Happy Saturday!
Here’s what I’ve been up to . . .
Inclement Weather.
AGAIN.
I was all for it, too, because it was absolutely DIS.GUST.ING outside. I didn’t want to have anything to do with it whatsoever at all. I’ve never claimed to be an outdoorsy type of girl in the first place and this just put me over the edge.
We did lots of Go Noodle and, in this picture, we were doing Adventure to Fitness.
THANK THE GOOD LORD.
I’m happy to report that the heat wave broke and we are now enjoying temps in the high eighties and low nineties.
It’s like it’s so cold, I should go put a sweatshirt on.
My friend (and a teacher at our school) lost her baby girl seven years ago. In order to honor her memory, a bunch of us wore these bracelets, (her daughter’s initial is B) as well as the color pink to support our friend. We gave her a bracelet, too.
We love you, Nicole!
This is a Vocabulary Four Square – my kids love it! We have five words a week and we pick one word to do this with. We all voted for mammoth because it’s such a cool word (and our other words were stem, fluttering, and, well . . . now I can’t remember . . . ) and we loved saying “mammoth” all week. The story that comes with our vocabulary unit was all about mammoth sunflowers which is why this example has a sunflower and not an Earth to match her sentence. I actually like that it doesn’t match because she gave TWO examples! Tho thmart!
And, just in case you want to know, our vocabulary words come from our Houghton Mifflin curriculum called Curious About Words and it includes a big book. And if you give me a big book, I like it. The End.
I am obsessed with this show.
Obviously, I am a reality TV show junkie. I think we know that. But even the hubby watches this show with me. And, sometimes, we even watch After Dark on the TV Guide Channel.
The season finale is this Wednesday. Waaaaaa. I don’t want it to end. I’m rooting for Derrick now that Nicole, Hayden, and Donny are out of the house.
And, PS, I do an amazing Victoria impression. And I’m not talking about her lack of physicality (although I’ve got that nailed, too), I’m talking about her voice.
Seriously.
I crack the hubs up.
And myself, too.
I had a request (or maybe five or six – I’m telling you, these requests for products are going straight to my head) for some SUPER DUPER RIDICULOUSLY EASY (their words, not mine) Partner Plays for Kinder Kids at the beginning of the year. I was asked to make the font huge, the picture clues huge, and have no more than five words in a sentence.
So I went from writing plays for Advanced Readers to writing a play that looks something like this:
Kinder Teachers That I Admire Because I Don’t Think I Could Ever Do It — whatcha think?
And there you have it.
I must now go grab a sweatshirt . . . I think it dipped down to 87 degrees . . . Brrrrrr.
I would love the kinder plays! Even though they seem ridiculously easy, I think they will be so excited to be able to have their own "play". It would be so special for them! Plus what great way to practice sight words and fluency. Can't wait!
I would love Kinder plays! I have a very low group of first graders this year and I think this would be perfect for them.
Wahoooooooo!!!! I love the easy peasy beginning readers plays!!! I have your spring set but this would be perfect to start at the beginning if the year! And kinder is easy…first or even second would have me shaking in my boots!
I agree, 87 is a bit chilly. You might want to go sweater shopping! Love the Kinderplays. My ELL kids might be able to do those. Going to check them out!
Love the plays! They will be successful readers with a partner so early in the school year!
What a year! I have 6…6!…nonreaders in my first grade class this year! These K partner plays would be perfect!!!
I like the plays for my Read to Someone Daily 5 station….thanks!!
Good idea!
Love the Four Square idea. 🙂 And I, too, am in my sweatshirt, long pants and socks over here in Carlsbad because it is overcast and 74. But I am thankful it is no longer 99 because I had to go to school every day prepared to either freeze in the AC (brought sweatshirt and sweater) or to sweat (brought shorts in case the AC broke…which it has been known to do). Back to the ever present marine layer….
Yes! The Kinder Plays look great for fluency practice! 🙂
YES TO KINDER PLAYS! I have been intro'ing Daily 5 and told them that we need to read by ourselves and not with a friend, BUT WHEN WE DO start reading with someone that I have the most AMAZING partner plays for them – yes I own ALL of your plays! They were excited and I need to start prepping them… whoops! They're even printed and everything… oh hello rerun tv… 😉
When will the new Kinder plays be ready? My primary special ed students are reading at a lower level this year than past classes. They could really use this new set you are making!
I love the super easy plays! Our kinders have so many sight words to learn, and although we have little readers to practice with, kids would LOVE the plays! I have a sweet, theatrical group:)
Love the plays! Perfect!! Thank you!! As always, you had me laughing. Thank you for that, too!
I love it! I love your plays and was hoping you would do some that were easy enough for the beginning of the year (which lasts a whole lot longer for many sweet kiddos). Bring it on!
These kinder plays would great for my beginning readers. The large font and the pictures are perfect! Love the repetition of sight words!
Ha! Ha! I live in the Bahamas currently and can totally relate. Today I had to coach soccer practice for my daughter's team. It was 90 and humid and awful in the sun! And it was only 8:30 in the morning. I love it when it dips down to 85. I totally notice the difference. It makes me want to put on jeans and a long sleeve shirt or something…
Joya 🙂
liveloveserveteach
I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited about the kinderplays! I thoroughly enjoy your reality TV talks. I have to put on my sweatshirt inside my house because my husband keeps it like a refrigerator inside here! Also in his truck because we commute an hour together everyday and he keeps it like a FREEZER in there! Even though it seriously is over 100 lots of days still! I can't wait to check out adventure to fitness. My kiddos love GoNoodle.
The kindy plays look great! When will they be ready? They are perfect for my group of kiddos this year. I wish our heat would break. It is still hitting the hundreds here almost daily. At least the humidity is gone!
Mercy. I about died this week. I have had no computer for 2 weeks. No Go Noodle, no movies, NO RECESS no-nothing! Glad the temp is finally cooler!
XOXO,
Katie
Teacher to the Core
Yes please! I can totally see using those very cute Kinder plays at reading groups. Excited!!! 🙂
I'm hooked on BIg Brother too. I can't make myself stop watching the live feed on TVGN every night until 1:00 am and boy does 5:30 am come early. I don't want it to end either. Love the bracelet. So sweet of you all to support her.
Teaching with a Twist
I am SO excited for the kinder plays! Yes, huge font, huge pictures, huge everything is awesome! Thanks for listening to all of those requests! 🙂 It will be great as we kinders start to read and will help us with the strategy of "read the pictures"