You are gonna feel some SERIOUS love in this Friday post. Watch out! 😉

2) I interviewed yesterday for literacy coach here at my school. Sorry for the vagueness yesterday- I was back and forth on whether to announce it, but I decided it would be ok. 🙂 I REEEEEEEALLY am hoping and praying I get the job because it has been a dream of mine since I became a teacher. Fingers and toes crossed!! Thanks so much to those of you who have also been saying some prayers with me! 🙂 Again, BBBs!!! 🙂 🙂

If you haven’t checked out this amazing site- DO IT! It is fabulous at giving “basic important information” just right for elementary schoolers AND it reads it to them if they need that accommodation (my ESOL kids and lower readers used this feature).

We also read these books:

This way, I’m able to integrate all that Social Studies content into my Language Arts time, and not ever have to physically teach it in isolation during “Social Studies!” I love doing that- especially now with Common Core and the huge push for nonfiction- integration is HUGE! Elizabeth Leads the Way is a GREAT book to use to teach strong leads. Moses is wonderful for context clues and imagery. Step-Stomp Stride is awesome for teaching vivid/powerful language. So as we learn the information taught through the biographies, we are learning reading and writing skills, too!

4) I’m so excited to say that the Workshop Wednesday Linky is successful! 17 AWESOME bloggers linked up this week!! Check them out by clicking the button below if you haven’t already! There were some GREAT resources shared!

(And don’t forget, you can always link up late- the linky stays open until the next Wednesday!) So I’m going to go ahead and get a paid subscription to inlinkz so we can have our cute thumbnails on the linky each week. I will post the week’s topic on Sunday and/or Monday so you can be prepared if you want to join in!

5) You know I can’t leave a Friday post freebie-less.

So here’s a cute one I hope you will find useful! 🙂 Enjoy! Graphics are from Ashley Hughes!

For once, I’m AHEAD of the game when it comes to monthly themed activities!!

I realized the other day that my kiddos still need some practice with ABC order. YIKES.

So here is a cutie Earth Day ABC Order activity I created! 🙂 Hope you’ll get some use out of it, too!

For those of you who aren’t making me totally jealous on Spring Break right now, how did April Fool’s Day go for y’all? Did you get in any good pranks? (And hopefully, didn’t get tricked too badly by the kids?) I played a fun one on my kids. I downloaded a quiz from Slide Share and gave it to my kiddos. The first direction says to read ALL of the directions. There are 18 items, numbered. The last direction says don’t do anything except #1 and #2 and sit quietly. I told them it was a timed pop quiz. They had 15 minutes- we got the privacy folders out and everything! I only had ONE student actually read all the way through and see that she didn’t need to do anything! Everyone else was frantically working. I stopped them after 9 minutes and let them in on the secret. 😛 They all thought it was hilarious!

We started reading Wonder today.

I am so excited after all the rave reviews I’ve heard! And the kids are already soooo into it. 🙂

Don’t forget, this Wednesday, link up with Workshop Wednesday for Math Websites! Let’s share our favorite websites that are our “go-to sources” for math. It can be to show what the kids use, or for you as a resource! And I’m hoping to be unveiling a NEW Workshop Wednesday Linky Button! Yippee!! 🙂 Stay tuned!!