Currently& FIVE for Friday~Seuss Edition!

Another month has come and gone (thank goodness).  You know what that means! It’s time for Currently over at Farley’s!  She should consider doing stand up on the side because she is seriously funny! =P

Well, let’s get on with it shall we?

I’m currently watching Breaking Dawn 2 for the second time! Have you ever watched a movie fully aware of what was going to happen and still smile and gasp through it like you’d never seen it!? It got to the end scene and I could barely hold my mouth closed! And immediately hit the menu button to watch it again!



I’ve enjoyed having this last week off from studying. It has come to a quick close with a welcome email from my professor for my next class. I can hardly believe I started working on a master’s and now I’m beginning my third class. Time flies!

I fell asleep last night without tying my hair up…let’s just say, you wouldn’t actually want to see what I currently look like, lol!

This break from studies has been nice, but I am truly r-e-a-d-y for spring break!  One more week….I think I can make it! {I think…………}



The sign says it all (see wanting…spring break)…. A good nap cures what ails ya. =)

This month came with a rule for liking, loving and hating…the three words had to begin with the same letter as my first name. Kinda tough! My first name is Tanya with an a, not an o….Tanya, T-a-n-y-a, Tanya. I like to talk, chat, gab away…..blah, blah, blah, lol! I’m a leo, we’re pretty outspoken. I’m loving Tuesdays! It’s become my new favorite day of the week because its the day I attend worship prep. There’s nothing quite like getting a good ole dose of being in the presence of God to help you make it through the week! Hate is such a strong word, BUT I hate tackiness…my little girl drives me insane because she carries herself like a little old lady. She’s so cute and it just drives me nuts that she could care less about what she looks like when she leaves the house. In the grand scheme of things, its irrelevant….but it drives me nuts all the same!

 
Yeah, it’s Saturday…..heheheee! I came home and crashed HARD yesterday, but didn’t want to miss a link up with Kacey from Doodlebugs Teaching. Check out the pics from our fab celebration of Read Across America. We’ve got the best PTA volunteers on the planet! They pulled off a pretty rockin’ event!

 Aren’t these doors just adorable?



There’ll be no making of thneeds with these truffala trees!

               

Quite obviously, this is the first fam of fun! I’m such a lucky teacher to have connections to real celebrities! Meeting the real Cat in the Hat and Lorax {wink, wink} was a blast!



And with the collective smiles of 3/5 of the crew that keeps grade ONEderful hoppin’ caught on camera, it was a wrap!
 
Thanks for sticking around and have a great weekend! I’m off to take one of those smallish naps! See ya!

Five for Friday: Compound Words Fun

Hi, Friends! How are ya? I’m really beginning to love Five for Fridays! We had so much fun in class this week, it was a little hard to narrow it down, but I think I may have managed it. We introduced compound words. They’re absolutely one of my favorite things to teach…



…but as I got ready to begin the week, I couldn’t for the life of me remember what books I had used last year! Enter some fab friends that helped me out over at the FB page and voila! We were stocked with suggested titles, off and running!

   

The kids absolutely loved predicting compound words as we read Once There Was a Bull…(frog)! The riddles in Strawberry Bullfrog brought about lots of giggly fun too. We used the cards from my Compound Word Work packet to play a quick game. Each student was given a “little word” and had to move around the room silently to find their partner. Tammy’s cutie patootie clip art made for some fantastic self checking for my little struggling readers to match the “little words” to make their “big word”.



See those little apples on the floor? Well, we read a story about a silly little rabbit who thought the sky was falling when one fell on his head. As my kiddos were finishing up an assignment at their desks, wouldn’t you know it?! The same gust of wind that caused that little apple to hit Little Rabbit on the head blew through our classroom and knocked ALL of the apples right off of our apple tree! It even separated compound words back into two!!! Oh, my!



Well, we couldn’t just leave the apples spread out all over the floor!



Soooo, after collecting their assignment, each student stood, collected an apple, and walked the room to find it’s partner. They then, built a compound word to post back onto the apple tree. It seems the wind is still blowing because one little apple is missing its partner. =) I hope Little Rabbit and his friends didn’t eat it! You can grab the apples we used here.

Hopefully, we’ll find it on the floor Monday morning. Next up….we’ll be reading The Tree from Poppleton Forever. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Yep! That little tree cutout is going to come in handy next week too!



Have a great weekend! See ya next Friday! =)

Valentine Five for Friday

Hi~ya, Friends! TGIF! It’s been one long, FUN, Ex.haust.ing….week! I’m linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching and Stacy from Simpson’s Superstars to share the love from this week.

 
We started the week by floating along with word work goodies! Most of the skills we worked on this week, thank goodness, were review skills because the chatterbox monster reared his ugly head again! Either that or my parents let their kids into the Valentine’s Day candy a little early! Man….thank goodness, for Daily 5.  Without it, I’m pretty sure my hearing would not still be intact.

We worked on using context clues to determine the meanings of words and naming synonyms. I thought replacing them in sentences might be a bit tough, but it wasn’t! It was actually one of their favorite activities this week.



Frrrrrooooooggy……is always a hit! There were tons of grins and giggles when we read Froggy’s First Kiss. As we were reading the story, I replaced Froggy’s name a few times with one of my biggest chatterbox’s name and the kid’s totally “got” the reference. That brought on an insane amount of giggles that caused us to make connections and enjoy the story even more!
After having so much fun creating our Valentine bags with Froggy, he carried right on over into math. We have six table groups in our room. In the middle of each table, there was a heart with a fact family chosen by the students. We used digital dice on the Mimio to choose our numbers. Remember all that talking, I mentioned? Well along with it, came a bad case of the wiggle worms! Rather than fight it, we incorporated it into the lesson because they really, REALLY, REAlly needed to move.

Each student listened and followed directions to fold and cut out their fact family houses. After doing so, they rotated (when told) to each of the six tables to write the four number sentences included in each fact family. To complete the foldable, an illustration of Froggy and Frogelina’s classroom was added.



My sweeties showered me with a few of my favorite things! *LOVE*! They may have motors running those lips, but they’re pretty observant! Admittedly, I don’t eat much. I graze. I’m constantly nibbling on something. One of my students noticed that I always have the same green water cup, so he brought me a new one. Another brought my favorite trail mix and candies and lots and lots of yummy chocolate. They’re just so sweet!



After recovering from all the overflow of l-o-v-e in the room, we floated off into space to use future tense in our writing and make connections to Science. I love how these simple little astronauts turned out!

The doorbell’s ringing….so that means our Friday night Domino’s pizza has arrived! See ya later! Pizza & pjs, here I come!