How I Roll

It has been a little crazy around here lately. I was home with a sick baby last week and I was sick on Monday. 

Nothing irritates me more than when I am home sick and too sick to do anything around the house. Of course, if I were well enough to do housework, I should be at work. And if I were home sick, but well enough to do any house work, I wouldn't want to do it. That's how I roll.

Between naps and Kathy Griffin Specials on Netflix, I did manage to put together a short reader for Veteran's Day.  There isn't much out there in terms of quality literature for young kids, especially on short notice, which is also how I roll.

You can download the Veteran's Day Reader in my TpT store by clicking HERE or on the cover below!

 Clipart & font courtesy DJ Inkers www.djinkers.com

 

With a few minutes left on my lunch, I thought I could go ahead and post this book. It's nothing stellar or extraordinary, but it is a short little reader you can share with your little readers! I'm sure I'll be copying this bad boy last minute for my own classes. I put the PRO in procrastinator. 

 

Happy Wednesday!

Under the Weather

My little baby, ahem...not soooo little (2nd grade already!), was under the weather last week. I got to spend the day at home with her while she rested and recharged.  Thankfully, we had parent-teacher-conferences, so she didn't have school Thursday or Friday anyway!

While she was snoozing, I started working on a mini-unit about weather.  Why I started on weather, I'm not sure. I think Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Veteran's Day might have been more current, but I had an idea and I went with it!

I will be using this unit with my kindergarten friends when they are learning about weather with their classroom teachers! It is my first unit, so I'm sure it won't knock your socks off, but I think it still turned out pretty cute!

You can access this mini-unit in my TpT store HERE or click on the pictures above!

Oh, and I do remember what motivated me to do the weather unit - A Storm Called Katrina  by Myron Uhlberg. It's a beautiful book that is also nominated for the Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award, but that's another blog post for another day! :)

My First FREEBIE!

Last week I got an email from a teacher on our Responsive Classroom Committee. They had come up with some ideas they wanted to share with our support staff to assist them as they work with our students. My sweet principal told them that I was pretty good at jazzing things up, and they might want to ask me if I'd be willing to create something for them.

I have scads of homework this weekend, so OF COURSE!

I am still figuring Photoshop out and am by no means a whiz, but here is a little sneak peek at what I created!

Attention Getters & Hallway Helpers Freebie!

 

 

There are 18 different cards to be laminated, hole punched, and carried on a ring for easy access. Some are attention getters, a few hallway helpers, and then a couple of cards about "I" messages.  

 

After I finished, I decided I would post them on Teachers Pay Teachers. I've been lurking there long enough I figured I ought to give it a try.  Ironically though, I have decided to make everything I post a freebie for a few reasons: 1) I know I will need to work on the quality of my products (A LOT), but everyone has to start somewhere, right? 2) Buying licenses for clip art is quite an investment and I don't want to get in over my head just to fizzle out. 3) My stuff may turn out to be junk that no one wants to buy. A very possibly reality. 

 

Just getting it all ready, uploaded, and set up was huge undertaking. I have a renewed respect for those amazing TpT sellers like Deanna Jump, Cara Carroll, Amy Lemons, Rachel Lynette, just to name a few. Rock Stars - all of them!  

 

Anyway, I hope you'll check out my little freebie and give it 5 stars.  Just click the sample above or here to download my first freebie on TpT!