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Hello All I know it has been forever but I have been a very busy person this year. Good news is that I am back!

Kleinspiration: The Biggest Give-Away Yet - Thank You Readers and my Personal Learning Network!

Kleinspiration: The Biggest Give-Away Yet - Thank You Readers and my Personal Learning Network!

Giveaway At Teaching with Love and Laughter

There is a huge giveaway at Teaching With Love And Laughter. Go check it out before its too late! http://teachingwithloveandlaughter.blogspot.ca/2012/06/500-follower-giveaway-its-b-i-g-one.html

Sad News and a giveaway winner

First let me say that I am soooo sorry for being late on my giveaway. My very good teacher friend passed away suddenly that week and I was a bit of a mess. It has been a rough rough couple of weeks. It seems to be getting better. On a positive note...The winner is comment Number 3 Anash April 27, 2012 6:18 PM I blogged: http://mommilitary.blogspot.com/2012/04/kinder-rocks-im-back-giveaway.html Thanks for this snazzy giveaway! email: anashct1 [at] yahoo [dot] com Congrats Anash email me your address so i can mail you your gift card.

Non-Fiction Writing

Last week we were working on Non-Fiction writing. I read the kids a short book about Tree Frogs. Then we made a thinking map about what we had learned. (which I totally forgot to take a picture of...oops!)We started with the title page of our books.

Then we created 3 pages for our book. 1. Tree Frogs live in the jungle. 2. Tree Frogs have sticky feet to climb trees. 3. Tree Frogs eat bugs. The kids told me what to write. I wrote it , and they copied.

The kids loved creating these books so much that this week we are working on a new one (Ladybugs). This time they are writing everything on their own.

Moving Again....

So Right before school is out I will be moving classrooms yet again for the third time this year. This move won't be so bad since most of my stuff is still in boxes from the last move around spring break. Organization is one of my "problem areas" So since I will be moving again I plan to do it right this time. So here is what I am thinking...

I want to buy a couple of these babies and those bins that fit into them to store centers in my classroom. I think the children will have easy access to them as well ....anybody have any thoughts on this? Am I making things complicated or should I just stick with those plastic drawers?

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I'm back giveaway!!!

I have decided. I'm having a giveaway to celebrate being back.

I will be giving a $10 gift card from the greatest place on earth...TARGET. I will choose a winner via random generator May 6. Follow my blog and leave a comment saying you follow. Blog about my giveaway and leave a comment with a link.

I'm back!!!!!

OMG! This year has been nuts! Moving to a new campus after the year started and then getting used to new procedures of the campus. Then I had to move classrooms again right before spring break...yuck. I finally feel like I'm getting back to my normal routine. Sadly the year is about to end but I have a lot of ideas I've been dieing to post so form here on out I will be posting regularly.

I am soooo stress....some advice please!!

This is my third week at my new campus. Things are good but... I am used to writng my own lesson plans and teaching my way. At my new campus there are 4 of us and we each write one subject of lesson plans. So he is my problem... This method is killing me!!!! I tried it out but then I get social studies lesson plans where the kids do the same thing everyday. I write math and apparently my centers can't be something that takes paper. I JUST WANT TO WRITE MY OWN LESSONS!!! What do I do? As long as we are all following the same standards I don't see why it has to be the same exact lesson. Help, I need help...What do I do. :-(

Yay I got Furnature!!!!!

Soo for the last two weeks I have been teaching 20 students with 3 round tables because when they moved me to this new campus they had no furniture for me. I got to order new furniture but it barely arrived today. Ill be going to school on saturday to set it all up but YAY!!! I finally have furnature.


On other nice notes I won the crayola Dream makers Sweepstakes... I guess I do win sometimes!!

New Campus....New Kids .... Im Happy

I know I know.... its been awhile. I am now sort of settled at my new campus. Today was my second day with my new kids. I still don't have any furniture but other then that things are good. I'm really liking my new campus. I will past some class photos soon.

Horrible Day :-(

After all the work I put into setting up my classroom, I have been moved to another school. They are giving me one day to pack up my old classroom and one day to set up my new classroom. I am a bit angry but mostly overwhelmed.

Giveaway

Cole's Little Pups is having a cute crayon theme giveaway. Check out her blog Everybody wins!!!

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I'm soooo lost

Sorry I really haven't been posting. My district adopted a program called Cscope and Im pulling my hair out trying to plan based on it....not to mention trying to get my classroom ready with only one working foot. Luckly I should be losing the cruches on Monday but that only solves one problem. As soon as my room is ready you guys will get some pics and once I figure out this CScope stuff you'll get more posts.

Handwriting With Fundations

A few years ago my campus adopted a resource called Fundations. It is great for to use with your guided reading target group. They also have a handwriting resource that I use with the whole class.
The hand writing paper looks like this

When you teach the letters you have sky line letters (h), plane line letters (a), and worm line letters (j).

So Say I am teaching the lowercase letter h. I would say to students...Start on the sky line. Write a straight line down to the grass line then back up to the plane line curve and down to the grass line. ( While I am saying it I am also modeling it)

If you are interested in how to teach the other letters or in the paper leave me a comment with your email and I will email it to you. Still haven't figured out embedding documents. Sorry :-(

My Head May EXPLODE!!

Last year we adopted a new Language Arts textbook. This year we adopted a program called CScope. It basically tells you the order you need to teach things in every subject. It also gives you lesson plans to use to teach those things. It is all very confusing. On our campus we were told that we didn't need to use the lesson plans provided but that we have to follow that scope and sequence. The problem is that the LA textbook and the scope and sequence on CScope are not aligned what so ever. So I'm trying to decide should i pick through the textbook and create my lessons that way or should I try the lesson plans provide through CScope and leave out the textbook. All of this is making my head hurt :-( What should I do?

And The Winner is....

The winner is comment # 8

Just My Life said...

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July 31, 2011 9:03 PM

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MY First Giveaway!

I decided to have my first giveaway to get my blog on a roll.
I will be giving away these 4 super cute mini notebooks.

I will Make it easy....

Follow my blog and leave a comment that you follow my blog. I will choose a winner using random.org on Wed. Aug. 3rd.