Wordless Wednesday!

I'm linking up with Christina over at Sugar and Spice for her Wordless Wednesday linky party!

In my class, we have recently started using GoNoodle, and it is AMAZING for brain breaks.  My pal Brittany told me about this and I'm so glad she did!  GoNoodle is a free website that has videos for a ton of brain break activities, both energizing and calming depending on what your students need.  My favorite is Maximo, the yoga-teaching monkey.  You haven't seen cute until you've seen first graders doing yoga!  I highly recommend for any teacher to check out GoNoodle, especially this time of year when brain breaks are a MUST!

My Wordless Wednesday question is, what do you do in your classroom for brain breaks?

Five for Friday!

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday linky party!

These two…the cuteness…

I'm working on some Saxon Phonics spelling units, but more importantly, check out these adorable scribble backgrounds!  I went through a polka dot phase, and a chevron phase, but now I'm allllll about the scribbles!  My super talented friend Jena over at Sew Much Music makes the CUTEST digital papers, clipart, and all things music.  You can grab some of her awesome creations at her TPT store!

 20 more days of school left…what?!?

 First grade moment of the week:  We were going over our new spelling words for this week and one of them was country.  Without missing a beat, one of my sweeties says/sings, "Mrs. Wimp, its like country girl shake it for me girl shake it for me girl…" and breaks into a full rendition (complete with dance moves) of the Luke Bryan song.  My students are very musically talented, and pretty darn funny this year!

This stuff is the bomb-dot-com!  For realz…

(it's lip gloss by the way)

Wordless Wednesday!

I'm linking up with Christina at Sugar and Spice for her Wordless Wednesday Linky Party!

This is what I do for my classroom rules.  I saw something like it on Pinterest.  I liked this idea because it wasn't the typical classroom rules, plus it goes great with my bee themed classroom!  

Do you do something cute or unique with your classroom rules?

TPT Teacher Appreciation Sale!

In honor of Teacher Appreciation week, I'm joining the TPT Loves Teachers sale on Teachers Pay Teachers.  For May 6th and 7th, my entire store will be 20% off!

Five for Friday!

Are you a jane.com-aholic?  I AM!  This is the best site ever for great deals on cute boutiquey items, especially hair bows!  Having a little girl to play dress up with is so much fun..even though she isn't nearly as excited about it. ;)

                     

I always like to have my students make something for their Mommies, or other special ladies in their life for Mother's Day (which is coming soon!).  Check out my Mother's Day book on my TPT store.  Just bind it with some pretty ribbon and you have sweet and cost efficient gift!  It includes versions for Moms, Grandmas, Aunts, and a blank version.

My BFF took me to the Oaks, and we had a blast!  It turns out that betting on horses is not my strong suit, and apparently using horses' names and the jockeys' silks colors is not a great method for picking a winner…oh well!  At least we looked fancy in our hats!

Only 24 more days of school left.  How did that happen?!  I'm so looking forward to spending the summer with my babies, but I'm going to miss my sweet firsties.

If you are having a bad day and need an instant smile, just play the Frozen sound track in your classroom and you will witness theatrics like you have never seen before.  Even some of my manliest of little men can belt out "Let it Go" (complete with very accurate dance moves).  It's pretty much the cutest thing ever.  Just a word of warning though, those songs WILL be stuck in your head.  Don't say I didn't warn you. :)

Wordless Wednesday!

I'm linking up with Christina at Sugar and Spice for her Wordless Wednesday Linky Party!

This is a pic of my kiddos using MacBooks for computer lab time.  Notice the two fellas up helping other students.  I always appoint two students to be my "technology helpers," so that they can help kids with things like logging in to certain programs, and other kinds of troubleshooting.  Honestly, sometimes the kids are better at computer stuff than me!  It gives them a huge confidence boost to assist their fellow students, and they just love helping each other.  

Do you use student helpers in your classroom?

Five for Friday!

Monday was my first day back to school after a WONDERFUL 10 week maternity leave.  It's been super hard leaving my babies, but it was good to get back to my school babies.  

Is anyone attending the National I Teach 1st! conference in Las Vegas this summer?  Myself and a few of my teacher friends have applied, but don't know if we will get to yet.  It looks like such a good conference, I REALLLLY hope we get to go!  

It's almost Derby time!  That might not mean much to you if you don't live in or around Kentucky, but here in Southern Indiana, we get into it!  I'm super excited that I get to go to the Oaks this year (ok, I'm mostly excited about getting an awesome hat).  If you would like to celebrate the Derby with your kiddos, there are several cute units and activities on TPT, including my Derby Spin, Graph, and Analyze Activity!  

Only 30 more days til summer break...not that I'm counting! ;)

If you need a good techie training, my school district puts on an annual one, DIGAPALOOZA!  The sessions are taught by teachers in my district, and is really one of the best trainings around.  If you live anywhere near Scottsburg, Indiana, you should really check it out!