Leader in Me Mini-Series: Leadership Notebooks

This year my school is becoming a 7 Habits Leader in Me school!!!

 

 

  To celebrate and enlighten everyone about how great this design is, I wanted to do a little mini-series of everything our school has done up to this point.  This first of my mini-series is all about the Leadership Notebook!  It is probably VERY similar to your Data Notebooks but with a few more things added in.  Check out today's insanely long post over at my blog to get an in depth look at what our Leadership Notebooks look like and all sorts of FREEBIES that go inside it!

 

Here is just a sneak peek!

 

 

 

I hope you enjoy and have a happy Thursday!  Click on my button to take you to my post and grab your goodies!

 

 

 

Riddle Me This...

I have been keeping a HUGE secret from most of the world!!!  Want to know what it is???  Well here is a riddle to give you a hint!

 

Mrs. S and her husband take a picture together.  There are three people in the photo.  How is this possible?

 

Think you've figured it out?  Click on the button to hop on over to my blog and find out the answer!

 

Happy holiday weekend y'all!

 

 

 

 

SCHOOLAPALOOZA!!

WELCOME to our 2nd Annual BACK to School CELEBRATION...

We are so EXCITED that you decided to stop by!!

We all have some GREAT things happening on our blogs to share with you.

Brenda from Primary Inspired creates these AWESOME I Spy activities and one was recently spied with subtraction facts that would be just right for 2nd graders as they start the year.

Click on the picture above to grab a copy.

Brenda's GIVEAWAY is a measurement card game that is sure to be a hit in your classroom...

Click on the picture to participate. It will only be available from 8:00 to 9:00 pm EST!

Stop by...

to see what else Brenda shares!

Sabra from Teaching with a Twang has all the details about her GIVEAWAY right here, It is set of stations that would be PERFECT for word work .

Click on the picture above from 8:00-9:00 EST to grab it for FREE!

Be sure to check out...

to see what else Sabra has going on these days!

Cierra from Adventures of Room 129 has lots of SUPER organizing ideas for small groups and a GREAT activity with context clues.

Click on the picture above to check it out.

Cierra's GIVEAWAY is just what you need to get your students to begin to set their own goals.

From 8:00-9:00 EST, click on the picture above to grab it!

Stop by...

to see what all goes on in Cierra's room!

Nicole from All Things Apple in 2nd is always SUPER busy sharing BRIGHT ideas!

Her GIVEAWAY is a FUN way to practice Author's Purpose.

Click on the picture above to grab a copy from 8:00-9:00 EST.

Check out...

to see what else Nicole has to offer!

*These GIVEAWAYS will only be available for one hour from 8:00 pm-9:00 pm EST. 

After that time, they will be gone!  

You will then have to head over to their stores to purchase these products and check out a whole lot more!

Be sure to leave a comment below to let us know that you grabbed up a thing or two tonight so we can have some kind of idea how many have been grabbed up. THANKS!

See you tomorrow for more SCHOOLAPALOOZA fun!!

Math Journals

Today I am getting all my journals ready for my kiddos that are coming to me in two weeks!?!?!  I found this pretty impressive product for 4th grade math prompts last year and never ended up using it.  Well this year I'm going to give it a shot!

 

 

They have tons of great resources!  Including journal prompts for each grade (K-5) that are typed out onto a document that prints perfectly onto Avery label sheets.  Now all I have to do is print off the journal prompt I want on an address label sheet and my kids can peel and stick and be on there way!

 

Here is the website where I found the prompts:

 

 

Thanks to my hubby who cut these composition notebooks in half with his table saw, I was able to get these perfect sized notebooks to use!

 

 



Click on my button to head on over to my blog to get a more in depth look at the parts of the journal, what the math journal product entails and more!  Hope you have a great weekend!

 

 

 



 

Signposts in Reading (Freebies!!!)

Hey y'all!  This summer I've been reading the book Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst (I'm sure you've heard of it or seen it floating around Pinterest).  All I have to say is it is INSPIRING!  At first it made me a little nervous because it looked a smidge "textbookish" to me but it got rave reviews so I thought I would join up with a book study and give it a chance.  At least with a book study if I didn't love it, they would still keep me on track to finish it and have good ideas to share, lol.  Well no worries apparently!  It is a fabulous read (very easy and smooth) and has some wonderful ideas to use in your classroom.  Here is a little four minute clip from the authors that explains their purpose for this book.

One of my favorite parts of the book was the signposts you use as you read.  After reading this section of the book I can already tell that these six signposts are going to change my entire reading block!  Not only do they make the reader stop and think but it also leads them to comprehend certain literary elements (even the hard ones like theme!) without even realizing it.  Click on my button below to head on over to my blog and read more in depth about the six signposts and snag a few freebies to help implement them into your classroom!  Here is just a little sneak peek ;o)

 

 

Happy Sunday Y'all!

 

 

Sabra