Sunday Scoop

I must say that even though it is Sunday and Spring Break is almost over, I am excited to go back and crank out our last 37 days!!!

Have: We are starting our Animal Unit tomorrow and our safari guides need big brown paper bags!!! Laundry, so we can be presentable for our week back at it!! Pack up all the things for the week that are EVERYWHERE!!! I spent a little time prepping for our fun unit and now it's time to make sure everything gets to school!!

Hope:  I have a plan for April (personal & professional) and I really want to stick to it!! And I might be obsessing a bit about our house selling... BUT hearing the word SOLD would be music to my ears!

Love: Joey & I had a great Spring Break and I am going to miss our slow moving mornings and cuddles, so we are going to hit the playground and have some fun!!!! What better way to wrap up Spring Break!!!!

That's my scoop!

Sunday Sccop

A Sunday Scoop with a Monday off, AMAZING!!! So that means I'll get it all done right???

HAVE: The laundry looks like it blew up!! Seriously, there are only 2 of us!!! Spring fever is in the air and the need to clean and PURGE is real!!! Since the arrival of my little cutie, my car has become a hot mess!!! It really needs a little TLC!

HOPE: I have a few station activities I need prepped so they are ready to go! Joey and I have been together for 367 days and this coming weekend we will have separate mini vacays!! I know she is going to be in amazing hands but I still want to get her a few goodies from me!!!

LOVE: As much as I am worried & nervous about our first mini vacay away from each other, I am over the moon excited about meeting amazing teachers this weekend at the Teacher Retreat at French Lick!!! So excited!! 

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Sunday Scoop

March is almost here, I can smell it!!! I will admit February is one of my least liked months. It is blah and by the end, I am ready for the arrival of Spring!!! Leap year means one more day of February, I am trying to deal! Here's a look at what I have on the agenda this week!

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Sunday Scoop

I mean I say it every week, but time is flying!!

Here is my Sunday Scoop!

HAVE: Valentine's gifts for those I love!!!

Laminate!! A little behind but February centers will be laminated and ready to go today!

DIBELS!! Just when we finish, we are told to do the TRC and start progress monitoring!!! Want to stay on top of progress monitoring, so trying to come up with a plan!!!

HOPE:  These two items will probably be permanent fixtures!! I love blogging and feel great when I do it, so it once again is on the list and selling the house...well that's a given!!! Open House today, hoping for a buyer!!

LOVE: Spend Valentine's Day with Joey! It is her last "first" holiday!! If that makes any sense!?!?! It is hard to believe she has almost been home a WHOLE year!!!

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Sunday Scoop

Seriously, how is today the last Sunday of January?? Don't get me wrong January isn't a favorite month of mine!!!! I like cold and snow, when it is Christmas cold and snow...January cold is a different thing:)

I do love myself new beginnings & a fresh new month is awesome!!!  

Here's a little look at my Sunday Scoop!

HAVE: Somehow Groundhogs Day crept on me, so I am going pull together a story and activity!! I finally finished DIBELS testing!!! I was blown away by my little firsties!!! We have some amazing readers, so I am excited to plan guided reading groups.  Soooo excited and anxious to get my taxes done, but first I have to pull all the paperwork together!!!

HOPE: I can't believe we are one month away from Joey's 1 year HOMECOMING DAY!!!! I have been meaning to make a book of our trip and also of her first year home!!! Time to get busy!!!  I say it every week, but BLOGGING is back on the priority list!!!! Watch out February, this blogger is ready and focused!!!

LOVE: I 💗 my student teacher who has been with us for 8 days!!! She is a natural!! So blessed to get to see her grow into an even better teacher. This week, she is pretty much taking over and I can't wait to see what she comes up with!!!

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Sunday Scoop

Where is time going? I mean one more week of January??? Yikes!!! 2016 is apparently filled with great things so we are flying through it. Obviously I can say that because I am not buried with feet of snow or inches of ice, like those south and east of me, I assume they will have a few more snow days in their future!

This week looks to be a good one, check out my Scoop!

HAVE: First up plan 100th day!! I am excited for this day and hope to execute all my ideas!!!  We are in the process of DIBELING!!! I need to finish as the closing date is coming up and I want to update my reading station groups!! I want to blog a little more this week, especially about our PBIS Boot Camp (our first week back)!

HOPE:  My hair is in MAJOR need of hair coloring, so let's hope that gets fixed!!!! Even more exciting,  my teaching bestie/twin Milly from at Miss K's Little Rays and I are hoping to turn our Peek At My Week blog post into a linky!! I know there are a few out there, but we adapted ours to be a quick snapshot of our week!!!! If you or any of your teaching friends would like to join!!! We would love it!!!! Go to

LOVE: Last week our student teacher started!! She started last week and it is already evident she is going to be an awesome teacher!!! This week she will start taking over a few things!!! I can't wait to see her in action!!!

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Sunday Scoop

Not sure where this weekend went, but it is Sunday!!!! Which means I am linking up with the Teaching Trio to blog about my Sunday Scoop!

3.  I am printing and finalizing plans because I will be reporting to Jury Duty on Monday morning instead of Room 105! This week we start our Mo Wilems unit, and I am sad to miss the kick-off! I have lots of printing and prep to do, so it starts off like I want it to! And sadly enough, more laundry!!!

2.  I am trying to have all our clothes organized for each day, it makes our mornings run much more smoothly! I also hope to watch the Golden Globes and check out all the dresses!!

3. We got SNOW!! I am anxious to get Joey out and have some fun!!!!

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Sunday Scoop

It's that Sunday!!! What Sunday you ask? The last Sunday of break.  I am ready to see my kiddos and get back into a routine, but setting an alarm and not snuggling with my little love bug will be hard.  

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Sunday Scoop

Sunday Scoop Time!!!  As always this time of the year is busy and this week is NO exception!!!!  A huge thanks to the Teaching Trio for hosting the Sunday Scoop Linky so I can organize my "to-do's"!

HAVE TO:  Seriously laundry NEVER stops!!!  It has to be done today!!!  My car use to be a little messy, enter my favorite three year old and it looks like a HOT mess....that will change today!  Friday is our class Winter Festival, perhaps I should get going on the planning of that extravaganza!!!

HOPE TO:  Christmas is going to sneak up on me and I am behind on shopping, and to complicate things further, I have to mail some gifts!!!  A long shot----hope---but my house is for sale and to sell it would be AWESOME!!!!!

HAPPY TO:  Joey is going to meet Santa!!! I am excited to see how she does.  She is loving all that is the Christmas season, so this should be a fun night for her!!!

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Sunday Scoop

I am happy to report that we had a GREAT week of vacation/holiday celebrations!!!  Joey absolutely loved the beach and I loved the relaxation of seeing her play!  The weather wasn't spectacular but we had a great time, we ate, played, and shopped, what more could two girls ask for!  As soon as we came back we jumped right into Fourth of July celebrations.  I have always liked fireworks, but this year was special...Joey's first 4th!!  It was amazing and today marks 4 months since we came home...YIKES!!!

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Have:  I am working 2 days/a week for a summer camp in my town, three weeks down three weeks to go!  I have been frustrated with my TV/Internet provider many times and I am finally going to call them and see what can be done!!!  I have so much laundry to put away from vacation (as well as everything that didn't get put away before vacation.)

Hope:  I am one of those people who loves to make their classroom FUN and cute!!!  I loved my colors last year but didn't love my theme....so I am trying to think of a new one!!!  It has rained so much that Joey has not gotten her outside time and being on vacation reminded me how much she LOVES the outdoors.  So praying for SUN!!!!

Happy:  A group of my girlfriends and I are trying out a new restaurant in town and I can't wait!!!

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Sunday Scoop

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This week we leave for VACATION!!!!

I am excited and can't wait to see what Joey thinks of the beach.  I hope I get everything done!!!

Have:  My house and car are a MESS!!! A deep clean is necessary but that might have to wait until AFTER vacay:)  I finally have a new desk and can't wait to get rid of my current "office" area!!  My body is screaming for something that is ergonomically correct!!!

Hope:  Over the summer, I attempt to catch up with friends, I miss during the school year!  Hopefully this week, I will get to do just that and get Joey to another playground!  Preferably a playground that isn't MUDDY and flooded! Life in Illinois has been a little wet...to say the least!!!

Happy: I am over the moon thrilled to take Joey on our first vacation!!  Growing up we went somewhere every summer and I love the memories I have from those trips!!! Time to start making some memories with my little one!!

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Sunday Scoop

Where did this week go?  I looked back at my "scoop" from last week and my success rate wasn't too high.  I am going to cut myself a break, since it is summer!!!  Let's hope the monsoon season we have been in, moves on!  This girl wants some SUN!!!

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Sunday Scoop

Who agrees with me that just one of the many highlights of summer is a Sunday night, where you don't have to set your alarm for the next day?  I just finished binge watching the end of Nashville and I am not even tired!!!  So I decided to tackle my Sunday Scoop with the Teaching Trio!  It really helped me keep centered last week and I am happy to report, everything got accomplished!!!  

Let's hope this week is just as successful!!

Have to:

I really hope to follow my blogging schedule and think I am actually going to sign up for the TPT (SELLER) Challenge!  I have 90 miles to go in my personal challenge and I know I can do it, and Joey and I both have some appointments that need to get scheduled, but the thought of sitting on the phone is NOT appealing....which makes this a HAVE to do...as I am behind schedule on them!

Hope to:

I hope to clean my basement and garage!  Both have become "storage" areas for stuff.  I need to get things organized and of course PURGE!!!

Happy to:

This week the rain did not help our Playground Tour, but we did make it to one spot!  I hope we can add two new spots this week!!!

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The Sunday Scoop

I love that I am excited after writing today's Sunday Scoop!  Why might you ask?  One word = SUMMER !!!!

I am excited to conquer my summer to do list.  I am throwing it out there every chance I get as I need accountability!!!

So here is my Sunday Scoop!!!!  Thanks Teaching Trio for a fun way to narrow down my goals for the week.

HAVE:

My team and I have struggled with Reading.  We don't have a basal text, but rather a "pacing guide".  The problem is it really isn't aligned with Common Core and it is very chopping.  This year we had wanted to do author/theme studies, but it wasn't as planned as I would have liked.  So this year, we have some teachers moving and one of my teaching buddies is coming down from 4th to 1st!  She is amazing when it comes to curriculum and I am so excited to sit down with her and create our plan.  We even have money to buy new books!!  I know, a dream come true..right??  Our school started a summer check in program last year and it was awesome.  We have made some changes and know that this year it will be even better.  I have to organize the work packets so they are ready to be passed out!  My house is LONG overdue for a DEEP clean!  It must begin this week!

HOPE:

It looks like summer temperatures are going to come to Illinois this week!  So hopefully Joey and I can hit the pool!  We will also begin our morning walks tomorrow!!

HAPPY:

I am happy to enjoy every minute of summer!!!  Enough said!!!

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The Sunday Scoop

Once again, I am linking up with The Teaching Trio for their Sunday Scoop.  I just love how it keeps me organized.  As the school year is winding down, my to do list only gets bigger!  

So many things to do, but such an exciting time!!!  

Here's my SCOOP!

Have To Do: Our PTO is FABULOUS!! We are so lucky to have them and they are over the top generous!!  A few years ago they started letting us submit proposals for funding (in addition to the money they give every team) for special projects that we wanted to do.  My first grade team got the idea to end the year a little differently, from our Kinder team.  So we have decided to do an Amelia Bedelia unit for the final four weeks of school!  We are proposing that PTO give us the money to buy 4 full class sets of Amelia Bedelia books so we can rotate them and do fun review activities.  Wish us luck! Small Group Reading is going well but I want to switch out some of our activities for May.  Last year, we had a summer check-in program for our kiddos!  They could check in at various places in our city with teachers and get summer work to practice and maintain their skills.  They would get prizes if they checked in and they all got t-shirts when we got back to school, that they could wear as part of their uniform!  A few things worked great and a couple things we want to tweak...but the days are flying by, so we need to get busy fine tuning the program!

Hope To Do: I need spring/summer clothes soooo badly!  Having a two year old makes it a little harder to shop!  She also has very few short sleeve shirts and little girl can sweat!  I also want to come up with a cleaning schedule.  I don't want to worry about spending my Saturday so the house is clean, when J and I could be having fun!!! I also don't want a house, I am embarrassed to have guests over to.  I think it is important I find a happy medium and come up with an easy schedule that I will follow.

Happy To Do:  I was asked by a very special young lady to be her confirmation sponsor.  I am honored to be asked and can't wait to walk with her on her faith journey.  I have a feeling we will both learn a lot together.

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I'm back...

Well not only have I not been tending to my fun blog, I have also not taught in 4 1/2 weeks!  I have however learned a lot in the past 4 1/2 weeks....I have learned how to be a mom!!!  February 26th, I left my house and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.  I headed to Haiti and was able to pick up my little girl!  She is amazing and we have transitioned incredibly well.  I am sure you will hear more about her but for now....here's my Sunday Scoop!!!  I head back on Wednesday for a few days with my firsties and Joey heads to the babysitter!  Hope we both find success!!!  Thanks to the Teaching Trio for the great linky!!!

This is a busy week but a great reward awaits me...SPRING BREAK!!!!  I have big plans for Joey and I, as well as some school projects!!!!  Stay tuned as I hope to give my blog some much needed attention!!!

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Sunday Scoop

Linking up with the Teaching Trio for The Sunday Scoop.  

I love the opportunity to give myself another way to stay on track.  

I mean who doesn't love a list!?!?!  

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Sunday Scoop

I am ready for this week!  I am planned and ready to go.  My baby girl is coming home (not this week).  And next weekend is a 3 day weekend!! Here's a look at my Sunday Scoop!  

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I have to remember to HAVE FUN!!  I work with 6 & 7 year olds and if I am not having fun, then most likely they aren't either.  This week, I am going to stop and remember that they are 6 & 7.  We are bringing the fun back to learning!!!  We will do this if I follow my plans, as I tried hard to over plan and make it exciting!!!  Lastly, if we are having fun...then we need pictures!!  Tune in later in the week for some pictures!!

I hope to shampoo my floors as it looks like a month from today, I will have a 2 year old living in my house!!!  WOO HOO!!  She deserves clean floors!  I also have a huge to do list to conquer before I depart to bring her home, both professionally and personally!!

I am happy to start the countdown, 22 days til we are a FAMILY FOREVER!!!!

The Sunday Scoop

One of my goals for 2015 is to be more accountable!!  The Sunday Scoop from Teaching Trio  will help me do just that!!! Here's my scoop...

This week I have to plan our 100th day, I mean it is FRIDAY!!! I am going with a Rock N Roll theme and can't wait to start putting all my ideas (thank you Pinterest) to paper!  No Worksheet Wednesday has been a goal of mine and this Wednesday is a half day, certainly I can handle a half day with no worksheets!  It may be time to switch Math Workshop groups, so I am working on exit tickets to know who is getting it and who needs some more help!  

I hope to start making visual plans!  I tried last week and realized my plans are BORING!! So I am conquering this goal soon! This week I hope to start practicing adding more of my Pinterest finds into my plans.  One of my professional goals is to reflect and document what we do in our room!  Pictures are the best day to do that, I must start snapping more of our activities!!!

And, I am more then happy to end Monday with The Bachelor and my girlies!!!  Anyone else watching this season?  We love Prince Farming, I mean after all we are bunch of Midwestern girls:)

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All good things must come to an end...

Winter Break is ALMOST over!!  Tomorrow we have Teacher's Institute from 8-1 and then kiddos are back on Tuesday.  I have some goals for 2015, I mean who doesn't?  So this is the year to quit just talking about it and do it!  So be prepared to walk inside Room 105 and see the awesomeness that occurs!

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I also did some work on a little Number Order center for my Math Workshop kiddos and decided to share it as a freebie!  It is simple and ink friendly!  I plan to use it this week and will hopefully show how it works.  If you are interested, check it out at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Waddle-Number-Order-1632431

Have a great week!!!