Five for Fraturday

Happy Happy Happy Saturday!

I am OFFICIALLY on Spring Break!!!  🙂

 

Look at my adorable new curtain!

My teammate – who also bakes for us and gives us treats at least once a week – made it for me!  During lock down drills, I usually cover the window with construction paper.  Recently, I got smart and started pulling my door poster over the window (it’s magnetic).

But then my teammate made each of us a curtain!

It does look see-through in this shot, but I promise you — you can’t see in if you’re trying to.

So . . . if we were to have a lock down, I would just untie the ribbon and be done.

That is, if I’m not looking for The Bucket.

😉

I love my new t-shirt!

 

I am now trying to figure out how to have t-shirts made JUST LIKE THIS, but instead of the state of Texas on it, it could have a big ole ONE on it.  For first grade.  But the number  1.  Not the word.  Or do I want the word?  Or the word FIRST?

I don’t know.

But I love that it’s a baseball t-shirt.  And that it’s maroon and gray (those were my high school colors when I lived in Oklahoma).  And that it’s soft.  And that it’s roomy.

I need t-shirts to be roomy, otherwise what’s the point of wearing a t-shirt?

 

I don’t have a picture for this one.

I went to a training this week.  It’s all about how we can get all of our kids reading by the age of nine.  And how it’s not a program, but a commitment.

And how important we primary teachers are because we are the FOUNDATION.

Which I get.  Believe me.  I get it.

And if you don’t think I want all of my kids reading by the age of it’s the last month of first grade, you’re heading to second, well, then, you’re crazy.

So to be told that I need to make a commitment to make sure my kids are reading by the age of nine is kind of hilarious.

But maybe some people needed to be reminded.  It’s possible.  I mean, we get busy.  With TEACHING READING and all.

There were some points made and some tasks involved that might have put some people on the defensive.  So the trainers made sure to tell us it was National Puppy Day.  And any time anything was said that put pressure on us, or required us to do MORE than we already are, including something like THIS CAN BE YOUR SUMMER HOMEWORK, the trainers would say PUPPIES!

By the end of the training, saying Puppies started to seem like a bad word.

I’m just saying.

😉

Speaking of puppies . . .

I do not even know how this is Murphie!

Look at her!!!

Her ears are floppy and she’s so dark . . . I just want to reach into this picture and cuddle her up.

Those paws!

I love puppies.

Not just mine.

I really think the training would have been way better if they had brought in live puppies for us to hold while they told us that we have yet another thing to do.

So you know how I told you that I want/need/can’t wait any longer to start Guided Math?

And how I have the curriculum I am supposed to teach, and that I’m required to teach it, but that I don’t know what the other kids are going to be doing while I have a small group?

Well, I just got Reagan’s Big Bundle of Math Centers!   I am definitely going to get some Math Tubs going. And I want to include her Math Journals!   Reagan has a great blog post {HERE} about how to begin with Guided Math and I’m going to try to channel her.

When we get back from Spring Break, we only have 8 weeks left in the school year (GAH!!!), but I am determined to try Guided Math with this class before they leave me.

I will keep you posted!

Have a great rest of the weekend!