After {this} post a few weeks ago, I had many request for my journals. I decided to re-work them, organize them, and put them together in a complete set for you. This baby is huge! There ...
About a month ago, I was listing to a rebroadcast on Doctor’s Radio (Sirius/XM), and they were discussing challenging children/students. It was late at night, and my family was on a four hour r...
Do you portfolio? {I wrote a post about portfolios last year too. You can read it here.} This year, I had the kids do the portfolios a little bit different. Instead of only giving t...
Guess what’s coming…..it’s a summer book study! I am super excited to be a part of this book study hosted by my good buddy Deedee Wills! We will be diving into Katie Wood Rays Book, In Pictures and i...
I feel privileged and blessed to be able to teach the children of the men and women who serve in our US Air Force. I teach on an Air Force Base, and I see the children’s sacrifice’s EVERY day. ...
We had the BEST last 4 days of school this week. The kids had SO much fun! They were all very well behaved (can you believe it!) and were engaged in learning (yes, learning!) the whole we...
Okay, so we are in the middle of the midwest and there really isn’t a beach – unless you count the shorelines of the 10,000 lakes in Minnesota and the Red River of the North. But, we can use ou...
We have just 4 days left until we are done for the year! I don’t have much for you – I guess I’ve been a slacker in taking pictures these last few weeks. We did our unit on plants a few weeks a...
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Sorry for the delay in posting! It’s been cah-razy around here!! Here is the May song for you! Hope you like it! I also wanted to quickly share with you a super fun and easy mother’s day idea with yo...
Here we go! Part 2 of 3 of my Learning Resources product reviews! If you missed it, I blogged about Learning Resources’ Easi Speak USB Recorder…you can read about that {here}. PS – I’m ST...
Especially when it comes to great teaching products! I’m linking up with Erica’s linky party to share some of the goodies that I have purchased over the last couple of days. I love finding grea...
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We celebrated the wedding of Q and U on Friday. The kiddos LOVE this day – especially the girls! They love getting dressed up, and the boys think it’s pretty darn cool to dress up as quarterbac...
This is an idea that I learned from my wonderful friend, Kim Adsit! She spoke about it at the Minnesota Early Childhood Conference that I attended last summer. It’s super simple, all you need a...
Writing time has always been one of my favorite times of the day in Kindergarten. It is SO much work and management at the beginning of the year, but the end of the year is SO worth it. I...
I needed to add just a little bit of positive behavior incentive for my kiddos in these last few weeks. I found these cute bee baskets at Target a while back, and they go perfectly with ...
Oh my the weeks have flown by! But, we had lots of fun with our weather unit a few weeks ago! The kids had a great time learning about many different types of weather. I don’t have many picture...
One of my little sweeties wrote this a couple of weeks ago. I LOVE it! Do your children know Super-E? If not, you need to introduce them to him immediately! The Teacher Wife {aka Lindsey}...
I was feeling a bit bored with my morning message. I felt like it had lost it’s *zing* and the kiddos were getting bored (and ME too!). I struggled to find something to write, and because...
So, how cool is this? This is the Easi-Speak USB Microphone the Learning Resources sent me to try out with my kindergarten kiddos. Holy smokes, they are OBSESSED with this baby! They love to re...
Have you seen these little cuties? I first heard about these adorable markers from Katie over at Little Warriors. I contacted the good people at Scentos and they sent me some to try out myself....
We have a 3 day week this week and next, so I switched things up a bit and went for 6 math and 6 literacy centers for the next 2 weeks. So far so good! Here is what the kiddos are working on: {...
Sorry guys, I was hoping to get a post up with my centers for the week, but I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather. I’ll try really hard to get it up tomorrow night. I teach a parent c...
So my computer is up and running now! Yay! I’ll catch up more later tonight, but here is a post that I did WAY back that never got uploaded…… What an exhausting, but fun week it was! Crazy soc...
We did a quick unit on bugs a couple of weeks ago. Our science curriculum has changed, so, I didn’t do as much as I normally do. Instead of studying the life cycle of a butterfly, we had Isopod...
The $100 gift card give away ends soon! Be sure to add your entry using Raffle Copter! See the post below for more info....Happy St. Paddys day! Corned beef and cabbage on the menu for this Irish gal...
So, by now, I’m sure you’ve seen some of the reviews of the Now!Board on other blogs. It’s my turn now :) This device is truly remarkable and it will take interactive learning/whiteboard ...
St. Patrick’s day is a very special time in my family. My Grandma’s blood ran green. Truly. She was Irish and was not afraid to let anyone know it. My grandma passed away abou...
Hi Friends, Ive been a little MIA these last few days. Report cards were due today, and I was slaving away on them. Last night as I went to my computer to finish them, my hard drive decid...
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