Five for Friday

Somehow we are halfway through our grading period, I've finally finished testing and have my interventions groups started, and I've let two days...possibly weeks slip away without a post.  oops!  I have had things to share...there's fun things going on in this classroom but today is the first time I've felt like I had two minutes to brew a cup of coffee (with peppermint mocha creamer..yum) and get all this down.  I keep reminding myself that things will eventually fall back into a consistent routine.

++Coffee photo

So, with no further ado, my five from this week.

ONE:
Like I mentioned I started my intervention groups finally.  How I missed having littles in my room for something other than to repeat the same passage I'd heard 25 times already that day and about 200 the week before (DIBELS testing).  It knocks me off my feet a little when those kinders come in and I remember just how far we brought the ones last year.  It's back to learning to hold a pencil and write the first letter of our names....how awesome to think that they will be reading when they leave for summer vacation.   Their little brains are amazing.

We start with M.  We always start with M.  I tell them it's because it's my favorite letter, starting all three of my names: Ms. H, Melissa, Mommy.....but it's also the first in our intervention.

Mr. Munch has made his appearance and set up shop for the semester.  He's so fun!

TWO:
This showed up in my mailbox.  It's the little things ya know?!

THREE:
My third grade ACE (it's our school wide intervention/enrichment class) students are working on Character Traits and Setting.   We had a blast with this book, identifying his crazy and somewhat inappropriate character traits and then developing our own characters and building a story around them. This product is on my TPT store now.

FOUR:
I started the 21 day fix, perfect timing really because I don't have time to eat during the day!  It's been pretty easy to follow so far, with a little cheating on the way because....well...things like The Popcorn Festival happen!    I believe happiness makes people fat.  And I've been seriously happy this last year! But the wedding weight goal is set and I'm on the path.

FIVE:
The elementary Student Council Officers have officially been elected thanks to iMovie speeches delivered to each classroom and voting on Socrative.  If you haven't checked out this site, definitely do so, it's an easy polling/assessment/quiz site that is super easy to use and kid friendly.  Our students all have the app on their iPads and it was a two minute election moment that tallied all the votes for me.  I so wish I would have known about this sooner!

Anyway, they are ready to start their year of service.  A cool project is up first this month....something about Redbox and a bunch of 5's.  More to share on that coming soon!!


I"m linking up with these awesome teachers at Doodle Bugs Teaching.   Check them out, lots of great ideas.