We go back to school on the 24th, and I don’t usually start calendar book with the kids until September, but I thought I would post these calendar songs just in case some of you need them for August!
Again, it is from Jessica Meacham’s site.
I’m heading off to the lake today, but I’ll be back soon with a big announcement!
Here’s your last chance to catch that great clearance sale over at Lettering Delights! Lots of fun clip art, alphabets, and fonts on clearance for only 50 cents!
Click on the little monkey on my sidebar to take you there! (Sign up for their newsletter while you are there, and you get tons of FREE stuff!! Who doesn’t love FREE?!)
Okay, peeps, I saw this quote on Pinterest a couple of days ago, and I’ve just been DYING to make it into some subway art for all of you … (you know when you get a vision in your mind…) I really think we are ALL GUILTY of this! This is my first “go” at subway art, so be gentle!
Click on the image if you would like a copy of it! It’s a jpeg so just size it to your preferred size in your photo editing software – I love Picasa
So….procrastinate away!
PS – My hubby didn’t get it….do you?!
Update 7.29 – I just saw this sign:
Raise your hand if you’re busy reading blogs or creating cutesy stuff for your classroom when you really should be planning and organizing!!?? (I’ve got my hand raised high!)
We all have extra magazines laying around right? How about putting those to good use in your classroom?! Just make sure they are child friendly – no Cosmo or Glamour here! Parenting magazines work great (but make sure to go through them before you give them to kids!)
Here’s what you do: Give your student this alphabet sheet:
and a pile of magazines…
and put them to work finding letters to cut out and glue on their sheet! Fun? Easy? Keeps them busy for a long time? Yep!!
Here’s another alphabet activity that I found on Pinterest.
Click {here} to read the original post! Awesome, easy idea! Prep it now while the sun is still shining!
How about these great cards?
These are the cards that Doodle Bugs Teaching made from the free download over at Mrs. Saylor’s Log.
What else have you found or made for easy back to school alphabet ideas?
In addition to the lack of desire for cooking, the time factor comes into play. I generally get home around 5 {exhausted}. But the kids are still hungry. In addition to his 8-5 job, hubby teaches Norwegian in the evenings at the university. He has been doing this since we have been in college, so I’m used to not having him home much during the school year. So, I am usually just making dinner for me and the two {picky} girlies. Generally, it’s something simple – sandwiches, soup, ahem..cereal…
Here’s where you guys come in. Link up with your favorite, easiest weeknight dinner. Let’s all add to our recipe books!
Rules:
1. Link up with a recipe on your blog – if you want to cook it and take pictures as you cook – even better! After all, some of us are visual learners, right?!
2. Make sure you link to the exact page of your post, not to your whole blog.
4. Be sure to grab my button and post it to your blog!
3. If you CAN, copy and paste your recipe into a word doc, pdf it and link it to your blog post. That way we all can just click print and have a plethora of recipes at our fingertips!
I’ll start us off with a recipe my hubby (yep) made the other night that I thought was just delish…
From Unclebens.com:
Chicken Enchiladas
2 chicken breast poached and shredded
8 (8-inch) whole wheat tortillas
2 cups red enchilada sauce
1 cup Monterey Jack cheese shredded
1/4 cup cilantro chopped
1 box UNCLE BEN’S® Whole Grain White Taco Style
1 cup yellow onion diced
1 cup corn kernels
1 cup black beans
1. Prepare the UNCLE BEN’S® Whole Grain White Rice Taco Style as instructed on the box.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. While rice is cooking, sauté onion, corn and black beans. Add shredded chicken. Set aside.
4. When rice is finished cooking, mix into onion, corn, bean and chicken mixture.
5. Heat tortillas in microwave for about 15 seconds. One at a time, lay 1 cup of chicken mixture in middle of tortilla. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of enchilada sauce. Roll tortilla closed, and then lay seam side down in a deep baking dish. Continue with all 8 tortillas. Add about 1 to 2 cups more enchilada sauce over the top of the tortillas. Cover with Monterey Jack cheese, and bake for 20 minutes, or until internal temperature is 140 F degrees.
6. Serve enchiladas hot, topped with fresh chopped cilantro.
The past few days have been rough as I follow the news in Norway. Thank you all for your kind words of support. Norway is a country in grief right now, but they are strong people, and together they will make it through.
So…. I wanted to share with you something that I found stashed away from MANY years ago! I don’t even know how long ago they were in the newspapers! If you have school age kids (mine will be a 4th grader), I think you’ll appreciate these comics!
Are you smiling? Yep, totally my kid
I went to Jo-Ann’s today to pick up some fabric for my bunting and found some super cute stuff!
I am going to use this little basket for my pointers. It was on sale for $5.99
Here is my fabric for my bunting! Can’t wait to work on it!
And these sweet little cups were $1.99 each. I’m sure I’ll make some sort of popsicle stick game with them – I’m sensing an alphabet one and a number one??
Any ideas? I’ll certainly share when I get them done!
For the last 2 days, I have been glued to my computer following the news of the tragedy in Norway. If you have been reading my blog for a while now, you may remember that I am married to a wonderful Norwegian man. We just returned from Norway on Tuesday, and on Friday, terror shook the tiny Nordic country. The people of Norway are shocked and devastated. This is the worst disaster the country has faced since the occupation of Norway in World War II, and possibly one of the worst massacres by a gunman the world has ever seen.
Thankfully, all of my husbands family is safe. His brother, who lives in Oslo, is still away on his honeymoon.
Oslo holds a very special place in my heart. As a student, I studied for 5 months at the University of Oslo. I became a citizen of that city and it was {my own} for the time that I lived there. I love that city, and I love Norway.
Norway is a place unlike any other. The people are friendly and trusting. Police are unarmed and politicians {and sometimes royalty} take the subway just like anyone else. King Harold told the people of Norway, "It's now important that we stand together and we support each other and we do not let fear conquer us."
It is the darkest time in Norwegian history, and the country is mourning a great loss. I ask that you send up positive thoughts and prayers to the country. It will take a long time to recover from this, and I fear the city that I love so much will never quite be the same.
