New Shoes! Plus, It's Friday!

I love Fridays! I especially love Friday when I am wearing new shoes.

For a while now, I have been searching for a pair of comfortable and inexpensive leopard shoes---ones that might double for cafeteria duty and the classroom carpet.

I finally found them!  Plus, they have some bling on them, too.

This week we celebrated National Day on Writing.  Did you?
My class and I wrote in the hallway using fun pens and pencils.  We read Cynthia Rylant's The Relatives Came.  I sent an email to my fellow teachers informing them of this day and its purpose. 

We had a great discussion on the national topic of "Why I Write!". 
One student said he writes because "it's like TV on paper"!

A great day!  And tomorrow is Friday!  And I will be wearing new shoes!

So Busy!

It's been a while since I've posted, but like most teachers, I have been very busy.
I am working hard to create a classroom community, develop readers and writers, utilize digital tools, and keep learning and growing as a teacher.  Whew!


Despite the demands on our time, I am determined to make our classroom a place where students create products to share (soon!) with the globe. I started slowly with Edmodo where we discuss books, and now I am using Voicethread.  We've slowly begun commenting on our classroom blog, and now we are working on writing quality posts.  Through the comments, I teach capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar!


To keep it all straight, I use my iPad and a great app called Home Routine. I can combine household tasks with school ones, and I feel great when I can mark something off! 

I will post more this week about QR codes and CAFE. 

What are you learning this week? 

More to come soon!

Time for Boots!



I finally got the chance to wear my Madden Girl boots to school!  Friday was Grandparents/Special Friends Day at our school, so it was time to put away the jeans and school shirt and dress up.  I wore a black dress and these boots and I was totally comfortable!  The heels are very good to your feet! 

What a busy, busy week!  I attended a tech training, and parent conferences started up.  Our class started book recommendations (or book 'buzzes'), and the Book Fair ended.  I spent more money on books (of course!), and we are well into our unit on the regions of Texas. Groups are creating brochures for each region and practicing their cooperation skills. I am having the students compliment one another on their group work, and it is great to see their reactions as we share the compliments in class.  My students are starting to really come together as a community, and that makes me happier than a pair of cute shoes ever could!