FINALLY!!!

I got a job offer today! I am going to be a 4th grade teacher for the 2013-2014 school year! How exciting!!!


Now, time to brush up on my multiplication skills /:

Graduated and ready to work!

I know I haven't posted anything in a while and I want to apologize for my last two post below, I have no idea why the pictures aren't showing? 

I have officially graduated!!! I am done with school and so ready to begin my career as a teacher! 

It's been so hard to find a job because most schools aren't hiring and if they are, its for ESE/gifted, middle/high and I want to stick to gen. ed. elem. But I was asked to do a 9 week subbing job for kindergarten! I am so excited to have this stability in my life right now and I pray it leads to a longer position! 

Any kindergarten teachers out there with advice?

So I have about a handful or two of students who always completes their work before everyone else and it's hard to have them work ahead. I was thinking about making a display with different compartments, that holds different assignments and activities for those students who always finish first. I haven't had the time to make it yet, but my supervising teacher had a container with center work that we're going to use.

It's not all that fancy, I know, but it is practical. I have a few folders with skills students are learning, like parts of speech, idioms, etc. This is just temporary until I can buy a display board and make it all pretty! But if you put a few folders on the white board and inform the students that when they are finished with their work, they can do an activity from one of the folders in the front of the room, it will eliminate the "I'm done, what do I do know?" question. 

Well, Halloween is officially over and all the decorations are down :(. I'm sad to say goodbye to October. I can't believe it's November now! Before we know it, it's going to be December, then 2013. Where does the time go?! Before I truly say goodbye to October, I wanted to post the crashing witches my students made!

Ok, now I can make my peace and say goobye. Now, time to make Thanksgiving decorations! :)

Also, because the elections are nearing, I wanted to post a link that explains what the amendments are about in easy to read lingo!

Know what you're voting on! Click the picture to take you to the link.

Happy voting and teaching!

Red Ribbon Week Door!

Our Motto: We'd Rather Eat Bugs Than Do Drugs!

The kids loved making the spiders for the door. I went out to Wal-Mart the night before and bought a pack of fake roaches. During the day I was placing them in various spots and on students. It was HILARIOUS watching them freak out, the entire class loved the prank.

However, we did not win the contest :(

Words Fourth Graders Should Know How to Spell

My fourth grade team and I created a list of words that fourth graders have a hard time spelling. We also included a list of words that are commonly mixed up. Feel free to customize the list to your liking :)

you can get this free at my TPT store :)
Words Fourth Graders Should Know How to Spell

I love Halloween!

Halloween is near! I love, love, LOVE Halloween! I love dressing up, I love the candy, and I love the decorations. I want my students to get involved with the holiday, but I also want them to do it constructively, so I try to incorporate as much academic work as I can with student decoration. Here is a picture of pumpkins my students decorated that I hung up around the classroom

The writing activity on the back of the pumpkin is a short prompt to help students develop expository writing skills (something my students are struggling with big time!). Once students completed the short prompt, they were given a pumpkin cut out to decorate. They loved it.

If you would like a copy of the writing prompt I made up, you can get it here Pumpkin Prompt

Happy Writing!