3rd Grade's a Hoot

It's Back to School time and I am taking part in the TPT Back to School Sale. You can save 20% on selected goodies 8/12-8/13.  I hope yo...

Check out this cute pencil clip art I snagged today.  I have had the same pencil basket labels for 6 years so I think it's time I update...

Hello blogsters!  Just wanted to drop a line and let you know my friend over at Classroom Compulsion is having her very 1st giveaway and I ...

I am so frazzled thinking about the bajillion things on my "Summer To-Do" list and the fact that school is just right around the c...

So I am on a mini vacay not too far from home.  Spent all day at the pool working on my tan and now I am cooling off in my comfy king size t...

It has begun! Waking up (not too early), running to Sonic (early enough to get my 99 cent cherry limeade), and then heading up to my swelte...

Mrs. E over at The Sweet Life of Third Grade is having a fabulous 500 follower giveaway .  There are 36 chances to win.  You have a chance ...

 Classroom management is a bit of an art form in my eyes.  Some teachers just have it "going on" in that department and others str...

Ok, so I have been updating some of the things I created last summer.  I plan on using all of my "owl stuff" in my own classroom t...

Well I have finished my first year as a 3rd grade teacher and it was definitely a HOOT.  3rd grade is nothing short of a marvelous challenge...

I have had a very busy day filled with cleaning and organizing.  All in an effort to cross things off my gnarly to-do list.  I was happily c...

Ok it is all kinds of embarrassing that it has taken me this long to blog about my Work on Words setup and activities.  My BFF Marisa over ...

I can't believe that I am on Christmas break and when we get back to school there are only 3 more 6 weeks left of my first year in 3rd g...

One of my darlings was having major problems with spelling and failing the weekly spelling tests horribly so I was in search of some type of...

I am "Friday Tired" (that's what I call the state of teacher exhaustion after a long week) but I wanted to go ahead and post ...

OK, so who else is reading The Hunger Games series?  I started it today and can hardly stand to put it down.  Thanks to my assistant princip...

It is no mystery that I love OWLS.  In first grade I always did a Stellaluna/Bat theme unit.  This year I had the opportunity to use the Owl...

I know it is Management Monday, but I was in desperate need of some help for my thirdsters that seem to be struggling with unlocking the cod...

A couple of days ago I was contacted by Becky  from  UCreate .    Becky does a weekly Teacher Feature on her blog and this week she chos...

It was just another Manic Monday (whoa, whoa)!  Sorry I had to.  Anyway I always feel like Mondays are crazy.  New word wall words, new spel...