Sunday, August 18, 2013

UPDATED: My Husband's Birthday

My AWESOME Husband, Donald!
My husband is amazing, incredible, fantastic, but has the WORST birthday every year.  It is without doubt one of the worst times of year for two people that are teachers (yes we both teach, and he also is a football coach).  We have done some terrible jobs on his birthday including moving cross country, digging a drain field, and now this year.  I decided it would be a great idea to paint the door that goes from our kitchen to our garage.  I had the idea a while back about turning it into a great big chalkboard (cool, right?)  Well it just happened that the one day we have open to do something like this would be today, my husband's birthday.
Happy Birthday!

So we took the door off it's hinges, and quickly realized that the heat from the garage was unreal!  I grabbed the shower curtain liner that was in the guest bath and quickly taped it up with some painters tape.  Of course in doing that I realized no matter what way I put it it would not be long enough.  SO, out came the scissors and I patched together the bottom to keep the heat out.  I thought we were doing well...I was wrong.  My husband yelled in from the garage to get the paint.  To which I yelled back that it was in the car, because it wasn't on the counter or the table.  But, when he went looking it wasn't there.  Apparently, in my rush to get out of Wally-World I had left 4 cans of chalkboard paint hanging out in a bag for the guy behind me to get.  So now I have a door sitting in my front yard, a shower curtain liner hanging in my kitchen, and no paint.  So off to the hardware store he went to buy paint. 

Enjoying our cruise last year!
Poor guy, he never gets to enjoy his birthday, but don't despair I'm taking him away soon to enjoy a good meal, a nice hotel, and some fab gifts that are still making their way to Florida!

I'll post pics of the door.. if we ever get it done! It took some time but we finally got the door done.  It was soooo EASY!  We took the door off the hinges, rolled it with the paint, and by the evening we put it back up.  We had to let it cure for a few days, but by the time K's birthday rolled around I could right on it!

Chalkboard Door!



Liz

Common Core... AGAIN


As I am getting ready for the new year I have been racking my brain trying to write out the lesson plans with all of the “new” stuff…The new stuff being the Common Core State Standards.  I’m not sure about anyone else, but I will say that for the bazillionth (is that even a word???) time I was sent to a workshop about CCSS and what did I walk away with, well not much.  They keep talking to us about the shifts and what they are all about, but not once has anyone shown me how this is actually going to work in my classroom.  I feel like I’m grasping at straws to figure out what I am supposed to be changing or doing.  I figure that it what everyone else is doing to, so maybe we are all in the same some-what sinking ship!  

Anyway, I was looking for some ideas this week and ran across a few on TpT and of course Pinterest!  For a while I felt inadequate that I wasn’t doing all these great things… that wore off pretty quick though.  I’m not superman, supermom, or superteacher.  I give it what I got, and sometimes it’s AH-wait for it-Mazing, and other times it is a gigantic flop.  I did find some good stuff for teaching the four types of sentences.  I found a great Anchor Chart and Graphic Organizer.  I also found another blog Lessons with Laughter that was also doing the 4 types of sentences.  Great stuff!

Super Awesome Anchor Chart from

Great Graphic Organizer from Pinterst


Lessons with Laughter
So with that I'm done for now... Don't forget that Teachers Pay Teachers is having a BIG SALE!  Everything in my story is 28% off right now.  Since I know everyone is broke right about now I'm also going to throw a little freebie on here to enjoy.  So I have added one of my best sellers to the blog to get your year started out right.  My theme is Movies/Hollywood.  Soooo... here are some Movie/Hollywood calendar pieces to start your calendar out looking fabulously!


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