A Blog Post...Finally!

I know I haven't been around much lately.  I have sat down to do a million different posts, but never finished them because I was distracted or too busy with something else to finish.

First off, this little cutie turned 3 this weekend.

She LOVES Tinkerbell and wanted a Tinkerbell party :)

Here are some fun things I made with my Silhouette Cameo for her party.

 

It has been HECTIC around this household.  We started a total kitchen remodel the week of Halloween.  We completely gutted our kitchen.  You may have remembered the pictures of all the dust!  Well, after a little over 3 months....IT'S DONE!!!!

The next couple of pictures are kitchen pictures, so I apologize.  I'm just so excited!!  {I promise there is something teacher related at the end of this post.}

We also remodeled our laundry room and backdoor area.  So, not only did we not have a kitchen for 3 months, we also did not have a laundry room.  I wish I had a before picture of this area.  It was awful.  Now we have a mudroom area for our backdoor entryway and a cute little laundry room. 

Now onto the "teacher" stuff.  We have been working on fact families in our classroom.  Most of my students found this skill to be pretty simple, but some still have a hard time remembering to only use the 3 numbers that are given and don't put any other numbers in the problems.  To help with this, I gave students the parts of a fact family and we acted it all out.

As we practiced, I reminded them that no new numbers joined them and no numbers sat down.  This hands on demonstration really helped them to grasp the concept. 

We also completed this activity.

 

We have also been working hard to earn a "Snowman" party.  Everytime the class is working hard, they earn a part of the snowman.

I found these super cute ideas on Pinterest for when we earn our party.

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Click on the picture to go to the source.

 

 

Now that things have settled down a bit around here, I hope to be back MUCH more often!