The Virginia Meet-Up and a GIVEAWAY!

What a day! 
I met some great new Virginia blogging friends on Thursday during the Virginia Blogger Meet-UP
hosted by the wonderful
Karen at Mrs. Stamp's Kindergarten and Kelly at From Kindergarten With Love.

 I had a fabulous time and came home with a bag full of goodies!  The amazing Heidi at Heidi Songs sent gifts for everyone.  I came home with Jumpin Numbers 11-30. I am very excited to use this DVD to help my kinders with their tricky teens! 
Thanks Heidi! 

Lucky for you... Heidi also sent enough for us to give YOU a chance to win a CD too!!  LOVE ya, Heidi! Just follow my new friends and VA bloggers from the meet-up for additional chances to win the Singable Songs for Letters and Sounds CD!


To enter....you need to visit Mrs. Stamp's Kindergarten Blog for all the details. 
CLICK HERE!







Two for Tuesday...

I always have lots of good intentions to post more often, but I don't know what to post and I have lots of trouble committing to a subject.    So, I am going to put myself on a schedule.  Every Tuesday I am going to post two new picture book titles that I LOVE.  Here are the first two titles. 

I found these two new books that I am adding to my Science class library!  Click on the captions to go to Barnes and Noble and order your own copy!



                                                                        Dirty Gert
Little Gert loves to play in the dirt so much that she turns into a tree. Gert loves dirt. She plays in it and even tastes it. One day Gert is delighted to discover that she is becoming a tree. I'm  going to use this book while teaching the needs of a plant.  Dirty Gert by Tedd Arnold

                                                                  999 Frogs Wake Up

Wake up—it’s springtime in the swamp! As 999 young frogs awaken, they panic to find that all of the other animals are still asleep. First they wake the biggest frog… then the tortoise, the lizard, and the ladybugs. But when they hop down a hole and all pull together, they find someone they don’t want to wake—a big, long snake. Don’t wake him up!  I am going to use this book while teaching about hibernation..  999 Frogs Wake Up by Ken Kimura

The summaries are from Bibliocommons and Barnes and Noble. 







Virginia is for Bloggers!

I don't know about you, but my school year seemed very stressful.  We got new reading curriculum this year, new math curriculum last year and the whole standard 7/ data collection thing started for us this past year too.  Change is a good thing, but that much change all at once made for a stressful year. 

I felt like I just kept my head above water.  Something had to give and it was the blog.  But I'm BACK baby!  I resolve to post more this year.  I love my little blog and it and all of you make me happy!  
Now for the FUN!  I am linking with up Fifth in the Middle with her blogs by state. Virginia is for blog lovers baby! 

AND I am happy to share that Karen and Kelly are celebrating Christmas in July with a Virginia Blogger Meet-up.  Woo Who! 

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Yahoo! Summer is here!

I linked up with O'h Boy 4th Grade for the most popular linky in teacher blog land.  Come join too! 

July Currently Linky

Don't Stomp on the Cookie!

 

Well, I got my answer....No, stomping on the cookie did not make the impact I had hoped  for. My little dude stepped on a journal and a water bottle today and we had another  chat.  It ended with my little dude having a one day suspension for threatening bodily harm to me   So no I won't ever stomp on a cookie again. 
This little dude really doesn't have empathy.  I ended my character lesson with ....if it doesn't belong to you, don't step on it. 
I am very very sad tonight and feel like I have let my guy down. 
Sigh...

Got Fired?

Don't freak out, but I got fired on Friday..by a six year old.  So now the story...I have a little one who steps on things or breaks things that don't belong to him.  He doesn't seem to have empathy for others.  So, I jumped at an opportunity.  He stepped on a student's cookie that was left by the hallway bathroom after lunch.  After I asked him why he did this, his response was, it didn't belong to anyone.  (It didn't have a name on it.)  Well, my sweetie had part of a cookie of his own which he had put in the snack bin.  I looked in the snack bin, found the cookie part and mentioned to my guy that this cookie didn't have a name on it, so it must not belong to anyone either.  I proceeded to stomp on the cookie.  The look on his face...priceless.  He was SOOOO mad!  I asked him how he was feeling and he fired me.  "You're fired!"  Wow!  We then talked about how it felt to have your cookie stepped on and how mad he must be feeling.  We talked about how sad he must be feeling since he didn't have  a cookie to eat.  We talked about things you could step on and things you shouldn't step on.  We talked about how everything belongs to someone, even if you don't know who.  He then went to Music and I went to buy two new cookies.  I never found the owner of the first cookie, but a co-worker played the part very well.  My little dude then went to apologize with the cookie he stepped on and a new cookie to replace the crumbled one.  When he returned, I apologized to him and gave him a new cookie.  And...he left for the long weekend.  What do you think?  Would you ever stomp on a cookie?  I wonder if it made the impact I was working for...or not.

Happy Memorial Day Everyone!
Cindy