Hope Ya'll Had a Happy 4th of July!!

Hope ya'll had a happy 4th of July! I spent my 4th of July evening watching the fireworks with Tucker from my apartment 

Here's the little cutie watching the fireworks! It is kind of hard to see but they are right out my window!

Also, I made a pit stop at Target a few days ago and they have a TON of really good back to school stuff! I got some dinosaur fact cards and an activity book for our dinosaur unit, a math BINGO game and an ABC BINGO game. The math bingo game has addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division cards so it is good for older grades too! The questions are a little tough for my kinders and I will probably have to wait until the 3rd quarter to start using the math BINGO but the ABC one is great for the beginning of the year!

Here is a pic of some of the stuff they have. Thank you Lisa for helping me rotate it!!! :)

Have a good week!

Science and Social Studies Units

Good morning ya'll! One of the many things I am trying to accomplish this summer before school and grad school start back up is to tweak all of my science and social studies units. I teach science and social studies through a lot of integration and they are our main focus for a few weeks at a time. I am just curious what ya'll teach as your units?!


My favorite that I teach in social studies is without a doubt my unit on mail/post office. It is SO much fun and we are very lucky to have a post office right around the corner to visit for a field trip! We write several letters to our parents and the students LOVE when their parents write back to them at school!! 


My favorite science unit is hands down zoo animals because I just adore everything about animals. I get very excited about this unit and my enthusiasm definitely transfers to my kiddos. 


So I am just curious, what are your favorite science or social studies units that you teach?? I would LOVE to stop by your blogs and check out some pictures of them! 


Also, if you haven't already seen these adorable science journals from Mrs. Bell at A Place Called Kindergarten, you have to check them out. She is fabulous! 


I love so much that all of your blogs keep me excited to go back to school in the fall!! 

Blog Award- Woohoo!!!

This weekend I was very surprised to check my blog and realize that Storie at Stories by Storie had given me the One Lovely Blog award- my first award! I am very surprised, I feel like I am still so new to this and I feel like my blog is NOTHING compared to so many other blogs out there, but I am VERY grateful to Storie. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Storie!!

So now I get to follow the "rules" that apply to earning the award...
1. Follow the person who gave you the award (I can check that one off the list!)
2. Link back to the person who gave you the award (Check.. again!)
3. Pass the award onto 15 new bloggers (Now this one may take awhile...)


This is hard, I wish I could do more! But here goes...


Learning Is Something to Treasure


A Place Called Kindergarten

Climbing the Monkey Bars

Smiles, Crayons, and Endless Stories


The Adventures of Miss Elisabeth


Teaching with Skill, Patience, and Laughter

Heather's Heart


Buzzing Along in First Grade


First Grade Blue Skies

It's Always a Picnic in 4th Grade


Teaching in Flip Flops


Mrs. Will's Kindergarten


Can Do Kinders


Herding Kats in Kindergarten


Keeping Up With the Kindergartners

Whew! Now you all get to pass it on to 15 more!! Have a great day :)


Teaching with Skill, Patience, and Laughter

My Summer So Far...

Hello blog friends! I don't know about all of you but my summer so far has been FANTASTIC!! My birthday was right at the end of the school year and one of my birthday presents has been doing a fabulous job of keeping me company since we got out of school... my sweet new dog Tucker!

Look at that sweet little face!

Sitting in the back of the car with my boyfriend on our mountain trip :)

Playing with his toys (more like destroying them...)

Other than spending my time with Tucker, I have been working on a gigantic packet for TPT. I finally finished and am happy to be done with all 41 pages of it- whew! I am a big fan of doing glyphs in my classroom. The cutting and gluing are wonderful for fine motor skills, it shows how well they are able to listen and focus for a (somewhat) extended amount of time, and they kids are always excited to make a craft! Well this packet is one seasonal glyph for each month of the school year. Here are a few of the pictures of the completed glyphs:

The beginning of the year school bus 

The Christmas Tree with presents and ornaments

This one is probably my favorite although the picture doesn't do it justice. This goes along with the book "The Grouchy Ladybug". One of the steps of the glyph is to have the child either make a grouchy face or a happy face for a camera to answer one of the questions. Then you print the picture of their face and cut it out in a circle to glue onto the head. They love to see their silly pictures on their "grouchy" ladybugs :)

For the life of me I cannot get this one to rotate, oops! But as I'm sure you guessed, this is for Thanksgiving! Our Thanksgiving turkeys is another suer fun glyph, probably my second favorite :)

If you get a chance, stop by my TPT store and check it out. I hope you are all having a wonderful summer! I love checking in on your blogs and reading about all these book studies going on!!

All About Me Books

SUMMER IS HERE!!! WOOHOO!!! I finally made it and let me tell you- it. feels. GREAT!

Before we let out for summer break one of our last activities we did was our "Me Books". The Me Book is an all-about-me book where the child writes their names, favorite animal, favorite color, about their best friend, their family, what they want to be when they grow up, etc. It takes a lot of hard work but looks fantastic in the end! It is a great way to show off how far their writing has come over the past year. Here are some pictures of our "Me Books"

 It ends with this adorable poem. I did not put pictures of all the pages up, just a few. you can create your own pages based on what you want. In our class we had a friend trace our feet and hands and then we had to cut them out and glue them into our book. The outside of our book is a construction paper body with arms that wrap around the front of the book when it is closed. I had them draw their own eyes (correct eye color) and they got to make their own hair out of contrsuction paper and glue it on.