Five for Friday: June 7, 2013

This has been our first FULL week off of school! Linking up with Five for Friday at Doodle Bugs..

Organization Nightmare Update (Sarah)

Last Friday I shared my workstation organization nightmare... I took Courtney's advice and purchased tubs and labeled them by month/s. Click Here for a copy of month/s labels. The sorting has begun! I sorted many of my math workstations according to the month/s they are used.  As I sorted, I also jotted down the name of each workstation and how many of each are in the tub.  

Next steps--continue sorting and create a list of workstations according to Common Core Mathematics Standards for each tub.  This will also give me a nice visual so I can actually see where I need to add workstations according to standards. More to come...

100 Followers Giveaway: A Success!

Courtney and I had our first giveaway for 100 Followers! Thanks to the help of many blogging friends, the giveaway was a great success.  We thank all of the donors for their enormous support! We could not have done it without them...

Teaching Maddeness

First Grade Buddies

In That Room...Adventures in Second Grade 

Learning with Mrs. Brinn

Primary Buzz

Diving Into Second Grade

The Lamppost in 1st Grade

Ideas by Jivey 

Collaboration Cuties

Looking from Third to Fourth

Foreman Teaches

Digital: Divide & Conquer 

Fab and Fun in Fourth

Whooo's in Second? 

             

The winners of the giveaway were:  

*K-2* Giveaway - Rachel

*3-5* Giveaway - Christin

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES!

 
Check out another 100 Followers Giveaway at Sweet Rhyme & Pure Reason!

Potty Training (Courtney)

I have a 2 year old, and well since I'm home now, we decided to tackle potty training. I know it's not a real exciting endeavor, but it means my last child out of diapers....Halleluiah!  She's just about got it. Now I just need to make sure to include a spare set of clothes wherever we go....oh and to know the location of every bathroom wherever we go!

 

Diving In!: Creating My Own Graphics (Sarah)

It is summer, so I decided to just "dive" in to something new for me--creating my own graphics.  Creating my own graphics is something I have wanted to do for YEARS, so I set out this summer to find a course in my area to learn about using Adobe Illustrator.  Well, there was nothing offered until August, during the day, when I will be back at school.  Then I remembered that the daughter of a teacher I used to work with was a graphic arts/photography major in college.  I remembered her mom telling me she worked with Adobe products--and that was over 10 years ago! Somehow that conversation entered back into my mind, and I contacted her right away.  Well, I met with her for the first time today and will be meeting with her again next week.  I have learned so much already!!  I am thrilled to be able to do something that I have wanted to do for so long.  I hope to be posting some of my graphics very soon... :0)

When researching Adobe Illustrator (to purchase the program), I found out that Adobe has something called the Creative Cloud--it includes Illustrator, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, and many other Adobe creative products.  AND it's just $19.99 a month (for educators).  A much better deal than purchasing each of these products the "old fashioned way". Check it out here!

First TpT Product in a LONG While... (Sarah)

For 16 years now, whether it be with my literacy kids, third graders, fifth graders, and now second graders, I have done a dodecahedron project. A dodecahedron has 12 pentagon faces. You may have seen these before... For the past two years, with second graders, we have created "Getting to Know Me" dodecahedrons. Upon reflection, I have decided to do the dodecahedron project with a science related topic. Therefore, I created this, similar yet simplified, cube project for the beginning of the year. It takes less time, but it serves the same purpose. :0) Fly on over to my TpT Nest to learn more...

Have a wonderful weekend!  We'll see you on Sunday for Collaboration Cuties' Mentor Text Link Up!