Meet the Teacher

I am linking up with Stephanie at Falling into First for Meet the Teacher!

A little about me ...

My husband, Josh, and I celebrated our 11th anniversary this summer.

We have 2 nieces and 5 nephews.

We are foster parents and are anxiously awaiting our first placement!  Here's a peek into the room we have ready for a little girl who needs a home.

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS...

Mr. Sketch markers.  Yellow Box sandals.  York Peppermint Patties.  Barq's Root Beer.  My Jesus Calling devotional.  My owl Tervis tumbler.  Dunkin' Donuts coffee.

 IF YOU WEREN'T A TEACHER, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO BE?

Something creative, but not sure what it would be.

THREE LITTLE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU.

Loyal.  Sensitive.  Loving.

FINISH THE SENTENCE, "________,  SAID NO TEACHER EVER!!"

"I'd really love to grade papers all weekend ... said no teacher EVER!!"
 

Q: IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY AND YOU CAN INVITE ANYONE {DEAD OR ALIVE} TO THE PARTY. WHO ARE YOU INVITING?

Karen Kingsbury

 Dr. John MacArthur

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

 Q:YOU GET TO PICK ONE SUPERPOWER. WHAT IS IT?

 

 I have a 33 mile one way drive, so I wish I had a button in my car to drive itself so I could sleep!

Q: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE OR SAYING?

"Hello, my name is child of the one true King

I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed, I have been set free
"Amazing Grace" is the song I sing" 

 

Q: IF YOU HAD TO SING ONE SONG ON AMERICAN IDOL, WHAT WOULD IT BE? 

 "Hello, My Name Is" by Matthew West

 

 Q: ARE YOU A MORNING PERSON OR A NIGHT OWL?

Much of my creativity comes at night, but I have to have a lot of sleep to be able to function the next day!  

 

Q: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE RESOURCE THAT YOU'VE CREATED IN YOUR TPT SHOP?

I love my money unit!  When it's time for money, I can print and go!  I have sets of money cards and money amounts and my children rock out counting money with these!  I added extra pages in the spring.  When I first made this unit, it was near St. Patrick's Day, but then the following year we started school earlier and money was in February!  I kept the St. Patty's Day theme, but added a whole set of pages and activities for any time of the year!

Q: SHARE SOMETHING WE MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU! 

 I am the fourth generation teacher in my family.  My mom is near the end of her teaching career (high school Spanish).  My granddad was an elementary teacher and principal.  He was asked to be a high school principal and he turned it down!  My great-grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse beginning in 1919 in Northeastern Ohio.

Check the linky on Stephanie's page to find other bloggers!

Have a great night!

Techy Teacher Tuesday: Money!

I am linking up with Katie, the Queen of the First Grade Jungle today!

I am preparing to begin our money unit on Monday and I have to say ... teaching money to firsties makes me nervous!!

Getting hands on with coins is so important and worksheets are not!  So I have updated my Smart Board, as well as prepared some sorting cards with coins and "purchases."  We are required to have one graded piece of work in each subject area each week, so I have created a worksheet to go with each lesson.  Since we use enVision in our county, my lessons have been designed to match up with topic 13.  

Here are preview pictures of the sets in my Smart Board unit.  I have an introductory slide for each coin and several slides for sorting and moving coins around.

 

 

 

 

 

Link for my Smart Board unit: click here.

Link for my first grade money activities: click here.

Link for my first grade money freebies: click here.

What a week!

Last weekend was wonderful.  My husband and I drove to Indianapolis to visit his family as a surprise for my mother-in-law's birthday.  It ended up being timing only from the Lord, as Friday evening an awful storm came through Virginia, taking out power all over.  We are extending our trip so that we can stay in the air conditioning as long as possible, and be sure that when we drive home through Ohio and West Virginia, we can stop for gas!

On to other things ... here are two math activities that I have used with my first graders.  The first is a set of money activities.  It includes:

• tree map sort of all 4 American coins
• Do I have enough money? activity (uses pennies, nickels, and dimes)
• count coins in a set and write the total (uses pennies, nickels, and dimes)
• a "shopping activity" using pennies, nickels, and dimes

 This freebie can be found at my TpT store.

The second activity is for a tree map of geometric shapes.  Use this geometry sort to check students' understanding of shapes in real life. Uses triangles, square, rectangles, and circles.  This freebie can also be found at my TpT store.

Hope that you can stay cool!


Blessings,