Are you ready for this week’s discussion over Chapter 3: Getting Started Strategies from What’s Your Math Problem? Jump on over to see what Meg, Fourth Grade Studio, has to say about using these strategies even in our personal lives! And if you forgot to grab last week’s freebie to
Thanks for joining me this week as I link up with Five for Friday over at Doodle Bugs Teaching! This week has been fast and furious so my post will be as well! Click the logo to join in on the fun! This week is my LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!
A few years back I had the privilege of being an instructional aide for a 6 year old who was blind, deaf and autistic. Thomas was a delight not only in my everyday at work but has taught me so many things about myself. You may be wondering, how did
Summer is quickly approaching which means I’m not going to have fun classroom stories to share with you!  SOOOOO, I’ve teamed up with three other AWESOME ladies to form a math book club: Jamie Riggs from MissMathDork Meg Anderson  from Fourth Grade Studio and Jennifer Findley from Teaching to Inspire 5th Grade We
What I would have given to have known so much when I began in the world of blogging back in 2004. Yep, you read that right… I’ve been blogging for 8 years. I started way back with Xanga and then moved to Blogspot after about a year. After 6 years
This weekend I was blessed to be able to spend time with my husband. Normally, he is working Friday night, and all day Saturday and Sunday. Well, after the news that we received on Friday, we decided that it was in our best interest to be together so he called
Before you go thinking I am off my rocker, I know it’s not Thanksgiving. Shouldn’t we always be thankful for something? I’ve been an absent blogger for the past two weeks or so. I have had some stuff written and just haven’t put it out there for one reason or
If you looked at the last 5 items that you created, would you find similarities throughout them all? Are there items you are grabbing each and every time that you know you couldn’t scrap/create without? Today I want to focus on the scrapbook related items that I am ALWAYS grabbing
This month for my Take Twelve, I had a lot more than normal going on and had to actually weed out photos. Go figure! The day began with Squirmy (Aretha) giving me bear hugs. I then took my double french braid down that I had slept in and the natural
After the first day of the new Cover to Cover class by Shimelle Laine, our homework was to look into our system of photos, pages and albums and determine how we would describe it. I knew at home that I had the lovely stack above of layouts that I have
One of the definitions of open as defined by Merriam-Webster is, “completely free from concealment : exposed to general view or knowledge” and I feel that this past month I have embraced that more than in the past. I have allowed others into my heart, my mind and my life.
This weekend, after getting 10 yards of three new colors of twine, I knew I had to find a solution on how to store them so that I wasn’t always pulling from the sample skeins I got much less trying to untangle them all the time. I grabbed some of
