What Happened to Mrs. Carroll? And a Few Other Things...

I took a personal day on Monday.  I hadn't seen my sweet family since mid-December, so I took my boys home for an extra long weekend.  Mr. Spouse had to work.  Boo.  While I was out, I had my kids write about what they thought happened to me.  I didn't tell them where I was going or what I was doing, so it was hilarious to read their responses when I got back!!

 One of my sweeties said that I was spending the day shopping with my sister, Mrs. Cortez.  Mrs. Cortez is a precious 6th grade teacher.  We are NOT sisters, but we *might* have told the kids that we are :)  We get told we look alike no less than 20 times a week :)

Last week we celebrated the 100th day of school   Sadly, I've got NOTHING to share with you.  I absolutely got ALL of my ideas from Pinterest and loved every little minute of not having to recreate the wheel.  We had our annual balloon launch in between the intermittent spurts of rain.  It stopped right before we headed out and started right back up again as we were walking inside!  Dear Mother Nature...thanks for that!!! 

We also celebrated Groundhog Day sans my camera.  However, I did get a few pics the next day of some things that we did to celebrate. 

We made a grade level graph {Pinterest inspired} and we did the same little writing we did last year, only this time I had them draw their burrow instead of making one for them.

We kicked off our Dental Health unit with this writing I did last year.  Honestly, one of my favorites of the whole year!!  This year's is NO exception!!  Love this little tooth fairies!!! 

Now we're working on Valentine related skills and having SO much fun!!  Our math tubs are FULL of Valentine math activities and we're using some of our Love, Splat centers for our literacy tubs.  Next week we'll continue on with our Valentine theme and we'll be doing some awesome little activities from First Grade Blue Skies & Fun in First.  They both have DARLING "Froggy's First Kiss" units!!  Here are a few little things I made for our literacy tubs.  Just click on the pics to grab your copies!!  And feel free to leave a comment and let me know if you have any kind of Froggy activities so that I can link to yours as well!! 

Froggy Freebies

In other news, I'm 100% obsessed with these cups.

They *might* make me happier than the red cups during the Christmas holidays.  Bless you, sweet Starbucks.  You and ALL of your overpriced coffee.  Dangit.

Now you might wanna head on over to Heather's Heart and enter her giveaway...just sayin'.  She's "totes adorbs" {that phrase tasted terrible coming out of my mouth.  I promise I'll NEVER use it again.}  Heather is always SO dang sweet and encouraging.  She always leaves the sweetest comments and she has the most giving heart.  She's got TONS of freebies up for grabs so you need to head on over NOW.  Enter for your chance to win one of these PRECIOUS tees from Sewing Sassy...

AND a Consious Discipline CD and 5 items from Heather's TpT store.  In addition to all that, Rachelle from What the Teacher Wants will be giving away 2 of her units, too!!  LUCKY {in my best Napoleon Dynamite voice}.  GOOD LUCK!! 

I'm still computerless and going through serious withdrawls right about now.  Not sure when I'll get my little laptop back, but I miss her so much I can hardly stand it.  Sad, I know.  Not sure when I'll be back, but stay tuned for some super fun ideas on teaching and introducing dictionary skills!  We're LOVING it and having a blast {so far}!!!

TGI{almost}F!!!!