tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703119541600346772024-03-09T18:45:39.420-08:00Ms. Hutten's Buttons…a place where I'm stitching together teaching and parenthood and everything in between.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960055205715511378noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-870311954160034677.post-1842098758405849542013-08-11T07:56:00.000-07:002013-08-11T07:56:51.623-07:00It's Currently Time…short & sweet<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it may be August 11th but I finally made it to the ever popular monthly Currently linky party hosted by Farley over at </span><a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/08/currently-august.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh' Boy Fourth Grade</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Yes, I may be a little late and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by the time I'm finished with this post & link it up, I'm sure to be somewhere in the mix of 500 other linkers, but that's ok right? So, let me just get to it - here goes...</span></div>
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I wanted to share with you a wonderful linky party that Deb Thomas at <a href="http://fabulouslyfirst.blogspot.com/2013/07/loving-wisdom-for-new-teachers-linky.html">Fabulously First</a> is hosting. Each year she asks other "seasoned" teachers to leave some loving words to help all the wonderful new teachers transition into our amazing career. Below you will find my words. Please take a moment to jump over to Deb's blog and read all the heartfelt ideas. I'll leave another link at the bottom of my post. </div>
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Hello…IT'S ME! I'm returning to the blog world after taking a few months off. I'd love to give you a reason as to why I've been away but truly, it's really just a combination of things that have kept me from the fun world of Blogging. So I'm starting off with baby steps by jumping into a Currently Linky hosted by the fabulous <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/06/currently-july.html">Farley at Oh Boy 4th Grade</a>. Please go and check out the amazing bloggers that have linked up already. Just remember the rule of three. You can also grab your template to do your own Currently too. </div>
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It's Instagram time! Do you Instagram? Do you have an account? If not, it's time to get started and join the fun if you haven't done so yet. The great ladies over at <a href="http://applesandabcs.blogspot.com/">Apples and ABCs</a> and <a href="http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/">What the Teacher Wants</a> have teamed up and started an Instagram Linky Party called #teachertalktuesday that's about to roll out. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, yesterday was our annual "Art Day" at our school and as expected, ALL the kids had a great time. We spent our day complementing each other as well as the colors of our project which you'll see in a bunch of pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Anywho, our day works like this: Kinderoos arrive and immediately are thrown into a tizzy when all they have to do is hang up their backpacks. Several kinderoos question the break in our morning routine and ask. "Wait a minute Ms. H…what about our homework and our folders?" My reply..."My little love bugs, you don't need anything." {Insert quizzical looks!}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we gathered on the rug waiting patiently for my few late ones to arrive, I had my fabulous assistant applying stickers to shirts that let them know what color group they were going to be in for the day. "What's this for Ms. H?" "Huh? I don't get it, I'm not a circle today?" "What are we going to do?" Oh my word…the questions were just shooting out of their mouths left and right…KPOW! BOOM! WHACK! Boy oh boy, did I feel like I was in an episode of Batman…all I needed was my Bat Mobile to escape. But alas, I knew I had to answer just enough of their questions to calm the kidneroos and all in the span of the TWO minutes I had left to stay on track of our down to the minute schedule we needed to keep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next, it was time to divide my kinderoos into their groups. One group was going to start in the computer lab with two of my dad volunteers. They were more than happy to be the Computer Dad's for the day :) Lucky me! Then, I sent one group to my partner teacher and I kept one…then the others arrived. Now it was time to get the show started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Dylan, the orange shirt your grandma bought you for your birthday has some pretty nice blue letters written all over it…It makes your face light up." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I went around the room and tried to give every student a complement of some sort I then sat back when I asked them to complement each other (some needed a little prompting…) but all in all they did pretty good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We talked about how it feels to receive a compliment and that how amazing it was that colors gave complements too. We tried matching up color squares and as we found the colors that "complemented" each other we glued them down on my sample paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sent them back armed with directions and let them get started…and here's what we did in three class rotations of 45 MINUTES each !!! Woot! Woot!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I want to share with you what has changed my life in my classroom of kinderoos. We now celebrate with <u><b>Smellicious</b></u> yummy days/hours/minutes and in some cases even seconds ;). I wish I knew who orginally came up with this fabulous idea so I could give credit and say THANK YOU…but I don't so I'm hoping one of you all may be able to help. Anywho, here is a picture of what makes my kinderoos happy campers. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just dap a little on their hand and voila!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...and according to on of my kinderoos Jarrett, "No more stickers Ms. H, this is way more better!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's Superbowl Sunday and personally I'm not a huge fan of with team but I'm pulling for the Ravens…just because. How is your Superbowl going for you? I've been watching with one eye while clipart shopping on both TpT & TN…FUN!!! Make sure to head over to Farley's <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/02/currently-february.html">Oh Boy Fourth Grade</a> and remember to follow the rules for her linky. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">…I thought I'd share with you what we did in class this year for out parent gifts. I've been making these cutie patooties for well over 14 years and they are a hit. Keep this in mind for next year because it's worth the effort! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">This year we made well over 60 snowmen because we included our 3rd grade buddy class. …can you imaging 200+ cotton balls per snowman…holy guacamole batman!! Believe it or not, the kids did a fantastic job! They were neat and didn't even get glue up to their elbows as I expected. They followed directions and loved every minute of it. Here's the how to and the materials needed:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1) Get a parent volunteer to scout around to your local bowling alley and ask for any donations of their old pins. Some years we have had to pay $1.00 a pin but his year, our volunteer hit the timing just right since they were switching out old pins for new pins and got over 100 pins donated for <b><u>FREE</u>!!!</b>!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4) Now is the fun part. I went out and purchased (each kiddo donated $1.00 - $2.00) about 2 1/2 yards of wintery fleece (cut into 2 1/2 strips), jingle bells (3 each), black & orange pipe cleaners, and lots of large googly eyes. We pre-made the mouths, hats (made from a "no-show sock-tied and cut at the top) and the noses (cut an orange pipe cleaner into 1/3 and then wrap it around the pointy end of a pencil…this makes the perfect spiral nose). Remember to show the kids one thing/detail to glue at a time. We started with the hat & scarf then moved on to the mouth, jingle bells, and eyes. We placed the nose on last and then let our snowmen take a nap while we went to lunch. Adorable!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">5) Finally, the last thing to do is wrap them up so your kiddos can put them under their trees...but this year, to save time…Boomer our Elf got a little busy! If you could have seen their faces when they walked in to our room the last day -priceless! We found Boomer wrapped up a little as well. Thanks Boomer! </span> </div>
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<span style="color: red;">First up:: Boomer.</span> Boomer surprised my kinderkiddos last week and we all had three days of Elf magic. Boy Oh Boy did this spark up my kids. Great behavior until Friday when the rainy day schedule wound the little buggers up. Anywhichwho, I left a note for Boomer to take to Santa saying that we hope the understood about our crazy behavior and that we'll be back to normal come Monday. Finger crossed please. Here's a few pictures of Boomer.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 3…Silly Boomer dressed up our owl.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a great feeling when you have been nominated for an award…but even better when you have been nominated FIVE times for the same award. How sweet it is to be recognized not only by one fellow blogger but by </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">5</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> fellow bloggers for the Liebster Award. WOW!!! But, before I begin first I'd like to give a big thank you to </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. What lead you to decide you wanted to be an educator? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Long story but I met someone in college…his entire family were educators…that's when I changed majors and never looked back.</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2. What is your all time favorite book? (Children's books don't count! lol)</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3. What is your current ringtone?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">I am a Rock</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4. How did you come up with your blog name?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">It just kind of happened. I was trying to think of something that clever and then the lightbulb went off…and voila!</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">5. If you could time travel to any place or time, where would you go?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">I have absolutely no idea.</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">6. You have the chance to appear on your favorite show, currently on air or past, what show would I see you on?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">Criminal Minds…I'd be Derek's (Shemar's) "baby girl" Penelope :)</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">7. What is your favorite childhood memory?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">Hanging out with my brother ordering room service at the Fairmont Hotel while my parents went out to dinner. We didn't know it was $$. :)</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">8. Who is your celebrity crush?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">Shemar Moore & Daniel Craig</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">9. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, which would it be?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">Do they Know it's Christmas</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">10. Where do you live?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">Southern California</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">11. I'm hoping to get a full-time teaching job soon, got any advice?</span><br /><span style="color: #93c47d;">Never give up…everything will fall into place…have faith.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">"Den Dooper" He was on of my kinders way back when I started…He wanted to be a firefighter. He wore his"firefighter" uniform to school each day…I let him hang up his coat and change his boots. He wrote me a letter not to long ago saying thank you for letting him be a fireman. :)</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">7. What is your worst teaching memory? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">My first year of teaching with two students: Pablo & Pierro! That was a doozy of a year.</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">8. Who or what is your inspiration for being a good teacher? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Mr. Warner…SO happy he keeps in touch with so many of us through Facebook. </span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">9. Chocolate or fruity? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">I really can't decide…</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">11. What blog was your biggest inspiration when you decided to start your blog and why? </span><span style="color: #93c47d;">Kindergarten Crayons…A Teeny Tiny Teacher. Both because I loved what they both had to say…ideas and humor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 24px;">1. <a href="http://www.krazyaboutkindy.blogspot.com/">Krazy About Kindy</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2. <a href="http://owlrightythen.blogspot.com/">Owl Righty Then</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3. <a href="http://mrspauleyskindergarten.blogspot.com/">Mrs. Pauley's Kindergaten</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 24px;">4. <a href="http://thejugglingteacher.blogspot.com/">The Juggling Teacher</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5. <a href="http://www.watterswharf.blogspot.com/">Watters' Wharf</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">6. <a href="http://thehappyteachertpt.blogspot.com/">The Happy Teacher</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">7. <a href="http://closingthegapinacuteoutfit.blogspot.com/">Closing the Gap…In a cute outfit</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">8. <a href="http://www.firstgradefrenzy.com/">First Grade Frenzy</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">9. <a href="http://onceuponatimeinmultiage.blogspot.com/">Once Upon a Time in 2nd & 3rd Grade</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">10. <a href="http://yaythirdgrade.blogspot.com/">Yay Third Grade</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">11. <a href="http://groovyin3rd.blogspot.com/">Groovy in 3rd</a></span></div>
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Hi Everyone, I hope you are recovering well from your Turkey day comas and from your shopping. Personally speaking, the only shopping I'm doing is online and from my TpT wish list and from my favorite clip art shops. </div>
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Shuna at <a href="http://pocketfullofkinders.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-sale-and-hop.html"><span style="color: magenta;">A Pocket Full of Kinders</span></a> is having a linky party<span style="color: magenta;"> <a href="http://pocketfullofkinders.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-sale-and-hop.html"><span style="color: magenta;">{CLICK}</span></a> </span>and what better way to get a peek into what we all are stuffing in our carts. Jump on over to her blog and join the party. But for now, here's a look into my top three things…oh boy, I can't wait. </div>
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Here's my first grab of the day come Monday…I just adore anything Gingerbread. Jennifer over at <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://herdingkats.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">Herding Kats in Kindergarten</span></a> </span>has this fantastic unit. I know the kids will have so much fun learning with this…well me too! Here's the link <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gingerbread-Skills-Pack-Math-and-Language-Arts-Activities"><span style="color: magenta;">{HERE}</span></a></div>
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Mel D's <a href="http://seusstastic.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">Seusstastic Classroom Inspirations</span></a> Elf creation. OMWord…I'm already planning on what to do each day…I can hardly wait to start this Tuesday! I'm already picturing their faces.</div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elf-on-the-Shelf-Literacy-Math-Unit-Common-Core"><span style="color: magenta;">{HERE}</span></a> is the link for her ADORABLE Elf unit</div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Want to have some fun tonight? Then hop on over to Lyndsey blog</span> <a href="http://ayearofmanyfirsts.blogspot.com/2012/11/stuffed-with-thankful-thoughts-linky.html">A Year of Many Firsts</a> <span style="color: #783f04;">for</span> <span style="color: #783f04;">her <span style="font-size: large;">stuffed with thankful thoughts </span>linky party. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I am thankful for the blogging world that I stumbled upon last year that dazzled up my love for teaching again. The very first blog I ever discovered was Fran's <a href="http://kindergartencrayons.blogspot.com/">Kindergarten Crayons</a>. I'm even more thankful for being lucky enough to sit next to Fran at lunch for our SoCal not to long ago. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I'm thankful for Spicy Tuna Rice Crispies…YUM! I'd eat them daily if I could.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I'm thankful for these two ladies who are forever my besties. I find strength in their words and encouragement in their smiles.</span><br />
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The month of November is my most fave of faves. I just don't really know if it because we have so many days off? Or if it's the feeling in the air and being thankful but whatever it is…</div>
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How about you…are you in full swing Thanksgiving mode? I am…or at least my students and I are. We've been having learning about Pilgrims, Indians, turkeys, cornucopias, corn, fish, The First Thanksgiving, you name it and we've been learning about it. And…we still have next week too (Monday & Tuesday) that is. <br />
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How do you all celebrate? My girls and I are for fortunate that my family lives all but five minutes from one another and my brother hosts Thanksgiving. YAY!! But what excites me the most every year is that my dad always cooks a turkey with all the fix-ins' just for for leftovers and delivers it Thanksgiving day. Double Yay!! Bring on turkey leftovers.<br />
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So for those of you who have 2 or 3 days left of school…I've posted a new quick and simple Thanksgiving book called Pilgrim, Pilgrim - A Thanksgiving Story in my store. I've included a color and b&w version so your students will have a booklet to read to their families at Thanksgiving. Here is a quick sample. You can find it in my store by clicking<br />
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Just thought I'd share a little of the fun we had today in class. We spent the last several days reading storybooks about becoming President, learning how to cast a vote, practicing voting by deciding which is better Cats vs. Dogs (DOGS!) and then today before lunch, we held our own classroom election. The little kinderoos could hardly wait for lunch to be over because they were SO SO SO excited to know the results. Well finally, after the bell rang (<strike>way to soon in my book</strike>) we gathered around the back cabinet and read the ballots…ohhhh the excitement!!! Here's a few pics of our day…</div>
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I'm so proud of my Little Kinderoos…they did a great job today. Oh, and a BIG shout out thank you to Mr. Greg over at <a href="http://kindergartensmorgasboard.blogspot.com/">Smedley's Smorgasboard of Kindergarten</a> for the fabulous Election unit…we had a blast!</div>
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Parent Conferences: My how fast the month can pass by seeing how it's already the 4th day of the new month. Any of you in the middle of assessments and writing report cards. I finally finished assessments last week and I just finished entering all the kiddo's grades. Now, it's time to add the "optional" comments. I'm curious, are you required to write comments on your report cards or do you write them as you hold your conferences? We are pretty much required to write "optional" comments, which I really don't mind because I feel it is important to give parents a good sense of what their child is learning. However, thinking about comments leads me to another question…How do your parent conferences work? Do you get any days off to hold them or do you have to schedule them after a long day of teaching? Luckily, our district gives us one day in the fall at the beginning of conference week to get as many done as possible. This year, we have the Monday after Thanksgiving off and I'm not sure about you but I can certainly see the writing on the wall…families will take an extra long Thanksgiving break and be out of town so I'll have a ton of no-shows I'm sure. In the spring, we don't get that extra conference day so all of ours need to be held after school. That my bloggy friends makes for a very long week (which you know)…but that's a long way away so I'm not going to fret about it any time soon. </div>
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Currently…YAY!!! Thank you Farley at <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-currently.html">Oh Boy 4th Grade</a> for your monthly linky. Head on over to her blog to grab you Currently to get started. For now, here's mine. </div>
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* I'm not afraid to admit that The Long Island Medium is one of my all time favorite shows. My girls and I can sit and watch her for hours. We are total believers!!!! I swear…what I would do to be "read" by her. Better start saving my funds and book the appointment, I hear the wait list is a year long and seeing how I live in Cali…this is going to take some planning.</div>
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*The Holiday season…need I say more. This is the best time of year…if only the weather would really start feeling like fall though.</div>
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*Time Change…really, this morning was fabulous but tomorrow isn't going to be so pretty when it's time to get out of bed…waaaaaaaaaaaa</div>
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*Report Cards…grades are entered but the comments…that's another story. </div>
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*Dinner…Tonight's dinner will be chicken with gravy followed up with stuffing and salad. Simple yet it still requires me to actually cook. Hmmm, can't remember the last time that happened. </div>
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*Itunes Shuffle…it's always a guess as to what is going to pop up. Maybe I'll throw it into the genius mode and see what happens. I know I know that's living dangerously. </div>
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Well, off to cook and finish laundry. Enjoy your Sunday night and see you in a few days with a new Thanksgiving treat.</div>
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And so it begins…my first ever product has been uploaded to TpT! I'm completely excited and terrified at the same time. Is this normal? I'm thinking probably…a little anyways. <br />
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However, this post is a big thank you to all you incredibly talented and creative teachers that bring such joy, laughter and entertainment to my life through your daily and weekly endeavors. I love <strike>reading</strike> stalking your blogs daily, I love purchasing and downloading your creations, I love waking up to read emails that buzz throughout the night of your newest posts (you know, the ones that I may have missed during my nightly adventure) and most of all, I love feeling that I am now even more a part of this spectacular group. So to each and every one of you…I am saying Thank You! <br />
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Now…A quick cute story about a little kinder kiddo in my class. This little one is SMART…really, really SMART and boy oh boy he is quick with his comebacks too. He NEVER stops talking…I mean NEVER EVER stops! He's my little one that I have to remind about twenty bazillion times a day (what actually does a bazillion look like in numbers…Anyone, Anyone…Bueller?) to raise his hand before he speaks or wants to contribute. So yesterday, he had twenty bazillion AND 1 reminders before I finally made him move his clip down ;( . …meanwhile, as he was walking over to move his clip, he stopped, looked directly at me with his bright big brown eyes and said, "Seriously Ms. H, you know I have a problem with talking…you think you could give a guy a break or something." Oh my…I have met my match. I'm in BIG trouble…I need to be on my game in a big way because all I could really do was smile! <br />
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Wow… this is a MONSTER of good stuff !!! Have you had a chance to see it spotlighted around in our wonderful blogland yet? I've seen a several posts and let me tell you…this is a fantastic resource for Kindergarten teachers like myself. It contains over 600 whopping pages enriched with Activities, Worksheets, and adorable Posters to help you teach both the Kindergarten English Language Arts Common Core AND the Kindergarten Mathematics Common Core Standards. Head on over to <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://corecommonstandards.com/core-curriculum/kindergarten-common-core-workbook/">Kindergarten Common Core</a> </span>and take a look for yourself, you won't be disappointed. <br />
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First, I headed over to <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/">Oh' Boy Fourth Grade</a> and read through Farley's Post. Next, I scrolled down to find the template of her September Currently and right clicked (yup, even though I have a mac, I still use a plain ol' regular mouse…can't take the PC of this lady) on the template. Then, I decided to drop it into my keynote (mac's power point) and insert text boxes for each category. After that, I picked a font that suited my mood and typed away. Finally, I saved a version, exported it as an image file to my desktop and dropped it into my blog. Voila !!<br />
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So here I go... It's Labor day and I am finding myself wanting to drive to work and organize my class for the new week (since I didn't bother to before I left for the long weekend). I'm sure, like some of you, when Friday afternoon rolled around, you had more on your mind then prepping for the upcoming week. I, myself, was more interested in getting home so I could head to my daughter's first home football game, rather than stay to plan and organize. But reality set in…and it is time to get a move on…so off I go, off to my class, off to my wonderful world of Kinder. <br />
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