GOALS!

This summer, I can probably go back and count the days that I've slept in. 

I know, I know .... I'm doing it wrong. 

And now, I'm paying for it because I am sooooooooooo tired.
(Because also in the summer, I stay up WAY too late, and get up early. It's a vicious cycle.) 

Anyway. I am on a mission to have EVERYTHING done before I have to officially back. And though I know that this is an unrealistic goal, I know that come the fall I will be coaching softball, juggling an internship AND a class that starts in mid-October. 

So ... really, this goal is simple to me:
1. Have my back-to-school stuff printed
2. Have my room decorated (almost done!) 

3. Print my first unit of math
4. Have math fluency games organized (done!)
5. Have a way to have the kids focused during my morning (see below)

6. Get some kind of meal-plan plan going ....
7. Find a way to formative-ly assess kids and keep it organized! 

Having things printed will help me stay organized. And planning meals will help me stay on track, and be able to save some time, which I'm always about! 

This weekend I worked on putting together a calendar booklet.
I want to use this during our morning. The kids come in at 7:45am and eat breakfast in my room. They hand me notes, tell me stories, ask me to open their milk, are supposed to be signing up for lunch, run around the room, read books, tell each other stories (there's a lot of story telling going on).. but you get the picture. I am supposed to have breakfast/lunch count and attendance done and class started by 8:00am.

HA!

So I wanted to have something that would keep them (busy) focused.
This booklet is aligned to our Calendar Math program (Everyday Counts) and has just as many days as we need, but you could copy more if needed ;) 

It's 131 pages of review and those "morning routines" that I was missing out on by running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
They are very repetitive "Number of the Day" sorts of pages, with each month going a different direction with the number, as Calendar Math does.

My plan is to print it off monthly, and when the month is over we can have a little celebration and send it home!

I'm one step closer to finishing up my list of must-dos!
(I'll keep you updated on the meal planning) 

Time to get back into it...

For most, July 4th is a big celebration day. 

To me, it means we are on the downward slope toward school being here. 

I have been working hard (or hardly working) on some things to help me make this upcoming school year a bit easier, so I thought I would pass them along to YOU so you can benefit as well!

I know we are always learning new things, picking up a little tid-bit at a conference here, reading something from a book there, pinning something on Pinterest... and one of my big goals this summer was to collect games so we could use them during our "math fluency" block.

We are a departmentalized second grade, which I LOVE!
And I teach the math portion.
However, EVERY teacher teaches a section of Intervention (reading) and their own "Everyday Counts Calendar Math" and fifteen minutes of math fact fluency with their homeroom.

So I took it upon myself (being the "math person") to pull together and collect math fluency games to use during that time so we all have direction and consistency. It can be hard when you are asked to facilitate something, but don't really have a map. 

So since I did that for us ... I thought I'd give y'all a little sneak peek.
 

Inside my store, there is a FREEBIE of Part-Part-Whole Cards! 

They are just ONE piece of these games that will last you the whole year :)
Click on the picture below to grab yours: 

 

The rest of the year is in my store for just $10. You get 22 games that are aligned to the Every Day Counts Calendar Math "Computations and Connections" section. All the parts and pieces are there, so you just have to copy, laminate, and organize them! (You will need to add some dice here and there!) 

Click on the picture below to go to my store and see it for yourself:

 

Alright, That's all I have for now.
What have you been working on to get ready for the upcoming school year??