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Pheww What a week! Five for Friday and New Blog Design!!

Soooo excited! I just got a new blog design! It's by A Bird in Hand Design! I am so in love with it. I literally emailed her yesterday afternoon, she got back to me right away. I emailed her my thoughts about how I would like it to look and filled out her super easy design form and by this morning she had it all installed and looking exactly how I imagined...actually even better because I was unsure of how certain patterns would go together but it turned out fabulously! What do you ... Read the Post

Who doesn’t love a little Mentos and Diet Coke?! Best Experiment!

Well folks, it's finally starting to wind down here for us Canadians who are still in school! I feel like I need a 2 month nap after this year (challenging class). BUT the good news is that we all survived and after months of learning goals and success criteria we are now focusing on all the fun stuff! Not that we didn't do fun things all year, because we did a ton of really great engaging and fun activities but there is nothing like those last couple weeks of school when report cards are ... Read the Post

Father’s Day

Phew...we had such a busy few days that I didn't have time to post about our Father's Day art project!This will be a quick post because tomorrow is our Play Day (Field Day for my American bloggers!) and I still have a bunch of things to prepare.Our Father's Day art project came about because a student of mine brought in some art to show our class from his Arabic school that he attends on the weekends. His artwork had an Arabic symbol that said something about remembering God.I thought his ... Read the Post

Is Your Classroom UnPINTERESTing? Link Up With Me!

So....I decided to post some pics of what I have going on in my room right now (which is frankly a tad scary).BUT I figure if I blog about it, then I have to fix it and post the after photos. So basically, I am using you all as my motivation (hope you don't mind!).I also thought that if I am feeling like my classroom needs some serious TLC, there must be others out there like me. All I ever see are pictures of these AMAZING classrooms on Pinterest and...well...my classroom is just ... Read the Post

Five For Friday!! TGIF Edition

TGIF Baby! I was soooo ready for the weekend! And here it is. I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching again for her Five For Friday linky. Be sure to check out her blog to read some other amazing blogs!So let's see, what DID I do this week???? Right. Report Cards. Lots of late nights writing and editing reports, BUT now they are done and I can enjoy my weekend. I've also spent way too much time on Pinterest planning out my classroom decor for next year. I pinned a ... Read the Post

Burning Questions!

My kids were on FIRE this week! Okay, not literally (in case you were thinking I was serious). I mentioned earlier this week that they came up with interesting questions to write about (we called them their "Burning Questions").Well they FINALLY published them today and I was super impressed with these little munchkins! We added flames to our writing for a little craftivity. Next year, I'll make the flame tracers a little smaller...but the kids thought it was awesome that we got to ... Read the Post