Currently December! Woohoo!

Happy December!  Farley over at OhBoy is having her monthly linky party!  I promise nosotros tin all plough over something extra particular this vacation season!

Listening: It is nonetheless placidity hither at my house.  The older 3 kids are off to school, only my sick hubby together with 2 lilliputian kids are nonetheless asnoozing.  They postulate their rest.

Loving: It is December!  It is together with thus much closer to the New Year's Day (when I'm putting on my Kickstarter for the calendar month of January!!! together with I'll endure the sponsor for adjacent month's Currently)  Plus, Dec is such a fun calendar month alongside menage unit of measurement together with fun because of the giving spirit.

Thinking:  I convey together with thus many things to create only at that spot is together with thus lilliputian fourth dimension left.  I am taking it inwards stride, though.  I'm excited to teach every bit much done every bit I tin every day.

Wanting:  I actually desire to complete the layout of my mass earlier the halt of the twelvemonth together with thus I tin convey it every bit consummate every bit possible, only I am nonetheless waiting for my loving hubby to teach me the pictures he is processing.  We did a photograph shoot at the halt of August together with I postulate my photos to complete the recipe pages of The Pancake Menu.

Needing:  My hubby together with I are inwards a contest to liberate weight.  For every pound I lose he is supposed to driblet a kilogram (2.2 lbs).  Our contest ends Jan quaternary together with I'm non certain who is winning.  I postulate to footstep it upwardly though.  With the kids sick it is harder to teach to the gym.

Giving: Excited to endure business office of the iHeart Math Blog Hop going on through most of the month.  My post goes upwardly on the 5th.  I dearest giving together with I dearest the thoughtful homemade gifts : )  What nearly you?

Thanks for stopping by!

Kindergarten Math (Math Activeness Thursday) Together With Currently January

Happy novel year!  I decided what to create for my Math action Thursday!  I volition topic the months past times grades.  For my invitee bloggers I create the same affair (Let me know if yous always desire to survive a invitee here).  This is the schedule..

• January & July--Kindergarten
• February & August--1st Grade
• March & September--2nd Grade
• April & October--3rd Grade
• May & November--4th Grade
• June & December--5th Grade

So when yous link upwardly elbow grease as well as brand the shipping applicable to that month's aeroplane level.

Today I made a freebie which is purpose of a bigger pack I am working on.  It is called 'Meet my frogs!'  It is fun for Kinder as well as First grade.  Here is what it looks like.  You tin download yours free here.

Basically, students color 2-10 frogs amongst 2 unlike colors of their choice.  They write the names of the colors they used as well as the cast they volition survive pasting their frogs onto (in the gratis sample it is a square, exactly my paid version volition bring to a greater extent than cast pages as well as fifty-fifty 3D shapes too).

I dear making activities that the kids learn to select as well as brand their own.  Like inward this action the kids learn to select their colors as well as how many frogs they volition utilisation as well as color each color.

If yous bring a math shipping yous desire to part that would survive neat for Kindergarten teachers (or parents) delight link it below!

Now onto the Currently linky amongst Oh Boy!  I filled out my Currently final nighttime as well as hither it is...

Listening--When did Duck Dynasty learn as well as thus pop anyway?!
Loving--Yes, I'm as well as thus happy that ane of my movie books I wrote is directly available for yous to buy! (Although in that place is however a giveaway running on Teachers Notebook for it.)
Thinking--Too much materials on my mind...
Wanting as well as Needing is pretty straightforward.
Memory/Tradition--Watching the Rose Parade amongst my family.  We actually necessitate to become or at to the lowest degree run into the floats they display for the adjacent pair of days.  We exclusively alive well-nigh 12 miles from Pasadena (but amongst LA traffic that could survive over an hr to learn there).

Thanks for stopping by!  Remember to link upwardly if yous spider web log well-nigh Kinder math as well as if yous don't yous tin bring together during other months when your aeroplane storey is highlighted : )

By the way, create yous similar the freebie?

Currently November: Lots Of Things Are Going On!

Yay for November!  It's getting fifty-fifty closer to Jan when I'm the currently sponsor too I acquire to part my Kickstarter amongst a bunch of teachers!

I honey that Farley puts on this smashing linky every calendar month were nosotros acquire to acquire nigh how too thus many instructor bloggers are doing.  I honey to read them all!

Here's mine...

Listening:  Well, it was still.  Now my domestic dog is scratching at my door!

Loving: That my Kickstarter that volition last running December 31-Jan 31 is actually taking shape.  Hooray! You tin grade the axe run into a preview of it here.  Feel gratuitous to write whatever comments! The video is almost done too I but involve to complete working on the recipe pages.

Thinking: I convey been spending a lot of fourth dimension on my mass too the Kickstarter.  I sort of intend of it 24/7--but I convey waited too thus long to run into it come upward to life.  Anyway, involve to ready aside twenty minutes or to a greater extent than a solar daytime to brand certain I but focus on the menage unit of measurement : )

Wanting: My hubby has been sitting on a to create detail I've had for him for a while.  Don't desire to last a nag, but inwards companionship to run on my recipe pages for the mass I involve him to complete processing the pictures he took.

Needing: With all this work, an assistant would last nice!  Any ideas?  One friend of mine said looking into hiring an intern.

Reading: Story Sprouts 2014.  It came out final month!  I've create my stories inwards it, but I involve to complete reading everyone else's.  So far it is amazing!
  I promise everyone has a smashing November!

Wowsers! Alone A Twosome Days 'Til The Halt Of 2014! Kickstarter Launch, Hither Nosotros Come!

Sorry for the hiatus.  It has been an extremely busy December!  Colds, to a greater extent than colds, vacation parties, holidays, etc.  Among all those ups together with downs I nonetheless managed to operate on some plans to larn my Kickstarter upward together with running.  I am laid upward to launch inwards 2 days!

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 friend of mine told me nigh Thunderclap, a platform to spread the discussion nigh a drive or project.  I decided to run 1 to care launch my Kickstarter together with give it an extra boost to start.  If you lot desire to care me denote the launch of my Kickstarter you lot tin back upward via Facebook, Twitter, or Tumbler.  Just larn hither : )

So, those of you lot who don't know what inwards the the world I am talking about, I am running a Kickstarter to care me heighten funds to reveal the commencement mass inwards my Kids Menu Books collection.  The commencement 1 is The Pancake Menu.  It is a pretend carte du jour kids play amongst together with exercise using money.  It's a hands-on math sense that tin move on at abode or inwards the classroom!  Here is what my Kickstarter static icon looks like.

I am actually looking forwards to sharing it amongst you!  Also, I am hoping that many of you lot volition run across it come upward Jan 1st because I am lucky plenty to live on the sponsor for the Jan Currently Linky amongst Farley over at OhBoy4thGrade!

Well, straightaway to larn dorsum to doing some final infinitesimal things to educate for the launch--talk to you lot inwards 2 days when you lot tin run across the awesome things I've been upward to.  Happy novel yr everyone!