Freebie Friday and Some Random Stuff

Today I'm linking up with 
 Teaching Blog Addict's
Freebie Friday

to share a game I created for practicing ordinal numbers 

1 - 10. 

You can find it here.

I hope you enjoy it!

Now for some random stuff...

Would you mind terribly if I shared

 this lovely pic of my parents?

 They celebrated their 

58th wedding anniversary

this past week and I am so, SO

 blessed to call them Mom and Dad.

Last bit of random stuff...

I went to school this week to try and organize some books and I was greeted

with this hot mess.

Seriously... what happened in here?

The floor is dirty...

Random stuff in the cubbies...

Anchor charts willy-nilly 

placed in the book center...

Do your classrooms look like this 

at the beginning of the year 

or am I the only fortunate one? 

Stay tuned... 

I'll share pics once I've sorted 

through this mess and cleaned up a bit.

Leave a comment, won't ya?

It's Time...

I'm disappointed to report that 

it's that time of the year once again. 

It seems to arrive every summer at about this same time and as much as I believe at the end of May 

that I will NOT experience it this year... 

(not this year!)

 I can't seem to escape the fact that I'm bored with summer. 

   (What?!)

You see, this summer has been a LOT of fun.

I've had lunch at my favorite restaurants with old friends, enjoyed late night movies with my children, visits with my parents, and early morning coffee with my dear hubby.  Yeah, the last six weeks have been so relaxing however, I'm ready for the structured part of life to return

 (the part that loves routine!).  

Isn't that just pitiful?!

So now my carefree days have been reduced to

 menial tasks like...

 cleaning the refrigerator,

(No, contrary to what you might have heard, the health department did NOT leave a flyer on my door allowing me an additional week to address this matter.)

organizing the linen closet, and

cleaning out closets.

This has simply got to stop.

Can anyone else relate?

One other matter...

About the only element of fun I've had in the last few days has been developing this card game that I'll introduce during the first few weeks of school.  It develops number sense, addresses the common core, and it's just plain fun, too.

If you need more information, click here.

 I'm giving away 4 copies for free.  

Be one of the first four to leave a comment and it's yours!

Don't forget to leave your email address!

 

 

Number Sense Fun

  Ordinarily, I avoid shopping. 

Whether it's for clothes, shoes, groceries, or begonias... 

it really doesn't matter in the least.  

It's simply not my idea of fun.

Strange, huh?

That pattern changed for me last week, though.

My daughter and I drove over to our local 

Hobby Lobby where I found these
adorable foam stickers and 
I immediately thought of a use for them, too.  

That almost never happens for me.  Not.at.all. 

This will be a fun number sense game for the number five.

To prepare: remove the backing from one basketball sticker and one soccer (or baseball) sticker.  Stick'em together and you've now got

a two-sided foam counter.  Toss them in the air as high as you'd like because they're not going to make any noise!  Then record the

combinations of five on your recording sheet. 

 

Click on the picture to get your copy.

 

  

These foam stickers are also available at Oriental Trading

and a variety of other places on the internet

if you don't have a Hobby Lobby in your area.

 

Please consider leaving a comment.  

I need suggestions on what to do with the silly football stickers!

Clipart by Scrappindoodles.com