Great Start Sunday!

On this beautiful, rainy Sunday afternoon I want to FINALLY tell you all about how my school year has been so far!

My year got off to a GREAT START!  I have 18 smart, happy, funny students in my classroom! We put school wide procedures and expectations in place right from the start which has made a huge difference.  Also, we were't moving in until the last second like we were last year!  Last but not least, I got a Donors Choose Project funded and got 5 Hokki Stools for my small group table!!!

Here are a few fun pics from the beginning of my year!

Bosses vs. Leaders activity! One of the best things I did this year!  Find it here!

My AMAZING Hokki Stools!

The kids love them!

Ordering Decimals activity!

Morning Meeting!  I have a different student lead it each day!

Modeling the particles in a solid, liquid and gas!

Modeling the particles in a solid, liquid and gas using cheerios. 

Practicing measuring mass of objects.

Separating Mixtures Lab.

My incredible hubby's 30th Birthday!

And that's all so far, folks!  I plan to be on here more in the future. I miss blogging and think about it all the time, I can just never find the time to do it!

Five for Friday 1-31-14

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1.  I have good news! I have been discussing departmentalizing with my principal recently and she has decided to let fifth grade try it out next year! Next year we are moving to a brand new school and we will be starting all kinds of brand new things and just doing a lot of things differently in general.  The only hard part about this is deciding whether I want to teach Social Studies or Math!  OR BOTH!  My principal is pretty much giving us the option to try out either two teams of two teachers or have each teacher teach a different subject area (plus our own reading small groups).  I am more than excited about this!  Teaching fifth grade is incredibly difficult due to having to take 5 state tests each year.  YES, 5!!!!!  I am excited to do some research and figure things out! \

2.  This week I finished up teaching my students how to compare and order fractions!  I also taught them how to find the greatest common factor.  I used two of my TpT products and they LOVED them! (Check out the links above) It was soooo much fun! I wish I had pics but I didn't take any because I was running around monitoring the whole time!  I also found this super awesome game (that is iPad compatible!!!!) online that helps to reinforce Factors, Multiples, and GCF/LCM!  They had so much fun playing it with a partner!  Check it out HERE!

3.  My husband created a new background, header and button for my blog this week!  I absolutely love it! He is a graphic designer for a hospitality company here in OK and he is incredible!!!!  He has been trying to teach me how to work in Adobe Illustrator lately to help me make things for my TpT store!  It is difficult to learn, but I am really enjoying it!

This is my new button!!!!!! AAHHHHHH!!!! So cute!!!!

4.  Speaking of my TpT store, I have some things that I have been working on for it.  I am making a general rubric that has been in my classroom into a super cute general rubric to hang in my classroom! LOL!  I am also working on activities for fractions and decimals on a number line.  We will see what I come up with! Check my store out HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5.   Lastly, the weather we have had this week has been crazy! No snow as of yet, but we are predicted to have a little winter storm next week.  As for now it is freezing and my allergies are driving me insane from going from warm to freezing within 5 hours!  With all of the crazy cold weather recently we have had lots of inside recess.  :-(  It has not been the greatest week for me because of this.  My students, especially my boys, are really rowdy this year and they NEED to run and play outside.  I can't wait for Spring!

Well, that has been my Monday-Friday in a nutshell!
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Meet the Teacher Monday Linky Party!

 So, I know that I am committing a blogger sin by posting again today, but I just had to take part in the Blog Hoppin' Teacher Week '13 Linky Party!

{1}  I am obsessed with basically any show that aires on ABC.  Grey's Anatomy, Castle, Scandal...all of them!  They are my nightly guilty pleasures!  We all need one (or five...)!

{2}  This will be my 3rd year to teach 5th grade and I absolutely love it.  I was initially very intimidated to be going into fifth grade but I truly enjoy every minute of it!

{3}  I recently got a tattoo to match the one my husband got for me on his forearm... his is on the left and mine is on the right!

{4}  Diet Pepsi is seriously the love of my life.  I must have a huge cup of it every morning or else my day just doesn't start right.

{5}  I desperately want another sewing machine!  I had one in high school that was really old but it did the job.  I am always seeing these cute things on Pinterest that I want to make, but definitely need a sewing machine to do!

{6}  Speaking of Pinterest, I am an ADDICT!  Seriously.  Follow me!

{7}  My favorite book series is the Emily Giffin series.  If you've never read them, check them out!

{8}  I am in love with Jake Gyllenhaal.  Seriously, who isn't???

{9}  Trying out new recipes is one of my favorite things to do.  I often take a recipe I find and then tweak it to be exactly how my husband and I like it!  I love experimenting with recipes, and if it's a complete failure, I always have Papa Johns on speed dial!

{10}  And last but not least, I seriously have the most adorable daughter in the world.  Sometimes I am still overwhelmed at how much I really love her.  Being a mommy is just the greatest thing in the world.

Thanks for reading! :-)  Check back each day this week as I try to keep up with the daily Linky Parties!

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