Keeping Up With Kirbys

Well, of course, I'm joining the Instagram craze. I love pictures!! Sad fact though, I can't actually take a good pic, so the filters in Instagram are what I fell in LOVE with when I first joined. I'm super excited about this because I LOVE pictures the most. Some of my favorite blogs, the ones that I stalk follow share LOTS of pictures. So just the thought of all the teachers out there sharing pictures on Tuesday.........EEEEKKKK! ----makes me nerdy excited. hehe! You can find me @sweetnsassyin2nd Let me know how I can find you in the comments.   Posted with Blogsy

After STAAR testing this week I was going through a Really Good Stuff magazine (I think I dog eared almost all the pages) and found a math game that looks very similar to an old game we have at home in our game closet.  So I started thinking, this looks really fun......I don't have any extra money...how can I make this game???  This is what I came up with and the kids LOVED  it!  So, I'm sharing this with you and I hope your kids LOVE it too. Old Game New Game You can download the game { here }.  We have played this with our hundreds board so they understood that they could only use math vocabulary to ask questions.   Okay, I'm a little all over the place right now but  I'm LOVIN' Saturday...it was a beautiful day.  We started our weekend with my big Sass' last high school baseball game for his sophomore year (time is going too fast).  <---yes, just high school, he will begin his summer baseball soon...plenty more baseball to come.

As hard as it is to be stuck in the classroom for 8 hours with no break, I honestly would prefer that than administering the STAAR test.  Do you realize the hours that we (teachers) have to spend on training each year JUST to administer the test??  Ugh, it makes my tummy hurt.  When I'm not administering the test we get so much accomplished in the classroom, it makes me wonder how we ever get anything finished on a normal day.  Well, with all that being said, I have not been in the classroom for the past 2 days because I have been administering the test.  I'm so happy it's over and I know the poor kiddos are too.  My kids seemed to enjoy themselves with the sub.  One of my sweets told the sub he was in charge of our ladybugs and that "I wanted him to keep the house on his desk to take care of all day." <-What?!  She believed him.  Of course, the other kids told on him as soon as they saw me. :) Funny! Sooooo, with all that being said I am HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY

Ummm.......not even sure if this is okay but I'm doing it anyway.  :)  It's just so much easier to revisit the past week on Sunday {Fun day} rather than Friday {Fried day}.  So I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching ....... ...plus 2 days. :) 1.    It's that time of year when everyone gets a little crazy..........including teachers and the things we do to keep the kiddos excited, focused, and motivated.  Would you do the Harlem Shake????  Well, we would and did!!  Check us out.  {this is a video we made for our principal.......we were hoping to give her a better idea of our faculty meetings when she is away} This makes me laugh out loud every time I watch it and although we originally started off making one for the kids......I think it was more therapeutic for us.  We relaxed and belly laughed!!  We will show the kids the video we made for them during our ROCK THE STAAR assembly on Monday. 2. In honor of Earth Day, my sweet family planted a veget

Well, we've been going over story elements in a big way this week.  I adore and follow the talented Amy Lemmons @ Step Into 2nd Grade and she shared { story element posters } that I printed out last year and super excited that I get to use them this year.  Thanks Amy for saving me some work.  You can { click here } to get a set. First, we spent time talking about the setting {when and where the story takes place}.  We pretended that we were travel agents, so we made a travel brochure to visit the setting.  We really had to think and use clues from the story to plan a vacation to the setting.  We filled out our travel brochures and shared ALL the things that the reader can see, hear, and/or experience at the setting of their story. Each student chose their own book to read and make a travel brochure.  This student read Teddy's Surprise and wants you to visit Paul's House {the setting}.                                    This student read The Berns

Wow!  I didn't realize just how important the internet is at our house.  Ummm....well, it's pretty important.  I have missed it so.  Strange though, I finally talked with our internet provider and they said our modem was blown.  We ordered a new one and while waiting for it to arrive this one starts working again.  Hmmm.  Have I been tricked into buying a new one?   Last time I blogged we were driving to Katy, Texas for my little sweet's DI competition.  It was a fun filled, jam packed 3 days.  They didn't place but I think they did their BEST performance ever and we are determined that we will get to GLOBALS next year.  They are an amazing group of kiddos. Okay, I guess I'll share some things we have done in the classroom this past week.  We spent some time learning the sound {oo, ew, ue}.  We wrote our words on balloons trying to spare paper.  It's seriously like GOLD around here.  Oh...oh...oh...I almost forgot I filled each ballon with a special

Hi friends!!! I have been trying to blog since Monday! My Internet has been down...ugh!...now you do realize that if my Internet was up and running I wouldn't have time to blog. Yes, I do realize that it's mid afternoon and I should be teaching and igniting little imaginations, challenging little minds, and creating a desire to learn more.....BUT I'm on the road. I am headed to Katy, Tx to watch my baby compete at state DI competition. We are super EXCITED and super PROUD. On our way we czeched in at The Little Czech Bakery. {GASP!!} Really!! It was silly good. I wanted to share some fun things we have been doing and share some goodies BUT (you're never going to believe this) I'm blogging from my iPhone (skills....y'all) so I'll share goodies when I get home (fingers crossed) our Internet is working. Have a Sweet Day!!!

Well, the big kids have completed their testing and all of the Littles have survived 2 days of begin locked up in the classroom.  It was a busy and chatty day today. The kids seem as though they have so much more to talk about on days that they are supposed to be SUPER QUIET.  We spent some of our time reviewing the {aw, au, al, o} sounds.  We played AW KWARD, looked for words with the \aw\ sound in books and magazines, and made a Y aw ning D aw n/Y aw ning P au l. You can get it { here } if it's something you could use to help reinforce this sound.        EX.HAUST.ED!!  Oh and did I mention that I got a new kiddo, broke up an underground toy smuggling ring, and helped 22 children quietly and cautiously walk soup from the cafeteria to my classroom on styrofoam trays(what were the cafeteria ladies thinking).  I am so ready to go back to a normal day tomorrow.  It has been CUH.RAZ.Y!      Oh, I should share a  few pics from Easter weekend.....I am so thankful for M