Waking Up Late

Ever had one of those days, when you hit snooze one too many times? 

Thankfully, mine happened on Halloween! 

Happy Halloween! 

FRIDAY!!!!!!

Five for Friday! 

It's FRIDAY!!!! 

It's also November 1st!!!! 

October seriously flew by for me. I knew it would. My family had a five day vacation smack in the middle. It was a nice break, but made a normally long month, short. 

With a holiday this month and next, 2013 will be over before we know it!!! 

I procrastinated preparing for this week. I think it has to do with all the rain we have had lately. It just makes me lazy. I love rain though and we really need it. 

ONE 

So, Sunday night, I am searching through my files and can't find something I need from a blogger. I instantly email her and she very quickly responds and viola! I am ready for the week!! 

I have mentioned before, but I bought a store this summer from Danielle at Live Love Math and it has been wonderful!!! 

This week we used her Area for Composite Figures stations. Wow! My students were blown away. 

I won't let them use the phrase, "this is hard" in my class. I make them say "it's challenging", and boy was it. 

It was more than helpful in finding area, it was great computation practice and placing decimals when multiplying. So many teachable moments. 

TWO

We had hat day. (Put a cap on drugs). Gotta say, love these days!!! 

THREE

Thursday was Halloween and a TWO hour delay! 

Thanks to the rain we badly need, we had flash floods and had a two hour delay, on Halloween!!! Like that day needs anymore distractions!!!! 

My son's school did a cool thing for Halloween. Instead of allowing kids to dress up and a do a glorified "storybook character parade," they had a Halloween science vocabulary parade.  

See last year my son was a power ranger and I searched like mad for a power ranger book so he could wear his costume, that is not a storybook character. 

This year though, we had to choose a science vocabulary word and make a costume. 

Yes, it was a project for mom and dad! 

My 2nd grader said, "Can I watch you do my project?" 

We spent about 30 minutes in Hobby Lobby brainstorming and buying stuff. The idea was for my son to be precipitation and have beads hanging down the hat to represent rain. 

After several attempts and a little frustration on my husbands part (downside of being a perfectionist and a procrastinator), we have a wonderful Cumulus Cloud! 

Note: Cumulus was spelled wrong on the vocabulary sheet sent home from my son's school, so his shirt is spelled wrong. Bummer. I didn't even think to double check it. My son loves his shirt, but he is not wearing it in public misspelled! 

FOUR

My 6th graders completed a Halloween themed activity. It was crazy sock day. Students were allowed to dress up too. I didn't this year. I wish I had, but things are just too crazy around here. 

Click the picture for the FREEBIE. 

FIVE

Trick or treating of course with these two precious boys!

Last Minute Halloween FREEBIE!

I know you probably have your Halloween plans for tomorrow complete, but I finally finished what I am doing and thought I would share it as a freebie. 

We are in the middle of a measurement unit. We are deep into using formulas. This activity has students finding the area of various shapes from a floor plan. And it's FREE!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Halloween Fun

I should be working.

I should be posting about the awesome notebook stuff we have been doing.

I should be posting about the great centers we have been doing.

But, I have 5 minutes.

So I thought I would share the fun we had yesterday with costumes. These are my hallway partners.

I'm the biker chick!!! It was so fun. The kids loved having us in costumes!

You Can Take the Teacher Out of Elementary, but You Can't Take the Elementary Out of the Teacher

Wow, what a long title.

But so true!

This is my second year in middle school. I spent 17 in elementary and most of that in primary. So, this middle school gig is OUT OF THE BOX for me.

I can honestly so I am enjoying it this year.

So much is different in middle school. of course, the students, that goes without saying. But the teachers are different. It's just a different breed that teaches older kids.

One thing that is really different is bulletin boards and door decorations. It just doesn't happen in middle school.

I shared about our door contest earlier. Those decorations will stay up all year for most and when stuff gets ripped or falls off, it could possibly stay that way. I don't know why, it just does.

Well, my door got ripped big time. I knew it would. I had 3D boxes on it. It was a matter of time.

Good timing it was, so I changed my door decorations.

Our school colors are purple, heck our whole town is purple, and we didn't have green paper so my monster is purple.

My students LOVED it. Someone comments everyday! Even the other teachers say great things. My neighboring teachers said they may even change their doors. I hope so. I love Halloween!!

My monster makes me smile!

Oh, and yes, I saw him on Pinterest last year. I made this one on my front door. My own children loved it!

                                                                Happy Door Decorating!