Curosity Day with Curious George

Promote a love of reading and host a Curiosity Day in your bookstore, school, or library!

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/cgsite/

So it's been a while..........

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything on here. My son started playing football for a Spring league and it's kept us all very busy...as if we weren't busy already!!! He loves it and I'm so proud of him. It's just so hard to believe how "grown-up" he looks in his uniform. I have to say he's also powerful handsome! If I could just convince him that haircuts are still "in."

This week at school we are learning about fairytales and folktales. We decided not to start a new reading unit since we will be out for our SPRING BREAK next week!!! Can I get a "whoot whoot?!?!" The school year is winding down and I'm ready for SUMMER! As I was saying, fairytales are a huge hit with my students. I found a fantastic powerpoint website to help introduce folktales and fairytales to my class. I ran across this one a long time ago and forgot about it (like many other sites I find). I think it's one that might help teachers, college students, and parents in any subject. Check it out!
http://www.pppst.com/index.html

TTFN!

Links

Ok, I added a new section on here. It's called "Liking That Link." This is 
where I'll put up some of my favorite links for resources and ideas.

Signing off to finish up a few things and get ready for the week ahead! Tomorrow is the 100th day off school!!! It will be hectic fun!

Hectic 2 Days!

It was back to work yesterday with a two hour day. This week is already over. I'm trying to get the missed reading lessons in so I'm in sync with the SRA calendar. It really makes for a hectic day. It's too cold for the students to go outside for recess. I really need to find some exercise type videos for indoor recess. I usually pull up united streaming and play "Rainy Day Recess" but I'm getting tired of it.

I have another website to share and this one has other sites to check out along with video tutorials. I highly recommend checking this one out and saving it to your favorites!!! http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ .

Stay tuned and T.G.I.F. !!!

SNOW DAYS!!!

It was a nail biting Sunday night with the kids waiting to hear the official word on "to school or not to school". We knew we had a 2 hour delay but it was followed by a "stay tuned, check the news to find out if school is cancelled." 

I woke up an hour later than I usually do and checked the news.........WOO HOO ~ NO SCHOOL TODAY! So I did what any tired mother/1st grade teacher would do.........rolled back over, snuggled in my big comfy bed and caught some more zzzzzzzzzzz's!

When I woke up (we'll keep that number unlisted ) all was quiet in the house. Not a kid in sight nor earshot. They were at the neighbor's house across the street sledding and had been there for a while. I made hot chocolate, started a fire and began boiling chicken for my chicken & dumplings. I was preparing for 2 cold and hungry kids!

I decided to check out Tagxedo, a website my mom mentioned this weekend when we were over at her house making pizzas :0). It's a neat website that makes word clouds. Here is the link-> http://www.tagxedo.com/. (It did require a microsoft silverlight download.) I'll have to get the tech guy to install it at school. I think this will be a useful tool for all kinds of word lists. I made a word cloud for the reading unit we are currently covering. 

It was a nice relaxing but very cold day. The best part is that I get to do it all again tomorrow! Yep, schools will be closed again!!!