A sharing post...

I'm really glad to be back to work, my class is great so far. I wanted to do a post to share some of the great resources I've found in my blog hopping...

Over at First Grade Factory Alicia shared a great project called Word Attack. Go check it out...I love it! She has many other resources you should head over and check out...

Oh and she'd doing a giveaway right now too....


Head over and check it out...have a good night.

Busy Busy Busy

Well we are ending week 2 and so far it's been a great year! A very busy year preparing curriculum and lesson plans for first grade, but a great year so far. I love my kiddos and my school is great. It's only 10 minutes away from my house so it's fabulous!

I'm gonna add a few pictures of some of the things I'm working on for organization for this year, it's still a work in progress but I wanted to share something before I forgot again & ran out of time.

This is a picture of my table (desk group) boxes in progress. Today I put stickers on pencils that match the color of the group in hopes that it will stop students from having the excuse "I don't have a pencil" I've also included reading sticks, in hopes that the students will start using their finger or pointer stick to help them keep their "eye" on the word. It seems like they didn't learn this in kinder and it's really been a struggle when we are reading with staying with us & following along.

:-( I have more pictures I wanted to share but the silly computer isn't reading my card :-( so I can't share them right now I guess.

And I need to go read how to upload a document so I can share those...we shall see...

Have a good day all

202 unread emails and 642 unread blogs in Google Reader...

After a lot of struggle...I don't know how to get my blog to post! I have a 'wonderful' blog written that I can't get to copy and past over with links.

I had it all ready to publish and my blogger decided to give me an orange 0 at the top of the page and not do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Here is the blog post with no links :-( I don't know how to get them to come over :-(

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And after one dead computer battery, two stops for snacks, two bathroom breaks, lots of reading, downloading, bookmarking, saving and deleting emails here's what we have, a sharing post that is long over due...here's to hoping I can be a bit more consistent when I'm back to school.

WOW, I've done a lot of reading...and with the email situation a lot of deleting...

When I started today my Google Reader have 642 unread posts...I'm was wondering if I was going to make it through them today or not...well I did...I don't really recall what time it was when I sat down but, its been at least 2 hours...

Random Question:  Is anyone having issues with Google Reader today? It's not downloading things correctly, when I try to download original so I can save it to my Mac it's messing some of them up and just plain not opening others....I want my resources *stomps foot like two year old*

Here are a few giveaways I found in the mass amount of unread posts...

1. Over at In The Teacher's Lounge she's having a fabulous giveaway for her celebration of 200 followers.

She has partnered with Leslie of Kindergarten Works for a fabulous literacy center. Head over and check it out.

2. Over at First Grade Escapades she is hosting a giveaway for reaching 100 followers, head over and check it out. Looks AMAZING!


 3. On Mrs. McCumbee's Blog she's hosting a 200 followers giveaway till sometime this week so hurry over and check it out.




And then here I'll blog about some fabulous things I've found going through my Google Reader!! Love great resources!

1.  Tanya over at First Grade Fabulous - posted a video that Teacher Tipster shared on Facebook. Head over and check it out! It's amazing! Do we BELIEVE in all our students!

2. Over at Pocket Full of Kinders she posted a fabulous list "You know you're a teacher if...." go check it out!


Hope you've enjoyed my rambling, feels good to be back. However I still don't have internet at home so I don't know when I'll be around to get all caught up again. Thanks so much for being a great resource!

"Moose" Binders

Well in my blog stalking tonight, I found an idea I have been hoping to implement over at Primary Perspective called "Moose" Binders. There is a website with a lot of acronyms, however my school has a very unique mascot...it's a gecko :-)

So I'm trying to come up with an acronym that will work, I have a couple ideas but I'd love some feedback. Also if anyone does use a binder similar to the "Moose" style I'd love any tips you can offer!

Here are my two ideas so far, I don't really like either of them completely but I'm drawing a blank as to what I can do better.

Getting
Everything
Complete &
Kept
Organized

Goals
Each
Child
Keeps
Organized

I'm hoping to create a binder similar to what Mrs. Perry did over on her blog, I hope she doesn't mind me sharing a couple of the thumbnails here...