On a Roll...

I am sooooooooo thrilled right now with the amount of lesson planning and organizing I accomplished today!  I picked up some stackable drawers to house my lesson plans and papers that I can bring to school and help to keep me organized.  With teaching multiple subjects and trying to plan and stay weeks ahead of schedule it was hard to keep everything organized.  I also picked up an accordion type folder to help keep my other papers and such organized.  Feels great! :)

I finalized all of my ongoing projects and units and made originals for all sorts of graphic organizers and such...I feel a bulleted list may be helpful to show off all my hard work!

• Science Unit (Hibernation and Migration)
• Printed and Cut animals for T-Chart Activity
• Printed Parent Letter on 'Hibernation Pajama Day'
• Made Thermometer for Hibernation Simulation 
• Shared Writing and Reading Unit (Laura Numeroff)
• Created Unit Plans
• Made up Vocabulary Cards then printed and cut them out
• Found Clip art for Story Map Project
• Created Model for Story Map Project (Super Cute!)
• Found Clip art for Milk cartons and Cookie Template for our Taste Test Graphs
• Created and Printed Taste Test Forms
• Social Studies Unit (American Symbols)
• Created Entire Unit and Lesson Plan Overview
• Created Graphic Organizers for Statue of Liberty and American Flag (Fact Sheets)
• Created Science Experiment Recording Sheets (Green Pennies)
• Created Assessment Forms for End of Unit 
• Word Study
• Made Paint Bags for students to use to practice writing their words! :)
• RTI
• Cut out 80 'Grapes' from purple construction paper for an activity
• Made a Tombstone for our 'Said is Dead' activity
• Created Sentence strips and cut out words for our Word Choice and Expression Activity
• Math
• Reviewed Upcoming lessons 

I feel as if today was a successful and productive day!  I feel GREAT and am super excited to teach the next few weeks; I feel prepared and I can't wait to show off all of my handwork and planning!

As for tomorrow...I will be sort of taking the day off of lesson planning and school work.  I will be attending my sister's dance competition pretty much all day.  I do hope to run to the public library tomorrow in between her dances to check out a few books for my social studies lesson.  I feel happy with my productivity this weekend and all I have gotten accomplished...here's to a great next few weeks!  I will spend the next day and half telling myself I'm ahead of schedule until Monday rolls around and I realize there is no such thing as 'ahead of schedule' as the lesson planning never ends...Good thing I absolutely LOVE what I do! :)

Good Night World and Happy Sunday! :)