Currently, Anchor Charts, and More!

Is it just me, or has this week been a crazy one? Maybe it is the whole Spring Break is almost here vibe that all of my kiddos currently have along with most of the teachers too.Here is what you've missed in the life of Miss Klohn in the past week. 

one. I survived middle school cheer tryouts. Did I mention that I am the cheer coach? :)

two. I had my midterms for grad school and failed one of them. Luckily, my professor made a mistake while grading it and I ended up getting a 70. I am just not a fan of having to memorize APA formatting when I have a resource book that I can use when writing my paper. 

three. I got asked to be in charge of Tadpole Camp which is like 6th grade orientation in August. This also means that I will be getting a contract for next school year! Yeah for getting to stay in my current position for another year.

four. I survived our incoming 6th grade parent orientation last night and it was so great to see many of the kids that I had when I student taught in 4th grade last year. Hopefully I will get to have several of them in class.

five. I am also presenting tomorrow at our faculty meeting about Class Dojo! I am obsessed with it and my kids love it too!

I am also so sick of TELPAS writing. We had to do 3 prompts and we got our last one finished today. Before we wrote, I did an example compare/contrast with them. I think it turned out pretty great. 

First we did a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast my co-teacher in my inclusion class and me. 

Then we wrote the essay together. 

I haven't read all of their essays yet, but hopefully they did a good job of completing the prompt. 

This is how I spent my evening today, cutting out lamination for 2 hours. I did some serious shopping and got some great literacy center games from Teachers Pay Teachers during the sale on Leap Day. We were out of laminator film at school last week, so I finally got to get it all laminated today. I cannot wait to play these games with my kiddos because I think they are going to love them. 

I also wanted to link up with Farley for her Currently March party! Go check it out and link up yourself too!

Several of you have also awarded me with some blog awards and I promise that post is coming sometime this week. I have a 7 a.m. faculty meeting tomorrow so I am hitting the sack!