tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66700314001397257002024-03-06T19:34:05.170-08:00O"fish"ally Learning with Mrs. MayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-90428684689116147212014-01-04T12:48:00.002-08:002014-01-04T12:48:44.124-08:00New Year, New Me, New Goals!!This is the year of ME!!! I only have three resolutions this year.<br />
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1: Spend more time focusing on ME!! This means finding time to work on ME!!! I want to be able to do things for myself, I have spent the last three almost 4 years focusing only on my son and letting my husband do whatever he wants with his hobby of roping. Not that I am complaining about either of those things however where do I fit into this with time for MOMMY!!! So I am going to be scheduling out my day like crazy!!! I am going to make time to workout, read, knit, just sit and do NOTHING!!! Between having over 20 kids on my case load at work and being new to my district the first semester was CRAZZZYYYY to say the least!!! I am so thankful that we hired a 2nd inclusion teacher to help me out with my case load!!! She will be taking the 9 5th graders that I had and I will work with 1-4th and the other 13 students!!! Such a nice break!!! However I will still have the same amount of work if not more to train the new person and get her to where our principal is comfortable with me letting her take the reins of her students. (That probably sounds really mean or weird but our Principal is very nice she just likes how I have things going and is nervous about me stepping back from 5th grade). So with that being said it should free up a little bit of my time since I am down 9 kidos, I am hoping that I can find some time to workout either at school or be able to leave earlier to get home and workout! I have a lot to look forward to this year, first thing is in February, I am doing our annual Tower Climb where I will have to run up about 900 stairs, then in May I am doing the relay marathon Beach2Bay, then the next BIG thing I am doing is my major goal of running the Rock N' Roll 1/2 marathon!!! Those are the only ones that I know are 100% right now, I'm sure I will do some 5K's along the way and a few other things but those are my goals and what I am working towards! So I need to get started NOW!!!<br />
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2: Spend more time with my FAMILY!!! Like I said earlier my husband is a Team Roper and does go to ropings on the weekends. We have a nice horse trailer with living quarters, and I think the last time we used it was when we stayed at his dad's house on Easter last year!!! Our son is almost 4 and LOVES horses and loves watching his daddy rope, I want to start going to more ropings as a family, spending quality time with my husband and son! I feel like when J gets a little bit older we will be spending a lot more time at the ropings!!<br />
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3: Spend more time with FRIENDS!!!! I have decided that I don't have many friends because I don't make time for them. I get invited to do things but never go. That is going to change, I have started a monthly Girls Night/Day Out FB page for some of my friends, I figured we are ALL super busy with most of us being married and/or with families or some are planning their weddings and some are pregnant, we can make time one day/night a month to take a break out of our busy lives to spend it just with the GIRLS!!! This also goes into the category of resolution #1 of spending more time on ME! I need to make time for my friends!<br />
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These are the only 3 things that I am going to focus on this year! They are jammed packed with things that I want to do so that is why I only have 3!! Hope your 2014 is going great!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-38666783311151343002013-11-10T17:31:00.001-08:002013-11-10T17:31:51.931-08:00This crazy thing we call Sunday...Holy COW!!!! I feel like I need a day in between Sunday and Monday!!!! The weekend always feels like it just FLIES by so quickly and I don't feel like I get anything accomplished until Sunday afternoon/early evening when Jackson is taking a nap... However today he decided that his nap was going to be TWO hours after I laid him down... up, down, cry, up, down, cry, I have to go potty, down, cry, I have to go poop, down, up, cry... pat me, lay with me... GGGEEEZZZEEERRRSSSSSS Child just go to sleep!!!! Anyway... once he actually did go to sleep I was able to get a lot of things completed!!! I went on a Pinterest/TPT spree!!! I have been struggling with what to do with my students when I pull them for small group, some are higher then others and not all will benefit from the lower level activities that I have planned, or sometimes they are not as high as I thought they were and have to modify on the fly... Which is fine (since I am the Sped teacher), but with that being said I really wanted to do more of a Daily 5 rotation in my small groups when they worked with me. Since I pull three days for Reading/Language arts and twice for Math I needed ideas for both subjects. So of course where do you turn when you need ideas? Pinterest of course!!!! SO I thought I'd share with you some of the wonderful things that I found and where to get them! Now since I have moved we don't have our color printer anymore and the school that I work at doesn't have a printer for me so I have to figure out when and where I am going to print all of these wonderful items!!!<br />
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I have been looking for task cards for a long time and I hit the MOTHER LOAD today!!! <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/HUGE-Place-Value-Task-Cards-BUNDLE-Common-Core-Differentiated--861133">Teaching with a Mountain View</a> seems to be the Task card Queen!!! The next large pack came from her as well!!! I am very excited about this pack, it has different skills and different levels that the students can be working on! I also LOVE the post about how she organizes them in her classroom, my next project probably over Thanksgiving break! I love how I can work with a few students at a time and send them to do some task cards and I know they are still applying the skills that they worked on with me!</div>
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And last but not least!!!! <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Sight-Words-Interactive-Notebook-Dolch-Pre-Primer-List-958827">Interactive Sight words</a>!! I am so excited for this with my students who are struggling with their basic sight words! I love that this pack has several different activities to do with each word and they are gluing and practicing in their notebooks!! I have two students that I work with in the morning for specialized instruction and one of them would greatly benefit from this simple vocabulary and repetitive activities!</div>
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Well I hope that your Sunday is going well and that you got everything you needed to get ready for Monday morning ready!!! I feel a little bit more prepared!! Now just to figure out how to print all of these things!!!! Luckily I have the lamination machine so that isn't the issue, it's just getting them printed on cardstock and in color!!!!</div>
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Its that time again... and for me its been a LONG LONG time since I have been on my blog!!! Wow I feel so sad for those of you that follow my blog... Not that you have missed me all that much!!! However I am back for now!!! It has been a rough few months with a new school, new teaching position and then moving into our new apartment!!! Seriously are we CRAZY?!?!?! So here is my currently, link up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/11/november-currently.html">Farley</a> and check out all the other loverly teachers out there and see what their Novembers look like! </div>
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<b><u>Listening</u></b>: Magic School Bus!!! Yep that's right! Be jealous!!! Amazon had an amazing deal about a month ago for the entire 52 episodes for about $20!!! So I was pleased beyond compare when my 3 1/2 year old wanted to start watching them and loves them!!! Not only is he learning from them but to him they seem like funny cartoons that he likes to watch. I had originally bought them to use in class, but double duty!!!</div>
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<b><u>Loving</u></b>: We moved in about two months ago now and are finally getting settled into it and have made it our home. It was a rushed decision but it was what we needed to do for our little family! We are working hard to make the transition as easy and fun for our 3 year old.. He loves it that he has "two" houses! I am also a Thirty-One consultant and am loving the new opportunities that I am being presented with! At the end of last school year I wasn't sure when I resigned with a month left of school if I was going to get picked up by anyone during the summer... I had looked for almost two years before I was hired by my old district... Then things just didn't work out and they didn't feel right so I resigned... Well like I said I wasn't sure if I would find a job so I needed to make sure that I had SOME money coming in so I signed up to be a Thirty-One consultant and have been doing well... I am not as hard core since school started but I now use it for extra spending money... I love how the company is faith based and you can go at your own pace and make as little or as much money as you need! So one thing on my list is to mail out mini catalogs this weekend/early next week!</div>
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<b><u>Thinking</u></b>: Well this past week was not a good week for me... it was a rough week at school and I have a lot of things to prepare for other teachers... I am the only Special Education teacher on my campus and I currently service 20 students from 2nd - 5th grade... My schedule has changed 100 times and is something that I will be working on when I finish this!!! I keep getting new transfer students and newly qualified students and of course some of the teachers don't want to deal with my students so they are saying that they need more help differentiating for their students... That my students are taking up too much of their time that they can't focus on the students that they know have a chance of passing the STAAR! Really teachers!!!!! This just makes me angry, I understand that its a lot of work when you have other students but I'm doing more than the previous person did and I gave you all sorts of ideas and have told you that if you need help come to me and I will help you... but don't tell me that I'm not helping you enough when every time I ask if you need help or want me to pull your students for extra support when I have a free second and you tell me NO! Ok Rant Over!!!</div>
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<b><u>Wanting</u></b>: Yes I need a Printer!!!! Not only do I not have a Special Ed printer at school I also don't have any type of printer at home!!! No bueno!!!! So if you have any suggestions for a nice color printer that doesn't cost an arm and a leg or take up a lot of space I would appreciate the input!</div>
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Needing: I was doing really good at the end of last school year with working out... I went down an entire pant size!!! I put it all back on from the summer and the beginning of the school year!!! With my crazy new schedule and having to drive 45 minutes to my school and then back home... Its just been one thing after another and I need to stop making excuses for not working out!!! So NO MORE!!!! I will start working out and get back into a better shape and back to skinny!!!! That is my goal to end the year at least two sizes smaller than I am right now!!! Not impossible at all!!!</div>
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<b><u>Yummy Pin</u></b>: Caramel appletini cupcake</div>
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Thanks for stopping by... My goal is to post at least once a week... Accountability partner where are you!?!?!?</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-52363034387172008552013-07-05T19:42:00.002-07:002013-07-05T19:42:39.908-07:00I have a new job!!!I wanted to let you all know that I have accepted a new teaching position for next year!!! I am very excited about this new opportunity... It is something completely different then what I have been doing for the past three years! I am the new inclusion teacher for my campus! I am in charge of servicing 17 students across all 6 grade levels!! YIKES!!! It will be me and my one aid going in and out of all the different classrooms all day!!! It doesn't sound like that much work when your thinking only 17 students and they aren't even in your classroom all day... that's easy!! However when you think about it I have to do paperwork and run 17 ARD's!!!! Now that's something only a Special Ed teacher would shudder at!!! Trust me I am already working on my schedules... I am hoping to get in contact with my principal in the next week and set up when I can get into my students files and class schedules for next year so that I can start the crazy planning for my students... I am also a little nervous because I am not sure what my exact role is going to be... what I will be in charge of... what my principal is expecting out of me in means of plans?!?! So many question!!!! I am also going to 12 different trainings that I get to start going to on the 17th of July!!! Yes 12 trainings!!! <br />
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O.M.G... I can't believe that it's already JuNe!!!! That means sooo much in this house!!!! So I am linking up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/">Farley</a> over at her blog for her monthly Currently!!! I have been MIA from my blog with the end of school and all that has been happening in my life at school!!! I am hoping this summer to be a better blogger, even though I won't have school to write about exactly... I'm sure I can find something to write about!!! I am also wanting to create a few products this summer!!!! Wish me luck!!</div>
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Listening: My son is sitting on the floor driving his trains around the blanket saying "I think I can..." over and over again! He is really intro Thomas the Train. I am very excited that I get to spend a lot more time with him now that its summer time!!!</div>
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Loving: This school year is OVER!!!!! To say the least it has been the longest, hardest year from HELL for me!!! Not only was my class very difficult, but my admin didn't like me from the first day I stepped foot on their campus! Not sure how I made her not like me before she even knew me but somehow I did it!!! So of course she made my year very difficult and almost made me want to not be a teacher anymore!!! Seriously! I was thinking what else could I do with a teaching degree because this is NOT for me!!! But then I realized that I was a good teacher and my kids loved me and I was doing what I loved and to hell with her!!! </div>
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Thinking: I HATE the unknown!!! Since I resigned from my job I have been called for two interviews, I felt very confident for the first one and was planning on getting that job... well a week went by and NO news... NOTHING!!!! So I came home and I had a message from a different school in the same district for an interview!!! I called back on Friday and the Principal wasn't on campus... she was the one who called me the day before wondering if I was interested in an interview!!! </div>
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Wanting: This one sort of goes with the above statement!! I want to know where I will be working next school year!!! I am also wanting to be finished with my Masters degree!!! My school is starting to make me angry!! They keep changing around advisors and classes!!! So instead of being finished THIS December I am looking more like NEXT AUGUST!!! Oh yeah I also have to finish packing up everything in my room on Monday!!! Geez I feel like I just did this... Oh wait I did!!!!</div>
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Needing: My classes start on the 10th and I need to go up to school and buy my books... Not sure exactly which books I am needed because they keep changing the stuff online! I also need to email one of the schools that works with children with Autism during the summer to "get a kid" to study and work with this summer for one of my projects!!! Super excited about that!!!</div>
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3 Vacay essentials: Electronics: phone, iPad, computer... I think that all counts as ONE item... RIGHT?!?!?!?! Well in my house they DO!! Haha, I need my phone for games, movies and whatnot.. my son needs my iPad for his games and movies, I also have my kindle books on my iPad so it is also my "books", and of course I need my computer for when all other electronics are dead. Then I need sunscreen otherwise I BURN!!!! My son also got my fair skin, we both tan easily however if we don't wear sunscreen we burn burn burn!!!! OUCH!!!! And last but not least... My Thirty-One bags!!! Since I started to sell these I am OBSESSED!!!! I have always had a few Thirty-One bags but now I keep looking at the magazine thinking about how I can use EVERYTHING!!!! I am so excited about what this company has to offer for their Independent Consultants!!! </div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-22474750522449813362013-05-03T15:00:00.000-07:002013-05-03T15:00:08.660-07:00A very hard post to post!Well as I have been talking about I wanted to write a post about what has been going on with me this year. This is going to be a very long post and not very happy, I feel like I have a place to really express myself and that other bloggers are like my friends. I wish I could meet up with a few of you because I really look up to y'all!<br />
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Ok down to the nitty-gritty. I officially resigned from my district on Monday. I have grown up in this district and was so excited when I started to work for them three years ago. I worked at the same school as a special education teacher for two years, I thought when the opportunity came up at the end of last year to transfer to a school closer to my house I jumped at the chance to switch and move into 2nd grade. However from the day that I went over to the school to talk with the principal about me transferring, I was excited about it but I could tell that she was not excited about me moving over. In all seriousness this is what she told me before I left, "The only reason that I am agreeing to this transfer is because I want to give *** (the other teacher) the opportunity to be closer to home. However I have a lot of concerns and reservations about you coming here" SERIOUSLY!!!! WTH! So that was the first sour taste of this lady in my mouth! Then during the summer she contacted me about going to different workshops because she didn't trust my ability to teach the materials, granted at this time I was placed in a 3rd grade classroom and she was worried about the STAAR Test that year. I understand that she was worried about the scores since 3rd grade is the first time but in some of the emails that she CC'd me on she was very negative about my skills and was stressing that I needed all the help that I could get! GRR just typing this gets me upset all over again.<br />
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Fast forward to the school year starting, she is never pleasant towards me and gave me a hard time from the beginning, my team whom I though was all on my side was actually throwing me under the bus to her (not all of them but the one that counted) it was very hard to hear some of the things that were said about me. I was also getting a lot of grief from my parents, and the principal would never back me up I would automatically be in trouble for things that 7/8 year olds were telling their parents without even fact checking with me. So when I would ask the students about the incidents they were not accusing me of anything!! GRRR!!!<br />
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Moving on in my story, my observation comes around and she comes in and I thought that my lesson wasn't all that stellar but that I would get by and be proficient like I had been the past TWO YEARS!!!! OH NO!!! Apparently I am a horrible teacher who sucks a$$ at my job and who apparently doesn't have a clue about what I am doing! I get in trouble for every little thing that she didn't like however lets slide with other teachers, I had a few students separated from the group because of their behavior and I get in trouble for segregating them from the class, not once were they ever excluded from the lesson or from any group activities!!! So after she writes is all up and puts every negative comment possible in my PDAS, I go in for my conference and get put on a TINA (Teacher in Need of Assistance) for a month. While being put through the ringer and jumping through all sorts of hoops and having to do extra extra work, I still don't meet her "expectations" which by the way she doesn't expect from the other staff on campus!!! So after the month of my TINA she walks down to my room on a Friday at 3:30 right before I am leaving for the weekend, she sits me down with our AP (Whom I have know since I was 8) and she says, "This is hard for me to say, but I am recommending that your probationary contract not be renewed with the district." My response is WTH!!! My body was numb and I literally had not words!!! What kind of person tells someone that they are no longer going to be employed with the district on a Friday??!?!!!? So I had the whole weekend to think it over and wonder why would I give a damn about her or where I worked for the next month. However I couldn't just stop teaching my students, I also couldn't give up on them and just send them to 3rd grade like that. It wasn't their fault and it wasn't fair to the 3rd grade teachers. So I thought about it for the next few weeks and decided to formally put in my letter of resignation.<br />
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Monday I turned in my letter, on Tuesday I received an email saying that my Summative was ready to be signed. I opened the Summative and you would NOT believe what I saw!!! ALL PROFICIENT AND 5 EXCEEDS!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!! So I am not a good enough teacher to keep my job with the district (or at your school) yet I am good enough to move my evaluation up from bellow to proficient and exceeds!!! Again WTH!!!! So now I am back in the LARGE pool of other teachers waiting to get another job!! I hate this feeling of not knowing anything!!! The only good thing is that the daycare where my son goes has offered me a part time job this summer and then if I don't get a teaching job for next year I will be their Pre-K teacher. At least its a job, although I will be making nothing compared to what I was making as a teacher it will still help me!!<br />
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Thank you for keeping me in your thoughts a prayers in this time of need for my family!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-65815130201562199422013-05-02T12:06:00.001-07:002013-05-02T12:06:39.966-07:00Currently!! Oh WoW its already MAY!!!Wow I can't believe that it is already May!!! In my student's mind it's MY MONTH!!! Haha got to love the mind of a 2nd grader!!! I am also loving that there are only 21 days left for me!!<br />
So on that note I am linking up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/">Farley </a>for her monthly Currently!! I get excited about the beginning of each month to link up and find others blogs through this link!<br />
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Listening: Yes I know I know... But it is one of my guilty pleasures!! I find them entertaining and sometimes I feel so sorry for them because of what they are having to go through, it also makes me happy that I waited until I was a little bit older to have my son, and I am so happy that he is a relatively healthy boy!</div>
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Loving: YEP I took the day OFF!!!! My son does have an ENT appointment today to look at his ears again and to see if we need to remove his tonsils however the appointment isn't until 4. SO I am enjoying the quiet time at home... We slept in, ate a little breakfast at home, started a load of laundry, then I took him to his school, and decided to get my nails manicured and finally went and got a Venti Starbucks!!! </div>
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Thinking: I can't believe that there are only 21 days left in the school year!!! I keep looking at my calendar and thinking wow there are only a few more pages to turn in my planner and we are DONE!!!! I am also thinking wow there are only 21 more days of me having a Teaching job!!! Let me just say that this has been the WORST year in the three years that I have been teaching... I will post about that tomorrow! But I am now needing to find another job!</div>
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Wanting: YES I was planning on finishing my Masters degree this December... However they decided that they weren't going to follow the schedule that they had planned out when I met with my advisor, so now I can't graduate until MAYBE next Summer!!! GRRRRR!! Oh well! At least I am almost finished, and I'm choosing to look at is as I get to slow down... I had a day where I was on my way home and I hit every single light Yellow... I am all about signs and I took it as a sign to SLOW DOWN... A lot has happened really quickly in my life here lately and I have been super stressed, so I took those yellow lights as a true signal to slow down and take things one day at a time and that things will happen when they are suppose to!</div>
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Summer Bucket List: 1: Read for enjoyment: I haven't read a book in I don't know how long... All of the books I have been reading have been for school and I haven't had a chance to read for pleasure, so this summer I am hoping to enjoy a little me time and read a few books! 2: SEA WORLD: I am looking forward to taking my son to Sea World a lot this summer! We get free passes as teachers and we used it a lot last year and this year he is older and LOVES the shows and to swim!! Just great family time spent doing fun activities! 3: Find a new JOB: Yes that is pretty much self explanitory. I think I have applied for every district even close to where I live. My husband even told me to branch out a little further than I was willing to go because we could just move to where I found a job, that he could pick up horses wherever we were at! I love that man!!! So if you are reading this please pray for me that I can find a new job!! I am switching back to Special ED so I am hoping that will help me out!</div>
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1: I went shopping with my mom yesterday for some cute Spring school clothes!! I am happy to say that I now have a full week of brand new clothes to wear!!! We went to Old Navy!! I have to say that is probably one of my favorite stores to buy clothes at!!! I like the way that their clothes fit, how they are comfortable and affordable!!! My plan is to wear many of these clothes all week and really impress all my other teacher friends! Many of the items I bought can be worn together and switched around, I loved the fact that Old Navy has sample ideas on their walls. I seriously just went into Old Navy to buy two or three pairs of jeans and walked out spending almost $300. I had watched a few YouTube vlogs and they were all talking about Coral and Mint/Teal colors that were coming out for Spring... I saw ALL of this stuff and I was hooked!!! I can't wait for Monday ( I can't believe I just wrote that), ONLY because I want to wear my new clothes!!!<br />
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1: The boyfriend cardigan in Coral. 2: Mint Green eyelet dress. 3: Tee shirt Maxi dress. 4: Teal cardigan. 5 & 6: Sheer three quarter sleeve in yellow and teal/mint. 7: Maxi dress in Teal. 8: White Jean jacket. 9: Grey cardigan. 10: Coral lace tank top. </div>
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2: I found <a href="http://shenanigansinsecond.blogspot.com/2013/04/dig-into-learning-summer-review.html">this</a> post earlier at 2nd Grade Shenanigans and I was inspired to purchase it and use it as a great going away present to my students. So I went out to our local Dollar Tree and bought 21 sand buckets so that I can start getting ready for our last week of school to be creating these fun review buckets with my students. I also bought a bottle of bubbles, two pencils, pencil sharpener, and erasers, this way there is no excuse if they need to use any of these items. </div>
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3: Another product that has come in handy during this past week, since there was STAAR testing going on at our school we had to keep our 2nd graders in our classroom ALL day!!! NO BREAK!!! (Well at least not for me, they got to watch a movie, and then play game day)</div>
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4: I donated $25 for the Teachers in West, Texas who were affected by the fertilizer plant explosion. It was well worth it because I received all of the units in the photo below. I am including all the links to their products in their TPT stores. The fundraiser is closed but I'm sure you can still donate to the cause if you would like. All of these products were worth $150!!! And many of these products were already in my Wish-list, and from some of my favorite bloggers. I wish that I knew some of these people in real life, alas I don't so I just blog stalk them!! I am planning on using a few of these items in my Summer Review bucket from above as well! I have a few students who would benefit from continuation of practicing their skills and a lot of these products will be beneficial for them!</div>
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5: I didn't take a picture of this one but we had a Glow Stick Bath at our house tonight! A friend of mine said that she did this with her little girl and I thought what a great way to make bath time fun and change it up a little bit! So while we were at the Dollar Store today we picked up a couple of packages of glow sticks... Let me tell you my 3 year old little boy had a BLAST!!!!! Well worth the $2 I spent on the two packages. </div>
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I hope that you have enjoyed these Random 5 things from my week!!! I will plan on doing this next week so I'll take pictures along the way!!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-23022375281619706802013-04-05T15:27:00.000-07:002013-04-05T15:27:22.265-07:00Currently & My next attempts... I am linking up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/">Farley</a> for her Currently... Yes I know it's the 5th of the month... It has been a CRAZZZZZYYYYYY week so far!! I can't believe that it is already April! That means for our school we only have one more month of school... 39 days to be exact!!!<br />
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* Listening: Yes I am still at school on a Friday at 4:30, I need to get everything I can prepped and ready to go for next week so that I can feel some sort of accomplishments... I am also going over to a friends house for dinner tonight with my 3 yr. old son and I don't want to take a lot of work home with me this weekend! </div>
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*Loving: I am seriously happy that I made it to Friday... Not sure what was wrong with me this week but it was an off week and I was about ready to quite multiple times during the days... My kids were off, I was off, it was just an off week! I don't know about y'all but these kids are different than ones that I am use to working with! I know coming from special education the students are different but I mean in general the students are different. My class is just different!</div>
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*Thinking: I can't believe that we only have 39 more days left in school! That number is CRAY-CRAY if you ask me!!! I seriously feel like the year just started! I am nevrvous and anxious at the same time... Did I teach them everything that I needed to get in... Did I teach them correctly... Are they going to remember it all in 3rd grade?!?! YIKES!!! </div>
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*Wanting: I don't know about y'all but I wouldn't have any luck if it weren't for bad luck... Seriously I don't think anything "good" has happened to me in... 3 years... When my son was born... Seriously I feel like I am always putting out fires or dealing with the let down of this or that... I just want things to go my way for once... Not asking fro a lot... Just once!!! We put in an offer on the land we want, next day it gets pulled from the market; guy changed his mind... Start working out: Gain weight back! WTH REALLY... REALLY!!!! GRRRRRRR x1000000</div>
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*Needing: I feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything that I need to get done accomplished... I am actually looking forward to our calendar for next year because twice a month we have early release days for the kids so that we can actually have time to PLAN! We are going to be using those days for PLC's with other campuses and actually having time to work together as a team to prep for our new units! We are also switching around our curriculum from 9 weeks scope and sequence to 6 week grading periods with 3 week units! I am a little nervous but excited at the same time! We have seen the samples and they look GOOD!!!!</div>
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*Advice: My favorite Dr. Seuss quote! I think it is very true and we all need to remember it when we are having an off day (or week in my case)!</div>
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Now on to my Next attempts: I am going to a start working on a new TPT *thing*. I wouldn't really call it a unit because I am going to make different 2nd Grade High frequency word cards for your word wall. I will be creating them with different themes. I am also going to try to create some content word wall cards using the same themes. I have an Ocean theme in my room so the first attempt will be to use the words with an Ocean theme. I am hoping that these are things that people will find useful for their classrooms. I know that my handwriting is not always stellar so me writing their High Frequency words sometimes makes it harder for them to read... SO I thought why not print them up and cut them out so that I have them for years to come!!! I might then attempt to create 1st grade HF words!</div>
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With that being said if you would please let me know what other themes you would be interested in seeing I will work on finding what I need and creating them!</div>
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Hopefully I can have them up and running before school is over! However it's not like the words are going to change in the next few weeks so they should be fine to use next year as well... Of course if they change I would update the packet *Packet* that's the word I was looking for... Blah (ADD Brain). </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-59127194174716160772013-03-28T18:23:00.001-07:002013-03-28T18:23:01.489-07:00My ADD at its best. Guided reading & Easter & Last BreakWell today couldn't go by fast enough if you ask me!!! I know that I am seeing on several different blogs that this is just now your Spring Break! Does that mean you have other breaks before the end of school rolls around? In our district our Spring Break was two weeks ago, then we had a full week then this week was a four day week because we have off tomorrow for Good Friday... However nice that all sounds this is our last break until the LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!!!! Are you kidding me?!?!?! Granted I have a few scheduled half-days that I am taking off for different reasons. One on April 19th for a roping that we are going to in Llano, Tx (Yummy crawfish!!!) then almost exactly a month later on May 17th about 10 teachers are all taking half-days because we are all running the Beach 2 Bay marathon down at the coast!! This will be the first time that I am running this marathon but I am looking forward to it! If you aren't familiar with this marathon it is a team marathon so each person runs about 3-4 miles and each team had about 6 people on it! <br />
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Guided Reading!?!?!?!?! Are you all as done with doing guided reading groups as I am??? I know my students are still loving working with me when they get the chance and they will be the first ones to let me know when I have skipped their group for a few days... (shhh I have been doing that quite often here at the end...) My brain is just DRA'd small grouped out!!! So here is where I need your help... another teacher found these really cool foldable she called "Flip-flap" books... I think she found them on TPT, however I have searched and searched and can't find them anywhere!!!! I am always looking for fun things to do with my students and I think they will learn a lot more from doing the different things than me just talking about it and having them write them down in their journals and them me NEVER referring back to them!! (I know you must think I am a horrible teacher! ) (I swear I'm not!!!) So the basic idea is that you give the student a file folder and they cut out different things to be folded up and glued in the folder... examples: "I" can summarize (on an iPhone), Comparing characters, Authors purpose, vocabulary words... all those wonderful ideas!!! However I would really like to get my own copy so that when I leave this school I have an original to take with me!! So if you have anything really SUPER fun and that you are seeing gets your kids to understand and focus and want to work during Guided reading PLEASE pass it this teachers way!!! Like I said we have 7-8 weeks left of school (44 days if you want the EXACT number of days!) and I need to really get back on the guided reading train for the downward slide into summer!! I need to make sure that my students are READY for 3rd grade!!!<br />
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Oh the picture that is somewhere in this post is a close up of our class pet that I had to bring home for the long weekend because I forgot to double check that a student was taking care or it! Yeah!! My son is really excited!! <br />
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Hope you have a wonderful Easter with your families!! I am looking forward to trying to relax (even though I brought TONS of works home with me... I even cut my pile of stuff that I was bringing home down a LOT!!! ) We are going up to Buda (south of Austin) to spend time with my husbands dad's side of the family for a mini reunion! I am hoping that on Saturday with everyone being there I can sneak away for a few hours and get as much school work done as possible so I'm not stressing out on Sunday that I have all this work to get ready for Monday!<br />
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Well I hope that my random rant/post made your Thursday evening enjoyable!! Almost finished with Team Umizoomi and then its bath and bed time for my 3 year old!!! So we just started him on a real bed time routine! During the week we try to bath him at 8:00 then he gets to watch one "movie" (cartoon) in our bed then he is in his bed by 9:00, granted he doesn't fall asleep right away but he was becoming a BEAST in the mornings... So even though we don't have school and he's not going to his school tomorrow I am letting him slip a little... but not much, still bath 8:30 T.V. 8:45 then bed 9:15 or so... <br />
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See this is how my brain works... My ADD is getting worse as the stress builds!!! Not kidding my left eye is starting to twitch... I know when I'm really stressed because it doesn't stop twitching!!!<br />
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YIKES here I go again! Ok for real its now bath time and time for this Mommy/Teacher to call it a night! (well at least from writing) I will probably get him in bed then do some work then blog stalk for a little bit!<br />
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I can't believe that it's already Friday!!! This week has gone by WAY TOOOO FAST!!!! Last Saturday we celebrated my sons 3rd Birthday! WOW we had so many family members come out to help us celebrate our Big boy! Then on Sunday my parents and I, and of course my son took a road trip up to see my Mom's family up in Oklahoma!! Of course on Spring Break I get sick!! I finally felt better yesterday (Thursday) blah!!! Well today we decided to venture out on a beautiful day, we went and got my Mamma's hair did LOL, then ate a yummy lunch at Jason's Deli, then went to Mardel's! I LOVE THIS STORE!!! My plan was just to look around at all their wonderful things... Well of course I couldn't just do that I HAD to get some things for my classroom. So here are the pictures from the website of the things that I bought today! I will have an explanation under each picture why I bought these items. </div>
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My ideas for these are ENDLESS!!! However my plan is to use 5 of them to help me stay organized and on top of everything for the week! My goal is to slowly get better and be more prepared for each day. I would like to use one color for each day and then have corresponding folders inside each magazine holder with each subject and all the things that I would need for that day all ready to go and copied if i needed them, or things already cut out for my students. Yes I know that on Monday we are starting our last 9 weeks of the school year, however my hope is to start using them this year and then begin my year using them for the 13-14 school year... I will already have the system down pat! This idea will work for whatever grade level I am teaching next year! (Someone from our 2nd grade team has to move... we have 5 this year and only enough kids moving up to keep 4). What sort of organization do you use to help you keep on track for the week? I have seen several different blogs that use those sterilite stackable things to keep all their papers in. </div>
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These two books I bought to help my students with their math skills. Our school is really big on using Singapore Math, model drawing, number sense... However even though I have been to several different trainings I am still not 100% on using all of these skills. As part of my evaluation for my PDAS I now have to do daily warm-ups using Singapore concepts for my students. So I bought these two books to help me come up with morning warm-ups to do with my students. My plan is to type up the same word problem multiple times and then print it off and then have my students cut and paste them into their morning work journals. From a quick glance of the books I am going to use these a lot for the rest of the year! I'll let you know how things go!</div>
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Good Writing Traits: These cute mini posters are good ways to help my students to remember all the different things that we have been working on! Again I know its the end of the year but it's never to late to start new things! Since we are going to start our narratives on Wednesday I thought it was a good way to remind them about all our writing lessons since they have had a week off to forget everything that I have been working on!</div>
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Hope these things have helped you see how I spent my Spring Break!!! Please leave me comments about how you stay organized with all your paper things for the week!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-69829673903137682472013-03-06T18:42:00.003-08:002013-03-06T18:42:38.550-08:00Currently (Late of course)Well of course I'm late to the party again!!! I have been so busy with our common assessments being this week, my son's 3rd birthday being yesterday... and of course all of the classwork that I am expected to be teaching along the way!<br />
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Listening: My son is watching Jake and the Neverland Pirates on my phone while I am working on lesson plans and grading papers... Clearly I am also blogging along the way! LOL!! I have to say that he is obsessed with Jake and the Neverland Pirates, he watches them all the time on my phone. Thank goodness for modern technology that I can have the Disney Jr. app on my phone & Netflix on my phone for a movie on the go with no need for anything! </div>
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Loving: We celebrated my son's 3rd birthday yesterday by taking him to this cool Inflatable World inside one of our old malls here. He LOVED it!!! My husband, his mom, my parents, and one of his Aunts and cousins joined us for a fun few hours filled with bouncy castle fun! He had a BLAST!!!! I will definitely be taking him back there during the summer if it is going to be 100+ degrees again this summer! However I can't believe that my baby is THREE already!!! I seriously feel like just yesterday I was in the hospital delivering him into this world! Now he is growing up and it's crazy!!! </div>
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I am also LOVING that we have Friday off!! Not sure why our district decided that we would take the Friday off before Spring Break but hey who am I to complain! It's a free day off to get stuff ready for his birthday party on Saturday! Now lets just hope that the weather is nice and doesn't rain like they think it is going to!</div>
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Thinking: My ADD brain is on overload right now! I have SOOOOOO much work that I don't know where to start and then when I do start something my mind wanders off and I am doing something for a good 20-30 minutes before I even realize that I just left the mess behind me! I'm not sure if my ADD is getting worse because of the stress or if it's just because I am getting older and have more things on my mind! I was seriously super stressed about 3 weeks ago I couldn't even form proper sentences when I was trying to talk to anyone! Seriously I called a meeting a wedding, the color grey green, would loose my train of thought mid sentence... I thought I was pregnant because thats what happened when I was pregnant, I would literally forget what I was talking about mid-sentence... Not joking!! FYI I am NOT pregnant, just VERY stressed!!!</div>
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Wanting: I am ready to have already lost all this extra weight!!! When I was pregnant I ended up gaining over 50 lbs with my son... I have lost about 15-20 of them and am ready for the other 30 to be gone!!! My husband and I have a deal going on that if I can loose 30 lbs by Christmas I get something that I have been wanting for a LONG time!!! (not going to put it on here because it is a very shallow and vain thing but I have wanted them since I was about 12)</div>
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Also when I was driving to work last Wednesday I had a deer jump into my truck... Seriously! He tried to JUMP over my truck and ended up smashing himself into the drivers side of my truck! So now my bed has to be replaced, my passenger door has to be fixed AND my bumper has to be fixed!!! DAMN DEER!!!! All I have to say is I'm glad that he died after he Kamakazied my new truck!!!</div>
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Needing: One more day!!! That's all I have to make it through!!! Whatever was blown in with these crazy South Texas winds has made me congested and cough like I am dying!!! I feel like death warmed over!!! BLAH!!! I am allergic to anything air-born, so anything that gets blown in I end up not being able to breath!! GRRRR!!!</div>
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Like: Bootcamp: It is a LOT like Crossfit if any of you have heard of that! I am addicted to going! There are several teachers at my school who are workout-a-holics. LOL The nice thing is that Bootcamp comes to our campus twice a week! So I have no excuse why I can't remember to bring my clothes and go work out some of my stresses! Seriously that is what I was looking forward to all day today! I was so stressed out about my CA data that I couldn't wait for 3:30 to come around so that I could work out my anger and stress! I can tell you right now I am going to be SOAR tomorrow!!! I can already feel it!!</div>
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Love: OKLAHOMA!!! That's where I'm going for Spring Break!!! I can't wait to see my Mamma and family! Yes that is where we are from, (well not really but I don't say that I'm from Texas either) my mom is from OK. I am really just looking forward to not having doing anything for an entire week! I really wish that we ended up staying up there after school! There are so many things that I would have changed about that part of my past, not much but moving back to Texas and leaving behind several different opportunities is a big mistake looking back... Oh well what can you do about it!!!</div>
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Hate: Being the "mean" teacher... I had a student tell me that they were afraid of me today!! REALLY!!! This student is pushing all of my buttons and gets angry whenever I make them do their work correctly and stop them from goofing off or disrupting those others around him! So I called him out into the hallway to have a "chat" and he starts to cry because I am making him do his work and he starts to back away from me and when I ask him why he's doing that he said it was because he was "afraid of me"! So at that point I said I'm done talking with you, if you think I'm being mean or going to hurt you in some way then I need to step away from the situation and not engage any more! So I made him come back into class and if he choose not to do his work I wasn't going to say anything to him. What did he do?!?!? Oh you know sit at his desk and SOB until lunch (20 minutes later)! </div>
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Let me just say that after all the stress that I have been under (I'm sure many of y'all can relate) I was thankful that I was able to take out my frustrations during my WOD (workout of the day)! Now every inch of my body is soar!! </div>
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Well that's all I have to post for now! I am hoping to post a few different things during Spring Break... Maybe actually create a few products for TPT... Still haven't made anything since this summer!! YIKES! Again I have NO idea how y'all do it!!!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-7019949814625608172013-02-07T15:39:00.001-08:002013-02-07T15:39:13.436-08:00Units??In talking with my 2nd grade team here in Texas (which we don't use Common Core) we were talking about next year already and wanting to do Units! Where we are concerned is how do they work? And will they work in 2nd grade? I know that Kinder and 1st use units and they work, we are frustrated with our scope and sequence because it is confusing and none of them correlate or are on the same weeks for that matter. As the person who plans Writing and Grammar for our team I feel like I plan the red-headed stepchild, because no one really ever gets to either subject because we don't "test" either subject. So I am hoping to get some thoughts from those that use units in their classrooms, do they work and how do you like them!<br />
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Thanks for your input!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-52887337789996388232013-02-05T13:12:00.000-08:002013-02-05T13:12:16.018-08:00Currently and What I bought on Sunday!!!First off I am linking up with Farley over at <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/">Oh Boy 4th Grade!</a> for the February Currently. Let me just say that the fact that I haven't done a Currently in easily 4 months is insane!! I can't believe that I've neglected my blog for that long! I still can't believe how so many of y'all blog almost daily PLUS create items for TPT and teach!! I'm slowly getting the hang of blogging and teaching... I guess one thing at a time! I am trying harder to be a better blogger...<br />
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Most of my Currently is self explanatory... My pet peeves are pretty much that... smacking bugs the heck out of me!!! I want to go over and say something to whomever is doing it!!! Instead I just stare... Rudeness goes to a few of the other teachers that are getting their Masters degree with me, they come off as rude and arrogant thinking that I don't know what I'm talking about because I'm young in their eyes... Fakeness: people pretending to have more than what they actually do and/or trying to make you feel bad for what you actually have earned and worked hard towards!</div>
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Thats the first part of my blog! Now on to the extra fun stuff!!! My purchases from the SUPER sale on Sunday!!!! </div>
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So for this I am linking up with <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2013/02/show-us-what-you-bought-linky.html">Blog Hoppin'</a> to show you what I spent my money on from Sunday's big sale!!! Let me tell you I think I actually bought things at three different times because I couldn't stop!!! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-65356307550749008712013-01-24T16:22:00.000-08:002013-01-24T16:46:07.463-08:00Product ReviewsI am going to try something new for my blog... Since I am lacking on resources this year as it is my first year in 2nd grade I have been purchasing a lot of materials to use from TPT and I am LOVING them ALL!!! So I thought I'd share with my followers some of the things that I have purchased and what I've thought about them so far! Bare with me this will be a bit of a long post because I went on a little bit of a TPT crazy shopping spree this Christmas break! YIKES!!! <br />
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I have been using these products in my classroom for a few weeks now and I thought I would "review" what I thought about each one! As a third year teacher I thought I would have a more things down to a T and be able to create more things that I would be using in my room! BOY WAS I WRONG!!!! I have had ZERO extra time to to anything EXTRA to use in my room. So this year I have decided that I will just buy what I can and then when I get more comfortable with things for 2nd grade I can begin to make products to post to my TPT.<br />
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Sorry if you are looking for more things from me but right now with everything on my plate I really barely have time to write this post! However I have decided that I will try to post more about things on here! I mean that is the point of having a blog is to get your ideas out there and to find comfort in your community of those around you!<br />
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The first product that I am going to review is <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-have-who-has-2nd3rd-Grade-Mega-Pack">I Have, Who Has</a> Mega Pack. This Mega Pack has several different I have, Who has games for 2nd & 3rd grade students. My kiddos have LOVED playing the Money game! We are still working on telling time so I will try to use this game in the next few weeks. They also really liked the Contraction game. It is funny how they are checking their neighbors card to check to see if they are paying attention and they will be the first one to call out their friends who aren't paying attention. If you are looking for a few whole group activities for time wasters or as a good way to review before a test these are an awesome and FuN way to have kids practice and play!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next thing I am going to talk about is the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Common-Core-Math-Stations-JANUARY">Common Core January Math Stations</a> from Lory Evans, I seriously have EVERY month's math stations on my wish list on TPT and I have decided that the month before I am going to purchase the next months centers to get them ready to go! That way eventually I will have all of the monthly stations and in a year I will have all of the centers! The way I use these are I print out the blackline and put them in page protectors with two months in one binder. Then I copy the pages that I am gong to use onto Card stock then cut and laminate on "Crazy Teacher Weekends" I am currently having a crazy teacher weekend getting everything ready for February! I know I have a few weeks but I am trying to get more organized for my own sanity! My kids are LOVING using the math stations! They are getting more independence and practice on using math everyday! It also gives me a good amount of time to pull kids for Math Intervention! I have some students that I really need to focus on because we move at such a fast pace and they are trying to keep up but need some little help along the way! Anywho I am loving them not asking me a million questions every day about what can I do now I'm finished with this... How about Now?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am absolutely in love with both of these sets of center. Granted in Texas we don't use Common Core (well again at least not at the school district that I work at). I am currently using the January Math Center and my students are LOVING them! Now, you have to keep in mind that I didn't start using math centers in my classroom until January! So when I introduced them I sort of rushed through them because I wanted them to have as much time with the centers as possible. *Disclaimer* I would have spend a lot longer on introducing each of the centers because I assumed that my students could read the instructions and figure out what to do... not so much in my class!! GEEZE! Is there anyone else who has this problem with their students? If I don't walk them through each step they get lost!* So I had to take a step back and walk my class through each of the centers. I do have to say that the task cards that are included with the stations ARE AMAZING and they do give good instructions, however my students didn't seem to notice that I placed these in their tubs. Again I am loving the January stations! I am currently cutting out the February math stations, I have them laminated and printed out on red and pink cardstock because DUH it's Valentine's Day!! <br />
With that being said... my rambles... since we don't use common core, I feel like my students aren't ready to use all 12 of the stations... I usually use about 10 or the stations and then fill in the extras with other games that I have previously created or taught or played with them. I also have a few at small group with me for math intervention. Again I'm rambling... My class in nowhere near knowing fractions! Let me ask a question for those out there in Common Core land... are your second graders already understanding fractions?? I feel if I were to put those centers out my kiddos would be completly lost and just sit there and do NOTHING!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I actually have a few other products that I would like to review but since this post is now on its 4th day of editing and not being published I will just leave you all with the babbling of my crazy stressed out-ness... HAHA! However I hope that you are going to look into getting a few of these products and using them in your classrooms! Let me say that I have reloaded my TPT wish-list and am just waiting for things to be needed or to see where the wind takes me as for what I will be needing in the future! <br />
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Thanks for coming along on my crazy ride! I am really hoping that I can keep up with my blog and posting things more often! I am going to work really hard on being better at time management and allotting time for blog stalking, and more posting and eventually creating more things for my classroom... I need some MAJOR help on how you all get everything accomplished and have time to create items for TPT! <br />
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On a different note I am linking up with Farley over at <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2012/12/currently-january.html">Oh Boy 4th Grade!</a> I love doing the Currently's and then looking around at all the others that people are posting! Since I think the last one I did was like 4 months ago I am falling behind... I promise not to leave my blog this long again!!! I am going to be working on my Time management a lot more this year! I bought the Life Planner from Erin Condren and I haven't really used it to its FULL ability! I am going to really start using it to help me keep up with my school work (2nd grade stuff), class work (master's degree stuff), and blogging world stuff!<br />
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I am listening to an episode of 7th Heaven on some channel up in Oklahoma, let me just say that this was probably one of my favorite shows of all time!!! I am not a go to church every Sunday type of girl, however I love the values that are taught in that show! I don't know what it was but there was something about this show that always spoke to me!</div>
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Loving: I love that I don't have to start back to school either tomorrow or Thursday, we don't start back until Monday!! That still gives me a few more days to get the last minute things that I want to get done before I welcome back my 21 munchkins! </div>
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Thinking: I have gone on a TPT/Pinterest frenzy!!! I have about 18 thinks on my wish list and three things in my actual cart!!! YIKES!!! Trust me if I ever won the lottery I would probably spend it all on school stuff!!! I do have a question?!?!?! We aren't using the Common Core Standards (or whatever they are called) however so many of the things that I am seeing are based on those standards, I guess Texas (or just my district) are a little behind the curve on this... I was wondering if every state that is using these have the same standards? Are you all teaching the same things at the same time? Thats pretty cool if you are! Just a random question!</div>
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Needing: Well of course you know me, I am the biggest procrastinator around, throw that in with my ADD and you have a mix for disaster on me getting much done on time! We have been in Oklahoma for the past week and are going home to see my husband's dad tomorrow for his Christmas, then when we get back to our house going over to his mom's side of the family for our third Christmas!!! YIKES! Oh well, maybe after I post this I will finish packing our bags and toys and stuff! (probably not)</div>
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OWL: Hopeful! That is my motto for 2013! My husband and I are looking to finally find the land that we have been looking for, we have been looking for land to build our house on for about 2 years with no luck! Every time we think we find what we are looking for something is either wrong with the land (on a flood plane, to hilly) or there are restrictions on the land not permitting us to build what we want... So my word for 2013 is HOPEFUL! I am putting out good vibes that this will be our year! I will be hopeful that things will work out for me at school, I am hopeful that my grades will stay high for Grad School, and I am hopeful that my family will stay healthy and happy!!! </div>
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So there you go some things that I haven't been saying in a while because my blog has fallen to the back burner. So I am also hopeful that I will be able to keep up with my blog, school work, classwork, and my family!! </div>
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I am hoping that tomorrow I can take some pictures of my room all ready for Open House!!!<br />
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Thanks for following me and Let me know if your beginning of the year is as crazy???Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-72474520149481232242012-08-25T13:52:00.001-07:002012-08-25T13:52:15.000-07:00Finished Classroom!! Picture TourWell school starts on Monday for me!! It has been a long two/three week process of me not getting any full days in my classroom until last week... With going to grad school still and trying to get all that stuff finished as well as working in my room a few days here and there, well I have finally finished everything! On Thursday we had our Meet the Teacher as well as our Parent Orientation! I was able to meet 24 out of my 26 kids, which I thought was a pretty good turn out!! On Friday I was told that another student registered so that put my number up to 27!!! There are four 2nd grade teachers and ALL of us are at 27 kids for the start of the year!!! Hopefully they will ALL show up on the first day of school so that we can hire a 5th teacher and get our numbers back down to a regular size!!!<br />
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Well I am going to post the pictures of my finished classroom now!!! FYI This is going to be a very picture heavy post! I will try to not make the pictures huge but big enough for you to see what is in them!!<br />
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This is the view when you first walk into my room! All of the supplies are already in their desks with the tissues on top from Meet the Teacher on Thursday! All 27 Desks and in the back corner is my "desk" and guided reading area</div>
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My classroom job chart!</div>
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Computer table, word wall, and backpack hooks! (not enough only 22 hooks for 27 kiddos)</div>
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My behavior chart (available for purchase in my TPT and TN store)</div>
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My handsome son blocking my lunchbox holder!</div>
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My objectives that will be posted on my bulletin board (Pinterest)</div>
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My important times clocks!! Again thank you Pinterst!!</div>
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Student Cubbies and homework turn in area</div>
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Birthday Balloons (Pinterest)</div>
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My daily 5 choice spots... the students will move a magnet to where they are going. </div>
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My guided reading table</div>
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My classroom library, reading buddies, and personal space hoops!</div>
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Treasure Chest!!! Already loaded and ready to go!</div>
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My guided reading area and writing station (still not ready)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-43888629824563102302012-08-07T16:37:00.000-07:002012-08-07T16:37:17.077-07:00Some New Items to TPTI have created some new classroom forms for my classroom and have also uploaded them to TPT and TN!! I have been selling more items from my TPT store than my TN store, but at least I am selling them!!! If you have an Ocean Themed room please head on over to either store and check out my Ocean themed items!!! Once I have a little bit more time (when is that ever going to happen?) I will create a few different themed items but right now I am trying to create things that I will use in my room too!!! I hope you enjoy!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Theme-Behavior-Chart-White">Ocean Theme Behavior Chart White Background</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Daily-5-Posters-Full-Color-Ocean-Theme">Ocean Themed Daily 5 Full Color</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Daily-5-Posters-White-Ocean-Theme">Ocean Themed Daily 5 White Background</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Behavior-Charts-Color">Ocean Theme Behavior Chart Color Background</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Themed-Punch-Cards">Ocean Themed Punch Cards</a><br />
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OK For whatever reason it isn't letting me upload any of my photos!!! If I can figure out whats going on I will edit and add them later! GRRR!!!<br />
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But if you just click on the links they will take you to my TPT pages... I am still working on adding them all to TN... Having a 2 year old and trying to fix dinner tonight are just cutting into my blogging time!!! LOL<br />
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I'll try again later! OR tomorrow which ever comes first!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-44224483322704988442012-08-06T10:17:00.002-07:002012-08-06T10:17:49.463-07:00Pictures of my ClassroomI have been super nervous and excited about being able to finally get into my classroom and start decorating... I had no clue what I was going to walk into how big it was, or what furniture was in there... This weekend I also was finally able to spend my birthday money at Lakeshore yesterday!!! I forgot to take pictures of all this stuff that I bought yesterday... I'll take pictures either later today when I go back to my classroom or tomorrow when I go to my room... On a different note I only have two days left of my third Graduate class!!<br />
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So now I am going to do a picture post of what my classroom looks like... This is what my room looked like when I walked in for the first time... Now I have all sorts of things scattered all over my room and on tables and in the cubbies and all over the floor... I haven't really started decorating any of it yet... trying to do one thing at a time... finish grad class, then start working in my room full time!!! HAHA Ok so here goes the pictures of my room.<br />
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This is the view that I first had when I unlocked my room for the first time... All the desks in the middle of the room and all the chairs were stacked in the back corner. </div>
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This is the back corner looking across the class... </div>
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This is looking at my storage space in my room!! Now all the books that are on top of the counter are placed nicely in the student cubbies (pictured below) also in their cubbies are their personal storage units where they will keep their sight words and punch cards so that they are responsible for all of their belongings and I don't have to keep up with them all. </div>
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These are the student cubbies where I already have put all their books in (well their math and writing) I am making their fish labels that will velcro to the front with their numbers or names... I don't know what I am going to have exactly.</div>
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This is also in the back corner where the computers are going to go as well as my reading bookcase. This is a picture of the students backpack rack. I will put laminated fish with their name/numbers on them so they know where their backpack goes everyday. </div>
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This is a picture of my teacher area, this is where I will be working with my guided reading (and guided math) groups this year... I don't have a teacher desk so all of my storage stuff will go in that corner!!!</div>
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Well this is the tour of my room for now!!! I also did a Monday Made it but totally forgot to take pictures so if I get a chance I can edit this post and add it to this post later... If not Tomorrow it is!!! </div>
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I also bought the toolbox from Lowe's to make my teacher toolbox that everyone seems to be doing this year! I just bought all the scrapbook paper today from Hobby Lobby so I will have to take pictures of everything that I have been getting for my classroom!!!</div>
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Also on my B2S stuff was my Erin Condren Life Planner!! This has been such a life saver for me this summer keeping track of everything that I need to do and all the different places that I have to be!! If you don't have one or are debating on getting one I would Highly Suggest Going over there and checking them out!!!</div>
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The beautiful cover that I chose.. I really think this was the hardest part about deciding on getting the Life Planner, there were so many cute choices to choose from I couldn't decide!</div>
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TABS!!!! This Life Planner will last me from July 2012 until December 2013!! And each of the Months two page layout/overview has its own color coordinated LAMINATED TAB!!!! How awesome is that so they won't get damaged with the extended life of this planner!</div>
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One half of the two page monthly layout! Great for an overview of what your month looks like, with plenty of room to write down things, and each month has a Goals, and To Do list for your monthly goals!!!</div>
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This is my AUGUST!!! Can you tell I was excited when I received it I started filling everything in!! But then look at how BUSY I am in August, with finishing school to inservice days and workdays and workshops then Meet the Teacher and Parent Orientation and then THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! YIKES (less than a month now)</div>
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One half on the weekly layout!! Each week has a Goals and To Do list page (with the exception of the end/beginning of a new month when it is in the middle of the week) The weeks starts on Monday and goes thru Sunday and is broken up each day into three sections of Morning, Day and Night!!! For me I figured anything before 12 is Morning, 12-5 is Day and 5 and after was Night!!! That is just how my mind works so that I can keep things separated!</div>
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The Keep it together pocket!! Great for keeping slips of papers together or in my case Bills (boo)~</div>
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An entire page of nothing but BIRTHDAY Stickers!!!!</div>
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WELL I hope that you have enjoyed looking at the AMAZING Life Planner and I hope that I have convinced you to head on over and get your own!!! Also they will customize it however you want it and of course if you ordering in a later month it will start in the month that you will receive the Planner, they are not like the store bought ones that start in a set month and if you buy it later you have lost all those months! Just another reason to get your own!!! I will keep you all posted on how I am using my planner and if I purchase anything else from them I will let you know!!!</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-17940496850955418972012-07-27T10:49:00.001-07:002012-07-27T10:49:25.464-07:00I need HELP!!!OK Teachers I need HELP!!! I am looking around at everyones blogs about how they are setting up their classrooms and I am starting to FREAK out about how to organize my library, I have several different types of books ranging from picture books to 4-5th grade leveled books! Is there any specific way that you organize your classroom libraries? Is there an app for that?!?! I am wanting to start working in my classroom a little bit after I get out of class each day, or if I can possibly get there before my class starts then come back!?!? I just don't know, I made a comment last night to my husband while laying in bed thinking about the TWO page TO-DO list that I created for myself that I only had 30 days before school started and I had so much to get done and his comment was is sure must be nice to still have 30 days off and be getting paid!! Really!! I was trying to say I needed to get so much accomplished in those short 30 days... AND I keep adding more and more to my list! I have a few things knocked off but the closer the start of the school year approaches the more scared I am getting!!! Why did I decide to start Grad school THIS summer, I could be working in my room everyday for hours and hours and getting everything that I needed done!! Oh well I didn't I will just have to deal!<br />
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SO thanks for reading my ramblings, but seriously can you help me with how to organize my library?!?! Keep in mind I am teaching 2nd grade this year but have all levels of books, is there an app or something that can help me either level my books or organize them?! Thanks so much for your input!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6670031400139725700.post-87776270042448064162012-07-25T10:34:00.001-07:002012-07-25T10:34:51.650-07:00Oh Yes I pinned it Part 2!!So here is the second part of my Oh Yes I Pinned it post series! I have made my own Daily 5 posters!<br />
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I have made each of the five posters to fit my classroom theme of Ocean/Sea Life! I am going to place them for sale in my TPT and TN stores later today! When I tried to upload them earlier TPT was down and I am still having issues with my TN store!! So I will update my post with links so that hopefully if these will help you out!</div>
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I have created two different formats for them, one is in FULL COLOR!! Which means LOTS of ink will be used! I have also made a version with just a white background so that if you wanted to print it on color cardstock then you would save some ink! I hope that you go and check out both versions and if they will work in your classroom please pick them up!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0