Howdy. My pink, crusty, oozy eye says hello. Another week. Another germ from the monsters. I have missed more school due to illness this year than in all my years teaching. It’s starting to annoy me. I never get sick. And this year…BAM! Teachers should get hazmat pay just for the sheer number of germs we encounter!
Yep. I did it. What you can see is the pain and the hazy vision! Fun days! My pretty hazel eyes are surrounded by a lovely shade of pink!
Today I am linking up with Reagan at Tunstall’s Teaching Tidbits for this super fun linky party! Who doesn’t need a hall pass?!
Product:
My favorite product (s) as of now (seriously thought people, every time I finish one of my creations, it’s my favorite…I really love them all…except those from early on…those are just embarrassing…I have big plans to fix those things up!) are my ten frame cards! Something about the simplicity of them really makes me happy. And the fact that the monsters LOVE them. During math centers, I look around and see all of these ten frame cards everywhere and monsters working on them! Makes a teacher happy! And seriously, look at that GLITTER!!!!!!
Area:
The favorite area in my classroom is the storage area where I can hide from monsters and grown ups alike classroom library!! It’s such a fun, cozy, happy place! Pink carpet! Palm tree! Tons of animals and puppets! Fish hats! and 10,000 thousand books. What’s not to love! The monsters love hanging out and reading in the library! They love the puppets and the hats and books!!
But I really do love my whole classroom!!!! It’s so eccentric and chaotic and fun….umm like me! Next year…all glitter and mustaches people!
Signal:
Ah, one of my signatures. I am known for this. My signal is a $10 techological revolution.
It’s a wireless doorbell!!!! True story. It plugs into an outlet and you carrry the button with you. When the bell rings, the monsters stop what they’re doing, put their bubbles in, their hands go in their lap and they look at me. (OK, so that’s what I see in my mind…) The best thing about this signal is that they can hear it even when they’re extremely loud. (Have I mentioned that they won’t stop talking?!) And it’s a peaceful sound!!
Sanity:
At work?!?! Is there such a thing?! I will be a sappy one…when my door is closed and it’s just me and the monsters doing what we do. That’s my sanity. No politics, no meetings, no paperwork, no administration, no co-workers. Just me and 17 monsters being monsters. Singing, dancing, being artists, laughing, loving and learning (all common core aligned of course!). That is my sanity during the day!
And a Route 44 Coke (with light ice) from Sonic always helps too!
Here is the latest and greatest Kindergarten Smorgasboard Common Core aligned creation!
I have been using the word worm in my classroom for 4 years and LOVE IT! It’s a great way to engage and excite the monsters about sight words! Check it out!
Don’t forget to enter this giveaway! 4 amazing products. 4 amazing bloggers (myself included…i’m tooting my own horn for once!) and 4 chances to win!
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15 comments
Oh my goodness-I totally feel your pain about being sick. Since Thanksgiving as soon as one part of me is well, another falls apart. Literally the first thing my class (and adults, truth be told) is, “Are you feeling okay?” Hope you get well SOON and stay well. Hang in there-we'll make it so Spring Break before we know it.
I think I want to come to your class! My favorite is your puppets. Do you have some type of stand that they are sitting on? It just looks so inviting in your reading area. I agree with you about sanity is when we as teachers have alone time with our students. I feel like so much better learning gets done when I am on my own with my kinders. Thanks for sharing.
Sherry
Kindergarten Milestones
What is up with this year? The flu is going around with a vengeance and I was just out sick for the first time EVER. Yuck! Good luck with that eye- I love this giveaway!
Irene
Learning With Mrs. Leeby
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I feel your pain!! This is my 10th year of teaching and I've been sicker this year than I was my 1st year of teaching. I think this must just be a really bad year for creepin'crud. 🙁 Love your doorbell idea!!
I linked up a Hall Pass too…when you're done at the nurse's office, I'd love it if you'd “sneak down the hall” on your way back to class and pop over to my blog!! 😉 There's a fun little tribute to YOU…
Amy
Happy Teacher Heaven
Love the doorbell! That will definitely be on my must have list for next year.
Amy
Teaching in Blue Jeans
I wish that I had a classroom with complete walls and a door- we use floor to ceiling partitions, but I only have them on two sides of my room. I am not entirely sure what the logic was for the open concept schools. Someday I will utilize this doorbell idea- genius!
Ooh, I didn't know of such a thing as a wireless doorbell! Super cool! I might have to get one!
I have never heard of the wireless doorbell!! I definitely need to get one!
Sarah
The Eager Teacher
The Eager Weekend
Greg, I am going out and buying a doorbell right now. I am changing out of my jammies and going to Home Depot… well maybe I'll wait until tomorrow, but this is BRILLIANT.
Love the idea of the doorbell. We have one at home, but never thought of using it in the classroom!
And I sympathise with the passing of germs from the kiddos – I had a horrible stomach bug over the weekend from my little ones in the classroom!
Stef
Miss Galvin Learns
I agree. That, too, is my sanity. Working with my babies and doing what we do. It's my sanity and my favorite thing to do 🙂
Ha, ha, I want a door bell too. I will have to add that to my list of to do's. 🙂
Melissa
I love the door bell idea!!! I needed something for attention, so I hung HUGE outdoor windchimes in my room…not the little tinkerbell kind, but Big beautiful loud tone ones. They are perfect. They get their attention even when they are loud, and they sound beautiful!
Doorbell quiet signal? VERY cool. I am heading out and trying it after April vacation. It's exactly what I need…I think. Thanks for the inspiration.