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!

Hi!  Tomorrow the children are coming!  I lost one student so I am down to 25  students.  Two teachers now have  fewer kids than  I  do so I should not get the next 3 students. I probably shouldn't but I am willing to do a happy dance right now., if I had the energy.  I am tired from 2 days of meetings.

 I have some fun things planned around Pete the Cat and The Kissing Hand.  I love to read and sing with my class so that should help start off our first day together! How many of you don't start until September?

I wanted to let you know about  bundle of kindergarten and first grade math over at this Tales From A Traveling Teacher.  They are  also having a giveaway if you are interested.  Here is the link!  http://talesfromatravelingteacher.blogspot.ca/2013/08/journal-giveaway-summer-lovin.html

I have a funny story to tell you about today.  I decided over the weekend that I could not stand my kid's orange cubbies that they put their supplies in.  They are very old and grungy. I also decided they didn't match my classroom colors of aqua and green.  So I decided to spray paint them blue. I know I had the whole summer to do this but I decided to wait until school starts!  I guess I like stress!  They do look nice but I look like a Smurf!  It doesn't matter what I paint I always end up wearing it.  I did discover that Goo Be Gone will cut through the paint so the Smurf in me has disappeared which is a good thing because I had to go back to work today.
This year we have 2 work days before school starts.  We had meetings this morning and then we could work in our rooms.  Tomorrow we are in meetings for the entire day.  The children will start on Wednesday.  We are all up to 26 children and counting.  That's a large class for us. 104 first graders!  My largest class was 35 first graders a long time ago.  I still have a cute note a sub wrote me.  She drew 35 stick children and said I don't know how you do this every day!  I hope if you are starting back to school this week that you have a great week and a great class too.  I know I am anxious to use some of the new items I just bought on TPT.

I promise I will take my camera to school this week to take pictures of my room.  I am not allowed to take pictures of the children in my room or I would probably share those with you too.  Have a great week!

Heads up!  Teachers Notebook is having a site wide sale this weekend.  I believe TPT is doing the same but I don't know when it starts.  If you are like me you probably have some things on your wishlist you would like for back to school!  If you display Mel's (Graphics From the Pond)  cute I Love Clip art button she  has another cute graphic for you!  It's one of her cute stick figures. http://graphicsfromthepond.blogspot.com/2013/08/scrappy-rainbow-kids-set-3-free-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GraphicsFromThePond+%28Graphics+From+the+Pond%29
I need to go to school this weekend and finish setting up my room.  Our school board will be going through for a tour and then my Open House is Wednesday.  So I guess the stress begins.  My room is decorated in polka dots and owls.  I need to take some pictures so you can see.  A friend of mine made my polka dotted curtains because
a.  I haven't sewn in forever
b.  I tore apart a closet and found my sewing machine but couldn't find the cord
c.  I couldn't find the metal piece that covers up the thread
I really didn't want to sew them anyways.  They turned out so cute!
I hope you have a great weekend and if you have already started back just remember you will be out before the rest of us and then we will be jealous too!.