Theme linky party

I'm still not sure how to set up a linky party, so I'm using TBA as a host at their Ultimate Linky Party. 

 But my party is:

I'm hoping to do some work over the next week or so on my classroom theme for next year and I need HELP!!! I need to be inspired! I got nothin'!!  All your most excellent blogs have the greatest ideas, and I know you can fill me with inspiration like you always do! So thank you in advance and link up- show off your creative classrooms. We all thank you for it!

 

Lazy-girl sale

I'm linking up to the Memorial Day Sale with Kindergarten Lifestyle.

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Thanks! Have a great day! 
Sorry about the totally self-promoting blog. I'm trying to get a theme linky party up and running. Maybe tonight or tomorrow. I'm hoping to get inspired on my clssroom theme decorations for next year. But right now I can't get inspired to do anything. Yesterday I stayed in my pj's until 2 in the afternoon. Is anyone else as lazy as me??????

 

Read aloud linky party from Miss Nelson

I'm linking up with Miss Nelson From Run! Miss Nelson's Got the Camera, and Jeannie from Kindergarten Lifestyle and their super cute blogs for a read aloud party. I love Jennifer Ward. She came to our school to visit once and was SO cute and personable. 

 

 I also love all things Kevin Henkes. 

 

Ok, that sounds weird. Books, I meant. I'm not a stalker. 

Also Don and Audrey Wood- love them. "The Napping House" is one of my favorite picture books. And for those of you who categorize your libraries by AR level, Common Core Standards, and everything else...how do you do it???!! 

One of my new favorite books is "Mrs. Spitzer's Garden". Have you seen this book? So cute.

And who can forget Olivia? Ian Falconer must be hilarious in real life. 

Here's a Venn diagram activity I did with Mrs. Spitzer's Garden. It might be hard to see, but the petals on each side of the flower compare me to Mrs. Spitzer, and the ones in the middle are the same about us.

The one that says "has gray hair" should be WAY over on Mrs. Spitzer's side.  (:  But notice the "has old feet".   ????!!!!!   And apparently we both have hair that sticks out. (:

Thanks for reading!

Gardening freebie

Ok, I feel like yesterday's freebie was lame, and it's the Last Day of School today, so here's another freebie! It's my garden unit of 44 pages. Hope you can use it to finish your year (I'm so sorry for you, by the way) or for next year!


Have a great end of the year!!!! We're making pizza today using the garden we made (info in the freebie!)
Thanks for reading!
 
 
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50 follower freebie

I made it to 50! So here's a little freebie that's

a little late for Mother's Day,  but I thought you could save it for next year, or see if you can edit it for Father's Day this year. And I have more freebies at TPT that maybe some of you haven't seen yet, and this will give you a chance to check them out.

Thank you to all of you for all of your freebies and great ideas. It'sbeen just an awesome help!

Last Day tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ( I don't count the two hours at the park on Thursday.) :) WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, I know some of you are discussing next year and reading this summer. Here's a great guy to read. I have a few of his books and they are full of useful and easy to use information. His website has free stuff on it, too. And he's super funny. His name is Rick Morris.

Thanks for reading!

 

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Michelle at The 3 AM Teacher is having a give-away! It's about how you will teach your kids over the summer. I plan to give each student a journal (and glue a few pictures of our year inside) so they can write every day! They'll write the date (for number practice) and however they want to fill the pages. Of course we all love to write, and think our kids will too!

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Awards and Try it Tuesday!

Thank you so much to Heidi from My (not so) Elementary life! She gave me a "Lovely Blog Award"! Now I know how all those Oscar winners feel. Seriously, it's like I'm finally a real blog. So now I get the honor of awarding blogs that I love. I've been putting this off because I want to do a good job, and there are SO MANY people who have great blogs.

So have you seen these:

1. Run! Miss Nelson's Got the Camera

2. Hayley at Bishop's Blackboard

3. Dawn at Blooming Kiddos

4. Katie at Dirty Hands and Lesson Plans

5. Chery at Easy Peasy Classroom

6. Teresa P. at Fun in K/1

7. Mr. Brewer at Coffee Talk with Mr. Brewer (Sorry about the girly award, but you still deserve it! You can find a more manly graphic if you want- and does anyone read your blog without thinking of Mike Meyers from his SNL days?) 

8. Sara at Sara at School

They are only some of the blogs I think are great and deserve a

If you are on this list, the rules are:

1. Follow me

2.Link back to me and my little blog

3. Pass on the award to 15 of your favorite new blogs

Now, for my weekly "Special day" this week: Try it Tuesday

On Try it Tuesday, everyone brings in their favorite food (or favorite food that's easy to bring) and we all try it. The object of this activity is to of course eat, (my favorite hobby) try new things, and learn to be gracious when offered food we don't particularly like. (What? What is that? That's an oxymoron.) Anyway, it's super fun, and the kids love it, even when they don't like the food. They were very polite about it, and even learned to try some new things like arugula, garlic pickles, venison, and seaweed (not very popular). Then we wrote a two paragraph expository activity about it. Next year I'll turn it into a craftivity. The rules are:

1. You have to take at least 1 bite.

2. You have to say thank you.

3. If you don't like it, you have to say something positive about it.

Next year I'm also going to use this day to practice adjectives. This is only my second year back in 1st grade, so I'm still on a learning curve.

Thanks for reading!

 
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