It's Friday night, I'm exhausted! We have had quite a week! We practiced and learned 4 parts of the Daily 5 in Reading. The students are using the phrase "breaking stamina" and trying to build their stamina so that next week I can start to conference with individual students. 

We drew Self-Portraits today and I noticed that I have some great artists in my classroom! :-)

We are learning latitude and longitude in Social Studies and that same concept keeps turning up in Math with our coordinate grids.

We started selling Freeze Pops for $1.00 after school as a fundraiser for our field trip. And yes! Today they were actually frozen! Lesson learned: the pops do not freeze when place in the freezer in the box. We will sell them all next week too. Bring your money! Help us pay for the bus!

Parents and Students: DON'T FORGET TO BRING HEAD PHONES OR EAR BUDS! We will need these next week when we go to computer lab.

Mixed emotions today. I'm excited to be putting the finishing touches on the classroom and my plans, but a little sad that the summer went so fast! One more week til BACK TO SCHOOL!

I think I will be ready.   ;-)

I've cleaned, rearranged, painted and cleaned some more. I wish I would have thought to take before and after pictures, but I didn't. :-( 

Mr. Ron and Mr. Brown installed white boards this week and THEY ARE GREAT!! Everything is shaping up quite nicely. A few more days of vacation. . I can't wait to see my old students and meet some new ones!