We're going with the Field of Dreams, "If you build blog it, they it will come." mentality at the moment. 29 days and counting left in the school year for us, which we are sure may seem like a lot to some of you who are ending this school year much, much sooner, but we will get our payback time come July. ;) We really don't know what it is about the end of the school year, but we absolutely love it! Perhaps it's because the pressure is off. The learning is learned. The books are read. Homework ... VIEW POST
That’s a Wrap! End of School Activities
Sliding Through Summer ~ Skills Review Booklet for Off Season Learners
We take our summer sliding very seriously... We put our best foot forward and try our very best to keep from slipping off the summer slide. But, us teachers know how this story goes... Kids slip and slide all over the summer. Sometimes, we slip off the summer slide... And forget all that we learned... These are the times we remind our teachery selves... Those apples don't fall too far from those trees. ;) Fortunately for our first grade families, we will not let them slip off the summer ... VIEW POST
Pocketful of Memories ~ Memory Writing Craftivity for K-5
The countdown's on...How many days do you have left? We're trying not to count because we have SO much left to do. But, being job share partners, we don't mind our total days left because we can divide by 2. The downside, our paychecks follow the same protocol... We are really tightening up our writing skills, and adding a little crafty twist to wrap up our school year. Pocketful of Memories is our K-5 differentiated memory writing craftivity. We create the pockets as a whole class, ... VIEW POST
Our First “Bloggy Meet Up”
If you would’ve asked us a week ago to go to a “Bloggy Meet Up”, we wouldn’t have had ANY idea what you were even talking about. But, early last week in the midst of our daily blog stalking reading that all changed. We spotted this cute lil’ invite made by Traci, at Dragonflies in First {yes, made…like the clipart and all you guys! She is fabulously talented! } , mentioned in the hilarious Kristen’s, A Teeny Tiny Teacher blog post last week. ... VIEW POST