#TeacherTalkTuesdays

Our "QU" wedding....

Playing duck duck goose, while waiting for the buses on our field trip!

I taught the kids how to play simon says when we were learning how to act out the meaning of simple verbs... they loved it so much they played it out on the playgrounds!

One of my little guys brought this in for me on teachers appreciation day and I about cried.... it was one of the most thoughtful gifts I have received!

This went with my crayola crayon picture =)

Another sweetie brought me these flowers <3

"Smarties" were in the jar (LOVE the creativity!!!)

Instagram #teachertalktuesday

Man oh man have I missed out on a lot this past school year! I am amazed at how the blogging world has exploded with so many great teachers and teacher blogs out there! Most of you know I took a little hiatus so I could focus on my masters classes this past year. I tried to post here and there, but had a tough time managing it all and staying sane. But I am happy to announce that my classes are going AWESOME and this time next year I'll have a master's degree!

Now onto more fun stuff! I saw the posts on Teacher Talk Tuesday and I thought it was such a GREAT idea I had to join in! (I know... I'm a week late!) I'm officially on summer break since Friday... but I did remember to take a few cute pics of our end of the year fun! I used the picstich and instagram apps to join....

You can find me on instagram as...

underthealphabetree

If you are interested in where I found the cute activities- I have provided a link to TPT where I found them!

An adorable summer craft (Found HERE)

Our writing activity for the last week of school! They turned out so great!!! (Found HERE)

After the kids left for summer break. Don't pretend like you didn't do it too! ;)

I miss these little boogs!!! <3

I can't believe another year has flown by! I hope that next school year I will have a little more time to post on here now that I'm in the swing of things with my masters! =) I will definitely be posting freebies and maybe a few things on TPT here and there this summer. I appreciate all the love and support you have shown me this past week!!! Love my blogging buddies!!! (And those teachers who are loyal readers!) =)

Hope ya'll are having a wonderful summer break! (And to those of you who are still in school.... you are almost there! YOU CAN DO IT!) =)

Flashback through the year

Thank you all for your kind words on my most recent post! It's so nice to know that so many of you cared enough to leave a sweet comment for me! =)  I'm officially on summer break and enjoying a nice weekend of camping in the country with one of my best friends and her family in middle Tennessee!

Today, I wanted to share some pictures of anchor charts I have made the past school year that actually turned out pretty cute! Most of them I got from other blogs and I will try my best to give credit where it's due!!! =) Don't ya'll just LOVE pinterest?!

I had a sub that day... she did a pretty good job with her illustrations! =) This chart was inspired by this cute one found here!

I tried to draw my best! This chart was inspired by Kindergarten Kindergarten!

How we introduced addition equations! =)

This is what we did at the end of the school year for retelling a story! This was another chart idea from Life in 1st Grade!

We created this venn diagram to compare and contrast what it was like in Kindergarten and what it will be like in 1st grade!

This chart REALLY helped my kinders understand how to find the main idea of a story!!!! Thanks to one of my FAVORITES: Life in First Grade!

This was a great chart to introduce details for a main idea! The kids did an awesome job!

We used the examples found HERE to come up with details for our Main Idea after reading some non-fiction texts!

I didn't have time to make this as cute as the others! =)

We did this several days in a row with different books! The kids really started to get the hang of it! =)

Here's a cute one we came up with when we were learning about digraphs! =)

The kids loved this one! =) Idea from HERE!

Our school librarian gave us this idea!

Loved these two No David chart idea from Cara Carroll! It really helped my kids with making inferences!

This was a graph we made for the beginning of the year for our opinion writing on what was their favorite book and why.

This one was from Cara Carroll! I was so proud of this one I didn't throw it away! 

No more personal posts!

So it's been brought to my attention that I am getting too personal on my blog and no body cares... apparently I just need get off of the blogging world b/c I'm ALL ABOUT ME!!!! So to CRUELla.... here is your non-personal post.

I just finished my 4th year of teaching kindergarten.
In those 4 years, I have loved 80+ students and taught them to be kind, supportive of one another and that there is someone who loves them--- ME. (Selfish)...
I spent a week in Haiti and loved on orphans and taught a 4th grade class teaching them about Jesus. SO SELFISH. I know....
I have a niece, who I ADORE. And will babysit her for free anytime my sister and brother in law asks- no questions ask.... FOR FREE. (Again... how can I be so selfish!)
The majority of the things I create, I share for FREE. (Sickening, right?)
This personal post you speak of... that NO ONE cares about.... happened to be about my grandfather who passed away and left behind his wife, 11 children and their spouses, over 30 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. I'm pretty sure THEY CARE.

So when you want to write a cruel and hurtful email to someone... here's a little suggestion. Don't include your SCHOOL email. B/c in this day and age... it's pretty easy to find out who you are. Which it was. Just sayin....

OH... and one more piece of advice... don't send them to me. ;) If you don't like what I write. That's fine. Don't read it. You are a grown woman, so act like one. Sending emails like that is so childish and mean. Hope you're proud of yourself.

PEACE.

999 Followers... WHAAAAT????

So I just noticed I'm 1 person away from 1000 followers! I'm pretty psyched about that, considering I've been MIA since September! I apologize but this time next year I'll be gearing up for my graduation for my graduate degree in Early Childhood Studies: Teaching Adults.... so I can teach early childhood college classes! I can't tell ya'll how excited I am! I love teaching my babies, but I also LOVE the early childhood field and can't wait to be able to educate others about it! Maybe I could even juggle both, we'll see!

But anywho, I wanted to catch ya'll up on what I have been up to both personally AND in the classroom!!! A LOT has been going on!

Over Spring Break, I went to Alabama and visited my best friend since grade school! We had such a great time together!!! Shopping, getting our nails done, eating out, seeing Oz and eating some delicious cupcakes! AMAZING! =)

A few weeks ago my baby sister and I ran the Color Run in Nashville and had a BLASTY BLAST!

I totally had a green mustachio afterwards- so that was awesome! My lil sis looks adorbs though!

Okay, so my baby sister isn't really a baby... and she isn't little. She's clearly taller than me and loves to point that out often! So thanks Steph!

The day before we ran, we found out my grandpappy passed away. Our family was heartbroken! He left behind a beautiful wife I call my Mama (aka: "mum-ul"), 11 children, over 30 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Just me with a few of the cousins! Grandpappy finally got his family reunion he always wanted <3

When I found out about Grandpappy, I wanted to do something special in honor of him so I made this and ran with it on my back during the Color Run. 

I had a few people stop me and give me hugs when they realized he had passed the day before. It meant a lot to my sister and I that a stranger would take the time to give their condolences like that.
But my mama has been so strong through it all! <3 We really enjoyed seeing our family after so long, but really wished it were under better circumstances.

I got to hang out with my brother and cousin Kirstie who are also both in the teaching profession! My brother subs in Missouri and LOVES it... and check out his HILARIOUS LICENSE PLATE. He is so funny! My cousin Kirstie is finishing up college soon and I am so proud of her! =)

And one more personal picture.... look how big my niece is getting! She is already 19 months! Where has the time gone?! She has developed (what I call) a "stink face". It's basically an angry scowl when someone comes up in her face when she's not in the mood for it or doesn't know you. It CRACKS. ME. UP! Oh... and I found out that Sonorah is going to be a big sister this fall!!!! I was so shocked and excited!

Okay, now onto some classroom fun!!!

I won this awesome scento marker display from one of my blogging besties "Katie" over at Little Warriors! Her hubby made it! Isn't he talented?!!! The kids LOVED it Katie! Thank you!

 Our art teacher came around and took pictures of all the teachers, blew them up, cut them into little squares and give them to the kids to color in! Afterwards, she collected them and put them back together. These are currently filling up our hallway outside of the office of our school... Didn't they turn out amazing???

 

I finally got my new rug and LOVE IT!!!!!!! The kids were so excited as well!!! I love how big it is and colorful!

 Lisa, my awesome k-colleague and bestie made everyone of us these fact family flowers! She has a student teacher and tried to make a few things while her student teacher was teaching! How precious did these turn out????

Yesterday we planted our flower seeds and I used colorful popsicle sticks with their names on them. (The popsicle sticks just so happen to match their table colors!)

This week we finished up our letter writing unit by writing letters to a soldier that is serving overseas! The kids did a wonderful job and some of their pictures were so adorable....

Dear Soldier, My name is Mashayla. I am 5 years old. Thank you for fighting bad guys. Love, Mashayla

Dear Army man or woman, My name is Josie. I am five years old. Thank you for keeping us safe. What is your favorite color? My favorite color is purple. Love your new friend, Josie <3

I LOVE her drawing!!!!

Check out the Eagle! =)

Dear Soldier, My name is Anthony. I am 6 years old. Thank you for saving my family. Do you have kids? Love, Anthony

Dear Soldier, My name is Courtney, I am 5 years old. Thank you for keeping us safe. What are you doing there? Love, Courtney

My name is Dezirae. I am 5 years old. Thank you for risking your life and keeping me safe. Love, Dezirae

We also made flower diagrams... they turned out so precious!!!

2 were absent, so they'll make theirs on Monday! ;)

This one was made by one of my little artists! We labeled the flower parts and added what the flower needs to grow! (Sun, rain, soil and love!) I only stapled one side of the dirt so you can open it up like a book to see the roots underneath!

Well that's what my spring 2013 has looked like!!! I hope to be back again soon with some more end of the year fun! Thank you all for being such loyal followers and sticking with me this year!!! I may have a freebie or two coming your way!!!!!!!! =)