I wanted to play with play dough with Sweet Pea…but I did NOT want to go to Walmart at 8 in the evening. Have you been then… its like all the cashiers go home and everyone in town heads to the store!!! Lines backed up to the clothes and I thought I was going to […]
Honestly, I have no idea what “Tot School” looks like for an 18 month old. Sweet Pea and I are just trying new things and having fun learning I am trying to be intentional about placing things and speaking to her more about what she is doing. It does not take place at one certain […]
Homework is evil. You have to assign something…make copies… only for students to lose it… or not do it… or only put 5 seconds worth of effort into the assignment… then you have to check… who did what… who did NOT do it… track who does and doesn’t do it consistently (see homework binder post)… […]
If you are a regular visitor to my blog, I am sure you know how much I love to use YouTube in the classroom. This week I taught about the Rock Cycle (I love Earth Science), and played this song for my kids and printed out the lyrics. After we listened to it and had […]
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 […]
Don’t you hate those ginormous journals that have stuff just pouring outta them and every paper starts to get folded and tattered because the journal won’t shut??? Well, I have a solution…. and sound like I am on an infomercial!! I have had some questions in the past about closing the journals. I wrote about […]
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 […]
If you have been on my blog long, you know how much I love to create art with my children. Creating art is different than creating a craft. Creating crafts is following directions to get an end result that is much the same as the person making it next to you. There is not much […]
“The question is not, — how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education — but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life […]
Our Space Adventure month is coming to a close, but we couldn’t leave without exploring Rocket Ships! This day was a blast (literally and figuratively) thanks to some awesome ideas in my Experience Preschool teacher guide and some added fun with a Christmas present that was aching to be revisited. Rocket Ship Math After reading […]
