Kids say the Darndest Things

I've been sitting here blogstalking for a while and laughing at some of things people have heard kids say over the years. It reminded me of something one of my first graders said during my second year teaching. I haven't thought about this in a long time.  So I decided to link up to the party Jeannie started over at Kindergarten Lifestyle. Here's one my of "darndest things."

You can link up if you want to at




Thanks, Jeannie
 Chrissy

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Sunday Night Musings and Pinterest

It's Sunday night and I'm sitting here wishing time wouldn't go by so fast. Our "educational consultant" will be around tomorrow and Tuesday- ugh! I wouldn't be so bothered by it, but it's a nuisance. She and the principal come in for 5-10 minutes and observe, score what they see, etc. And we don't get any feedback. What good is that? The first time she was in my room she spent 30 minutes while my kids were writing and she wrote the whole time. I never heard anything back. Don't know if she was writing a To Do List, grocery list, this teacher is awesome, or this is the worst teaching I've ever seen. It's a bit frustrating, but at least it only happens once a month. sorry for complaining. I'm sure this will still be a fun week and I'm looking forward to "Suess-ifying" (is that a word?) my room a bit.
 We went to see my brother yesterday for his birthday and planned to watch the Daytona 500 today but it was postponed to tomorrow because of rain. So it's been a nice relaxing weekend and I didn't go to school at all. That was a nice break too. Our Patriotic Program was Friday so last week was super busy getting ready for that. My class and 2 others sang Yankee Doodle, This Land is Your Land, and the Star Spangled Banner. They did a great job and looked so cute up there on stage with their little red, white, and blue hats on.
I wanted to work on blog today to change it to 3-columns but I'm having some trouble finding the gadget with my background in it so that will have to wait.
Have you seen Laura's post about having permission to pin from Pinterest? Apparently an article she read says we own the rights to images we are pinning and we grant full rights to Pinterest to use those images. So she has a button you can pick up and add to you blog so everyone will know whether or not it's okay to have people pin images from you blog. You can read more about her button

on her blog

 

Thanks, Laura!

So for now I'm adding that to my blog. Pin away, please! That's a very minor change to my blog. The 3-column thing will have to wait a few days till I can figure it out.

Have a wonderful week, everyone!

 Chrissy

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Valentine Thank-you's and a Shout-Out

Whew, today was a busy day! And it was only a minimum day. Every Wednesday we're out at 12:00 so teachers can "collaborate" in the afternoon. Does your school do that? I'd actually rather have the time with my students to get more done. Today they did Math Work Stations and we had math groups. I started them for place value this week, since 5 of my students already took the end a chapter test and got 100%. They're working on some harder activities while everyone else is learning 10 more/10 less than a number and how to count tens and ones. My students just love Math Work Stations and so do I. They're so much better than doing "centers" and I love that they get to play games. They don't know they're doing "work". To them it's play.
We worked on contractions, and I read to them about bald eagles. We listed things they learned about the birds and students wrote about them. I meant to bring them home and show you some. They did great! We do a first grade Patriotic Program at the end of February so it's fun to do these patriotic projects.
Tomorrow I have sub since I'm going to a Common Core workshop. I'm really looking forward to learning more about them. My sub is a retired second grade teacher. Yeah! I thought it would make my sub plans easier, but I was wrong. Oh well, at least they'll be in good hands.
I wanted to say some thank-you's today too.
Thanks to my Valentine Exchange partner, Amy, in New Jersey. I got her gift yesterday in the mail. On Valentine's Day- how perfect. She sent this great collection of pink things. Yummy treats, wonderful smelling lotion and a not pad. I just love it all! Thanks Amy!

Also, did you participate in the Class Valentine Exchange? We did and my students loved making valentine's for their new "friends" in Mrs. Thoreson's 1st grade class in North Dakota and Mrs. Hancock's kindergarten class in Ohio. We got valentine's from both them and I wanted to share these from  Mrs. Hancock's class.

Aren't they adorable? I'm sorry I didn't take pictures of the other ones before sending them home, but they were cute too.

A shout-out to Christina Bainbridge. Did you see her post about her Back-to-Back assessment game? I can't wait to try it! She posted a great video about it on her blog too. Thanks so much, Christina!

Hope you enjoyed your Valentine's Day! Here comes St. Patrick's Day! Does your leprechaun leave green footprints around your classroom?

 Chrissy

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"How'd You Meet Your Hunny?" linky party

I had the day off today. Yippee! Off, off, off. And you know what I did with it? Come on, guess..... I went to school for a few hours. Did you get it right? Did you do the same thing? I cleaned and wrote lesson plans for the week and got out some patriotic projects and books to work on during the next couple weeks. I made my valentines for my class for tomorrow and these little goodies for my instructional aides and the fabulous ladies that work in our office.

And then I discovered Ms. Chrissy B's linky party "How'd You Meet Your Hunny?"

So here's how I met mine:
We actually met in high school. At the end of my freshman year in high school one of my friends started talking about her new boyfriend. "He's rich and romantic," she kept saying but she'd never let us meet him. So when school started again, she introduced a few of us to him one day by her locker. And that's it- how we met anyway. My friends and Greg spent time together at lunch, etc. like people do during the school day. He was nice and we got to know each other some but were just friends. They ended up breaking up before the school year was over and he graduated at the end of it.
The following school year Tony, a friend of Greg's and a friend of mine, said something about seeing Greg and I said to tell him hello since I hadn't seen him in a while (truly just a casual hello). Well, Greg called and asked me out on a date and we continued to go out for a few months. We split up then got back together a couple years later after running in to each other at the local community college. After dating for less than a year, I moved 5 hours away to go to college (my junior year). The next May his job took him to North Carolina and then to New York. No one thought a long distance relationship like this would last, but because he flew back when he could and we paid the phone company LOTS of money, it worked out fine. We met 26 years ago and have been married just over 16 years.  And in case you remembered from the beginning of this story, the "romantic" part turned out to be true. I'm still waiting for the "rich" part.

 Happy Valentine's Day to all my bloggy friends!
 Chrissy

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You Know You're a Teacher When...

Oh boy, we do have a lot in common, don't we? Sometimes I find there are things about me that only another teacher can understand
Jeannie at Kindergarten Lifestyle is having a "You Know You're a Teacher When..." linky party and has a pinterest page for it too. Here are mine:

Have a fun day!
 Chrissy

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And the winner is...

 Thanks to my 100+ followers! I means so much just to know that you're stopping by. As for my giveaway

Rachel is the winner of the $15 TPT gift certificate. Thanks for entering my giveaway!

 Chrissy

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A Sweet Treat & a Giveaway!-updated

I've closed this giveaway. Thanks to all those who entered. The winner will be posted in just a few hours.
 Chrissy

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Currently in February...

It's that time again. Farley's wonderful Currently linky party. It's so much fun to see what we're all up too. How was your Monday? Mine was fine- spelling pretests, math work stations, students doing GREAT at memorizing their math facts, some good journal writing, and a visit to the library. Husband had a great day at work too. Now it's relaxing and winding down. So here's my currently:

By the way, did you see a few super math game freebies? You might want to check out Barbara's subtraction BUMP game at Grade ONEderful

and Love Bugs from Heather's Heart


Have a great week!  Chrissy

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What Do You Love? and promised word work freebies

It's Superbowl Sunday. Are you watching? I'm tuning in to the commercials while my husband watches the game. Football has never been a big interest to me, but he enjoys the big games. Hope you're having fun whatever it is you're up to today.
I'm loving this extra time to blog and blogstalk. I've also been finishing up the word work freebie I posted about a while ago. Between those things, I'm sneezing and coughing and hoping this cold goes away soon. It started when I was leaving school Thursday afternoon and hasn't gone away yet. Tomorrow Mrs. Heath might be running a little slower than usual. I'll be glad to have library time in the afternoon for a little break.
But on to other things. Kimberly at Funky First Grade Fun is having a What Do You Love? linky party. Just in time for Valentine's Day- what a great idea! That will certainly be a theme in Room 7 this week.
Here's my list. I can't wait to read yours.

Also, here's that Word Work Freebie. I started it and promised more. It was harder than I thought it would be to think of rhyming words the kids could draw pictures of. These are for long E, A, I, and O words. Just click on the picture to download. There is another long A page on my first Write, Read, Draw post that you can grab too. Hope it's useful for you.

UPDATE (January 2013): I've added more of these Write, Read, and Draw sheets. You can find all that I have (so far, at least) HERE.
Have a wonderful week!

 Chrissy

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