Meet the SNOKLAHOMA teacher

Well I have not left my house in 3 days...4 tomorrow! My town has had a lot of snow days lately. We missed groundhogs day and the 100th day has been canceled twice! The day we come back (whenever that is) will finally be the 100th day! We re expecting more snow this weekend, so I am not sure if we will be back on Monday or not! This doesn't give me much time to participate in the fun pen pal group Mrs. Perry is hosting! However, we will enjoy the time we have and hopefully fit in some skypeing among our celebrations of the 100th day and valentines day!
Sooooo....with all the snow at my place here is a link to my other blog that shows what I have been doing
SNOKLAHOMA FUN WITH MY BOYS!
CLICK HERE FOR SNOKLAHOMA PART 2

Now I’m linking up for the Meet the Teacher “Linky Party” from The First Grade Parade
Here is the Q & A

Q: What would you be doing if you weren’t a teacher?
A: I would be a stay at home mom. :) But really as a teacher I get to do that in the summer. The job with 2 worlds!

Q: What are your hobbies?
A: lesson planning! lol
I like to take pictures but I don't like to scrapbook. I do love my cricut...but I just make craft stuff,

Q: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: I wanted to be Miss America! lol

Q: What are your guilty pleasures?
A: ahhhh junior mints and reeses and dr pepper!

Q: What is your biggest fear?!
A: something happening to my children

Q: When you’re on vacation, where do you like to go?
A: FLORIDA

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
A: sometimes you have to start over

Q: What do you value most in others?
A: honesty




Q: If you could choose one of your personality traits to pass down to your kids, what would it be?
A: Understanding....not so quick to judge negatively

Q: If you could have lunch with anyone in the world….living or dead…who would it be?
A: Never been that in to famous people. I think I would choose my boys every time.


Now tell us one random thing about yourself:

I love paper... I always want to buy cute little notepads or scrapbook paper even if I don't know hat to do with it or need it. It all started when my Grandma took me shopping for art stuff every time I stayed the night with her when I was little.

Oklahoma SNOW! updated 4:40

Ok! i know this is not "teachery stuff" But I have to share! I am so excited! We don't get weather like this often here in Oklahoma! My sidewalk is filled with 15 inches of snow and it is still falling strong!
Sadly, this is the second time our 100th day of school has been canceled for snow! Last week it was supposed to be on Friday but we did not have school Thursday or Friday! And now today was supposed to be the 100th day but.....No one can get out! Emergency vehicles are all in 4 wheel drive vehicles now. We just heard one of them picked up a stranded Dr. who was headed to the hospital to deliver a baby! YIKES!!
15 inches!!!!

Now it is a few hours later and I have more snow!!! This is measured in the same spot as the one above.19 inches!!

And this is my porch!!! 22 inches!

And one last thing! My 4 year old opened the door in the garage and...

Valentine Boxes

So I usually have my students decorate Valentines Day bags in class, but this year I decided to do something different. I asked them to decorate a shoebox anyway they wanted and bring it to class. I have only received one back so far, but it is sooooo cute I had to post it!

He made one for me too! I love frogs and all the kids know it. I love it so much I will use it for years to come!

Groundhog Activities

Yay! I actually did it! I made something and figured out how to share it...thanks to my sweet, helpful husband!
So tell me what you think...be easy though, it is my first thing to upload ever! lol
I can tell you what parts I wish were better....
1. I would have liked to make the ground partner with his shadow or a hole instead of another groundhog. (hopefully I will build up my clip art collection)
2. I could have made the recording sheet say ___+____=_______
3. I could have included pictures to make reading the words easier (again, need to build my clip art collection!)
Anyways, hopefully it is something someone will use. :)
Thank you for any feedback



Groundhog Compound Words


I like to put alot of different things in pocket charts! I just love them! Since groundhogs day is so close to the 100th day I thought this would blend in the week nicely


100 groundhogs


On groundhogs day I like to take my kids outside to check and see if they can see their own shadow. We trace our shadows with chalk and measure them. I used to use a ruler or yardstick, but I am sure you know that is very hard for them to keep tack of when measuring a large object. So, I though it would be cute to print off and laminate a bunch of groundhogs for them to measure with. We have 5th grade buddies to do activities with but you could could partner the kids up with another class or within your own class.

groundhog measurement

Nursery Rhyme - Baa Baa Black Sheep

I made this for my son's preschool teacher. It was very easy to do with the nursury rhyme cricut cartridge!

Nursery Rhymes - Little Boy Blue

This is a poster I made for my son's preschool class. I made it with my cricut and I am working on some others. I like the way it turned out!

Martin Luther King

I love this really cute Martin Luther King Jr. portrait activity that was posted by Mrs. Perry on her blog Primary Perspective. I went to the link on her site and purchased the template and instructions.
http://www.littlegiraffes.com/martinlutherking.html


Then, I found another site where you can print a dream sheet for free. The students can write their own dreams and glue them to the back on Martin's portrait.
The dream sheets are from
http://www.littlegiraffes.com/martinlutherking.html