Toto's Revenge and Winners

That is what they are calling our second round of snow...Toto's Revenge! I thought it was quite clever! I am sitting in my p.j.'s again....everything is pretty much shut down in the Kansas City Area. Some people are without power and I noticed that the county that I teach in is in the red, which means they have  A LOT of people without power so I am a little worried about my kiddos who I haven't seen in the week! I don't know if we will have school tomorrow but we will for sure on Thursday! We will have one more full week next week and then the following week Spring Break starts for the kids while we have professional development.

Well here were the numbers the hubby picked for the giveaway....1, 4, 10, 12, and 25!


Here are the winners:

Ruthanne

Kelly S.

Angela

Rachel

Kelly Brown!

Congrats ladies! I will be emailing you to see what item from my story you wish to receive! Thanks for all the warm birthday wishes! I am sad to not show you anything about school, but the problem is you have to be AT school do take pictures! ;)

If you live in Kansas please be safe today! Happy Tuesday!

The BIG 25.....Snow, Sale, and Giveaway

Howdy everyone! Today we had another SNOW DAY!!! I have only seen my kids 5 days in the past two week! It is crazy and it is going to get even CRAZIER. I feel like in the spring things are just crazy and we can't get anything done, but there is so much to do! Yesterday I showed you this picture right when it started snowing...

Well here is a picture from only 4 hours later!! 

We ended up getting around 12 inches of snow. It was the BEST snow storm in along time, which totally makes me happy!! 

On to the BIG 25....well folks I will be turning the BIG 25 on Monday. I know for some people are wishing they were only 25 but I feel like after 25 you really have to "find yourself"...whatever that means! ;)

In celebration of my BIG 25 I will be having a 20% off sale at my TpT all weekend and on Monday! 

Since I can only make the sale 20% off that really doesn't go well with the BIG 25 sooo.....

I have decided to give away an item of their choice from my store to 5 lucky people! 

How do you enter....I don't mess with all that fancy new giveaway stuff...

Just tell me you follow my blog and TpT (two comments...one for following blog and one for following TpT) Also please, please leave your email so I can contact you! 

The trusty hubby will be picking 5 lucky numbers and those bloggy friends will win! The giveaway ends Monday night along with the sale! 

I am off to enjoy my weekend, stress free since I got all the laundry and cleaning done today! 

P.S. I just uploaded my newest unit called Earth Matter ROCKS! It is included in the sale!

We huffed and we puffed!

This week we are still working on our fairy tale unit. Our story was the Three Little Pigs! The kids really enjoyed this and many of them had already heard the stories! We are using some of the activities in my fairy tale unit aligned to the Common Core!

We read the following stories this week and compared and contrasted them. We also talked about the point of view in each story!

Original Version of the Three Little Pigs

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

I decided to include a science/math activity yesterday into the mix! I wanted to the kids to realize that the stories really couldn't happen! So I put some different objects in a bag and the kids had to see how far they could blow them. They used yard sticks to measure the distance. In the end we talked about how there was no way the wolf could really blow a house down! 

We also talked about contractions for our word structure for the week. I found the CUTEST unit from Christie at First Grade Fever! My kids really had a BLAST being surgeons and cutting up some contractions! 

Click here to check it out!

We also made this anchor chart to review what contractions are! 

Today I am at home in my p.j.'s because....

it is snowing! We are suppose to get 12 inches of snow. We haven't had any snow in almost two years, which is SUPER sad! Growing up in Kansas we had snow on the ground all winter but it just hasn't been like that in a long time. My school district actually canceled school yesterday before the kids even left. That was nice not having to get up early and look for our school to scroll across the t.v. We were only in school Tuesday/Wednesday this week and last week the kids were gone from Thursday-Monday! I feel like we haven't had a good full week of school in forever! Of course I brought everything home because I don't think we will be back tomorrow either and I have training on Monday so I have a sub! I will be working on our March plans that me and my teammate hashed out this week. I will also be working on this...

I will let you know when it is up! Also my b-day is on Monday (the BIG 25!!!) so of course I will be having a HUGE sale! 

Data, Valentines Day, and Fonts!

Wow! It has been a crazy week...it is crazy some of the stuff that happens at our school. I guess that is what I get for working in a lower income school. I do truly love all my students and it makes me more grateful for what I have everyday! I just introduced to my students data and how to find the minimum, maximum, median, range, and mode. I wanted to bring this into our calendar time everyday. We do calendar time for about 5 minutes at the beginning of math. Here is what we cover:

-Month, day, year, and full date
-Days in a Week/Months in a Year
-Day of school with place value
-Minutes in a Hour/Hours in a Day
-One More/One Less*
-Ten More/Ten Less*
-Even or Odd*
-Rounding up or down*

Each of the ones with a * next to them I pick a number on the chart and we answer each one of those questions for that number. I wanted to add data to this because I feel like it will make a HUGE difference in my students data knowledge.....so....TADA....

Click the picture to check it out! 

I also wanted to share with you my Valentine's Day math centers! We have a short week so I am going to try really hard to get them all in. We have Parent Teachers Conferences Wednesday night and Thursday during the day! 

Click on the Picture to check them out! 

I also have been playing around with Ifont maker...thanks to Hadar! I LOVE it! Here is my first creation! 

I would love to share it with all my bloggy friends but I can't figure out how to upload it to my blog post for you to download...if anyone knows that would be great! 

I hope everyone has a great rest of their Sunday! 

Once Upon a.....

Fairy tales!!! We are starting our unit on fairy tales and it is probably one of my favorite themes to teach. We are teaching it the whole month of February and we still can't get every fairy tale we want to! Today we started off by making an anchor chart about fairy tales. I will keep this up the whole month!

This week we will be reading Goldilocks books...I have about ten of them! These are the ones we are reading this week. 

Today we read the original version of the story and did this sequencing craft! 

Check out more fairy tale activities in my new unit:

I am mad that I have nothing recorded to watch on the t.v....there were NO new shows on last night! I guess I will have to wait until 7 to watch something new! 

Happy Monday! 

Super Savings Sale

Hey everyone....I am having a sale at my TpT just like everyone else! I think most teachers will be shopping the sale instead of watching the game! I will be doing that as well and also cleaning. Click on the picture below to get to my store and enjoy some great shopping!

Thanks to Amy for the super cute button! I am so glad she is doing so great after her surgery! She is such a trooper! 

Here are some of my items! 

Happy Sunday!