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Craft and Something Amazing...

Monday, June 10, 2013

Today turned out to be an 'unplanned' busy day. I was called early this morning and there was a scheduling error with my dogs grooming appointment. Boy, they're lucky I'm a teacher and that I don't have to work summers! :) So, I took my doggies unto the groomers today and then that led to a workout & a trip to hobby lobby!

Here is a picture of my Bella girl and buddy with their new hair cuts!

They're a bit tired!

Bella Girl*

Buddy*

During their grooming appointment this is what I got at Hobby Lobby! I am going to do a craft here in a bit! I want to make cute behavior clips for my owl clip chart and cute clips for a brag board in my classroom room. I am going to paint the clips bright yellow and cut out chevron circles and write the kids names on them! I am so excited! :) I will post the result tomorrow!

I want to make something similar to this... I want the clothes pin to be bellow and chevron circles on it... I want to find cute owls to maybe put in the center!

I have been stalking Amy Lemons blog post about her new classroom décor and I decided to also go out and buy some fabric today at hobby lobby! This will be going on bulletin boards. It is going to go perfect with the colors I am using for my owl décor! I can't wait! I am going Thursday to a quilt shop with no one other than my wonderful grandma to buy owl themed material. I will be sewing owl pencil pouches for my kids to keep their pencils in! It is a pencil management idea that I found! I will explain it more when I post the pouches!

Weekend Update*

As many of you know my boyfriends grandmother passed last week. We had the viewing on Friday and the funeral on Saturday. It was such a touching experience and it made me love Andrew's (boyfriend) family even more than I already did.. which is a lot. We have been together for 6 1/2 years and I feel like a part of the family even though we are not (yet) married.

So, what I wanted to share with you was this heart... in the sky.

This heart in the sky appeared right after the end of her funeral when she was laid down to rest. Andrew noticed it of course (he is so observant). It was definitely her telling everyone that they were loved.

After the service we went and ate lunch & then had some fun just like she would like. They boys were boys...:)

Andrew's cousins were doing the plank on the teeter totter... we laughed so hard! Let's just say that there are tons of pictures here!

Here is Andrew on the spinny thing as I call it. :) He is so much fun!

Have a fantastic Monday & thank you for reading! I have never expressed how much I love my followers. :)

I just love blogging and sharing everything with you all!!!

Here is a freebie for you from my Ready, Set, Go* Just click on the words! :)

Literacy Station, Room

Literacy Stations

Thursday, January 10, 2013

I am so excited about my new revamp of my literacy stations! I completely made it over and it is less stressful and the kids are more engaged and not acting out as much (still have those few... but not as bad).

Here is a picture of my rotation board (kids love it)!

I gave each group a silly name: Power Towers, Goofy Gobsters, Tricky Ricks, Silly Willies and Cheery Chompers.

They are so proud to be a part of their team! Students are responsible for completing the activity at their first station. When they complete that then they may move onto their next station. I added some new stations this week onto my board that are not on the picture below. (Science, and Sorting (aka another word work). I also only have students do read to self during the stations and we do read to a partner after stations for 10 minutes as a whole class. Great time for me to do 2 running records a day.

(Got these from Deanna Jump's Blog)

This is where all of my stations are kept. YES, I said ALL! I have each station placed inside a bin. A station captain comes over to this and takes out their station drawer. This drawer set is the best invention ever. It has a lid that clicks and it comes all of the way out! It is great! I got it from Joanne Fabrics! Highly recommend it!

I also have to brag... I got an El' cheepo laminator... but I am sooo excited! I was laminating my cards to my walrus digraph center activity pack!

Then I am trying to be a good blogger and Tpt seller by taking pictures of my kiddos doing my activities.

Today was the first day they tried out my own creations! I was so excited to see my work in action!

Here are a few pictures and if you want some of these pack I will put links at the bottom of my blog!

Here is the Arctic Animal Digraph Pack in action!

Students sort words, and pictures under a heading. Then they record the words by the correct picture!

Here is a quote from my little one in the second picture, "THIS IS ACTUALLY FUN!" ha ha yaayyy!

Next, I have my students working on sorting long a and short a. I created a winter pack for this one! Here it is! She loved it and it was nice to see them actually sounding them out and thinking about long and short a vowel sounds! Yay!

That is all for today! I need to get some papers graded! Grade cards and professional binders are due next week! Never ending work! I hope next year is easier! I won't have to recreate everything each year right?

Packs if you are interested!