It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It is the most wonderful time of the year!!!!  LOL  Now your gonna be be singing that song aren't you??  I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help myself!!! :)  I have a love hate relationship with this time of year.  Excited and loving the fact that summer is soooooo close, but hate to say good bye to those sweet little faces and HATE all the stuff that has to get done before we can walk away for a couple months!! My to do list always seems sooo long and there never seems to be time to get all of it done.  I have done pretty good this year at not procrastinating so I am pretty proud of myself.  One of the things on that mile long list was to make certificates for the awards ceremony we have scheduled next week.  I usually use the certificates that Lakeshore offers, but I didn't feel like using so much color ink this year so I decided to make my own and run them on different color paper.  Here are the first 2 that I have made, an AR Participation Award and a Sight Word Super Star Award.  If I make anymore I will be sure to post them for you.  Click the images below if you would like to use them yourself.  :)

Happy Mothers Day to all the mommies out there!! :) 

Ocean Time

I am so excited about our Ocean Unit we started this week!!! Thanks to Deanna and Kim I have tons of cute activities to fill up these last few weeks of school!! ;) These Subs just made me smile today so I just had to share!!!












Are they not the cutest subs you have ever seen?? The best was watching them make their animal... I heard a lot of "I can't do this!!" but once they realized that I was not going to let them not do it, it was amazing to watch their little creative brains start working!!! ;)

Clipboard Container Success!!

Just thought I would share that my new container works perfectly!!! Soo excited!!! ;)



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The Perfect Clipboard Holder

Hey y'all!!!! We are right smack in the middle of our state standardized testing and us lucky lower grade teachers get the opportunity to administer the test to our 3rd 4th and 5th grade students. I haven't been in a testing environment for a while ( 7 years) and A LOT has changed since then!! ;) Retail therapy is always a great way to deal with a little stress right???? Of course!!!
Most of you have seen my pink clipboard holder


I was in Target today and I found THE PERFECT clipboard holder!!


Its square!!!!!!!!!! They had a couple different colors - I think a green and maybe a red.... I can't remember!! I was excited to see the black!! I cant decide if i want polka dots on it - oh who am I kidding??? You know they will end up on there don't you???!! I have not tried this out yet so who knows how many clipboards it will actually fit, but IT'S SQUARE!!! It's gotta be better then round right??? Lol I'll let you know when I try it out.

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I just wanted to let you guys know that we have had a death in the family and that is why I have not done the drawing for my giveaway. My mother in law lost her 4 year battle with cancer yesterday. It has been a very emotional journey but we are at peace knowing she is no longer suffering but celebrating in a much better place. Thank you for your understanding and I promise to do the drawing at the beginning of the week!


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Carrillo's Kinder "garden"

Yay! Yay! Yay!!  

She did it!

  My dear friend Jayme finally has her blog up and running!!  She creates some of the cutest activities for our little sweeties over here at Lake City and now she can share them with you herself!!  Click on her button below and start following another great teaching blog!!

  If you decide to follow her, come back and leave me a comment and you will be entered into a drawing for my Birds of a Feather Rhyme Together game.

Make sure you enter by Thursday, March 22nd. I will do the drawing Friday afternoon!! :)  Good Luck!!

Roll, Slide or Both???

The Leprechaun comes tomorrow!  The Leprechaun comes tomorrow!!!  I can hardly wait to see their little faces when they come in and see all their traps destroyed and glitter and gold coins everywhere!  It will be a fun and exciting day for sure!! 

This past week we started talking about how things move.  I began this unit by having the children predict in their science journals about how they think various objects could or would move.  The next day we actually explored how each of the objects actually moved.  This led to one of those out of the blue teaching moments...out come the red and blue foldable circles and into a Venn Diagram they go!! LOL

We began to sort object based on whether they rolled or slid or did both.  Then I called on volunteers to find other objects in the classroom and had them to place them in the correct spot.  They seemed to really enjoy doing this and were very sad when I had to stop them.  Here is a picture of our Venn Diagram.  :)

  The next day I had them recreate the diagram with a partner.  I hope you may be able to use this in your class.  :)  

ROLL/SLIDE