It's a bird!  It's a plane!  It's a sidewide sale at Teachers Pay Teachers!    Get ready to leap tall buildings in a single bound, friends!  This Wednesday, February 25th, will be a 28% off discount day over at TpT!  Be sure to use the next two days to leave feedback and earn credits!  Also, cruise through your wish list and move your most-wanted products into your shopping cart! If you are not sure what to purchase, and need some great recommendations, check out this list of my top ten favorite resources!  I can wait to begin using these activities from Jen Jones at Hello Literacy to help improve my students' inferring and observation skills!  My group this year is full of visual learners that will enjoy listing key details and being and making important connections to the photos included in this collection! If you are not familiar with   Core Inspirat...

Welcome! I hope this short post finds you well and ready for a restful Saturday and Sunday!  I know that I am!   Room #2 survived one snow day and three two-hour delay days due to wild winter weather this week! Needless to say, we did not accomplish everything I had planned, and behavior was a bit "off!"  Next week I am pulling out this pack of posters to help remind some of my little darlings about how to be better school citizens! February is a great month to wave around all things read, white, and blue while you review character traits, study the good examples set by President George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and build a strong, cooperative, collaborative classroom community. Grab them {HERE}  to help keep your class "on track" for learning, listening, and getting along! Then be sure to hop over to the Teaching Blog Addict   site to see what other freebies are waiting for you...

Welcome Friends! February is one of my favorite months of school, because it is full of thematic and holiday celebrations!  I am linking up with Pawsitively Teaching and Inspired Owl's Corner again for the fun linky to bring you some vibrant Valentine's Day ideas! My class loved it when I read the Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo aloud this fall!  Who wouldn't love a porcine wonder who eats hot, buttered popcorn and wears pink tutus, right?  I think they are going to love these pig-inspired projects this month!  Our class party is going to be  "hog-wild!"  HA! Original Pin Credit: CreativeMeInspiredYou Check out this fine swine swag!  These are just painted toilet paper tubes that are filled with Hershey kisses and folded at the top and bottom!  Original Pin Credit:   Crafty Morning I just love the heart-shaped hooves and noses on these pigs!  My students' parents are going to lo...

Happy February! The new month has started with a wintery vengeance here, and I am tucked under my favorite afghan tonight, sipping tea, resting my weary bones, and blogging a bit! I spent the weekend traveling and visiting family in weather that was not road trip-friendly, and am just taking this evening to decompress and rest before heading back to Room #2 tomorrow.  So.... without further fuss, I will share my Farley -inspired CURRENTLY list! The national news just mentioned Chicago and Toledo....the city I just visited and the city I just returned home to!  They are saying that the blizzard that just blew through the Midwest (and covered the roads my sister and I needed to travel) for the last three days may start again tomorrow afternoon! Here's a view out my back window of the heavy, hard-to-shovel white stuff that has me nursing my back with a heating pad this evening! Resilience and perseverance were two ke...