I have always had a treasure box in my classroom. I bought a big wooden one from Joann several years ago and painted it gold and boy I thought it was really great. And it was. For awhile. Now I am so sick of the whole “treasure box” idea. It really is time consuming to…
The first day of school for me is in 17 days from today! AHHHHHH! I start back with students on August 8th. I have PD’s to attend beginning on August 2nd. The time is FLYING by! I have been fortunate this summer. We got out earlier than we have the past few years due to…
I had planned on heading up to the school on Monday to tackle my classroom but couldn’t because I had site base training that I had forgotten about. My trip was moved to Tuesday. After my site base meeting on Tuesday my mom met me at my classroom and we started working on things. This…
I originally posted a bit about how I use Scott Foresman Reading Street in my classroom HERE. If you haven’t read that post and you are curious, I’d start there since I’m going to try to not repeat myself. Since that post I have received many emails and questions about more specifics. First of all,…
Well, I survived my second full week of school – the longest week ever. I had a graduate class on Monday night that’s over an hour away. Tuesday I got a sinus infection. When I have one it lasts for-ev-er! I have had major, MAJOR drama with the mother of one of my students the…
Tomorrow is my first official school day for the 2011-2012 school year! Tomorrow morning we have Superintendent’s Day which is basically where all teachers in the district have to watch the blood borne pathogens and sexual harassment videos. There’s a guest speaker and it’s pretty much a pep talk from the superintendent to have a…