Sunday, December 10, 2017

Gingerbread Girl Adding Up To Four 2-Digit Numbers

 Since life can be
a bit of a whirl,
Let's slow down and
do some math
with the Gingerbread Girl!
I LOVE this story!

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Whirl, and Twirl!
You got this girl!
Christmas is coming...
Let the chaos unfurl!
#truth

Sunday, December 3, 2017

A Million Page Views


Angela!
Oh...
Angela...!!!
Yes?
Did you know?
Know what?
Did you look?
Look at what?
Do I have something
in my teeth?
Did you notice
anything a little bit
DIFFERENT
about our blog
lately?
Hmmm, it's 
always filled with your
awesomeness.
Come on...
I can't stand it...
you have to KNOW
what's going on...
Then tell me!
stop grading papers...
Occupational hazard.
stop making lesson plans...
People don't plan to fail,
they fail to plan.
stop running your kids
around to all
of their activities...
Uh, that's my reality for 
AT LEAST
6 more years.
#truth
leave the mac and cheese on the counter...
It never makes it to the counter.
My 6'5 gentle giant
eats.
it.
all.
just for a minute...
Who has a minute to spare these days?
I promise
you'll like what
you'll see...
hhmmmm.....
go look
at our blog stats
my blogging friend!
BRB

Do you see it?
Sure did!
Did you notice all those zeros?
I know right?!
There are over a million page views
on our blog.
Oh.
my.
word!!
Woot-Woot!
WOOT WOOT!!

Since I have gone
a little bit nutty over here,
"gone"?
Girl, you dun gone

nutty YEARS ago!
(love you)
dancing around the house
in my pajamas.
And there's your sign...
King Common Sense
asked me what that means
EXACTLY.
Well.
nothing.
Apparently it means something
TO YOU
so that's all that matters right?

It means absolutely
nothing.
...other than it makes me
Hap-Hap-HAPPY!
Exactly!
:)



It makes me so happy,
I made a 1,000,000 place value
activity for my kiddos to do!
Of course you did.
Because THAT's how you roll.
Never, ever an off button!

A+ My Artwork Is Worth A Million

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-My-Artwork-Is-Worth-A-MillionFlash-Freebie-3523855

My students took
the numbers needed to make
1,000,000
and created them
into a work of art
that says:
My Artwork Is Worth A Million!
Then they cut, and glued
the place value label
under each number
that creates
1,000,000
and wrote about what they
changed each place value number into
in order to create their artwork.
SUPER CUTE!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-My-Artwork-Is-Worth-A-MillionFlash-Freebie-3523855


I gave them 3 different sizes
of the 1,000,000
so that they could choose the
size that worked best for 
their art work.
Gotta love options.

I was hoping that some
of the kids would make
the numbers into a caterpillar,
or a train, or turn it sideways
or upside down when
making their place value artwork.
Maybe even someone would
think about cutting out the 
numbers and have a more
abstract way of looking at
a million....
But it was THEIR art....
so I stayed out of it.
As a good teacher should.
Get out of their way
and let them show you
what they can do.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-My-Artwork-Is-Worth-A-MillionFlash-Freebie-3523855

It was actually a great
activity for them to do
while I worked frantically
putting our science boards
together for the Science Fair,
and working with
my presenters
two at a time.
No pressure.
Yikes!
If you have never had to
make Science Boards for
your school's Science Fair
consider yourself lucky.
I think that is all
I will say about that.
#truethat

I'm thinking that
this would be great for a sub day.
My students were seriously
engaged in creating art
and learning place value
 for a good 90 minutes to 2 hours.
WOW!!!

This is a flash freebie
for all our
million page view readers!
If you missed it...so sorry!
Become a follower here
and on TPT to get any
future freebies.

Grab it while it lasts...
so your students can
have their own artwork
worth a million! 

1,000,000

--excuse me
while I slide across
my hallway floor
in my socks
and Golden Boy
(my 16 year old)
just shakes his head.
Again, his Momma 
done lost her mind!



Sunday, November 26, 2017

'Twas The Night Before Christmas Poem and Book


" 'Twas the night before Christmas,
when all through the house,
not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse. "

For years, Kindergarten students at my
elementary school would memorize
the entire poem by Clement C. Moore
(or quite possibly Henry Livingston, Jr).
Our poem memorization began
--as far as I know--
by a teacher who started her
teaching career
in the 1960's.
Yes...
you read it right...
The 1960's.
Uh, I wasn't even born yet!

Wouldn't that be lousy
if you were Clement C. Moore
or Henry Livingston, Jr. and wrote
a well-loved poem like this and
never got the credit for it?
I suppose the true author
doesn't mind,
since the poem was
initially printed anonymously...
or here's a side thought....
maybe it wasn't written by
either of those guys...
maybe it was a woman!
Yes! Yes! It Was A Woman!
hehehehe
Just throwing that out there...
why not muddy up the authorship
claim even more?
A scandal over a beloved
Christmas poem?!

A 100 years from now,
someone could be reading this
post and think,
"Oh....the poem
was REALLY written by a woman.
It says so right here
in these archived posts
written by two teachers.
They were teachers
over a century ago...
they should be a
reliable source of information."
bwahahaha
OH.MY.WORD.
Step away from the keyboard Regina.
You dun lost your mind sista!

It kind of reminds me of when
a teacher shares teaching ideas with
another teacher and then
the first teacher gets to hear all about
the OTHER teachers' great
teaching techniques in a meeting
where the first teacher's name
is never mentioned
never
ever
mentioned...
in connection
to those
teaching
ideas...
huh.
*blink*
*blink*

Does
that sound
familiar to anyone?
Anyone?

I
think
that
happens
all.
the.
time.
across
the
globe.
I'm pretty sure of that fact.


...and
THAT
ladies and gentlemen
is why a
business model
used for
teacher evaluations
does not translate
over into the
education system.
BAM WHAT?!
Like how you 
just snuck that 
little fun fact in there.
The best teachers share.
If money continues
to be tied to evaluations
and to test results...
the sharing may eventually stop.
Which would be a sad day in Education.
...And time tested
teaching techniques
will become closely
guarded secrets.
Which would be bad,
and very, very sad.

So....I'm officially sending a
big THANK YOU to all of the teachers
who have shared their fabulous
ideas with me over the years!
I would not be the teacher that I
am without all of your great ideas
and sage advice!!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!


Because of my 1960's Teaching Guru,
and other time tested teachers
--such as Mrs. Long Island--
at my school,
our young students
would recite the poem
as a grade level
during their Holiday Stroll.
They would walk up and down
the beach front stores singing
STOP!
RIGHT!
THERE!
"walk up and down the 
beach front stores..."
I am BEYOND jealous!
If we walk anywhere, we are 
shivering under layers and layers of clothes!
I often forget my bloggin' buddy
is living it up in sunny Florida!
Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa songs
while wearing handmade
reindeer t-shirts, shorts, and
Santa hats (unless of course
they preferred
a menorah or 
a kinara on their
short-sleeved shirts). 
Again, "short sleeves and shorts"?!
Now you're just showing off!
We would stop at a few designated
shops and we'd recite the poem
with the addition of several
well-rehearsed songs.
Oh.... the good old days of teaching....

The copy of the poem we read
and memorized from
during the weeks before Christmas
wasn't in the best shape.
It was probably 30 years old,
and had been copied and re-copied
by many a Florida teacher,
until it was full of
little black smudges,
and handwritten side-notes
that had become part of the
permanent copy.

As I remember
my Kindergarten days
and the merry stroll
my "littles"
would take
while holding hands
as the sea winds blew
and the taste of salt
filled the air....
Are you kidding me right now?!
You don't realize that half of the
readers are really getting
bent out of shape as they
read this.  The only winds
the rest of have are BLUSTERY!
I have a slight tinge of nostalgia
(not enough nostalgia to make
me jump at the chance
to teach the "littles" again...
but nostalgia nonetheless).
Thinking about
the poem our sweet
(and even our not-so-sweet)
5 and 6 year olds
would recite...
I decided to remake  the classic,
world-renowned poem
into several printable versions
including a cute little book
for all the 'littles' of the world.

I thought about posting
this remake of the poem
 for a price on TPT...
after all, the poem's
copyright protection
has expired and there
are many versions of the poem
currently for sale in book form.

But then,
I scrunched up my face,
and I thought really hard about it...
yes, the face scrunching
is highly necessary
whenever I use my
critical thinking skills...
I decided that the Karma Gods
would hunt me down
and ZAP me
if I posted
this well-loved
poem for a price.
I want the Karma Gods
to only think of me
with good thoughts...
so my re-making of a poem
that was initially
meant to be shared with all
...young, old, rich, and poor....
will continue to be shared with all
(with a few added cute, little pics
to make it slightly more appealing
to young readers).
And I'm sure it will be appreciated.


Written by Clement C. Moore
--or Henry Livingston, Jr.--
(Adapted by Regina Davis)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing
 To Download Click Here.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing
I'm including half sheets
of the same
book format:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing
I'm also giving you 2 different
versions of printing the poem for
your students.
The first version has larger print:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing

The second version has smaller print:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQi2tx9ghSsoLzAlSlY857LuX0rozYTY/view?usp=sharing


To All The Littles Of The World
Here is a remake of  
just for you!

Price of Reading: Promising To Always Do Your Best!

May All Your Sugar Plum Dreams Come True!
Merry Christmas!
Love, Mrs. Davis
-- Just a little, old teacher
from the Lone Star....oops,
I mean The Sunshine State...
after all, you're not in
"Texas" anymore Dorothy!--

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to catch any future free items
that may come and go
as the sea wind blows!

---Merry Christmas To All And To All A Goodnight!