I have a class that is majority girls. 16 girls and 9 boys. The drama this year has been CRAZY!! I swear every time I turn around, there is another problem that has arose between two of my girls. They are best friends and then out of nowhere they are sobbing over something one of… Continue reading Girl Drama
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One Of Those Days
The day after daylight savings should be a national holiday. Especially for teachers. My goodness, those kids were crazy. They did not want to listen or stay on task. My normally good class was terrible! Next year, let's petition to not have school today. I can't handle it!
Family Time
Family is important to me. Because we all work different schedules, the only time we can get together is on Sundays. Whenever there is a birthday, we head to breakfast at one of our local favorite restaurants. February and March are FULL of birthdays. We have my uncle, cousin, brother-in-law, and my aunt all in… Continue reading Family Time
Life Lessons That Fail
We are working on informative writing using text evidence. Reminder: I teach second grade. We read a story about penguins and were going to write what we learned about penguins. My class is known for copying text exactly from the text. Word for word. I told them about Plagiarism and that is was illegal. I told… Continue reading Life Lessons That Fail
10 Fun Facts
I read an awesome blog, found here, where they wrote 10 fun facts about themselves. I thought that would be an awesome idea, so here I am. Here are 10 fun facts about me. I LOVE all things pink and glittery. Those are my two favorite things. Taylor Swift is my favorite. I've been to… Continue reading 10 Fun Facts
I Must Be The MOST Boring Person
I read a blog with 10 fun facts about me yesterday and was determined to do one about myself today. I went to write the post and could not come up with ten facts about myself. I got to 7 and had no idea what else to write. The facts I did write, were not… Continue reading I Must Be The MOST Boring Person
Observation Day 2
Had my second observation of the spring today. You can read about the first one here. Guess what? John Cena made an appearance 5 minutes before the lesson. He never showed up during the lesson, thank heavens! I did tell him, "If you stay in this seat and don't leave it once while the principal… Continue reading Observation Day 2
Observations
I had my first observation of my spring observations today during writing. We were learning about adjectives. It went well, overall. I didn't have anyone practicing their John Cena knock out moves (this happens almost hourly in my classroom) so that's a plus! I don't know about you but observations STRESS ME OUT! The person… Continue reading Observations
The Posters Continue
-sigh- If you haven't checked out this post, read it before reading this one. This post is a continuation of the previous post. Recap: Last year I had a child post another teachers class mission statement ALL over my classroom. Everywhere. I found multiple copies cleaning my room at the end of the year. A… Continue reading The Posters Continue
Read Across America Week Fun
I LOVE Read Across America Week. It might be my favorite week of the year! Here's a run down of our week. Monday: Cat in the Hat Day The class wore a hat and we read the Cat in the Hat story. We usually do a directed drawing on this day too. We didn't have… Continue reading Read Across America Week Fun
Confessions of a Real Teacher 