CH 1. God’s Plan is NOT My Plan

leslie July 15, 2011 0 Comments
HIS PLAN IS BETTER!!Now it took me a LOOOONG time to realize this fact... and sometimes I have to remind myself of this when things don't go my way.  Here is how I got to where I am... I knew I wanted to be teacher all my life.  Who knows how many kids I tortured in the summer playing "school," and when I went to Jr. High I knew I wanted to be a  High School ART teacher. I had...

Postcards…. Starting off the Year with a Good Note

leslie July 14, 2011 4 Comments
I love getting mail!  Some email... yes... but real MAIL.  The kind someone actually wrote, put a stamp on it and put my name as the address.  I LOVE IT, and unfortunately I don't get much of it... besides bills. I don't count that as real mail.And who doesn't love real mail???  During the summer last year, I sent postcards to my kiddos and I had all but one child come to Meet...

Blog Mixer Linky Party…. my Fab Four

leslie July 14, 2011 5 Comments
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....

Today’s Craft Project…. NOTEBOOKS!!

leslie July 13, 2011 7 Comments
This week, Hobby Lobby has a LOT of scrapbook items on sale, including paper and stickers!!! I LOVE stickers... can't have enough!  Anyway here is a set up of my craft project that took me about 1.5 hours to do 4 notebooks from start to finish.  The composition books are on sale at Staples for $0.50.  This year I am teaching two classes (morning and afternoon) but I am teaching...

A Few of My Favorite Books

leslie July 13, 2011 1 Comment
As I was journeying through so many different sites and thinking about what I wanted to blog about this evening, I stumbled upon Mrs. Rundle's Favourite Books Linky Party.  Then I came across this post on her favorite books using GLOGSTER.  Glogster is an awesome website (I had learned about it first several weeks ago at a GT conference) where teachers and students can create posters of...

Christmas in July!!

leslie July 12, 2011 0 Comments
Well today the heat index got up to 106 degrees F and if you dont know already, I live in the wonderful state of Texas where the summers are real scorchers... anyway.... it was on this hot hot hot summer day that Christmas came early!!! Do you know about Vistaprint??? If not... read my 1st post from this month... its all about it.  But today was the day that the order came in!! Woohoo!!! It...

Staples…. now that was EASY!!!

leslie July 11, 2011 2 Comments
Teachers.... the day has come.... $0.01 PENNY days at Staples!!! This week you can get 25 bottles of glue for a penny each.  You can also stock up on 8 packs of pens...each pack for a penny, and the much coveted pencil top eraser pack (12 to a pack!!!)... each pack for you guessed it... a penny!These deals are only good through Wednesday, so hurry on over!!! Three new products will be...

Library Organization

leslie July 10, 2011 7 Comments
This past school year I taught Science and Writing.  It was my 3rd year to teach 4th grade science---LOVE IT--- and my first year to teach Writing.  Yes I know... Science and Writing??? What a weird combo!!  But we did a LOT of journaling in Science, so when the writing position became available, I asked my principal for it and she said yes.The one thing that I was most excited...

Get My Craft on… turning trash into treasure

leslie July 10, 2011 0 Comments
soooo.... for the past 3 years I have been in classrooms with ample amount of storage.  I had a whole wall of cabinets when I taught High School ART, and for the past two years while I taught 4th grade MATH/ SCIENCE and WRITING I had a wall of lockers (and all the space above them, and 2 huge cabinets.  Now I am at a charter school that doesn't have much storage.  In fact, I...

D.R.A.G.O.N binders

leslie July 9, 2011 2 Comments
Last summer I spent a LOT of time on the computer.  Researching...creating.... researching....digging... "borrowing" ideas ;)  One I came across was the concept of a MOOSE binder. A MOOSE binder is a way of helping your students stay organized.  There is no reason why they should lose a paper, or not have something if they keep up with their binder.   I introduced these...