Peek in my room!

Is it Friday yet?? I'm exhausted! Happy and productive week, but I need to go bed earlier. Why am I such a night owl?!

Here's some pictures to describe life this week!

4/5th grade history journals

Thank goodness for Christmas break! In my 11 years of teaching, I have not been as sick and tired as I have this year. Sorry to complain, I just hate not feeling like myself. Does anyone understand? I went to the doctor today (again), and am hoping to switch to private healthcare (I'm in the UK) in the hope of getting immediate solutions so I can get my life back on track.

Anyway, enough of that!

It snowed last week! It melted quickly, but for this desert girl, snow is always a bit exciting. 

I feel very blessed to spend Christmas with my husband this year, as that hasn't happened since 2008 (visas and deployments)! I love our little tree and he helped me make ornaments for my students.

I've seen a linky party going around the blogs and one of the questions was a good movie you've seen recently. This made me think of the best movie I've seen all year-ARGO. So good.

OK, to end the randomness of this post-I've cleaned out my camera with some 4th/5th grade history journal activities. Hope you find them useful and can adapt the ideas to your classroom.

they did these as homework...they had many options and choices of what to do. I am very happy with it! I HATE cookie-cutter bulletin boards when students all do the same thing!

Have a good day!
Kelli xx 

Journal ideas and kilts!

Hello!! I hope you're all well. I'm still fighting some illness, but after awhile I guess you just get used to it as the norm and hope it goes away before Christmas : )

I went to my friend's wedding in Inverness, Scotland a couple weeks ago. Inverness was s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g! It was a great weekend away for my husband and I. I didn't realize how deep into work I was. It was a well-needed break and time away.

There's also a few journal ideas from my classroom-hope you enjoy! this is about all I have the energy for........I'm off to bed!!!

Kelli xx

Classroom pictures!!

I have really enjoyed seeing all the photos of your rooms--keep them coming!!

Schools don't start here until September, so I thought I would sift through some of my photos of things I've made or come across. I'm hoping next summer I will be in Arizona visiting so that I can help my friends in their classrooms-it's all I can do to not hop on a plane and get over there and sort, organize and copy stuff! : )

these pictures are mainly from beginning of the year kdg

ELD kdg: easy to change with each topic...blue paper as mounting for student samples

organizing Focus Wall, WWWords, and some lit centers

the rules in pictures and student photos

a third grade pirate theme classroom I saw

Gotta run--can't wait to check out blogs later tonight and see your classroom photos! Enjoy watching the Olympics!

Kelli xx 

On the walls.........

Building community

what a terrible picture I took! you can't see the timeline and all of the lovely "artifacts"

Not the prettiest, but England has certain rules about what bulletin boards must contain
(and there's no Lakeshore or Teaching Stuff there!)

Targets must be posted in British classrooms!

Vocab board in ELL kdg classroom
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