Robot Home Project!

In honor of Earth Day, the students completed a Robot Home Project! Their assignment was to create a Robot from recyclable materials. They used Erica Bohrer’s recording page to describe their Robot and the materials they used. The students worked on their Robots all week and then brought them to school to share. Mrs. Doggett’s class joined us in this activity and the students had so much fun sharing their Robots with not only their classmates, but Mrs. Doggett’s class as well. The students were SO very creative! They used materials such as bottle caps, tin foil, cereal boxes, soda cans, straws, and toilet paper rolls. There was even an “Octopus Robot” and a Robot that could shoot marshmallows!












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Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to the wonderful mom’s that have shared their children with me this year in my First Grade class! We have had a wonderful year and I can’t believe I am about to send my sweet students off to Second Grade!


For Mother’s Day, the students created a self-portrait of their mom. They had SO much fun creating these and loved when I gave out the “diamond” earrings and “pearl” necklaces! On the bottom of their self-portrait each student wrote why they love their mom.









Happy Mother’s Day to my Mother and my Nana!




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Summer Bucket List!

Summer is right around the corner and I am joining Teri, Hadar, and April in the Summer Bucket List Linky Party!



Since we are moving to a NEW school in August I am SO excited to have this opportunity to organize my teaching materials. Every box that I have packed so far is organized and I have purged and given away many items that I just do not need anymore.


This summer I am working on organizing ALL of the books in my classroom library. I am using the Scholastic Book Wizard to level my books A-Z and I am entering all of my books into Shelfari. I am so excited to use Shelfari in my classroom next year! I have already began tagging my books and I love that if I want to know what books I have available for “Back to School,” I just click on the tag and I can easily see them and know where to locate them in my classroom library. I also made a cute set of labels for all of my book bins A-Z.




I am going to use a stamp from my web store, Polka Dot Parlor to stamp my name in all of my books!



Another item on my Summer Bucket List is to organize all of my files. This is going to be a daunting task… but I know I’ll be happy once it’s done! My plan is to use a different colored folder for each subject area. The files will be stored by subject area and will be kept in a plastic filing box from Office Max. I have found that these filing boxes will fit in a standard-size filing cabinet, so they should be easy to remove for planning!



I am going to work on adding new products to my web store, Polka Dot Parlor. I have many new items from Clairebella and HeartStrings to add!



My husband and I will run the Peachtree Road Race on July 4th. I will also be training for a half-marathon! We are planning to run the Rock n’ Roll Half-Marathon in Savannah, GA in November!



There are a few projects on Pinterest that I would like to try…





Finally, my reading list includes…





What’s on your Summer Bucket List? Leave a comment below or link up at The Modern Teacher, Miss Kindergarten, or A Cupcake for the Teacher.


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12 on the 12th {april}


Doodle Bugs Teaching is hosting a “12 on the 12th” linky party! Here are 12 random photographs from today, April 12, 2012.



1. Coffee! My favorite part of every morning!


2. Today I heard the question “How many days of school are left?” To answer this question we created a construction paper chain. On one side the students wrote “There are ____ days of school left.” On the other side they wrote one of their favorite things they have learned in 1st grade. I had a proud teacher moment when Quincy said, “Oh yeah! I’ve got about a thousand things I can write!” Only 29 days left.


3. Who’s Our Mystery Reader? I’ve been working on these posters and finally had the students use them today. I listed five clues about our Mystery Reader and then the students used sticky notes to make their own guess! They are excited to see who our guest will be tomorrow!


4. Labels! (Coming soon to TPT!) Since we are moving to a new school next year, I am taking this opportunity to super-organize my classroom! I am organizing all of my books by levels (A-Z) and listing them all on Shelfari. I love how I can tag them and then see all of the books that I have available on a certain topic!



5. I have the MOST awesome student teacher! We have been so lucky to have Miss Sullivan work with our class this semester. She is so creative! Today the students learned all about John Henry and they worked in this super cute Folk Heroes book that Miss Sullivan created.


6. When I got home today, I joined my cat for a little nap!


7. I spent some time searching the Internet for blog resources to send to one of my best friends. I have known Hailey my entire life. She is one of my oldest and dearest friends. She has just started a blog to document the life of her son, Easton. This is one of my favorite photos of Easton… I just love that little boy so much!


8. My husband is out-of-town tonight so my dinner consisted of Frosted Flakes! Wish him luck tomorrow… He is in Birmingham, AL to take the Professional Engineering exam. Just looking at his sample problems made my head hurt!



9. Every night I watch reruns of my favorite TV show… The Big Bang Theory. I just love Sheldon Cooper… He is hilarious!


10. I love reading all of my favorite blogs using NewsRack. I downloaded this program from the Mac App Store.


11. Chat time! I have sent off my National Board Certification portfolio, but I’m not done yet! ECGEN.org hosts nightly chats to prepare us candidates for the Assessment Center exercises that I will take in June.


12. Time for bed! I’m off to read my book Shopaholic and Baby. Sophie Kinsella is my favorite author. My goal is to read ALL of her books… I’m almost done with the complete Shopaholic series!


What did you do today? Can you think of 12 things? If you have a blog, link up at Doodle Bugs Teaching. If not, just leave a comment below!


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New ways to follow!

With the end of Google Friend Connect came a few headaches for us non-blogspot users. I have searched to the ends of the Internet to see if there was any way to save my GFC widget. There’s not. ☹


So, for those of you that followed my blog via GFC – THANK YOU! I hope you will continue to follow my posts via your Google/RSS reader. With the end of GFC, came a tiny problem for me… Previously, I had the option to click on a member’s photograph and link to their profile/teaching blog. Now that GFC has gone away, I have no option for connecting with my readers! I love getting to know the readers of my blog and hope that you will consider keeping in touch via one of the ways listed below!


Follow on Facebook! I have decided that one of the easiest ways to notify readers of blog updates is via Facebook. I will post all links back to the blog on this page. If you “like” our page, you will automatically be notified of updates via your Facebook Timeline!



Follow on Twitter! I will post all links to blog updates via Twitter. You will automatically be notified of any updates via your Twitter dashboard.



You can follow by email or add the feed to your favorite RSS reader. You can find these options located in the header of the blog and they are also located in the sidebar. Just click on the picture of the envelope (email) or the feed (RSS) and you are all set!



Whatever your preferred method for staying up-to-date is, THANK YOU! I appreciate all of your comments, questions, and interest in my First Grade class! I love using this blog as a way to connect with the parents of the students in my class, as well as other primary grade teachers. My students love using our blog as a means to showcase the wonderful learning they accomplish in our classroom every day! We love learning and we loving sharing it with you!


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