Attendance Cards :)

Two Sided Attendance Cards

I've Been a Busy Girl

After putting transmission fluid in my car--oh yes I'm that BA--I've completed my set of classroom labels.  Let me know if you have any requests for others :)


Classroom Labels Part 2

More Labels

Ok, so these labels need a little explaining.  The first is for a file bucket that I have students add work to that they are proud of.  The second is for my puzzle corner.  I am going to post a riddle or problem on a whiteboard every week and give prizes to the kiddos that figure it out first.


More Classroom Labels

Cute Classroom Labels

Part 1: Library, Social Studies, Science, Art

Classroom Labels

Classroom Library Label

Classroom Library Label Library Checkout

Student Planner

Weekly Student Planner

New Classroom Poem

New Classroom

“New” is a relative term, of course.

For it’s walls all but whisper the stories of thousands of children.

Surrounding me, they watch with wise silence as I bustle about,

Sticking them with pins, and staples and covering them with brilliant shades of paper.

They practically sigh as I hang my welcome sign.

But it is my new classroom and I love it so.

It could be that it is simply that it belongs to me that makes it so irresistibly delightful,

But, no.  It is something else…

Some ancient glow that is hidden deep within the heart of this classroom.

A love for children so deep that only a building built for that purpose can know.

And it seems to accept me.

Welcomes me into this new world,

And takes me under it’s wing like a mentor. 

That woody pungent smell is beginning to smell like home.

At first sight I saw the potential in this dusty, forsaken, aged room.

Like a premonition I saw it sparkling clean, bustling with children,

Purposeful and happy once again.

Now, as the day draws nearer I draw comfort from this space,

This home I have built for people I don’t yet know.

I can feel my new classroom glowing with pride and,

like me, waiting with anxious pleasure.

~Ronee Treadwell 

Sleep Bulletin Boarding?

Ok, so weird story...  You know that stray push pin that seems to have fallen into the black abyss of nowhereland?  Well, in the middle of the night last night, after a long day of putting up bulletin boards, the aforementioned push pin turned up in my hand whilst I was sleeping.  Not stabbing my hand, but snuggled up in my hand like some treasured object.  How it got there?  I have no idea... My shirt?  My hair?  Baffles me.  Guess it's one of the mysteries of being a teacher...

14 Days and Counting... :O

There are exactly two weeks until I meet my first (real) class.  I have never felt so excited/exalted/anxious/terrified.  I feel prepared but that pessimistic part of me that is always doubtful is nagging in the back of my mind.  Luckily, I drown it out with all the work there is to be done, large and small.  On that note, I found some great resources and blogs I would like to share:

Student Teaching Notes

I was going through some old things getting myself organized for the upcoming year and found this note from student teaching (an observation of many teachers I had experienced):

It is impossible to be an effective, responsive educator if you love your curriculum more than you love your students.  Curriculum should is meant to get the students from one place to another, but if you don't meet them where they are, you will never pick them up.  Curriculum should never be set in stone.