The Room is Alive...

     Okay well that is a little miss leading.  I actually haven't been in my room since May.  Our building is going through a major remodel and last year I was housed out of a seperate building.  Now that I am moving up I am not going to be in the brand new building, in a brand new room!! Kinda excited for that new carpet smell...aaahhhh.  
     So in the mean time I am chomping at the bit to get in and get things unpacked.  We don't even get the go ahead until the 7th at the earliest! We start the 15th!! As teachers know this is not a lot of time to get things organized and set up, especially being that I am changing grade levels. Again. 
    I am spending my nights making name tags and classroom newsletters.  Anything that will give me more time to set up later.  I will attach my newletter, but I still don't know if the cute fonts and such will transfer, I am not quite ready to start paying a server to save my docs as pdfs.  

It's a Mystery

So our district came out with the genre focus for our grade levels, and with me being a 4/5 combo I will do a little of each grade.  Rewind to end of the school year and I was perusing my genre list and saw fantasy!! Oh yeah, I may have even done a little dance.  That is my most favorite genre!!  Fast forward to Monday... and they made some changes!  Now instead of fantasy I get to teach mystery...  I did not do a dance this time.  Don't get me wrong I love a good mystery movie, but really it's not my cup o' tea.  But as a teacher I need to do what I teach my children and that is to broaden their reading palate.  So with that in mind I am making it a  goal to read at least one mystery this month. What are some of your favorite mysteries???