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Mail from the White House!!!!!!

Hi, friends. I am linking up with
Doodle Bugs Teaching for 5 for Friday and Teaching Blog Addict for Freebie
Friday, and Charity at Classroom Freebies. Thanks so much for stopping by J

(1) In October, we wrote questions to
the President. Today we checked the mailbox and our letter from the White House
arrived!!! I cannot wait to share it with our first grade friends on Monday J It is the perfect Presidents Day connection plus we
now have a ton of information about the Presidential dog! Woohoo!!!
(2) 3 beautiful roses from a student.
Could they be an apology gift from a student with wandering eyes??? Naah,
couldn’t be. Just roses for Valentine’s Day…right? J
(3) I’m finished! After two weeks of creating,
I just finished my A Wildly Whimsical Birthday: 12 CCSS-Aligned Math Centers to celebrate a certain
cannot-be-mentioned March birthday J It is full of
awesome spiral review activities and really hits place value hard. This pack
includes time, non-standard measurement, place value, missing addends, word
problems, even/odd, counting on, sequencing and number patterns, graphing and
data analyzing, and SO much more. Click on the overview to see the listing on TPT.
Also, make sure to try-it-before-you-buy-it with Birthday Roundup for free!

(4) A year ago today, I left for a
semester in London. From small-town America to a city of 9 million, I fell in
love with the city. 4 months and 9 countries later, I am definitely missing Europe
today.

(5) My CT introduced quiet cups this
week and they are MAGIC. The cups stay on green if a table is at an appropriate
voice level, yellow is a warning, and red means you must go to zero and move
your clip. This was a new idea to me, but they are genius. All we had to do is
to reach for the cup and the entire table was filled with fear silence!
Well, happy weekend, friends. Do you
get a three-day weekend? If so, I’m jealous! 

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  2. Gladys says

    I'm sure your kids will love the letter from Mr. President…how fun! Your whimsical birthday unit looks amazing..I'm off to put it on my wishlist for March. 😉

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  3. Bridget S says

    I love your whimsical unit 🙂 Your pictures from Europe are so pretty. That is on my wish-list of places to visit. I don't really travel without my children (unless it is for work), so I need them to be a bit older before we go.

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  4. Kerri and Lindsay says

    What what???? You lived in England! I am sooooo jealous! I would love to live there for a year, and visit downton abbey! Oh heaven! Do you drink English tea? My favorite is PG tips!2
    Kerri B
    Teacher bits and bobs

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    • Kate says

      It was only for a few months, but it was absolutely wonderful! While I was there, I was able to visit Highclere Castle – so beautiful 🙂 I visited Twinings almost every week. My favorite is they Ceylon tea!

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  7. FourthGrade Flipper says

    Congratulations on those awesome centers!! I would grab them if I was in the lower grades! They are going to be popular sellers for sure.

    I am so jealous of your time in Europe. I feel like I live in a bubble when I read about other's adventures! I love your collage of pictures. They look professional, so if you took them, amazing job!
    ~Holly
    Fourth Grade Flipper
    P.S.
    I have Monday off (yay!) but I am jealous of all the schools in my area who have a week off next week. I will be happy when we get a two week spring break at the end of March though (instead of one).

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  8. Kim says

    Hey Catherine! Love your centers! It's to bad it has come to a Harry Potterish "He who can't be mentioned!" I wonder how Dr. Seuss himself would feel about it?? I don't get a 3 day either so I am right with you on the jealously! Have a great weekend!
    Kim

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