Sunday, July 21, 2013

That's My Pencil!

Last year I went through over 350 pencils! That's more than three pencils for every student in every class! It has gotten out of hand and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I say........

The fact is I am a softy when it comes to students asking for paper, pencils, and other supplies.  I am also often asked for supplies from kids working on projects in other classes and will try to help them. However, it has become so bad that I feel a little abused.

If you are a teacher and are planning on doing a project that requires colored pencils, construction paper, glue etc..... don't rely on other teachers to supply your classes, and if you do get the goods make sure to return them.

Sorry about the rant, but I must admit I feel much better. I did see a pin on Pinterest  of a cute way to mark your pencils so I made some. I bought the Zebra pencils at Mardel's and put red tape flags on them. Will it work to keep my pencils in my classroom? Who knows but they are easy and cute!

Let me know if you have any ideas on how to keep your classroom supplies from walking out the door. Maybe one of those detectors like they use at Walmart. No, they go off way to often.

I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas and don't forget to follow me.


Saturday, March 2, 2013

Human Strength and Courage


Getting prepped to do a wrap-up to my Diary of Anne Frank unit with a quick research project. We are going to be reporting about genocide that is or has happened in recent history. I have been scouring the web in an attempt to reinforce our theme of human strength and courage and found a few photos i wanted to share.

The two items below are from http://beenflaggedoncraigslist.blogspot.com/ . This is one of my favorite blogs. The writer is fabulous and I get a lot of really funny and interesting articles to share with my kids. I highly reccommend that you check him out! Great stuff!!!



Pain is a temporary state, but if left unrelieved, becomes suffering.

Pain and suffering, whether physical or emotional, demand to be acknowledged—to be felt. 

How we deal with suffering clearly reveals the content of our character, 
and the resolve of our heart.