I think I am better at blog stalking cruising than actually blogging.  It is just after Election Day and for those of us who live in Sussex County DE we also add in Return's Day.  Returns's Day is a tradition from when we had to wait til all the ballots were counted and then "runners" would bring the results to post them in Georgetown's town circle.

Things have been crazy the first two months of school we had a Early Childhood assessement to administer over 4 weeks to half of our classes and DPAS2 assessement benchmark items to administer to all students.  WOW!! talk about insane I felt like I barely taught the first month of school. 

Maddi and Michael not being in my building after school has helped me to be able to get housekeeping items done.  So I PROMISE to post pictures of my redone classroom and share some of the items I have created for my classroom ASAP.

Sorry its been soooo long

Wow!  It has been a long time since my last post.  It was a crazy end of the school year and summer hasn't shown a slow down yet.  Mike started a new job working nights and I have been teaching summer school.  I am looking forward to being able to take a break with my kids next week and do some fun things together.  Down side of being a teacher's kid - summer isn't always as fun as it could be. 

I did a major purge of my classroom at the end of the year.  After exploring Pintrest I was inspired to redo my classroom.  I have always been organized but with Mike working nights this coming school year and me being on my own with the kids during the week it is time to be uber-organized.  I brought home quite a bit of "homework" and will post pics of what I have been working on soon!

At the DSRA Leadership Retreat (Diamond State Reading Association).  So much fun last night!  SCR (Sussex Council for Reading) won the scavenger hunt last night!!Lots of great ideas flowing again this morning.  If you are a teacher in Delaware please contact me to join these fabulous councils that prompt literacy.

Where did my weekend go?

Ok so I worked like crazy yesterday on the computer getting different classroom things created and downloaded.  Somehow time slipped away and we didn't make it to the grocery store so no Cloud Dough was made.  It is on my "To Do" list.  I did however finish making sight word practice sheets for all of the sight words on our series, (Treasure from MacMillian).  Not sure how to show the image yet but here is the link.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6UGDF9PsOyPQVdJZDhVTEZSbW1qSjMwNUJUUXIyZw

Sorry I am just starting this blogging thing.  The Cloud Dough pic and recipe are thanks to Juggling With Kids.

Exploring Pintrest (again lol), what else am I going to do on a Friday nigth while the hubby watches "Ancient Aliens" and the kids are in bed. So I found a post for Cloud Dough. I can't wait to add this to my sensory tub next week at school. I will post pics!

It calls for 8 cups of flour and 1 cup of baby oil.  You are suppose to mix it for a few minutes (3 to 5) until it will hold together when squeezed.

Definately a cheap item to mix up for the sensory tub.

Wow!  Its hard to believe that the school year is almost 3/4 of the way through.  Thankful that we had the afternoon to work in our classrooms during today's inservice.  I was able to refurbish some of my mini offices and get some new graphing and tally mark posters created.