Fall Break Goodness

Today marked my 9th, and final, consecutive nap for the week which can mean only one thing, fall break is coming to an end. It has been a wonderful week of doing things I love (outside of school) and catching-up with some dear friends.

It has been 2 full weeks since I last said ‘Hi’ which is a first for me. As I head back to school tomorrow, I’ll become a more consistent blogger – pinky promise. 🙂 Until then, I just wanted to share some photos from my past few weeks. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you may have seen some of these photos. 🙂

Reading.Books.Real.Adult.Books. Thank goodness for breaks that give us time to read. I read 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny. When I posted this picture on Instagram I receive lots of positive feedback on it. Honestly, I was kind of *mehh* about it. I stopped reading with 25 pages to go. I know. I just wasn’t into it…but lots of other people were.

Breaks are a great chance to *tweak* things that are not just-right in our classrooms. Please tell me I’m not alone!?! I am bleeding pencils and dry-erase markers. Literally, bleeding. I am so tired of these writing implements running away that I tagged them with tape and flags. We shall see if this helps…*fingers crossed*

Working on a project for our school, I also had the chance to walk around our entire school and take pictures of awesome things. Friends, I was impressed. Very impressed. If you haven’t taken the chance to walk around your school and look at the walls, do it! I rarely make it to the Kindergarten wing or Intermediate Land, so it was such a treat to see what is going on in other classrooms. I also snagged a picture of our main stairwell; I love this!

The first few days of break, we had wonderful weather. I had the chance to porch-sit and update some of my earliest projects. My Super Data pack was the 2nd ever product I posted on TpT, and it received a much needed update. If you owned the original download, please go back and re-download it. It is a COMPLETELY different product now-ha!

See???? It is SO much better now. 🙂

As I mentioned above, the weather was only great for the first few days of Fall Break. After that we had a lot of rain and even a few moments of hail. I just had to snag this picture because I know my first graders will love seeing it. Only in Kentucky is it 70 degrees, sunny, and hailing!

Other than afternoon napping, cooking is one of my favorite break activities. Cauliflower pizza, quinoa/vegetable soup, apple bread, and taco casserole were all on the menu this week!

Are you in Kentucky, Indiana, or Tennessee??? If so, consider coming to EdCamp Kentucky! It is going to be an amazing unconference. An unconference has no set agenda, but it is led by the attendees. Basically, it gets together hundreds of people who love something (i.e. education/teaching) and you create the schedule/agenda together based on what you want to learn more about or want to share. I’ll be at EdCamp Kentucky in Louisville and cannot wait. It’s going to be fabulous!

Well friends, it is going to be an awesome week! I am so excited to see my first-grade friends and hit our learning groove. My on-grade level friends are going to receive their 1st Readers Theatre scripts and my above-grade level friends are starting their first chapter book – Frog and Toad Are Friends!

Right now, though, I am going to head to the kitchen and finish painting our new classroom mailbox. For $3.00 at Hobby Lobby (with a 40% off coupon) this mailbox was a steal, and it is going to be perfect for letter-writing this week! (If you don’t have a Hobby Lobby near you, you can snag your own mailbox on Amazon.)