Currently March

Hello everyone!!!! WOW! What a busy two weeks! I have tons of pictures from our Read Across America week and our Dr. Seuss Birthday celebration. I will post soon, I promise. Until then I have teamed up with Farley over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade for the March currently. I am a little late..... but better late than never right?????

 

I am currently watching "Two and a Half Men." This show is so funny. My hubby and I just love watching it. I am itching to watch tonight's American Idol. I skipped the last two seasons of this show. It got boring to me. However, this year is special!!!!! A good friend of ours, Janelle Arthur, is in the top 20 this year!!!!! Yay Janelle! She is an amazing young lady. My daughter and I got to know her from pageants. Janelle is from Tennessee and was the International Cinderella Teen a few years ago. My daughter competed in the Cinderella Scholarship program for a few years and we got to know Janelle. She is an amazing young lady and a wonderful role model for young girls. We hope that she makes it all the way. She is definitely what an "American Idol" should be!

 

 

I am loving that our weather man is calling for snow for tonight and in the morning!!!! Oh yeah! Snow day!!!! I have my teacher fingers crossed! I would love just one more snow day..... please mother nature grant my wish!!!!!

 

I am seriously stressing over the skills that my students need to master before our dreaded T-Cap test in April. Yes, my county gives standardized assessment test to our Kindergartners. :( They are having problems with addition and subtraction so I am searching for ways to teach them that are also fun and engaging. I always start the panic mode this time of year. I think I get more stressed over the test than they do.

 

I am wanting a big ole' cup of my favorite Starbucks coffee. I think that I will just have to make me a cup. ;)

 

I am needing to get dinner started and make a new batch of green play dough for our play dough center at school. I dread getting off the couch. It has been a WILD two weeks plus I have a cold that I can't seem to get over.

 

So for the last part of my currently.... I like (love) snow and hope that we get enough to miss school tomorrow, I LOVE my family so very much and I HATE drama!!!! There seems to be a lot of it lately and I try to run from it.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog and for reading what I am currently up to. Please hop on over to Farley's blog and link up to. Have a very happy March everyone!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February Currently

Hello everyone!!!! Today was a snow day for me! Yay me! I decided to catch up on my blogging and update a few post. I have been a bad blogger. ;( Now that I have updated some of the post that I wanted to catch up on, I have teamed up with Farley over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade once again for the February Currently. Please scroll on down to see what I currently up to.......

 

 

 

I am watching and listening to Twilight New Moon for about the 100th time. I love the Twilight series. I wish I had a hunky Vampire romantic to come and ...... well you get the picture, lol. I read the books way before I watched any of the movies. The books are so much better than the movies. Why is that???? It seems that every movie that is made from a book never does it justice. I do however like the Twilight movies better than the Harry Potter movies. They really ruffled my feathers..... I really don't understand how anyone would know what in the world was going on in any of them if they didn't read the books first. Ugh! Anyway.....

 

I am loving being at home today. We had our 100th day celebration in my class yesterday and it flat wore me out! I don't think that I could have made it through the day today, lol. I am wanting to write my lesson plans for the month of February this weekend so that I am ahead of the game. I so hope that I get this done.

 

I am really wanting a huge snow. I am a snow lover but a cold weather hater, lol. Makes since huh? My dream is for a big snow that last a few days then for Spring to magically appear. I am so ready for warm weather and sunshine. I  needed to go to the store all day and keep putting it off. I am finally warm and don't want to go out and get cold again.

 

My pet peeves are politics and two faced people. I feel that politics ruin so many things that could be wonderful. Why give someone a job because they are related to so and so or who their parents are???? Why not give it to the person that is really qualified for the job? Wouldn't the qualified person be so much better at it? I also can't stand two faced people. I strive not to be this way and to stay away from people that are. Anyway.... I could go on and on about my peeves but will spare you from it, lol.

 

Thanks so much for checking out my currently. I hope that you all have a wonderful February and get tons of candy and kisses on Valentine's day!!!!!

 

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100th Day of School

This week my class celebrated our 100th day of Mrs. Janelle's class. I named our 100 day this because we only counted the physical days that we were in class. We began counting the first day that we were together in my class. We had three days of testing and phase in before the students were actually in my class. I also did not count missed days for weather. Each morning we would add a straw to our place value chart and change the number. I would also write the number on a 100 chart. We would then sky write the number and count to that number. We will continue doing this for the rest of the year and then have a last day of school celebration.

 

We began our 100th day of Mrs. Janelle's class by writing our numbers to 100 for morning work. During our morning meeting time we did our daily pocket chart and finally had 100 straws for the 100th day that we were in class! We also danced to the song "Techno Counting to 100" by Dr. Jean Feldman.

 

We did several writing activities. I made a chart asking the children what they would like to have 100 of. Here are a few of the children's responses.

 

I wish I had 100 puppy dogs.

 

I wish I had 100 dollar bills with gold inside.

 

I wish I had 100 Brats dolls.

 

I wish I had 100 Angry Birds games.

 

I wish I had 100 ponies.

 

And my favorite......

 

I wish I had 100 girl friends.

 

I used our writing to make a wall display.

 

 

For Math, we made gumball machines with 100 gumballs inside. The students had to count as they painted using Q-tips.

 

 

 

At snack time we used 100 charts to count 100 snacks. When we were finished we got to eat them all.

 

 

At the end of the day, we made crowns that said, "_____ is 100 days smarter!" We decorated them with markers, stickers and sequins.  

 

Mrs. Janelle's class is now 100 days smarter!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Janelle's Elf on the Shelf~ Chocolate

This is my second year to have a class elf. This year my class named our elf Chocolate. Chocolate came to us after Thanksgiving break and stayed with us until our last day of school before Christmas break. There were times when I thought that Chocolate was going to have to leave us early and go back to the North Pole because of behavior, lol. We even had a horrible event occur when I was out sick one day and our elf was touched by a student. :/ However.... Chocolate made it until Christmas and the children really enjoyed having him in our class. Here are a few pictures of some of our elf fun!

 

Our elf arrived in a special delivery box from the North Pole! The children were so excited. Inside the box was a note from Santa, the book Elf on the Shelf and our own classroom elf.

 

On the second day of Chocolate's arrival he brought us chocolate kisses from the North Pole for the class to share.

 

 

Our elf was good for awhile. He would just move to different places in the classroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One day when we forgot our class rules, Chocolate moved to our rule board to remind us of the classroom rules.

 

 

Around two weeks before our Christmas break, the fun began. Chocolate played several tricks on us.

 

 

One morning we found him hanging out by the door with a dry erase marker. When we went to our cubbies, this is what we found.....

 

 

Chocolate had drawn mustaches on all of the children's cubby tag pictures!!!!!

 

Another day we found this......

 

 

Toilet paper on our desks!!!!!!!

 

And then.....

 

 

He took all of our pencils hostage! He took them out of our pencil baskets and tied them together!

 

 

One morning he had a cold and left his dirty tissues all over the classroom! The children thought this was so gross, lol.

 

 

What is that in Chocolate's hands? Oh no! Look what happened.....

 

 

Green sad faces on our morning work!!!!!!

 

 

Why does Chocolate have toilet paper?????

 

 

He even gave all the children a red face one morning!

 

 

 

 

We had so much fun with our elf! The children hated to see him go. I hope that you had as much fun with your classroom elf as we did!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January Currently

Happy New Year Everyone! I have teamed up with Farley over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade for the January Currently.

 

 



 

My daughter is having a sleep over tonight and I am enjoying listening to the girls singing and laughing at midnight. It is the most beautiful sound that I have ever heard. It makes me so happy. :)

 

I have loved having time off during this Christmas break. I was just a tad to lazy. :P I spent the majority of my break lying on the couch and watching Netflix. My husband and I starting watching the show Revenge. We are totally addicted, lol. However, we finished watching it the other night and now we are dying to find out what happens. Ugg!

 

I am thinking about all of the things that I need to get finished before school starts back on Monday. I had full intentions on working on school stuff during the break but my couch/Netflix addiction got the best of me. I really needed the break so I don't really feel that bad, lol.

 

I am really wanting just a few more days off, lol. I have enjoyed it so much. Time just flies by when you are having fun.

 

I have noticed lately that I feel so unorganized. I am a planner kind of gal and have found that I tend to get about 80% more done when I plan it all in a planner. I have been in search of one for awhile and I think that I have finally found "THE" planner for me. However..... It cost $50.00. :P I guess that I will have to wait until payday to get it. :( Counting down the days.....

 

My OLW "One Little Word" that I am going to live by in 2013 is FORWARD. I am going to look forward to the future and quit worrying about things that I cannot change. So 2013 for me is going to be moving forward.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog. If you would like to link up with Farley too then click on the picture below. I hope that everyone has an awesome new year! 

 

 

December Currently!

I am still in shock (like most of you) that it is December already. It seems like this school year is flying by! I have linked up, once again, with Farley over at Oh Boy 4th Grade for this months currently. Here is what I am currently up to.....

 

 

 

 

I just love the Griswold's! I have to watch "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" every Christmas. It just cracks me up. I never get tired of it. I was so excited when I saw that it was on TV tonight! Yay me!

 

I have finally finished all of my indoor Holiday decorating this weekend. I just love my Christmas tree. I have spent the last few years collecting gingerbread ornaments and my tree is now complete thanks to the Cracker Barrel and Hobby Lobby.

 

My parents have both passed away and Christmas is now kind of a lonely holiday for me. My husband's family have all moved away and my Christmas wish this year is for all of us to be together this year. I don't want any presents. I feel that God has blessed me with all of the material things that I need. I just want to have fun and celebrate with the friends and family that are still on Earth. That would be the best Christmas gift ever!

 

I really need to start my Christmas shopping. I haven't bought the first thing yet and it is killing me. Last year I went black Friday shopping and was finished that day. This year I decided to stay home and now I regret it so bad. I hate waiting until the last minute.

 

My random act of kindness is buying a stranger a drink at Starbucks. I am also planning on taping a dollar to our drink machine at school so that the next person to buy a drink gets one for free.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and reading my currently. I hope that you have the best Christmas ever! Happy Holidays!

 

 

 

 

 



We Give Thanks!

What a busy month November has been! I got to attend SDE's Tennessee Kindergarten Teacher's Conference. I learned so many new and awesome ideas. I am so excited to start using them in my classroom. I got to go to workshops given by Heidi Butkis from Heidi's Songs. I just loved her ideas and songs. I ended up buying 4 Cd's, 5 DVDs and her amazing word family book. I started using them this week and the children love her songs. The week following the conference was a short week due to Thanksgiving. We celebrated Thanksgiving by having a Thanksgiving lunch and invited parents to attend. It was a huge success. Almost all of my students had a parent or grandparent come to eat with them. We also made this awesome "Turkey Pie Graph." I asked my students the question, "Do you like to eat turkey?" Our graph turned out awesome and the children were so proud.

 

 

We also read a story about the first Thanksgiving. After we read the story the children made drawings of something that they are thankful for.

 

 

 

Here is the final picture of our Thanksgiving wall display.

 

 

On our last day of school before the break, we made long legged turkeys. Are these too cute or what????

 

 

 

 

 

I got the awesome Thanksgiving ideas from the one and only Deanna Jump. You can purchase her Thanksgiving unit on TPT.

 

Stay tuned..... I will soon post pictures of our classroom elf! Don't you just love the holidays?