 1 schools and I heard a great presentation about boys and reading by Michael Shoulders. Some of the research that he presented said that the average fourth grade girl reader is 1 year above grade level and the average fourth grade boy reader is 2…

December 1, 2012

You will not want to miss the chance to enter this great giveaway at Lory’s Page.  Twelve awesome 2nd grade bloggers are participating and 12 winners will receive a file from each of these blogs. Check out Lory’s page by clicking on the image above to enter the giveaway.  You can win my “Snowmen at…

November 25, 2012

I finished my newest center pack just in time for the big TPT sale on Monday and Tuesday. I had some requests for centers that didn’t include Christmas so I made a winter pack of centers. I plan on doing my Full of Cheer centers in December and doing these centers my Winter Wonderland centers…