A Precious Gift!

So my little angel has arrived. She was born February 7th at 5:50 p.m. It was a surprise as her due date was February 21st. My little cutie was 6 lbs. 15 ounces and 19 inches long.

She is the sweetest little baby. I am completely in love with her. Her big sister also can't get enough of her.

Chinese New Year

So tomorrow is Chinese New Year and my kids are SO excited to celebrate. We will be doing a couple of things through out the week. Our reading program, Treasures, also has a paired selection that the kids will be reading this Thursday so it is perfect! We will start by making a Zodiac wreath. It will look something like this.

 

You can purchase this at Oriental Trading.

Then on Thursday after we read our paired selection, we will complete the following writing activity. 

I hope I remember to post some pictures of the what the projects look like this year. Then Tuesday we celebrate 100th day of school! What a fun week!!!!!!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Yesterday, my students got to work with their big buddies again. This time our theme was Martin Luther King, Jr. We read them a story and then they have to complete the following bubble map.

After they completed the bubble map, we did the following TLC project. The kids had so much fun and many of them were interesting....LOL!

A Year in Pictures

So I thought it would be fun to join in the fun. I am linking up to Runde's Room Linky Party. Here are some of my favorite blog pictures of 2011!

This free photo collage made with Smilebox

Top Three of 2011

Hi All!

I am linking up with Fern from Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas. She is having a linky party about our Top 3 posts for the year. My stats are sad compared to everyone else.

#1 Bulletin Board Ideas Linky Party- Showcase your best!- 108 Pageviews.

#2 Daily 5 - 43 Pageviews.

#3 Lesson Plan Template- 40 Pageviews.

 Make sure to link up with Fern! 

 

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas!

 

 

Thinking Maps

Hi All! I know it's been a couple of months since my last post. This pregnancy has been very DRAINING! Unfortunately,  I have no pictures to share of the crafts my students made this year. Instead, I will be sharing pictures of some of the thinking maps my colleagues and I have created.

Here is a bubble map we made after reading a decodable reader about the US Flag. 

Here is a bubble map we made for Rose Robot. It is one of our main selection stories for Treasures.

This one goes with a main selection for Treasures.

We've made a few Bridge Maps to find rhyming words from our weekly spelling list. 

Every week we also make a Tree Map to sort our words.

We've also made brace maps to show the parts in compound words as well as contractions. 

We have also made circle maps to make lists of words that contain the sound of the week.

School Bag Linky Party!

I had to link up with Abby from The Inspired Apple and her linky party about teacher bags! Here is the bag I am currently using. I know...It's not as cute as the other teacher bags, but it works for now. I have to confess that I stole it from my daughter.

 Here are some of the things inside:

What's in your bag?