Scheduling Scheduling

     Alright it's June 28th and the master schedule has been sent out from our principal, eh not to shabby this year. My Friday's are awesome, rest of the week... We are required to have 3 hours of literacy each day and 1hr15 min of math and then content gets what is left over.  The latter makes me sad, as science is my most favorite subject (and that of my student's). So I am left trying to find ways to bring content into our literacy block through research and writing experiences.  You can see the break down of my schedule here.  Feel free do download and adjust as it fits you. 
****Side note: t I am font freak and love to color code and use a variety of fonts, it is like a sickness I swear, I cannot however figure out how to upload the cute version of my documents I get to see. Oh well I am a teacher, a lover of paper, smell of new pencils, post its, labels and funky fonts! 

Summer Lovin'

Yay summer time!!  Time to sleep in and lay around all day in the sun...right...WRONG!  I think that my students think this is what I do all summer long, let's be honest fellow teachers know that this does not happen.  Summers for a teacher, as much as we would love to use the 3 months to travel and sunbathe, are spent gearing up for the coming year. Sad, but true.  My summer days are spent with my children trying to keep them causing complete chaos with some constructive activity each day (like a lesson plan...) and my part time become more each month it seems photography hobby.  I love my time away from the classroom,  it gives me a chance to regroup and gear up for the next year.  

    This summer is no different, I have been part of a book study looking at this text:

I love this book!! I read it last year in about April and was wishing I had read it sooner, but there you go.  I love the ideas about creating a community of readers and writers.  Leslie has so many great ideas about the use of literacy logs, or a Book Lovers Book as she calls it that you truly have to read this text to fully understand how you can implement them in your classroom.  One of my top reads for the year.