Writing Workshop

We use Lucy Calkin's program, Units of Study.
I LOVE< LOVE> LOVE it!
Now that we are incorporating Common Core Standards this upcoming year, things have changed a bit.
If you use Units of Study, how are you adjusting.
We have a book that supplements the new things that are in CCS. I find it hard to follow.
I want to do a good job with both next year.
 I was wondering if anyone was going through the same thing.

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Don't forget about the Summertime Giveaway!!!

Good Luck!!!



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Summertime Giveaway

Eight AMAZING Bloggers have helped me with my Summertime Giveaway.
There is so much to win.
Enter with the Rafflecopter giveaway gadget at the bottom of this post.

Good Luck!

It's HERE!!!
This is what you could win...


Grab Our Button.

$5.00 credit to April's TpT store.




Sara's Book Basket Labels


Two free items from Storie's TpT store.



Lisa's "Pirate Palooza" Math and Literacy packet.



Tanja's "Catch a Sentence" packet.




Sheree's "Long & Short A Fun" and "Hodgepodge of Math Fun" packets


YearntoLearn

$5.00 credit to anything in Talbott's Teaching Trove.


Two items of your choice from Tonya's store.


Every item in my TpT store.

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Celebrating USA and Canada and a Summer Giveaway

This week at Endless Pinabilities we are celebrating the USA and Canada. 
There are all sorts of ideas for getting you all ready for next week.


Hop on over to check out all the great things.

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Starting tomorrow....
This is what you could win.


Grab Our Button.

$5.00 credit to April's TpT store.



Sara's Book Basket Labels


Two free items from Storie's store.



Lisa's "Pirate Palooza" Math and Literacy packet.


Tanja's "Catch a Sentence" packet.


Sheree's "Long & Short A Fun" and "Hodgepodge of Math Fun" packets


YearntoLearn

$5.00 credit to anything in Talbott's Teaching Trove.


Two items of your choice from Tonya's store.


Every item in my store.

It starts tomorrow!!!

Have a wonderful day!





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Problem with Google Chrome and GIVEAWAY!!!!!!

Well, I was so disappointed that I couldn't enter any of the giveaways or comment on anything this weekend. I almost gave up. :(
There must be something wrong with my Google Chrome. When I am on any blog it lets me see almost everything except followers. It is showing the "edit" button on all blogs. Don't worry I can't edit any of your blogs. I clicked on it to see what it did and it says I don't have permission to do that. 
I can't comment on anything. It shows either nothing or the whole post in the comment box. 
I was so frustrated!!!!

So, I got onto my other browser and voila!!!! Everything is fine. I am not sure what's going on with my Google Chrome, but I won't be using it for a while!
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So now I have some fun news.
Starting tomorrow, EIGHT wonderful bloggers are joining me for a Summer Giveaway!!!
YIPPEEEEE!!!


Tune in tomorrow!!!

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Sing it with me...Summertime, Summertime, Sum, Sum, Summertime!

Woo Hoo!
First full day of summer break for me. We have a lot to do in our district this summer, but for now I am going to sit back and relax and enjoy!!!
I have uploaded my latest Place Value Game onto my TpT store. 
SUMMER!!!
Can you tell I am excited!!!
I am going to list it for free today.
Happy Summer!!!
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Is anyone else having problems with Blogger? I can't see my followers, see anyone else's followers, or comment on any blogs. It is really interfering with my stalking research :)
If anyone has had this problem before, can you help me?


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Last Day of School and Planning a Giveaway

Today was the last day of school for the kiddos!!!
We still have to go tomorrow.


My toes all decked out for the occasion. 
(they really are the same size :)



My last hug from these AMAZING first graders.

We had a very calm day. It was 95* out so we watched Finding Nemo and packed up all our stuff.

I will have to start doing things on my bucket list!
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On another note, I am going to have a giveaway for the beginning of MY summer. I know some of you have already started your summer...no hard feelings...really...:)
If anyone would like to help out I would really appreciate it.
You can email me at: bakteach16@gmail.com

I am going to begin the giveaway June 27th.

Have a wonderful day!

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Summer??? How many more days?

We have one more half day with the kiddos and then a check-out day.
Yesterday was Literacy Camp Day. It was not suppose to rain...but it did. This is the first time we have had to have it inside. Luckily we have an empty classroom we could set everything up in. 
We had tents of:
Non-Fiction
Informational
Writing
Fiction Writing
Non-Fiction Writing
Fairy Tales
Dr. Seuss
I am sure there are more. The first and second graders made them all up.



They took their shoes off and lined them all up.
So cute!


I don't know how many tents there were!


All Literacy Tents!


The kiddos even got to look at their yearbooks in the informational tent.



And then we had two Mystery Readers!!!
The first is my daughter and the second is our principal.

We had so much fun!
I can't wait to do it next year!

Have a wonderful day!!!


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Guest Blogger...Words Their Way

I am guest blogging over at Cachey Mama's Classroom today.

Tutorial Tuesday

I have detailed plans of what I do in my classroom for Words Their Way.

Head on over to check it out!

Preschool Teacher
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Happy Father's Day and a question...

Happy Father's Day to all of you! I hope you are enjoying your day.
I didn't get to spend time with my dad today. 
But, I did get to talk to him while he was on the golf course (for about 2 minutes). :) 
Here we are trying to use a compound bow.


Here is my grandfather with my mom, her sisters, and my grandmother.


I miss him so much.

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I had a question for you all.
I was wondering if you would use real photos with labels and such. 









They turned out kind of funky. I was fooling around with my camera in school and thought I might use these and maybe others would too.
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Have a wonderful day!




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Mrs. Kempf had a farm...E-I-E-I-O

Well, we finished the garden yesterday. We had so much fun. It was hard work. The kiddos brought out books, science journals, crayons, pencils, and WATER.
It was HOT!!!
I am so impressed with what they accomplished. 
They are so excited to show this off to the board members and administrators of the school. I am trying to set something up so everyone can come over to see it. Maybe we'll have a grand opening :)
We were thinking that we would sell some produce during the summer at the Farmer's Market in town. Just one day to start out this year. Who knows, maybe it will take off!









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I also uploaded my new Schedule Cards with a FARM theme.

Have a wonderful day!




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