Who wants to go Campin'

Come to MY CLASSROOM! My wonderful, patient, loving, kind, toleration of me and my anxiousness, sweet parents helped me create a coZy, woodsy, classroom. It MAY or may not be the envy of every teacher at Midas Creek!




Here are the BEFORE pictures:

After tracing, chalking, cutting, stressing, sorting, moving, cleaning, Did I mention stressing? We finally put the room in order. Here she is now!

The desks of my TWENTY SEVEN students. Yep. 27. Why some of the teachers have 22- I am not so sure.At least new students won't be coming into MY class during the year!

This is a place for "Campers" to read. The rocks have our 5 Guidelines on them...(the Rules.) I can't take ANY credit for the fire...all my mom. She used it in HER class

Below is a curriculum map of what we will cover this year. Parents love this kind of stuff :)



I was in charge of tracing the animals, my mom chalked them. She won't let me use her "good" chalk. Just kidding! I wasn't that great at it..she's a pro.





My calendar...idea is from MY first grade teacher, Mrs. Conklin. She actually came and helped me put it up! Thanks to the cricut all my circles are perfectly round. I made cute little seasonal pictures for each holiday! Will show ya as the months change!

foresty scene at "together time." My dad spent quite a long time taking the Christmas lights off the "professionally lit" tree.

My heroes who I couldn't have done it without. They know ALL in the Education field. Get it- our Moos't fantastic work- and there's a moose! Six year olds won't get it though!

My territory!

My camping themed sign- yep those most certainly are s'mores.

Mystery Camper: Every week we will get clues from a camper in the class. By Friday they are revealed! Their parents come and talk about them and everyone loves it!

So there it is! It's what I have been working on for the past month or so! Now that the room looks good, maybe it will fool the parents and make them think I know exactly what I am doing!

Oh lastly, here is my Bulletin Board. The kids will receive a little pom-pom at orientation.

One last thing, as I was putting crayons and pencils into each tote tray...this is what I thought of- Meg Ryan may love a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils,

but I love the newly sharpened- non broken crayons! Bet it won't last a week!

The 4th Festivities...

The Highlight of my Fourth of July Weekend was going to Stadium of Fire and watching the Osmond 2nd Generation perform...just kidding. watching the talented, beautiful, Carrie Underwood perform! It was amazing. My friend Kari and I scouted out better seats that no one was in, before Carrie performed. Got some good pics!




Carrie surprised everyone and came out singing the National Anthem. The next picture is "The Rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air." Was a little slow getting the planes over head, but they're there!

check out this shot! Look close and she is in the middle...behind well, herself.

I cannot believe for the past 26 years I have missed this amazing event. My heart burned with the spirit. The tribute to all of our armed forces was neat. I had never been SO proud to be an American. It's so great to come together as a country and celebrate the freedoms we enjoy and take for granted at times. The fireworks were freakin spectacular. Patriotic music was playing in the background. The little dancers formed the shape of the United States. One little mishap- fireworks landed on the "floor" seats, up by the stage. Hopefully no one was hurt. I knew there was a reason as to why I couldn't book the floor seating! haha!