Thinking in Primary

Suddenly summertime is super busy!  I'm in a bit of a rush, so there is nothing fancy about this post, but until tomorrow everything in my TPT store is on sale  (15% off)!!!!! Thanks for following my blog!!! Pin It

Okay so right now I'm blogging about a contest that I really do not want you to enter, because I want to WIN!!!!  Check out this adorable bag!!! The grand prize winner will receive the bag pictured above from  Ooh Baby Designs , AND a MYSTERY box full of summer time goodies, AND . . . a shopping spree in each of their stores.  And there are some REALLY good ones! So, please do NOT go to  Teeny Tiny Teacher  and enter this competition because then my chances for winning will probably go down.  :(  Just kidding, these friends have great stuff.  What are you waiting for? Pin It

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching Fabulous Five for Friday Linky!   I'm spending a lot of lazy days this summer, but also having a great time! It has been an absolute pleasure taking my nephews to swim class for the past two Mondays.  They just moved back to Vegas to be closer to family and I can't get enough of these two characters! We were trying to be responsible pet owners and got our sweet little Coconut spayed.  She had a terrible time with it and was in a lot of pain for the first couple of days.  In then end I think her pain meds were the actual culprit.  She's much better now :) Like so many of us, I can not shut off the Teacher in me!  I have been doing tons of reading!  I misplaced/lent out my original Daily Five book, so I bought and re-read the second edition and now I'm finally reading the Cafe book.  Does anybody do Cafe in Kindergarten? My daughter has been hooked on Prett...

I  think I should start this post by explaining that I am one of those people who is NEVER satisfied.  No matter how much experience or even success I have with something, I can never get rid of that nagging feeling that I could have done it better.  The Daily 5 is one of those things. I've been teaching using the Daily 5 in one form or another for the past 2 1/2 years and can you believe I've done it a little bit different each of those years!!! The first year I started in January and I pretty much followed the book exactly! The second year I taught half day kindergarten.  Because I was so limited on time I rotated the kids through the choices.  It was more like centers because they didn't have as much choice, but it was still pretty effective and I spent so much more time teaching rather than preparing cute centers.  This last year I went back to full day kindergarten.  I chose to use the rotation board because I had so much success with it in...