Field Day!

I have to say that I am so sad. This is my co-worker, Paige on the left side. We have worked side by side for 3 years and she is leaving our school to be closer to her family. I am going to miss her so much. :( I am going to move into her classroom so I can have a window and more storage for next year. I would still rather have her there though!

This was us Friday on field day! It was a lot of fun.

Nonfiction!!!

I have to say that I am loving MMH this year!! I love that there is so much nonfiction in this series!!! I love the Time for Kids books!!!

Garage Sale.....

We had a garage sale today and I am 12 kinds of tired like Babbling Abby says! LOL You all, that is so much work for not a lot of money. And this will tell you about how OCD I am. I don't like to bring this unsold stuff back into my house because of how many people pick these things up and then put them back down!! Once it's outside, I have to give it away after the sale is over!!! :) Is anyone else like that?

bribery....

This little baby works like a charm in getting tables to work quietly!!! Bribery works!

Blast Off!!

Thank you Cara at First Grade Parade! This has become a favorite in Room 125!! They love the Blast Off game using their high frequency words!!

Fact Memorization

We're trying to get the kids to remember their addition facts so they'll be ready for 2nd grade.

Calendar time...

Calendar time has been my favorite part of the day now for a long time. It has become 100% student led. Once I got back from my medical leave, I trained them! ;) It is not cutesy, but it sure has taught them to be good leaders and it has helped on their math too. :)


we add a dot to the 10 frame every day and we count by 10's....


Even/Odd; cubes are velcroed.....

We say the days of the week and the months of the year every day.

Calendar...no more cute, month related numbers. The kids write these and they do the patterns also!


How many days we have been in school, using place value blocks.


we color a finger for each day and then we count by 5's

count by 2's every day!


how many days we have been in school. we first counted down to 100, then after the 100th day of school, we added 100 to it.

Flat Stanley!!

I wish I had started Flat stanley earlier! This was really fun and the kids got so excited when Stanley returned home!!!

......click........hello, are you there????

....nope......it happened. A parent hung up on me. Shocker, I know. She told me that her child would not be picked up until 4 when we have a 3:00 dismissal. Yes, you heard that right, told me. Didn't ask, didn't feel bad about it. I told her she needed to find a way to pick her child up and she hung up on me. I felt disrespected. In a big way! It has really bothered me all weekend. Who knows what will happen this week.