The 30-Day Challenge

You hear that phrase all the time!  Losing weight, building up stamina to run a race, car dealerships running a sale, etc.  I think that the biggest 30-Day Challenge is the First 30 days of school.  My lack of posting is first of all a bad habit and second of all directly related to my school year craziness. Everybody is their own kind of busy so I won’t try to compare stories or carry you through my day, but I do want to carry you through the last 30 days! 

For the most part my kids are great, actually the best class I have ever had, but the MOST challenging.  We are settled into our morning routine and reading stations are running as smoothly as one could expect in fifth grade. We are finished with Reading Street Unit One and will take our Benchmark Test this week.  Hopefully, all of the hours of pinning and creating lessons to help teach the skills and strategies will pay off. Even though I admit that part is fun for me. Envisions Common Core Math is going well. We’ve covered cells,and completed an AMSTI kit on Variables (the kids LOVE this) in Science and covered map skills and Early Americans in Social Studies.

I hope that your year is going as well as you hoped.  I finally had an original idea and I am going to be using it for our Halloween Bulletin Board.  Check back for a glyph freebie before Friday!

Hoping the next 30 days are even better!

    

 

Football Fridays and College Game Saturdays

Baby Birthdays and Births

  

Flying our Airplanes

Great way to review…I put up posters with the names of all of our skills that we need to review… the kids had to choose at least three skills and write down their schema about that skill.

  

We love Pandora playing over my speakers… our top stations are:

1. Tween Radio

2. Radio for Kids Radio {Pretty much all Disney}

3. Lady Antebellum

4. Justin Beiber

5. Pachelbel's Canon in D

6. Praise and Worship

Have a great week!

Charlie Kate

 

Today we celebrated the future birth of one of our best friend’s baby. Her name is going to be Charlie Kate!  As her mom was opening personalized presents today she said, “ Her name is just so cute!”  I couldn’t agree more. Mommy to be was adorable too.  It is always good to get together with these friends and their babies, love that we just keep adding to the crew.

 

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Charlie Kate got some great gifts!  I can’t wait to have a little girl, Lord Willing!  I went to Hobby Lobby this morning and got some ribbon for her planned gift and then I found all of this fun stuff:

So I made CK some cute pins that she can wear on her toboggan or her stretch headband or mommy can wear then pinned to a scarf:

Turned out pretty cute to me… I might become a little obsessed with making these now

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Her wreath didn’t turn out too bad either:

It was still drying when I snapped the picture. Charlie Kate is super blessed with great parents and friends that al ready love her so much!

Babies are so fun!  Especially when you can play with them and give them back!