Measuring Tails

I spent all day doing things with/for my kids. Pool, bicycles, running, scooters, Subway, BBQ ribs, and ice cream sandwiches. They are tired and I am glad I decided to turn the computer off. The weather was beyond beautiful.

I wanted to share something super quick I did with my other kids last week. They loved it!

I found this mouse clip art in one of my measuring files. They got two mice and a half sheet of construction paper. The directions were to create two tails and measure them. One side in centimeters, the other side in inches. It was a hit!

 

What do you think? Should we call the exterminator? :) 

A Rough Week and Two OK Fundraisers

It has been a hard week. A long week.

You want the year to be over. The to-do list is so overwhelming you just want it to end. 25 school days plus a week of meetings. Then you decide you do not want the year to end because your almost perfect class is moving on. You contemplate looping. You contemplate staying home and calling it quits. You realize this is your thing, and you are not ready to stop doing what you love (most days). You have parents who love you, appreciate you and sent you amazing (thank you) e-mails, and others that do not think you have done enough. You beat yourself up until you receive the nicest compliment from your AP. You miss your mentor. You do assessments and hug those who have worked so hard to meet benchmark. You go home and your husband makes it all better by telling you, you are amazing and everything will be just fine. Tomorrow :)

I feel better now :)  Thanks for listening.

Then you hear about the devastation in Oklahoma and your little problems make you feel so guilty. You decide to help.

I made my donation here @ teacher Notebook.

Teachers Notebook put a bundle valued at more than $2000. It is available for purchase until May 28. 

So far $60,000 and still growing. Teaches are amazing!

TPT is also helping out. They put together 4 different bundles. Two bundles for K-2 and two for 3-6. You can get them for $25.00 each.

These will be available until June 3rd.

               

                             ***Find it HERE.                                                         Find it HERE.
***My best seller is found in this bundle.

              

                                   Find it HERE.                                                      Find it HERE.

Making this world a better place has always been our mission as teachers.
I will be hugging my kids and my 'borrowed' kids a little tighter, because one, never knows what the future holds.

End of the Year Awards in Spanish!

Me encanta tener la oportunidad de practicar my primer idioma!

Just kidding...

Awards in Spanish are here! Arrriba!  I mean, the newest End of the Year Award buttons in Spanish have arrived.

40 buttons, planning sheet, editable. 

Find them here.

A muy grande thank you to Krista for helping me with these. My Spanish is getting rusty and Krista saved me. I owe you girl!

I hope you can roll your rrrrrrrrrrrrrs :)

100 New Books and Jaime's Blogiversary.

I finally organized all the books from the Book Sale I attended last week.  The kids were dying to get their hands on them, and seeing them on my floor were driving my OCD me crazy!

100 books for $0.00 = a very happy teacher!  

Chapter books, nonfiction books, picture books... you name it, we got a bit of everything.  

All of us spend tons of money getting books for our libraries. I encourage you to call your public library and ask about a future sale. 

The other thing I wanted to post about was Jaime's blogiversary. She is celebrating her first one!  I am so having a cupcake in her honor, or maybe a donut. Stop by, say hi, and don't forget to enter the giveaway :) You maybe the lucky one!

Find it HERE. 

I think I missed my blogiversary :(  but I am this close to celebrating 500 followers. Can't wait to plan for that!

Our Hearts and Teacher Love Book.

We are still working on our expert writing unit. Don't tell anyone, but I am reviewing my first idea and it is taking me a while to fix my mistake reorganize my thoughts and edit the whole thing. Boo!
I will catch up. Promise.

One of  the parents in my classroom is a cardiologist. He came to do a presentation for the class and show us how an expert knows tons about a specific topic. His topic: the heart.

I took tons pf pictures, but they are not blog worthy because my students happy faces are everywhere and putting fake faces on students pictures (to post on blogs) creeps me out.

We made him a thank you book showing him what we learned.

Another one of my parents had the kids make a  book with a note from each of my students. 

Here is what they wrote: 

I received plenty of love during teacher appreciation week. I hope all of you did too :)