Month: August 2012

August 30, 2012

Hello friends! I’ve been transitioning my class intro responding more to their reading. Have you noticed how big this is in Common Core? Our testing is even changing to include more responding in writing and not with multiple choice. So I made a reading response journal for each of my kiddos. Sorry for the glare….

August 28, 2012

Congrats to Lori, Debbie, and Elizabeth! Kim from imagestuff will be contacting you. a Rafflecopter giveaway   I’ve been working hard to try and get my reading groups going. I finally got my bulletin board put together. I love how this one turned out. I’m a huge chevron fan so this one keeps catching my…

August 27, 2012

Today is the last day to enter my Brag tags giveaway. Three people will win packs of 35 brag tags and 35 neck chains. You have until midnight to enter. I can’t wait to see who wins. Good luck everyone! Click on the picture to head to the giveaway.

August 25, 2012

Happy Friday everyone! I have some freebies to share with you and I am linking up to Blog Hoppin’s teacher week linky party. I made it through my first few week of school and I am so tired. Those concrete floors are doing a number on my legs and feet. My week went really well….

August 23, 2012

Hello everyone! I am so excited to bring you an awesome giveaway from imagestuff. Have you seen the brag tags floating around blog land? I saw them on another blog and I had to get some for my classroom. They are awesome and so much fun. I love that they can be personalized for your…

August 21, 2012

For my technology tip, I am going to help all you Mac users with a simple trick that I’ve found to erase a white box from a JPEG image. When I am creating resources, I often don’t want this box around the images. It just gets in the way. So here’s how you get rid…

August 21, 2012

It’s Teacher Week over at Blog Hoppin’ and I’m linking up to share my must-haves for school. (1) An Activboard I miss mine like crazy! I never realized how much I rely on my Activboard until I don’t have one. Yeah, I’m still waiting for mine to be moved but I was told today that…

August 14, 2012

I have been working hard on getting my classroom ready for school to start. Today was the first day. We had a half day today and I love my new class. They are so sweet and cute! Don’t you just love starting all over at the beginning of the year! I love seeing everyone’s hard…