Freebie Friday

On Friday, from about 6:30am-8:30 pm EST, I will have "Winter Ending Blends" on TpT for FREE. I've updated my "Autumn Blends" to include more vowel combinations, silent letters, and multisyllable words. My little guys are moving along!  I told you first!

Hello Home School Parents!

I've decided that there must be some homeschool community that likes my soil activities.  They are my best sellers, and people are buying them in clumps. It makes me feel bad for my other products:(

There was an oil leak in our intermediate buiilding yesterday, so we had off school again. MLKJ, oil spill, and all 2 hour early dismissals because of high school exams. One of my students really didn't believe me when I told him that tomorrow was already Thursday. Not being in school on regular planning days makes the next week harder.  Two of my teammates were out, so that left only two of us for the planning. I think we did pretty good staying focused for a change.

Earlier this week I posted some secret freebies for the first 10 downloaders on TpT and TN. I forgot to mention it here. Sorry! Next time I'll remember.



"A Trip to the Emergency Room" is a sequencing game with three events at a time, and "New Beginnings" works on prefixes for higher second grade-third grade students.  I hadn't made an answer key up for my parent volunteer, and he had a hard time!

I also posted the rainforest and desert alphabetizing that I mentioned a while ago.

Getting Ready for Spring!

I've posted a St. Patrick's Day repeated addition/beginning subtraction game, and am working on sentences for a set of 5 grammar games with a circus theme. Linking verbs, helping verbs, irregular verbs, and then contractions. They are turning out pretty well.

Our technology at home increased exponentially. Laptops and Kindle, I skyped upstairs with my 7 year old downstairs. Why write a thank-you note when you can tell them to their (screen) face? After homegrouping, all files belong to everyone on whichever device we're on. Amazing.
I brought home my next teacher's guide to start working on skills for Unit 4 of Treasures. I want to get a little ahead so I can enjoy winter.

Passwords

I locked myself out of my account because I forgot another password.  Someone really smart will find a way to let people pick one password that lasts forever on every site.  We ate up almost al lof the cookies for Santa, so we had to make more.  I've been checking out some blog trains for graphics and found some new designers that I like. I'm interested in learning how to make my own graphics if anyone is interested in providing some tips?
 

It's Definitely a Monday

Do you love days when you have to split a class? I was out this morning for a follow up for my son, and as I walked down the hallway, my teammate stopped me to tell me we were splitting a class in in the afternoon. I had moved social studies to the morning so the sub wouldn't have to do small group, and another teammate didn't have cultural arts because of bookfair. We had fifteen minutes of DEAR, then three of the classes went to cultural arts, after which we watched a video called something likeWhy Christmas Trees aren't Perfect. It was sweet. The Small Pine let the animals find shelter and food in its branches and it was picked to be the Christmas tree for the Castle (that looked suprisingly Russian considering the English accents) . One of my students was crying real tears when the little bird was lost in the snow. Polar Express and Grinch are classics, but they watched intently becasue it was a story they didn't know.
At the end of Friday, I learned I was getting a new student. After I bought exactly 17 poem books and exactly 17 rain forest books and exactly 17 Flat Stanleys. So I went back to the book warehouse sale. For student 18. That didn't show up today.
Happy Monday.

I went to the book warehouse sale tonight. What a dangerous place!  Each of my students has three books for Christmas, Holocaust books for my daughter, Wimpy Kid for my son, and 5 read alouds for me.The book fair is at school this week, but I did better than my teacher discount.

Time is running out to get projects started. I cut out pieces fot the snow globe writing and copied directions for cinnamon ornaments.  I haven't even had time to decorate.  Time goes so quickly.