What a busy week ahead of me!

Thursday I'm leaving for Cozumel! My first real vacation since my non-paid student teaching! It's going to be so nice! I've never been. Any suggestions while I'm there?!

Before Thursday I have a long list of things to do. Here's just some it...

1. Laundry! Like 4 loads of it!
2. Find birth certificate and suitcase... and pack!!!
3. Meet with teammates tomorrow at Starbuck's.
4. Pick up some last minutes items.
5. Mani/pedi.
6. Hair.
7. Buy books to read.
8. Gym.

All needs to be done tomorrow!!

Anchor charts... Ahoy!

Today, I added an Anchor Chart link to my classroom website. This way my students always have access to them. Below I have posted some of my kids favorites from last year. Many of them came from pins on Pinterest. I have no idea who to give credit to but thank you if it was you.

These were created at the beginning of the year. Anytime I took them down to put new charts up my kids would find me a new place to them so they could stay. "You have to keep the question mark up!"

 

I used this during one of my observations (being a first year teacher I had to do 3, yuck). My principal loved it so much she had me explain it to my team during a PLC meeting. My kids loved it even more! Throughout the year we added more symbols so I had to create a new one because it looked so sloppy.

This was one I found some where on Pinterest. Super helpful for my little word detectives.

Last shopping trip before Cozumel!

Went shopping with my mom and sister this evening. Our version of a girls night out. And back home by 9 lol. I'm super excited about my purchases! Picked up two new books from B&N and this beautiful blue crossover on clearance at AE that $12 and some change.

So far I've read the first page of The Light Between Oceans and I am hooked. Both books were suggested by two different ladies I tutor with. Kahn is one of the biggest names in common core right now. Great information to 1:1 and flipped classroom. I meeting with my teammate nest week to get from the book Flip Your Classroom. Which one do I bring with me on my cruise? All 3 :)

We had dinner at Fresh Cafe. I had a turkey avocado wrap with a quinoa salad, and lemonade green tea. Deliciousness overload. Highly recommended!

Well, I'm out. About to curl up with one of these fab reads!

Favorite Pins Friday!

This is my first Favorite Pin Friday! 

 

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 First off, thank you Ladybug's Teacher Files for this!

I really could have used this this year. I swear those kids eat pencils!

 

Unfortunately, the Pin I have was not link to the original post.
If anyone knows please let me know! But anyways, how great is this?

This bracelet from Blessed Garden!

Floral dresses! Like this gorgeous one from The Stylish Housewife.

I don't know if I want to go back to wearing dress pants next year.

This dish located on ReadySetEat looks amazing and healthy. 

I'll let you know how it is!

Now for something sweet! Pecan Pie Bars from The Comfort of Cooking.

I love pecans. This looks lethal!

Well, that's it for this Friday. Hope you saw something that was "pinteresting" to you!

My favorite classroom apps

Since I will be trying out a flipped classroom next year, the newest common core craze, I have been spending all my downtime the last few days researching and trying out loads of website and apps in hopes to find a platform that is clean and engaging for my students. Here are a few that I have played with that have met my high standards.

	Parents can now download the ClassDojo App to monitor their child’s behavior throughout the day. I will post more details on how I used this last year. My kids absolutely loved it. Android: Search Google Play or visit www.classdojo.com/android Apple: Search the Apple App Store or visit www.classdojo.com/ios Other devices: visit www.classdojo.com/mobile
	Students take a placement test and then work at their own pace. After I created my teacher account, I enrolled myself as a "student" just to see how it work from their end... and SO COOL.  Choose your device here: http://www.scootpad.com/mobile
	"Edmodo is designed to get students excited about learning in a familiar environment. On Edmodo, teachers can continue classroom discussions online, give polls to check for student understanding, and award badges to individual students based on performance or behavior." It looks just like Facebook! Search your app store.
	Dropbox is great way to have all of your most important teacher files and folders with you at all times! Smartphones, iPads, computers, or anywhere with internet. It's all there. I have it on my home computer and my school laptop just in case I choose to keep my laptop at school. You can also share folders with another Dropbox users or just share a link to it. I use my Public folder to store information for my parents and just have a link to it on my class website. Let me refer you!

Has anyone tried or will be trying flipped classroom? Do you have any suggestions?

Fashionista

Inspired by Melissa over at Teaching Fashionista, my new favorite blog, I have put together a mini-montage of some of my favorite summertime pieces.

1. My favorite finds this summer. Maxi dress is
from Target, the shoes are from Payless.

2. $12 Besty Johnson's at TJ Maxx, I usually never
shop there because I don't have the patience.

3. Micheal Kors watch, a birthday present to myself.
Assorted stacks from Charming Charlie and Francesca's.

Coming Soon... Cruise shopping! One week until I'm sipping a hurricane on a cruise ship heading to Cozumel with 20 of my friends! Yes, there's 20 of us. LOL, it's my best friend's husband's 30th. So we're going big. I have been so excited about this trip all summer!

I also have an extensive collection of teacher-style fashion pins.
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Flipped Classroom

Has anyone heard of this? My team will be doing it next year. Well, a modified version of it since we are in 3rd grade and at a first year title one school. I seriously love my teammates. They are fearless when it comes to trying new things.

Something else that will be different is that we will also be doing Specialized Classroom. Just our team. It's like departmentalizing, but we have to stress that it is not departmentalizing. One other teacher and I will divide up the subjects. I'm taking Humanities, that's your reading, writing, and social studies. My partner will be doing STEM (science and math). Sounds familiar, right? Not at all. We plan together. We conference with parents together. Everything goes together.

Lots of changes with the implementation of Common Core. And it's all for the best. I can't wait to start planning this school year.

Check out my Pin board... professional development at its finest!