Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss & An Award

What a fun week we had celebrating Dr. Seuss!!! Here is some of the fun stuff we did on Friday to celebrate his birthday!


We read Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

And, of course, we made our own oobleck!!!!

This was SO much fun!!! I used the cornstarch and water recipe. You can find it here. Let's just say my classroom carpets will never be the same again. And I kept asking myself, Why did I wear black pants today!?!? That cornstarch got everywhere. And I mean everywhere. One of the kids said now we have "memory stains" on our classroom floor. I said "What!?!?" He explained that a memory stain is a stain you can look at and remember how much fun you had that day. Very sweet. And yes, we do have about 50 memory stains on our carpet. :-) 

We also did some writing that went with it (How to make Oobleck)...But that wasn't as important as the actual oobleck itself :). 

We also got the chance to read with our new kindergarten buddies!!!

I always love doing things like this because I get to see my wild and crazy excited students in a new light. Especially the struggling readers- they always soar when we do activities like this, and it's always so nice to see my little troublemakers turkeys so involved and so excited about reading with their little buddy!

In other news, Chrissy at 

awarded me the One Lovely Blog award! Thanks Chrissy!!!

So now, I am passing the award on to a few of my favorites!!! Check them out if you haven't already!!! :-)


Lisa at 


Miss T at
Sandra at


Traci at 

Miss DeCarbo at

Emily at

Staci at
                                                                   Vicky at

Chrissy at 

Tammy at

Have a great weekend!!!!! :-) 

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What a Day

I'm following in Reagan's steps... she started her post off yesterday with: You know it's Monday when...


Well, you know it's going to be one of those days when...


It's raining and you have a million (and one) bags to carry (this is actually an everyday occurrence- having lots of bags and lots of stuff)- and no extra arm to hold the dang umbrella. = soggy wet teacher and soggy wet papers.


The power is out when you finally make it to your classroom. This means no copying, no pencil sharpening, no checking emails, or prepping the SMART board for the day. And no light. (Don't worry- it came on by 7:15!)  


You see the students all dressed up and looking very pretty/handsome... It's picture day. And you forgot. And  haven't washed your hair since Saturday. (Don't judge me). This wasn't a pretty situation people. 


There is a glue explosion before 8:00. Glue everywhere. I'm not kidding. How can that much glue come out of one of those little Elmer's bottles...?!?!?


Anywho- it turned out to be an okay day after all of the morning mishaps.


We've been enjoying learning about Dr. Seuss! FYI- there is a FREE BrainPop video on Dr. Seuss- you don't have to subscribe to access this video! Click here to check it out! 

We've also been using these reward charts to keep track of how many Dr. Seuss books we can read!!!

The kiddies can't get their hands off the Dr. Seuss books I jacked checked out from my local library. 

Let's just say, the library isn't all that big, and there was a very nice display with all of their Dr. Seuss books. Well, I needed them. So I destroyed the display checked out the books. They're in the hands of kids! Who are reading them!!!! So I don't feel all that bad. But the nice librarian lady did give me the evil eye as I was stealing excitedly checking out the books. My hubby said I'll probably get blacklisted from the library for this. (Can they do that?!?!) 

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Favorite Pinterest Finds

I know everyone is getting ready for Read Across America this week! I thought I'd share some of my favorite Pinterest finds that I'm going to try to work into our schedule this week! It should be tons of fun!!!

                                                                               Source: obseussed.com via Sandy on Pinterest

                                                                     Source: survivingateacherssalary.com via Sandy on Pinterest

                                                                        Source: teacherspayteachers.com via Sandy on Pinterest

                                                                        Source: teacherspayteachers.com via Sandy on Pinterest

                                                                 Source: shenanigansinsecond.blogspot.com via Sandy on Pinterest

                                                                Source: whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com via Sandy on Pinterest

We are also looking forward to reading our favorite Dr. Seuss books to kindergarten buddies, a Dr. Seuss read-a-thon, and (hopefully) trying green eggs and ham (if we can beg talk a parent volunteer into helping us!) 

What are you doing for Dr. Seuss' birthday???

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