Ummm…how many of y’all were able to take full advantage of Sonic’s ALL DAY Happy Hour today?!?! Me! Me! Me! Actually, one of the sweet girls on our team made a Sonic run for us early this morning and then I got a follow-up drink later on when one of my sweet mom’s surprised me with a drink!! Needless to say, it was a great day! I was a very happy, very CAFFEINATED teacher! What goes better with caffeine than food?!?! Today we were all COOKS! Compound Cooks, that is. {If you can’t tell by now, my mind is ALWAYS on food! HA!} Seriously though. I’ve introduced compound words ... Read More
Plant Freebies, Cinquain Poetry, & Dirty Word Work
As promised, here are a few plant themed literacy & math activities for you! Sorry I didn’t post them last night…I fell asleep…fully clothed!!!!…at 8:30 and didn’t get out of bed to change into my jammies until sometime around 2 a.m.! All those late, sleepless nights caught up to me!!! Click on the pics for the downloads :) Graphics courtesy of Scrappin Doodles I don’t have too many station activities because I’ve been using everything from Kelly & Diane’s Plenty of Plants Unit! I was in a pinch on Sunday night…I spent the whole weekend celebrating my just turned 3-year-old and didn’t devote much time to ... Read More
Breakin’ the Rules {& Some Plant Stuff}
I know I’m breakin’ all sorts of rules by posting twice in one day, but in my defense, I *technically* posted around midnight{ish}. I'd still consider that *yesterday* :) I was up with a sick little boy and sleeping wasn’t an option. Isn’t it hard to get back in a groove after a holiday weekend?!?! Okay, well, it is for me. I’m a little slow moving that first day back…even if it was only a 3 day weekend. I threw myself into the fire today and really tried to get back in the groove first thing this morning. We’re learning all about plants this week, so I started the day with a little composing ... Read More
My Week in Review
Happy Easter, peeps! Our pastor said it best… “Easter is the definitive moment in God’s love story with humanity.” Oh.my.word. I’ve never heard it put that way, but I was in LOVE. SO true! Hope y’all had a blessed day!! We spent ours with my in-laws who are in town visiting from Indiana. Such a fun weekend! Speaking of peeps, we celebrated little mister’s birthday on Friday and I gave all the kids these fun little peeps {Pinterest inspired, thank you Eighteen25!!}. I gave these to my little firsties, too! After I ate a few boxes myself, of course :) Love it when I can kill ... Read More
Da-na-na-na-na-nah…They Say It’s Your Birthday…
I hope you’re picturing Anthony Michael Hall belt out this little catchy tune in Sixteen Candles right about now. I feel like I’m always singing this song whenever someone has a birthday. Today I’m celebrating my littlest man’s birthday!!! Sweet boys is 3 today!!! I keep praying for God to stop time and keep my boys tiny, sweet, & innocent forever, but God has different plans :) Oh how I love this little man!!!! I thank God every day for blessing our family with him…he’s such a RIOT!!!! We celebrated his birthday this morning at the park with all of his sweet friends, delicious egg nest & peep ... Read More
Sunday Funday & the OW/OU Kids
Does anyone else love Sunday as much as I do?!?! I know I have to go to work tomorrow and all, but I LOVE Sundays. We always sleep in and then head to the 11:00 service at church. I’m always moved to tears at EVERY.SINGLE.SERVICE. The boys love church just as much…if not more…than I do, so that definitely makes this little momma all kinds of happy. After church, we always go to lunch. Since my oldest has a bit of a picky palette, we typically head to our favorite little pizza place, Grimaldi’s. SO yum. Then it’s back home to lounge around and spend the day playing…or in my case, on & off ... Read More
Follow the Yellow Brick Road Retelling
I’m back today to report to you that I DID NOT have to suck it up and eat the larva for snack today. And…PTL…I remembered my math & literacy stations AND I got a full 7 hours sleep…minus 30 minutes here and there thanks to a cover hogging husband :) Yes friends, today was MUCH better than yesterday…well, except for having to control the LOUDNESS that is my classroom while our 4th graders took the STARR test today. Bless their hearts. This week we’re working on retelling. I feel like EVERY teacher does a pretty stinkin’ great job at driving home this concept. I’m pretty sure we’re constantly asking questions ... Read More
One of THOSE Days…
Today was one of THOSE days. Not in a terribly bad way…just one of those days. I’m sure you’ve had ‘em, too! We were up ‘til about 3am this morning with my sweet Landon. I’m SURE he had an allergy induced asthma attack. He hasn’t exactly been diagnosed with asthma…the doctor blew me off when I mentioned it…but my mommy intuition is 100% certain that he has it. When Mr. Spouse gets scared, that’s when I know it’s serious. And it was. My little man was up ‘til all hours of the night…coughing & wheezing something awful fierce…and having trouble breathing in between the crazy fits of coughing. ... Read More
A Day Fit for a Foodie
If you know me well, you know I’m a foodie. NOT a food snob at all...I’ll eat ANTYHING. Especially if it’s deep fried and made with butter :) But I’m definitely a foodie!! Today’s activities were focused all around a couple of my favorites…pizza and cinnamon rolls!!! Both terribly fattening and unhealthy, but that’s not the point of this post :) Before we started our math tubs today, we did a whole group fraction activity. I set out 4 pizza boxes on different tables and handed out recording sheets and clipboards. The objective of this activity was to get the kids to count the number of slices ... Read More
Post Spring Break Craftivity
Spring Break gave me just the taste of summer I needed…or maybe not :) It’s never as long as I wish it were and I missed my boys terribly today!!! However, it’s pretty nice being back in a routine! We ALL needed that for sure! So, we hit the ground running today. We’ve got TONS to do this week!! We’ll be working on synonyms & antonyms this week, so this little guy right here will be making another appearance…I LOVED this activity last year! We’re working on /ai/ and /ay/ words for spelling this week. We brainstormed a list of words for both and then I had the kids practice writing their /ai/ ... Read More