One Month Done!

I can't believe that I have been in school for a month.  We just handed out interims on Friday.  Do you have to do interim reports?  It takes forever to complete them because almost all of the skills have to be checked individually.  I also had to have my STAR testing done for the district and for my state evaluation.(OTES)

I am now done with one of my walk throughs for OTES too!  Stressful week for my building.  Here is a link to a great giveaway you might want to check out today.  Have a great Sunday!

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I am shocked how fast today went by.  Usually Mondays are slow for me especially when my class has morning rotation.  I have been up since 4 am. A garbage truck was dropping heavy bins at that hour. This has been going on for a month now and I am tired of losing my beauty sleep.  Believe me I need all the beauty sleep I can get! They are not supposed to pick up trash until 6 am.  Hopefully this will stop soon or I am going to have to move into another bedroom!

My class is so great!  I can't believe they have been in school for 17 days already.  We had a professional day on Friday so they got a nice 3 day weekend.  Can you believe it is time for interim reports to go home on Friday.  That means I will be doing report cards in 4 more weeks.

Here is another great giveaway you won't want to miss!  http://www.tabletalkwithcandc.blogspot.com/2013/09/tpt-reading-activity-best-seller-linky.html

I hope you have a great week!

You have to go and check out the Arts and Crafts Center giveaway on Lori's blog.  It looks really fantastic!  Here's the link  http://teachingwithloveandlaughter.blogspot.com/2013/09/lakeshore-review-and-giveaway.html?showComment=1379192589686#c1999597928881124647

Live, Laugh, I Love Kindergarten would like you to help her celebrate 600 followers! Here's the link! http://livelaughilovekindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/09/600-follower-giveaway.html


Is anyone else tired from going back to school?  I forget how needy and young my firsties are when school starts.  I am used to how they are when they leave.  This year I have 25 little darlings.  I lost one student or I would have 26.  This is a very large class for me.  I have 13 girls and 12 boys.  I can't believe we have been in school for a month.  We even had a teacher professional day yesterday.  If you live in Ohio you know as part of our OTES evaluations we have to write SLO's.  That is what we spent our day working on yesterday.  Does anyone else feel like all they are going to be doing is testing?  I just had to test my class using the STAR tests for Early Literacy, Math, and about half of them had to take the STAR reading or there would be no way for me to show a year's growth.

I have a book I have to have finished by Monday.  It's Danielle Steel's, First Sight and it is pretty good, but sad.  I am also wanting to watch Ohio State's football game tonight at 7.  Have a great weekend!

Last day to enter for a pencil sharpener at http://livelaughilovekindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/09/five-for-friday.html



Come celebrate Andrea's and Jennie's birthdays in a great giveaway!  http://jdsrockinreaders.blogspot.com/2013/09/happy-birthday-to-me-and-andrea.html


http://mindfulrambles.blogspot.com/2013/09/back-to-school-giveaway.html  Can you tell I really would like to win a pink pencil sharpener or a blue one!  I am sure you would like to win won too so I am sharing which blogs to go and check out!