School Year Ending

As my fourth year of teaching comes to an end, I find myself reflecting. These past four years have flown by and all of my school years are starting the blend. I guess you can say that I am now a veteran teacher about to start her fifth year. Scary!! I started this blog at the beginning of the second year and didn't use it that much to document my teaching or share new things. Towards the middle-end of this year I got reenergized to teach. I found myself making more time at home to read more about teaching and finding new ideas, thanks to pinterest and all of those amazing teacher blogs. Who knew that one website could excite me again? This summer I am going to be doing a lot of planning as well as things to make teaching fun again! Sometimes you just need a little revamp to things. Speaking of revamp, I have been working on a new layout for my blog and hopefully this summer I will have time to finish it and get it up and running. I will be around through out the summer, but towards the end of July- beginning of August, that's when I will be back. Bring on year 5!!!

Famous "Teacher Bag"

The Importance of Planning

After teaching for 4 years sometimes you go on auto pilot for certain lessons. Where that is nice sometimes, it's also nice when the unexpected happens. In this video I explain a happy little "unexpected".



Now could you image next year when I teach this again, it will be amazing!!! I love all the little teaching tricks I have in my bag of tricks!!

I'm Back!

After a long while from not posting or making videos, I decided to come back. My first two years of teaching, and even before then, I found myself lost in teaching blogs and videos for hours. Teaching was my life. It was a little overwhelming once I came home everyday and just felt like my job didn't stop when I left school. It was taking over my mind and attitude, even at home. I had to make a change and that change was for the better. I found myself discovering new things and new interests. I started crafting and I even started playing the piano again. Now that I feel "reenergized" I can come back to all of those teaching blogs and videos that I used to love so much. Now I can integrate it into my more "well rounded" life of interests. Of course, there is a video for you all!!

Artistic Side of Me

Cherry Blossoms

I love collaborating. I made this tree and shared it with my BFF and she went ahead and added cherry blossoms. How cute!!!

Classroom Cleaning