Currently (April)

After reading some of my favorite teacher blogger's posts today, I am SO happy we had Spring Break on April Fool's Day. It would have been non-stop practical jokes ALL DAY LONG.

Well I am linking up with Farley at Oh' Boy 4th Grade for my first April Currently.

Listening: I love Mythbusters. Some of the experiments that they come up with are really interesting. I am always amazed how they figure out how to make the experiments work.

Loving: On Thursday, I got my I-Pad from Donor's Choose. Perfect timing for me to play with figure out all the apps before I let my students loose on it. Any app suggestions for math and literacy activities would be a ton of help. (Preferably if they are free.)

Thinking: This year I really needed Spring Break. I am looking forward to a week of relaxation.

Wanting: I recently bought the I-font app. I have only played with it a little bit because I was getting ready for conferences. However, I am planning on making some time this week.

Needing: I have a ton of leftovers from Easter. My plan was to try to figure out a couple of different ways to use the same ingredients. (There is only so many times I can eat ham.)

Advice: Everything happens for a reason. My mom always tells me this when I am trying to wrestle with an important decision. Usually, at the time, I don't want to hear that (haha) but it is so very true.

Don't forget to head on over to Oh' Boy 4th Grade to link up with your own currently.

Happy Monday!

Noun Linky

Happy Monday!

I am linking up with LaToya at Flying into First Grade again for her "Let's Get Acquainted" Linky. This week she is asking we post our favorite nouns: a person, a place, a thing, and an animal.

Person: I'm going to cheat a little bit and say my family. I know they are more than one, but how can you just choose 1?

My brother and I.

Place: I love to travel so this was a hard one to choose. However, I have to say that my all time favorite place to be, is up in the Cascade Mountains. It is so peaceful and relaxing. It always makes me feel so small and that all of the stress in my life is not that important.

Thing: My favorite thing these days is my Kindle. When I am actually able to read for pleasure, I love to camp out on my couch and get lost in my favorite book.

Animal: I absolutely love wolves. I think they are a beautiful animal.

Last week, I posted that I had just subscribed for another Donor's Choose project to try to get an I-Pad in my class. Yesterday, I found out that my project was fully funded! I am over the moon with excitement. I'm not sure how I am going to wait the 3 weeks for it to get here.

Happy teaching!

Five for Friday, Donor's Choose, and Writing

Hey all! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday. If you don’t know, this is where you post 5 random things you did during the week.

1. Have you heard about Donor’s Choose? If not, it is a wonderful program that allows educators to write grants and collect money for their projects. After approval from the Donor’s Choose team, people can donate money to your project. At the beginning of the year I wrote a grant to get an easel and math manipulatives.

 

A couple of months later, I was informed that my project was funded! A couple of weeks ago I was informed that next year we will be drastically cutting our copier/toner budget. (Yikes!) So posted a grant to try to get an I-Pad in my classroom but I am also searching for other ways to cut down on my paper consumption. Any ideas? I have looked into using math/reading spiral notebooks but I’m not really sure how it works. Does anyone use these in their classrooms?

2. I have been a little late on my spring centers but it has not felt like spring around here at all. Plus, we won’t be diving into the centers until after we come back from Spring Break.

 

3. We made these adorable umbrellas and Spring poems.

4. We have been getting hit with snow. For Washington at the end of March that is an odd occurrence. This is what I wish I was doing today.

5. I officially have 3 days and 25 parent/teacher conferences before Spring Break. I am SO close.  

Have a good weekend!

Krystyn