I appreciate you!

This week is such a special time for teachers. Not only are we showered with appreciation by our students and administration for all we do, but I think its a great time for us teachers to appreciate each other. So thank you to each and every teacher that helps me plan, organize, create, and grow. You make life as a teacher a little easier and I could not be more thankful for you all! Not only to the teachers I work with at my school, who are amazing women/ teachers (could not do it without them), but all of the bloggers that inspire me daily! 

My TpT store is now on sale until Wednesday as a way to show my appreciation! 

My cart is already full ready for the big sale! So excited. 

Click the picture to go to my store :)

Happy Teacher's Appreciation Week! 

Five for Friday

Since I am home for the first Friday in a while I figured I would link up to Doodle Bugs for her Five for Friday linky party. 

1. I got these new folded cards and note pad... How cute is the teacher note pad? Seriously though. I'm obsessed! 

2. One of my littles wrote this today on his Cat the Splat Vday craftivity: "Love is my time with Mrs. Berard". Melt. my. heart. I loved it! He knows how to win his teacher over! 

3. My husband bought me this for V-Day! It is the Clarisonic Mia which is used to clean and exfoliate the skin.  I've only used it a couple of times and  I'm already obsessed! I'll let you know how it goes after I use it for a while.

4. Kate Spade's new Fall 2013 Collection. I feel like she made this for me? Probably not. However, I am obsessed! 

Especially this pink leopard print. Really Kate? Perfect.

 

Can I have your entire look? Thanks. 

5. Valentine's Day present to myself. That perfume is amazing! I love the scent! It's so feminine and lovely. And of course I bought a pink shirt... a little too much I know, I know. 

 

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Happy Friday! 

I'm Sorry I've been Absent Sale...

I am throwing a sale since I promised I would throw a sale soon... mainly to apologize for my lack of blogging and you still being followers. And the fact that I missed ALL of the sales that were happening on TpT, sorry.

 Plus, I love this holiday... pink, red, hearts, glitter! It just puts you in a happy mood and I want to share my happiness with all of y'all. 

So if you would like to check out my sale click here! 

I'll leave you with some Valentine's day photos and our wedding photos I promised awhile ago. (in honor of love day)!

 

My Vday Outfit for School 

 

 My massive balloons... which my students oh and ah'ed over! 

Having issues getting them home! 

 

All photos are courtesy of my fab photographer Aaron from Eye Wander Photo in Baton Rouge!

I am so blessed to feel so loved and happy! I hope you all feel the same on this day! 

xoxo

Morgan

Life unload....

This girl has been one BUSY teacher. I seriously barely have time to sleep. So when you ask the question... does she sleep? Answer: no. 

But seriously though. 

Before I catch you up on school, let me begin by explaining where I have gone missing to.

1. Birthday. Always loads of fun! Yes I celebrated the entire week! Bless my students'/ husband's hearts for listening to me go on about it.

 

Birthday Dinners

 

Birthday Flowers

 Wearing pink for my birthday week... it's what I do, and it's acceptable to wear as much possible. 

 2. Mardi Gras Season= Mardi Gras balls.

2 down, 1 more to go this weekend, which will be followed along with a break. Amen.

 

Loading up on BEADS for my husband to ride in the parade.

3. Super Bowl Weekend in NOLA. SO MUCH FUN... SO TIRED.

So I promised I was not avoiding all of you... I've just been SUPER busy! And with wedding season upon us... I won't slow done till... JUNE!

Now on to school stuff, you know... what this blog is all about. 

We celebrated the 100th day of school last week. You can see what I did last year here.
This year I added some new ideas, and of course stuck to some oldies that I love. 

One of the new ideas I had was using the 100s grid.

I gave each student a 100s grid. Then, my littles had to make a picture with it and create a number sentence with the amount they used to make their picture. I was pleasantly surprised by my students creativity!

{gas tank}

{arrows}

{garage}

 

{robot}

 

Of course I did the "what I would look like at 100" self portraits. They are always so cute! 

How cute are my boo boos! 

When I am 100, I will have crazy hair and a mustache.

When I am 100, I will be an old lady and roll in a wheel chair.

 

I forgot to snap a picture of their 100th day writing! They wrote about what they would spend $100 on, and they turned out presh! I gave them fake dollar bills to use with their drawings. You would have thought they were real! They could not WAIT to get one to use in their drawings. Definitely an incentive to use good writing skills! I also forgot to snap pictures of their 100th day chex mix! That is something I will for sure do next year. They loved it!

Now I also had ALL of December and January pictures to catch you up on. Maybe over my Mardi Gras Break :)

Hopefully I will not be a stranger to the blog for long. I plan on having a sale since apparently I fell off the Earth and missed ALL of them. Ugh! Bummer! I have a shopping cart loaded with TpT wish list purchases! However, at least you all can benefit from my sale. 

Happy Mardi Gras Y'all!

3 Posts this Week? Shocking. (Overhead Work Station)

I know, I know. I am surprised too. Like I said, when I started feeling like I was not drowning in school work I would be back. Hopefully this will continue.

I posted yesterday about creating activities for my littles to do at the overhead projector during work stations. It's DONE! Whoo.

I knew I wanted to incorporate the overhead into our work stations since it is simple technology to work with and my kids love it. 

At first I had my students making words with the Overhead Pens. After my OCD could not handle the mess of the pens all over, I introduce using magnet letters  to make the words. My students would make their weekly words, words from the word wall, or words from around the room.  Then, I found overhead 1 inch tiles. I had the idea to write letters on the tiles for the students to use. And that is where the idea of having overhead transpariences with pictures which the students would make the word.

I snapped pictures today of one of my cuties working at the work station.  She was doing an amazing job!

 She is using the tiles to build words on the transparency strips based on the pictures.

These are the 1 inch tiles I used. 

I created a Short Vowel packet first. I will make others as time goes on! 

Click the picture below to go to the TpT store. 

 Hope this helps you during your work stations!

Friendship Sentences for Work Stations pictures

I mentioned yesterday that I had created a new activity, which I am using in the writing work station for now. This could also be used in other work stations, however my littles this year needed extra practice creating sentences. 

Like a good blogger I got the camera out today to take pictures of my kids at work! 

I use a small pocket chart for the students to create setences. After they create the sentences the record them on the sheet; being mindful of capitlization, spacing, spelling, and punctuation. So far my students have loved it!  I store the strips in the basket below the chart. However, the words they use most often (likes the, color, likes to, eat, drink) are stored in the bottom of the pocket chart. 

Click the picture below to check it out at my TpT store. 

 

Also, I snapped a picture of my littles working on their short e words.

I plan on making a lot more of these acticities to use at our pocket chart. I love seeing my students sound out words to figure out which picture the word belongs with. It's great practice!

Don't forget I am participating in Teachers Pay Teacher big sale!

Everything in my store is 20%. Then, you can get an additional 10% off with the code cmt12! 

Don't pass up the oppurtunity to grab amazing teacher products on sale.

Click the picture below to head to my store.

Also, I am really excited about a new Work Station activity for the Overhead. I found that there were NO resources for the overhead to be used during workstations. Although this technoloy is dated my kids LOVE working at the overhead. It also is helpful that overheads are easy to acess now that most teachers are throwing them out for their interactive white boards.

This will hopefully be posted later tonight in time for the sale!