Favorite Pins Friday

I love pinterest and since school is starting back up I am in pinterest overload. Here are my favorite pins this week.

1. This is so cute. It can be a poetry, nursery rhyme, and science. It is Jack in the Beanstalk.
Pin Visit lesson from a teacher blog

2. I am saving my caps for this. I love this for the new school year. Just collect caps, buy the file, create name puzzles.
pin TPT to make your own letter puzzles




















3. This is a fantastic way to use alphabet arches during whole group and then they can do it individually. pin Visit conversation in literacy blog
















4. Box tops are super important at our school. Our theme this year... superheros So this is perfect!
pin Visit Polka dot kinders
















So there are my favorite pins, what are yours?

Xoxo- Bobbie

I teach K

As I get ready to go back to school and start my 4th year (excited and nervous) I think about the kids I will get and where they will come in. Some will know letters and sounds, maybe a few sight words, and other various skills. Others will come in and they may not know a single letter.
Most parents don't know what their kids will leave kindergarten knowing. They may think kindergarten is still naps, coloring, and maybe learning letters. They don't realize their babies will be reading and writing when they leave my room. I think lots of parents are shocked when they come on meet the teacher and I tell them where their kids (hopefully) will be once they leave. A lot of parents wish they would have started earlier practicing with them, and some already have started working with them.
I pour my heart and soul into these kids. I work with them, cry with them, celebrate with them, and support them. I can't stand when people think that I don't do anything. That kindergarten teachers just color all day or play. I have held my tongue many times and many times I politely correct them. One person even said to me one time "are you even certified? Wasn't that a waste of money just to play?"

I absolutely love my job. There are days that I want to bang my head against the wall and there are days where I want to party and celebrate my kids successes.

xoxo- Bobbie

Welcome and ten things I've learned from teaching.

I decided for my first blog post to do a linky on ten things I've learned from teaching.

1.) If an administrator is in the room anything can and will be wrong. You gotta be quick on your feet. 

2.)  I learn way more about parents than I ever want to know and sometimes it's hard to look at them without giggling thinking about what you were told. 

3.) The amount of tissues kindergartners go thru is crazy. 

4.) Kids really do say the darnedest things. 

5.) Five year olds still put things in ears, noses, and mouths. 

6.) You get way too excited for school supplies. 

7.) you learn to eat fast, and potty fast.

8.) Copiers never work when you most need them. 

9.) seeing their light bulbs go off and the kids getting so excited that they "get it" makes it worth it.
10.) No matter how crazy kids drive you, it's so worth it.