Wednesday, January 2, 2013

[wiww] Holiday Edition

A few photos from holiday/birthday celebrations last week (yes, Nate and I both celebrated birthdays last week!) that I am sure you will see again on Friday... but onward with the fashion! And next week, the pictures will be more outfit focused instead of just pictures of me with other people... ha!

Birthday dinner to Benihana! My dad is sitting next to me, and my best friend Emily with her dad (who just so happens to be my dad's best friend... since they were in the 3rd grade!)
Top and Necklace: Charming Charlie's
Jeans: Forever 21

Christmas day snow... in TEXAS!
Leggings: JCPenny
Sweater: Target

 Building a gingerbread house with my nephew!
Sweater: gift from Target
Purple shirt: Target
(do you see a pattern? me and Target are tight)

So this is a picture of Nate's entire family on his mom's side. Do you see me? Farrrrr left, holding Oliver :) I know you can barely tell my outfit, but I had to include it because I BOUGHT RED PANTS! And they're so fun! And since my school's colors are red and black, I can wear these fun pants with our black school shirt to work. Win!
Red pants: WALMART (I know: never thought I'd live to see the day where I would buy clothes from Walmart, but I've gone and done it! $11, thank you very much!)
Black sweater and shirt: Target
Black boots: JCPenny during Black Friday last year ($30, originally $80)
Santa outfit for Oliver and PJs for Chloe: Target! Ha!

Holiday fashion. Gotta love it! But again, the outfits weren't a close up of just me... I know, I know. I'll get better at this whole WIWW! Linking up with Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy!

"Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised." Proverbs 31:30


Tuesday, January 1, 2013

[teach] Kindergarten Spring Outline

After Christmas, it seems as though the school year  d-r-a-g-s  by so so so SLOWWWLLYYY. Can I get an amen?! It is good to have a "big picture" plan so you can count down your year accordingly and make sure you get to all the good stuff. There will always be the "main" teaching: letters, sounds, blending, reading, writing, math, counting, patterns, adding, subtracting, etc. But I use my big picture plan so I can use the appropriate themes and units to integrate said teaching into instruction. Yay for fun!

Here is my tentative outline for the spring semester with my Kinder babies, along with some ideas (thanks Pinterest! the source is located at the bottom of each picture, and if for some reason it is the wrong source and/or it shows up incorrectly, please let me know so I can fix that!) that I hope to implement with the kiddos... and sorry about the varying sizes/alignments; Gotta love embedding codes...:

January:
Winter (Snowmen and Penguins)

Source: flickr.com via Chrissy on Pinterest


MLK


February:
100th Day of School



Presidents
 

Valentine's


March:
Dr. Seuss


St. Patrick's Day
Source: google.com via Chrissy on Pinterest


April:
Spring


Zoo/Farm/Oviparous (come from eggs) Animals


Earth Day

Source: google.com via Chrissy on Pinterest


May:
Water/Summer


End of the Year






What does your second semester look like? For all my non-teacher friends, do you create an outline for each month you're at work... so you can count down the days til your next vacation or deadline? Do tell. You know I love organization!


"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" Jeremiah 29:11