Gettin' My Sunday On

Happy Sunday, sweet friends!  Sorry I was absent last week, but I really appreciate y’all for checking up on me!  Everything is great, just completely INSANE right now!!!  Let’s back up just a bit so I can catch you up to speed.  In a nutshell, last week we found out we’re moving…ahem, RELOCATING…to Houston and we’ve been furiously cleaning our house and getting it ready to put it on the market TOMORROW!!!!!!!! 

Ohmiword.  This has all transpired in a week’s time so to say I’m overwhelmed would be an understatement.  Mr. Spouse got a job a little northeast{ish} of Houston and accepted immediately…he’s SO excited!!  I prayed and prayed about it…I asked God to open the door if it was meant to be and He did.  We’re taking a HUGE leap of faith and I’m excited/nervous/scared/thrilled about it all.  As crazy as it sounds, I have a crazy peace about selling our house…I know God wouldn’t bring us this far just to abandon us.  Same for my job….or lack thereof.  I still don’t have a job, but I’m faithful that everything will fall into place.  I can’t wait to see what God has in store for our little family!! 

The best part of relocating our lives?!?!  We’ll be about 30 minutes away from my ENTIRE family!!  Praise Jesus!!  I’ve called Dallas my home for the last 15 years and while I could’ve definitely lived here for another 15, I couldn’t be happier to move closer to my family!!! Aaaahhhh!!!!!

With everything that’s been going on, I’ve been TERRIBLE about remembering to take pictures of what’s been going on in room 135 :)  Our “big kids” were busy with state testing {STARR} this week, so 1st grade traveled to the zoo!  LOVE!!  I always feel like a kid again when we visit!  I got to feed the Lorikeets and about FREAKED out when I they started swarming and perching themselves on my arm...

My sweet team who I’ll miss DEARLY!!!

 

We’ve been working on nonstandard units of measurement and we started out our study by talking about the difference between standard and nonstandard.  I introduced my kids to “Sara Standard” and “Nick Nonstandard”…whose pictures I forgot to take…and they guided our practice in measurement for the week!  One of the teachers on my team did this really neat activity where she had the kids measure her body with nonstandard units of measurement, so I did a little take off of that to jump start our learning.  The kids were in HEAVEN!  I don’t think I’ve ever seen them work so hard!  They loved it!!

Measure Mrs. Carroll!!  Please note that this template is not to scale ;) HA!!

 

We used markers, snap cubes, paper clips, buttons, tiles, transparent chips and fake SNAKES to measure!  The kids loved the snakes the most!!  I thought it was the perfect manipulative to use since we had just visited the zoo!!

I made a really quick and simple recording sheet for the kids to use.  They got to choose 5 different nonstandard units and then they estimated and wrote the actual number.  This activity also led to a discussion about area and perimeter, too.  Love it when things just naturally happen like that!! 

Now that I’ve had time to process the news of our big move and HUGE life change, I’ll definitely be much better about remembering to take pics of all the fun stuff we’re doing to end the year in 1st grade :)  The tricky part will be keeping this house clean with two crazy boys and all of their little toys and messy little hands…should be FUN!  HA!!