Valentine's Day Celebration in the Works

I'm busy getting all prepped for February.  It's a short month, and extra short for us because we have mid- winter break right smack in the middle of it!  So, it's going to go fast and I want to be ready.  

Our district allows 3 "celebrations" each year.  Our first was our Pumpkin Math day.  Our second is our Valentine Brunch.  I have never done this before, but I'm excited!  I sent home an e-note to parents letting them know about our celebration and inviting them to help out by sending in some important brunch necessities.  I'm fortunate to work at a school where parents are able and willing to help me out with this kind of thing.  New schools mean new ideas!  I love it!

I created a Google Form for parents to sign up and that way it automatically organizes the information for me and I'm all set.   Google Drive is one of my favorite teacher tools!

We have our brunch in our classroom, then students hand out Valentines and get to open them at school. That part is new to me this year!

We will share our Love Bug Kindness writing afterwards to wrap up our morning of celebrating friendship.  I plan on handing out the bugs and the assignment on the Wednesday before our celebration (and I consider the bugs to be the Valentines from me!).  I'm excited to try something new this year and thought brunch was such a cute idea!

So far, that's my plan... How does your class celebrate Valentines Day?  

            

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Currently Making Love Bugs: It's all about kindness

Happy February + Super Bowl Sunday!  

I'm busy prepping my Love Bugs for our kindness writing assignment!  Fruit cups were on sale this week, so I went ahead and stocked up so I'm ready to go.  This is one of my favorite activities all year.  I'm toying with the idea of having the kids make their own "you've been bit" cards to hand to someone when they do a good deed.  Then that person could pass it on when they do a good deed, and it would be like the butterfly effect.  I don't know yet.  Then again, I could just print off more of the labels I put on the fruit cups, but what's the fun in that?  

I already grabbed white bags and made my Cricut cut a bunch of hearts for decorating.  Maybe I'll make more using the die-cuts at school.  Our window clings are up.  I'm ready.  I'm a couple weeks early for the party, but still, I'm ready.  

So now that I'm getting all prepped for month number TWO this year, here's what I'm currently up to...

I actually filled this out right now {Saturday evening}, but it's technically February on the East Coast so it's all good.  I'm super excited about some itty bitty additions to my blog (see above tabs!).  I am forcing myself to figure all this blog building stuff out on my own (that's why it doesn't look QUITE as professional as all the others!) because it's making me learn something new.  I could probably learn more if I took a class or something, but oh well.  So... check out my fancy new tabs!  Woohoo!

Lots of productivity happening this weekend.  Most of it occurring on the computer via TeachersPayTeachers and The Blog, but I went to the grocery store, too.  

I should get some things prepped before I head to watch the Super Bowl!  It's on my list of to-dos.  

...and I'll be honest, I am not a pageant type of lady and had no idea what a "pageant title" would be, so instead I took this quiz and it told me I was "Most Talented".  It told me that.  I didn't make it up.

See what all the other teacher bloggers are up to over on Farley's link up!  Happy Sunday!  Go Hawks!

            

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MLK Day | Your Day Off Work

It's MLK Day, and teachers are off of school.  Happy No School Day!  I'm busy being school-productive, so it's more like working from home.  I love working from home.

I'm sure you have done or are going to do a bunch of school activities to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.   I love that this day gives me the opportunity to revisit peace and student gifts/talents, as well as the life of MLK.  About half way through the year is when a few more friend issues begin to pop up, am-I-right?  At least, that's how I feel in 4th grade.  It's nice to be able to revisit the strength that we have together as a class.

This week, our school is beginning a kindness kick with the Be Kind Like Josh Foundation.  The teachers have shirts and bracelets to hand out when a student is caught being "genuinely kind".  I think it will tie in great with out MLK discussions as well.  Love when that happens!

            

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