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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Just Hanging Out With Each Other in 3rd Grade







My 3rd grade team and I, thought it would be cute to have our students interview each other and create a short biography on their partner. They went through the entire writing process and published their writing by pasting it to their construction paper rendition of their partner. We hung them in the hall for Open House. What do you think?


Muy Bueno Landform Models

One of the teachers on my team did this project a few years ago and thought it might be a good way to assess our students understanding of landforms. Each student painted a thick, oval paper plate 1/2 blue and 1/2 green, and then made models of 9 different landforms out of modeling clay. We used gray, dark brown, light brown, red, royal blue, and green clay. Students cut the labels by folding and cutting index cards and then sticking them into each clay form. The flat green plate represented the flat plains, and the blue represented the ocean. I think they turned out great and the kids had SO much FUN making them!














Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Check Out Classroom Freebies!

I just joined as a contributor for a great new blog called Classroom Freebies! This Thursday and Friday will be our "GRAND OPENING." Drop by and grab as many freebies as your computer can hold!!
Classroom freebies

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Great Gift Card Giveaway!

I know I am breaking the blogging rules, but I just had to tell you about a great giveaway that ends on this next Wednesday. Ashleigh over at Education Journey is giving away a $25 gift card to Amazon to celebrate getting through the first weeks of school. Go visit her to check it out!
Ashleigh's Education Journey

A 2nd Versatile Blogger Award



I just can't believe it! I was super surprised when I got this award the first time, but now that I received it a second time, I'm just about speechless. Thank you so much Heather, from Mrs. Robinson's Classroom, for nominating me for this award. I am so grateful to all my fellow teacher bloggers for all the info, ideas, and inspiration I have received. I hope to pay it forward by posting 15 more blog sites. Like Heather said, it is so hard to pick just 15, but now I get the chance to pick 15 more. Following are the Award Rules:

*Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.
*Share 7 things about yourself.
*Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.

But first, 7 things about me (I promise I'll be brief this time)....

1. I love country music, especially George Straight
2. My favorite time of year is Christmas. I love to decorate my house and gather with family and friends.
3. I love Italian and Mexican food, and I love to eat out!
4. I love the San Antonio Spurs and wish I could afford season passes (not on a teacher's salary).
5. I love to shop for anything and everything.
6. I love to read. My classroom library is almost as big as our school library. I can never pass up a good book.
7. I love animals, especially puppies. My dog is little, so he will forever be a puppy.

AND .....here is the moment you've been waiting for, my 15 blog site picks:

I Made My Very Own Blog Signature for FREE!!!

I just made my own signature for my blog by following the directions on eHow and MyLive Signature. My Live Signature lets you create it and eHow tells you how to put it in your blog. The first two templates are free. You can either pick a script (like I did), or hand write you signature with the mouse or a pen, AND you can also pick the color. When you post, you will need to go to Edit Html to move it down first, otherwise it will be at the top of your post, but I feel that's a small inconvenience for it being free. If anyone figures out another way to make it automatically appear at the bottom, let me know. Happy Blogging:)

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Summary Roller Coaster Freebie

I made this graphic organizer to help students be able to recognize and write a summary. I hope you find it useful.

Summary Roller Coaster Graphic Organizer Freebie

For more help with summaries visit my store at TpT or Teachers NB and check out my packet on the Summary Roller Coaster!




Thursday, September 22, 2011

New Facebook Page and Great Facebook Linky Party

made by Leelou


I would like to invite all of my followers to visit my new Facebook page by clicking on the pennant above. I just created it so I could join the fabulous linky party that the Lesson Plan Diva is hosting, and link up with more educators and discover new blogs to stalk! Click on the link below to check out all the great blogs that have already linked up. They're even sorted! What more could a blog stalker ask for?


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Terri's Teaching Treasures Giveaway


Terri over at Terri's Teaching Treasures is having a great giveaway in celebration of her birthday. Go over there and sign up! She is giving away items from her TpT store for free! There will be a total of 5 lucky winners (I secretly hope I one of them). Oops, did I say that out loud?

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Blogger Award




I was just checking my email in between grading papers, and low and behold, I got an email from the Teeny Tiny Teacher saying that she was giving me an award. I couldn't believe it. Me? I was SOOOOOOO excited, to say the least. The Teeny Tiny Teacher is like a celebrity in the blogging community AND she has like over 500 followers ( I have about 28 for far, but I love every one of them!)AND she picked ME to receive the Versatile Blogger Award!

A Teeny Tiny Teacher


I would like to thank, thank, thank Kristen for bestowing this award on me. I will try my best to live up to the expectations of such an honor. I would also like to thank the great teachers I work with and all the wonderful teachers in Teacher Blog Land for being such an inspiration to me, especially my good friend Meghan whose blog site is Oh My 4th Grade! She is the one who encouraged me to create my blog and she is constantly telling me about things like Linky Parties, TpT, Teachers NB, Pinterst, etc...It's a whole other world out here in Blogger Land.

AND NOW..... (per the rules) I have to tell you 7 things about myself, so.....

1. Teaching is my second career. I worked in retail for 22 years, then went back to college at the age of 39 and earned my masters and teaching certification at the same time. I had my daughter at the age of 36 (my only child) and I wanted to be able to be with her throughout her schooling and not have to work every holiday and weekend. My husband says I work more hours now then I did in retail, but it's different. I stay at school late, work at home, and think about school all of the time because I want to, not because I have to.

2. My dad passed away in September my first year of teaching from a heart attack, and my mom passed away 15 months later in December,from colon cancer(that was really tough). But, now I have two angels in heaven watching out for me :)

3. My favorite movies are True Lies, Demolition Man, and Something about Mary (I almost peed in my pants during the hair gel scene).

4. I love to decorate. I decorated my almost 3,000 sq ft house all by my lonesome. I even took a college course in decorating and worked with a group of decorators for about a year, but it was very difficult to get clients on your own. Someday, I would love for my husband to build custom homes (his dream job) and I get to decorate them (my dream).

5. My husband, my child, and I, go to the Parade of Homes EVERY year to get ideas for a dream home that we want to build ourselves (we already have the land and the floor plan, but have to sell our current house first). Hopefully, building our dream house could be the start to realizing the dream above.

6. My sisters (I have two) and I LOVE TO SHOP!!! Almost every time we get together (Oh, who am I kidding), EVERY time we get together you can bet there will be some kind of shopping trip. Only thing about this hobby is, you gotta have $$$ and that's getting harder and harder to come by.

AND finally .....

7. I would love to be able to travel around the world when (and if) I ever retire. I would love to visit Greece, Spain, Germany, Italy, Hawaii, and the northern U.S. I have been to New Mexico, the tip of Colorado, California, Florida (Disney World) Juarez, Mexico (a long time ago... wouldn't dare go there now, it's not safe), and twice to Cancun. That's the extent of my traveling thus far. I don't want to move, I just want to visit. I am truly a TEXAS girl at heart and refuse to live anywhere else. We moved once, to New Mexico, and moved back just as soon as we could. It was nice, but just not home.

Now the rules say to pass this award onto 15 bloggers, so check them out!

RULES: *Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.
*Share 7 things about yourself.
*Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.





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Mrs. Bainbridge's Class


3rd Grade's a Hoot






















Parts of Speech Freebie

I just posted a new freebie on both my TpT and Teachers NB stores. I hope you find it useful. Happy weekend!!! (I know it looks like the words are off on the bottom, but I downloaded it, and it looked normal.)
Parts of Speech Freebie

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Rounding Freebie

I have been working on a rounding unit to place on TpT and Teacher's NB and I'm finally done. To celebrate, I've decided to give a preview freebie for all you hard working teachers. Hope you like it!
Rounding Freebie

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Currently Linky Party

My friend over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade is having a fantabulous linky party. To participate, write down what you are currently:
listening
loving
thinking
wanting
needing
&stalking
(include 3 Blogs one has to be non teacher
one has to be a newbie (under 50 followers) and then your choice) so here is mine..




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