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Five For Friday!

  I love summer vacation!  We've been swimming a few times, and I've taken my son to the park every day this week! I've been able to sleep late, work-out and read!  This is the life!  I'm still working on the bookroom at school...I go back next Tuesday.  ...

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Reflection & Plans for Next Year!

I thought this linky party sounded like fun!  This year I spent one day a week tutoring 4th and 5th grade students.  It was really successful, and probably the biggest improvement I saw was in students' self confidence as readers!  The students loved coming ...

I am such a list person!!  I kind of am not very good at just relaxing, and I like being busy.  So this is what my summer list looks like.  Summer goes by way too quickly!!!
 


Vacation Related
Road Trip to Texas
Road Trip to Denver and Rocky Mountain National Park
Road Trip to Angel Fire and Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico

School Related
Move the book room to the new location.
Make sure the new book room is labeled and organized.
Attend 3 days of PD in June (K-2 Reading Intervention)
PLC Conference in Minneapolis in July
School Improvement Meetings (1 day in June, 2 days in July)
Attend 1 day of Kagan Coaching Training in August
Tutoring - Every Monday and Wednesday in June and every Monday in July

These are the labels that I'm going to use to help organize the book room!
Doctorate Related
Finalize manuscript for beginning teacher research (almost done)
Complete Chapter 3 for Dissertation Proposal meeting in August (almost done)
Meet with major professor in June

Activities for my Children
Volleyball Camp (in the evenings)- May
Swimming Lessons (in the morning)- June
Volleyball Games/Practice (now - June 12 Mondays, Wednesday, Thursdays)
Dance Recital and Dress Rehearsals (Tuesday and Thursday nights and 9 am lots of mornings on the week of June 3)
Tennis (8 am in July- I just need to pick out the weeks)
Lots of pool time in the afternoon!!!!

Fun Stuff For Me
Read lots of fun books!!!
Run/Walk...I'd like to be up to five miles by the time I go back to school.  However, I'm not really great at pushing myself when it comes to running..once I get too tired, I'd rather just walk!  This will probably be my biggest challenge!!!


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Linking Up with Doodle Bugs

  1.  Today was the last day with students.  We go back on Tuesday for 1/2 day of Professional Development and 1/2 day of working in our room. 2.  Yesterday was Student Appreciation Day.  We started this tradition five years ago and each year we try ...

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End of the Year Book- Mrs. Spitzer's Garden

I love this story!  My son's kindergarten had a special end-of-the-year program tonight (school end's Thursday at noon). They had the students narrate the story. The students would take turns reading a sentence. It was very sweet!  I believe they used iMovie with still ...

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Sad Day!

My heart is just so sad to hear about Moore, Oklahoma.  It hits close to home...since I live in Kansas.  My heart just breaks for the families whose lives will be forever changed due to this storm! ...

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Linking Up with Doodle Bug & Friday Flash Freebie

  1.  Field Day.  Today was field day.  I finally earned my way out of the field!!!  I ran the Turtle Scooter Races.  Students would time each other, and try and beat their personal best time.  It was fun because students were not competing against ...

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Let's Get Acquainted- Linky Party (and then organizing before school is out!)

Linky Questions 1. What made you decide to become a teacher? 2. What has been your most rewarding experience as a teacher? 3. If you were not a teacher, what would you be? 1.  When I was little, I loved playing school with my sister.  When I went ...

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Five For Friday and a Flash Freebie

  I love linking up with Doodle Bugs! 1. I finally got my flowers  planted :)  We did 15 baskets/pots that are on our porch, by the garage and on the deck! 2. Thursday was Formal Day at school!  It was a BLAST.  I wore a super fancy bridesmaid dress ...

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Teacher Appreciation Week

This is such a fun week!  I've been spoiled at school with breakfast and lunch everyday from the PTO.  Then everyday, the PTO gives us presents!  Today I received a Sonic giftcard and a Subway giftcard. Last year, I was able to see some of my former kindergarten ...

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Teacher Appreciation Sale and New Sentence Building Set for Writing

I'm super excited about the Teacher Appreciation Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers.   The dates for the sale are May 7th and May 8th.  My store will be 20% off, plus if you enter TAD13 at checkout, you receive an extra 10% off!  I had just starting blogging during ...

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Five For Friday

  I love linking up with Doodle Bugs! 1.  I made the Wipeout cake!!  I had Sam's Club make a plain cake, and I did the decorating :)  I used Starbursts, gumballs, Twizzlers, Runts and Hershey Bars. 2.  I had my lass class last night.  I passed ...

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