Marvelous Week

It has been a marvelous week! I have been extremely busy but teaching has been awesome. I even got nominated for Teacher of the Year which is a great honor. I will not know if I have been chosen until Monday but I will keep you posted. I also had my surprise observation by our principal this week and I could not have asked for a better evaluation. I love my job!!! School has been great too. I am loving my Research in Literacy class and cannot wait to get started on my research project. Taking two classes instead of three is so much easier. I feel like I can still do a good job at my job and my classwork as a student. Since I don't talk much about specifics at school I thought I would share a few photos from this week. My kids are amazing and I hope you can tell how proud I am of them.

We have been studying light and the terms transparent, transluscent, and opaque. Using the Indonesians as an inspiration, we put on shadow puppet shows to demonstrate how our hands are opaque.

I use reading in my classroom daily. Here students are partner reading about the colonization of Rhode Island.

Thursday was the Chinese New Year. We made our own compasses and we learned about some of the Chinese traditions. We made "Fu" signs, which symbolize luck, to place outside our door.

During Math my students went on a virtual shopping spree at toysrus.com. We practiced adding numbers with calculators and then practiced writing checks for the amount each student spent.

This Friday we had the classroom store where students were able to purchase items using their Tillery Bucks. They earn Tillery Bucks for classroom jobs and following our Classroom Constitution.

We love to blog, so we decided we would let our friends and family know that "Blogging is Neat!"