New to the world of blogging...

Well all of you teachers out there have inspired me to start my own! Where I will find the time I don't quite know but your blogs have been so inspiring. As I have begun my first year teaching first grade (with a last minute move two weeks into the school year, I might add) the teaching blogs that I have stumbled across have really kept me going! Thank you!


To get me started here are just a couple of things I am loving right now!


I completed this art project with my sweet little firsties today! They turned out beautiful and I will post pics soon! They started by painting a white circle of center on the page and then dipped their brush in blue, mixed it with white well and painted a circle around the white. They then dipped their brush again, mixed and painted another circle around. The process continued until their whole paper was covered. Today after their work had dried we cut out the pieces for the trees, ground and house out of black construction  paper and then glued it all on. Can't wait to show off their hard work. 

I saw this on another blog but I can't remember who to give credit to for this one. I feel like the poetry and sight word pages are like two shots in one. I am going to set aside time each Wednesday to do one of these. The kids will paste one into their poetry journal, we will read it together and then they will fill in the appropriate site word! It is great practice and then eventually they will be able to read them with a buddy during Daily 5- Read to Someone!