Gratitude! When I finish a product for TeachersPayTeachers or Etsy, my main emotion is gratitude. Total gratitude for those artists who create beautiful images and clipart. Artists your talents and contributions make my products so much more interesting. The last, but not at all least, page in all my products is my “Thank You” page…
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The Iceberg has Expanded!
No melting icecaps here. š After going thru this “unpresented” time, I’ve had lots of time to think about how to get my activities into more hands. Those unexpected hands, you know, the ones who never thought they be would teaching at home while juggle so much! So if you’re a caregiver turned educator, I’m…
Spring Cleaning in the Fall?
I don’t know about you, but when I reach a point when I can’t find things, it’s time to clean and reorganize. I was trying to find a particular post on the site, but the link wasn’t working, it was in a strange place, and not logical at all. If I can’t find things and…
Looping Team, Grade Level Team, Colleagues, Oh My!
The original goal of this blog was to share stories from my years in the classroom with some pretty amazing kiddos. But the foundation of those stories is truly the rollercoaster ride of learning from some pretty outstanding colleagues. To their surprise :-), here are a few of the lovelies that have taught me so…
What ya selling? K-2 Curriculum Based Products
All PEIĀ Penguin Educational Iceberg products can be used whole group or in work stations depending on the independence level of your kiddos. The product categories are Daily 5, English Language Arts, Holidays, IB PYP, Math, NLAGB (Nothing Like A Good Book), and Social Studies. The activities are designed to addressĀ TEA’s (Texas Education Agency) Curriculum StandardsĀ Ā …
Last Words Out the Door
“Make sure you learn something new today!” Those were the parting words from my Momma everyday as we would head off to school. My parents grew up in rural Louisiana in the 1950’s where not being educated meant a hard, very hard life. They experienced first hand that obtaining a thorough education was the catalyst…
It’s been how long? A month!!!
Where does the time go? You always hear people say that, but the month of May has definitely come and gone. Just realized it’s almost been a month since my last post. I’m still pondering my previous post’s question, “Where should I begin working… creating a product or writing a post?” I want to be…
The Blog Post or the Product…the Chicken or the Egg?
Where to begin? That’s the question thatĀ floods my mind when I logĀ into WordPress to work on my site. Or should I say work on my blog? pages?or posts? I’m sure there’s a siteĀ out there explaining the difference in detail, but I’m too confused to make sense of it. I think I’ll stick to calling “this…
IB PYP: Making Sense of an Attitude
The minefield of becoming an International Baccalaureate, IB School operating under the Primary Years Programme umbrella was exhausting, exciting, frustrating, overwhelming, and full of “mind-blowing” surprises. Now that our campus is on the other side of being a Candidate School (4 years) and the initial shock has subsided, I’m grateful to have survived to tell…