Hey y'all!
You know, I just l-o-v-e fall. The football, the festivals, and the family gatherings aplenty, all happen during this wonderful season. However, there is one eensy-weensy thing I don't like about fall. The weather.
While others are enjoying the changing colors of leaves and the joys of throwing on a cute jacket and boots, we get to try out stronger strengths of deodorant and pile on heaps of hair spray or gel to keep the frizz at bay.
{Not to mention our nightly prayers for no hurricanes to visit us.}
I mean, does it really have to be 90 degrees outside? We are melting.
I'd be thrilled with 80 degrees. Just not 90 (with Florida humidity, too.)
I can't complain, too much, though. I love all of the other seasons. I DO live in paradise.
Anyway, we've been having lots of fun in our classroom the past few weeks.
I started pulling reading groups with both the Firsties and K kids.
Kindergarten reading groups are SO much fun. They just love sitting with me ALL to themselves.
Also, my teamie, Kelly, and I spent two weeks on our Apple unit because we had so many activities for just one week. We culminated the unit with Sarah Cooley's Apple Tasting Party. What a blast! I'll share more about that later.
~~~~~~Now onto something FUN!~~~~~
It is the beginning of the month, which means it is time for Farley's famous CURRENTLY Linky Party!
Here is mine for October:
I'll just explain some of my topics:
*Loving - Cara featured one of my anchor charts on her fabulous blog, The First Grade Parade! Words cannot express how excited and honored I feel about this. I could die happy now! Also, (and this is not nearly as exciting) I bought a new pair of purple cords and I love them SO much. They are cute and comfy. Perfect teacher pants!
*Thinking - Lesson planning has never taken me so long to do before this year. The CCSS and teaching K and 1 are both a huge undertaking. Our leadership team has strongly advised us to NOT use our Reading Series. Which would have been manageable, if I was only teaching one grade. But teaching two grades and pretty much inventing my own curriculum, including all of the advised RIGOR, has been very time consuming!
*Needing - Our district remade the report cards to reflect the CCSS and it is not teacher or parent friendly. I have NO IDEA how I am going to explain it to my parents. I don't even understand why they picked some topics and not others. I'm very frustrated with it totally. You should see it. Blech!
*Book - Inside a House That is Haunted, by Alyssa Satin Capucilli. This is a fun book to read aloud and to listen to the audio version.
Also, everyone loves Tedd Arnold's illustrations.
Well, that's it for now, but I'll be back...
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