What I Made This Past Week…

Today I am linking up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics to tell about what I made this past week.   She does a linky party every month for people to share about what they've made, whether it is for the home, classroom, or just for fun!  It's a great way to see what other bloggers have been up to.  So this past week, this is what I created....By BFF from high school broke her ankle...

Linky Party: Music In the Classroom….Nay or YAY!!!!

YAY!!! I know yall know how much I like to search You Tube for school videos.... so I thought about making a little linky party for all those great finds all us teachers search high and low for.Let me tell yall a little secret... I am not a fan of rap, hip-hop, or much of today's music.  I grew up on the alternative radio of the '90's (love it), but I now listen to Texas Country and...

Currently I am….

Joining a Linky Party.... and this one is awesome!  It is hosted by Farley atShe has a fabulous template that you can use too!  I had a little trouble getting it to work at first since it is a JPEG, but if you use your handy SNIPPING TOOL under the Microsoft icon (I am a PC), snip it, and open it in paint.  Then I just added some text boxes and wrote my info.  So here it...

A Special Honor and My Top 10

I have been outta town this weekend and finally got on the internet tonight.  I was so surprised and honored to find out that.....  Thanks soooooo much Jen at Rundle's Room and Pam at Vintage Teacher for nominating me :)  Yall really made my day!!!!So in honor of getting this awesome award, I too am making my top 10 list.In the beginning, one of the first blogs I followed...

New Teacher Advice Linky Party

It has been a while since I linked up, but I found a new party about New Teacher Advice that I wanted to join at For the past 2 years, I have run my classroom with the help of a timer.  I live and die by the timer and my students know it after the first week of school.I bought it at Wal-Mart for about $5.00 and it been worth it!  It's also magnetic which is a double plus because I...

Mission Organization: Dice and Card Games

A week ago... was it a week ago... yes... well a week and a half ago... I went to CAMT - a math conference for Texas teachers.  I went to a workshop hosted by Box-Cars and One-Eyed Jacks.  They have FANT-A-BULOUS  ideas for games with dice and cards. Since I am starting at a new school, I needed dice and cards for this new station I am going to implement.  So I went...

New {School} Year’s Resolutions

There is a linky party going on... and Clutter-Free Classroom is hosting!My school year resolutions:1) Figure out and implement Math Stations for 6th graders.  I have done a lot of training on differentiated instruction and math centers for the middle school room.  Hopefully I can make this happen.2) Use music in the classroom for transitions between stations and during class.  I'm...

Notebooks & Journals in the Classroom LINKY PARTY!

For the past two years, I have used journals in my Science classroom.  Next year, I am planning on using them in math.  I wrote a short post on that here.I LOVE JOURNALS!! It keeps everything nice and organized with all their vocabulary, lab experiments, and paragraphs about their thinking.For the past two years though, we did not decorate our covers or anything, but this year, I am...

Bucket Filling 101

I am still new to bucket filling.  It is something that I learned through proteacher last summer.  If you are not a member to the wonderful site, filled with teachers, for teachers, and tons of ideas about teaching... then you need to go now!  Just click on the link, but would you please finish reading about bucket filling??Bucket Filling is a new take on the age old principle "Do...

Blog Mixer Linky Party…. my Fab Four

So Yearn to Learn is having a BLOG MIXER LINKY party!  I just love Linky Parties... you learn sooo much from so many different people.  Below are the directions...In your link up find the following:1.  A blogger who is a "New Kid on the Blog" (Let's say someone who has blogged 2 months or less and has less than 200 followers) 2.  Post a blogger in your same grade level 3....