Month: October 2012

October 31, 2012

Before I begin this post, I want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with those of you in the north who are suffering from the effects of Hurricane Sandy. I just can’t get over the images of New York City on the news. God bless you! Happy Halloween everyone! Congratulations on surviving the…

October 28, 2012

Happy Sunday! I’m spending the day watching football and my recorded TV shows that I never have time to watch during the week. I just finished the next set of reading response prompts for Unit 3 stories. Since I had such a good response to these, I plan on continuing to do them for the…

October 27, 2012

Happy Saturday everyone! I’m so glad this past week is over. It’s been crazy with parent conferences, pumpkin book reports, and a PTA event last night. I had a great post planned but I forgot to take pictures because of all the craziness. So I just decided to post a freebie for y’all for Halloweeen….

October 17, 2012

I officially survived my first observation. It went pretty well but I am so excited that I don’t have to worry about it anymore. I was worried all the way up to when it started and then I was fine. Shew! I don’t think it ever gets any easier. This week is a short week…

October 14, 2012

Happy Sunday friends! I hope you are having a fabulous weekend. I have my first observation on Monday morning so I’ve been stressing about it this weekend. I’m ready for Monday to be over. Fall break starts on Thursday so I am definitely ready for that. We only get two days but it’s better than…

October 7, 2012

My class has been working on place value for the last few weeks. It’s a really long unit in our math series but I’m okay with that because there is so much that you can do with it. I’ve started implementing math groups so I can meet the needs of all my students. It’s also…

October 4, 2012

 I love the book “What Was I Scared Of?” I love to see how my students react to the twist at the end. I also like this book because it is one of Dr. Seuss’ shorter books. Some of his books make my mouth hurt from all the words.  I’m linking up with Farley for…

October 2, 2012

This week, one of our focus skills is commas in a series. I had some inspiration yesterday for a little poem to use with commas. For some reason, I always think of poems or songs for my class in the shower. I’m not sure why but I hope I’m not the only one.  Click here…