Math is Everywhere!

For the past three weeks, the students in Mrs. Skelton's class have been working on Geometry. Shapes, transformations, and angles have been our focus.  Math Stations are part of our day. We have been practicing our skills and will be working with math stations throughout the school year.

I'm in the process of working on a folder on my Dropbox to share photos with parents/grandparents/etc. This folder would be available for you to send to relatives who live down to the street or even out of state. If you don't have Dropbox for your family photos, it is WELL worth it! The best part is, it's FREE!!!!

Reading Recommedations

Borrowing recommendations from : "This Lunch Rox" blog, here are a few 4th grade reading recommendations for the school year. A few of these are discussed as well as offered in our library at West Lane. A couple of them I also have in my classroom library. 

Please take a look at them and decide if you'd be interested or not. If you type the book title into BN.com, you can read the Synopsis. 

Enjoy the last couple of weeks of summer! Less than 3!!!!

http://thislunchrox.com/2012/06/summer-reading-stars/

Remind 101

Very excited to share a new app that I will be using this year in my classroom for communication to parents/students/families/etc. This app is called Remind 101. It's a texting service to help remind persons about tests/homework/events/etc. that is going on the classroom and/or school.

I hope that families will utilize this service. I'm looking forward to sharing it with other teachers and administrators.

https://www.remind101.com/

Open House at West Lane Elementary

Open House for West Lane Elementary will be August 12th from 5-6 p.m. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

http://www.jacksonr2schools.com/WestLaneElementary/Default.aspx

Classroom Under Construction

Only a month until the first day of school! WHAT??!!! Where did this summer go? I've been in working in the new classroom for three afternoons simply unpacking and painting my bookshelves black. I'm getting pumped up for this year. It will be my 4th year teaching and it will be FANTASTIC!

Here are my goals within the next couple of weeks:
1. unpack all of my junk
2. get organized
3. begin to think about personal goals (at least 3)
4. focus on function, not looks
5. get excited about my new room

Here are few pics of the room under construction. I have a surprise that I'll be posting in a few days.

Science Test tomorrow on Force/motion. Chapter 15.

Big test tomorrow. Homework:study chapter 15 by rereading the chapter and completing the checkpoint questions and review.

My Favorite Things

Of course, to get to know your teacher on the new, famous blog, you need to know some of her favorite things!

Christmas is my favorite holiday. this is our Christmas tree from our first Christmas in our home.

 

 What can I say. This makes me laugh. A lot. I do have a secret obsession with Diet Coke.

 

OF course! Who DOESN'T like ice cream?!!!

I enjoy being on the beach reading a good book and soaking up the sun.

Arthur Bryant's BBQ in Kansan City! YUMMM!

Being a mom and a wife.

I will be posting homework expectations soon. Keep on the look for updates on our classroom!

 

Tech Teacher

I've decided the begin blogging on one of my favorite things to do. TEACH! I also love school so much that I'm beginning to think maybe I should just blog about it.

This post is mainly a test to try out the background/design of the blog. Please bear with me.