classroom set up

Hard to believe we have already been in school for 10 days.  It was nice to have a long weekend this weekend.  I just realized that I never posted any of the pictures I took of my classroom in progress.  I don't think I ever did take a picture of the final results. 

I started the year with 17 kids, before the first week I was up to 19 and ended up with 20.  On Tuesday, I will be back down to 17 as we had to hire another first grade teacher.  The school zone has grown crazy fast in the last few years.

Things are going ok.  I can't wait to get my true routines up and going.  We will start everything into full swing next week.  I'm going to start my reading routine this week, as well as, the math program.  But, as we know nothing works smoothly the first week especially a short week.

Back to Mommy duty... time to say goodnight to my guys.  Have a great short week everyone!

Frozen Animals

My friends and I are getting the kids together on Tuesday's to do fun projects. This was last weeks! I froze animals into blocks of water and challenged them to get them out.

In the pictures you can see some of their attempts. I finally showed them if you pour warm/hot water over the ice it will make it melt. On Teachers Pay Teachers, I added an ice project link (for $1). Included is the recording sheet we used and a higher level one, ice family word sheet and flip book, and color mixing with ice cube sheet.

 These are the ones in my free download
 

Sea World

We got passes to Sea World, so we went there twice over the break.

I'm back

Did you think I ran away forever? Well, I debated it, but I can't for some reason. I did enjoy my break.

One of the big reasons I haven't posted is Blake was on Spring Break from school and we were busy!

I'll spread out the fun over a few days. Here are some great individual pictures:


Tune in tomorrow for more (o:

December 2011 holiday picture re-cap

Since I slacked off and never posted my project 365 for the last ummm 2 weeks of 2011, I thought I'd share a few of those pictures here today. (o:


We took the boys into Hollywood Studios to see the lights for the first time.


Tracking Santa on Norad


Santa brought a new basketball and a new hoop.


Canoe rides with Gramps


My favorite picture from the holidays
Don't forget to take an "Aa" picture to share on Wednesday! (o:

top 11 of 2011

I decided to post them in chronological order so I didn't have to rank them or anything like that. I hope you enjoy these 11 pictures of my boys from 2011.



























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