Five for Friday on a Sunday!

I am linking up this week with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday. I have GOT to get more organized if I am regularly going to do this linky. I get all panicky and then just scrap my whole post. This week was just too good to care if I was late. 

Apple Day in K!

Our Kinder teachers and librarian invited me to teach a center rotation during Apple Day. We all sat down and planned it together. It was so much fun. I have been getting into rooms to teach and meet with teachers a lot, which make my pangs of longing for the classroom less stabbing:) Here are some pictures. Pardon the quality. It is just easier for me to use my phone on the fly. 

Mrs. Morgan's center included a story. "The Little Red House with No Doors and No Windows and a Star Inside"
Click the link to see the story. So cute!

 Here is my center. We measured each student's height with apples. The kids added their numbers to the correct side of the graph and in the correct spot! They are smarties:) I think it helped that we stacked our apples and our librarian, Mrs. Gourd, read the book "Ten Apples Up On Top!" with the kiddos in the center just before mine.

Here she is with her book and her adorable questioning stars. I think she got them at Lakeshore. The kids love the wands and were answering some hard questions.

We had two other centers that I neglected to get pictures of. (pardon my grammar) Oops!
After the centers, the kiddos went back to their rooms for some homemade applesauce. It smelled DIVINE! So yummy that Dahlia and I made our own at home last night!

I may or may not have happened through the gym (okay, let's be honest...my office is in the gym), and I may or may not have seen a certain p.e. teacher doing the cha cha slide with 3rd graders. SO CUTE!

I was invited to the music room to learn a dance to ROAR by Katy Perry. I just love that song! And...I have to tell you... I am SO OUT OF SHAPE! The third graders were unphased and I was on the side of the room trying to conceal my huffing and puffing. 

The GMA Katy Perry Roar Contest is over, but this video that Norman High entered is too fun to not share. Plus, lots of my former students are in it. 

While I was in the music classroom, I spotted this little beauty. What a perfect scale for a music classroom! Go Mrs. Love:)

I spent my day on Thursday meeting with teachers and looking at intervention data. I was and continue to be so impressed with the amount of work our teachers put into everything that they do!! 

I got a super awesome email this week. It is kind of a secret, but I will let you know more in a future post. Until then, here is a freebie!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Milk-and-Cookie-Partners-933269

Toodles, 

Five for Friday-May 18

Linking up for this week's Five for Friday over at Doodle Dugs Teaching! I hardly ever get organized enough to do these. This week will be a combination of things from this week and last week.

 

1. Amazing weather makes the last few weeks of school so much happier. Who wants to have inside recess with all of that crazy end-of-the-year-energy? This is what that big Oklahoma sky, under which I live, looked like last week. Enjoy the view from the corner of the playground that I favor when at recess duty. Beautiful, right!?



2. I experienced the most amazing teacher appreciation week. I will venture to dub it, "Best ever." As you know, teacher friends, it's not the presents or the big bucks that keep teachers in the classroom. (Although both are/would be nice! ;))

For me, it is the relationships. I had amazing conversations with my kiddos last week. We talked about reading assessments, all of the growth we have seen in ourselves as readers, college, middle school relationships. It was pretty amazing. I cried at least 10 times.


Here are some of the gifts I received form students. LOTS of flowers and plants. I also got gift cards, fancy soaps, snacks, Sonic drinks, and an adorable shirt that says, "Teachers Rock." I am sure I am forgetting something.

 

3. This week was our senior reception, where all graduating seniors that went to our elementary school come back for a visit. This graduating group is my very first class. I was an intern the first half of their 5th grade year and then took over as teacher in the Spring when the teacher went on maternity leave. It was an amazing experience to see them and make connections. We shared some nice conversations and lots of laughs. A few of them are even going to OU! Boomer Sooner!

 

4. Our Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon was a hit on Friday. The Media Specialist, Lisa, is in charge of the whole shindig. I was so happy to see lots of smiling faces. I was also really happy to see all of the food!

 

5. Next week is the last week of school at our school. We have an awesome 5th grade recognition program planned, a field trip, and lots of other fifth grade activities. Buckle up!