Farm Community Characteristics Study

Farm Communities . . .

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Small Town Characteristics Study

Happy Labor Day! Hope you have had a great day. Who starts school tomorrow? We started on August 16th, but I think there are still some places where school starts after Labor Day . . .I mentioned last week that we have been learning about different types of communities and neighborhoods. We will be reading this book this week . . .

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 I made this to go with it, and will be sharing more this week to go with other books in this series . . .

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FUN Find at Hobby Lobby and Freebie!

Hi Everybody! I mentioned the other day that I went inside a "Hobby Lobby" for the first time last week while we were in Las Vegas. Well, I am so jealous of anyone that lives near one of these awesome stores. We are  few hours away, which actually might be a good thing or I would be there all the time. Anyway, WOW. . . so much stuff to look at and such a great variety! I happened across a piece of furniture that I really, really wanted for my classroom. Well, it was quite large and so my husband said let's come back and get it on our way out of town tomorrow so that we can measure and make sure it will fit in the car. That's what we did and here it is . . . . I think it will be super cute in my reading corner. It would have been PeRFEcT if it had been purple instead of pink on the top but it will still work well. It is quite a nice size at 32 inches wide by 16 inches tall.

Also, I have a freebie to share if you pass out a folder of important papers at Back to School Night. I run mine off on card stock and glue to the front of a file folder.  

The printable file includes Kindergarten through Third Grade

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Have a nice evening :)

Summer Project/Summer Fun Linky Party . . .Updated with instructions and more detail-sorry!

Hello everybody! It is Wednesday Thursday. I hope it was a good day for all. We get out of school for the summer on the Friday before Memorial Day. How about you?

  I am a list maker so I am starting to think about the things I need to accomplish over the summer. I know we all have a long list! LOL.

 It gave me the idea to have a linky party so that we can share something from our summer project list and summer fun list. If you teach year round, and are teaching during the summer then share what your lists entail for when you are off track. How about it? Link up and join in  :)

Here's what to do:

I have included the graphic below for you to use in your blog. Link up at the bottom of this post, write about your Summer Project/Summer Fun on your blog with a link back to this post so that others can join in the Linky Party also. :)

Here's mine: (edited and better detail added because I am not in the middle of watching American Idol and because I realized that what I put for my summer project, I will have done before school gets out. )

Summer Project: 

 1. Delve deeper into the Common Core.

 2. Work on some things for my Teacher's Notebook store. 
  
3. Wash down the walls and baseboards in our home.

4. Lose 30 pounds.

Summer Fun: 

1. Going to San Francisco with my husband and son. (who will be home from college for the summer!) 

2. Going somewhere (yet to be determined-any ideas?) with my husband to celebrate his retirement.

3. Starting an ETSY business with my husband.
 (stay tuned for more info . . .)