This weekend was a blast! The Mr. and I threw a housewarming fiesta to celebrate our new home....I was having so much fun chatting with friends and family that I didn't even take one picture!! =( Although I do have some remaining decor left up (it was so cute I just had to leave it up a few more days).
We also received some adorable and very thoughtful gifts. We are so blessed to have such wonderful people surrounding us each and every day!
Now on to school...This week has been crazy and it is only day 2! We began our plant unit, which will consist of a lot of hands on activities that I know my chimps will absolutely love. Today we compared living and nonliving things and discussed what living things need to survive. To test our conclusions we took 3 plants, put one in the sun, one in the dark, and one in the freezer. On Friday we will observe what happens to our living plants!
We started our Mother's Day crafts as well. We are reading the story Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney this week so to go along with making the world more beautiful we painted lupines to give to our special moms on Sunday.
We also started Amy Lemon's A Mommy - A Mother's Day Booklet Craftivity, which is turning out super adorable and will hopefully pull at our mom's heartstrings.
And at last...yesterday I made the decision to move to Kindergarten next year because we will only need 5 second grade teachers and I am the 6th. I am so so sad to leave 2nd grade, but I am excited for this new adventure. Growing up I always wanted to teach the littles so I figured I'd give it a shot! In light of the exciting news, I began digging into some Kinder blogs to start getting ideas for next year and I came across some really great ones. I got caught up on Deanna Jump's blog after hearing so much about her on the news and decided to splurge and buy a few of her super cute lessons and activities from TPT (also there's no way I could pass up a sale!!) Here's a few things I bought!
Back to School Math and Literacy Fun....
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Guided Reading 101: Printables, Strategies, and Word Work
Until next time....
Blessings,
Jeana Chapman
