Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Ahhh!! It's been too long!

Oh my... well the start of school has official consumed my life! I can't believe it's been 2 1/2 months since my last post! While my school year is off to a GREAT start, I do miss summer and my blogging/crafting time. My goal is to keep up with my blog and I'm going to try to post at least once a week. Fingers crossed!

This week at school was Celebrate Education week when parents are welcomed into the classroom to get an idea of what their child's everyday life is like... it was a success! (Although, I can relax a little now that it's over :)

I've recently started a new grammar program - Jeff Anderson's Mechanically Inclined. I LOVE it! I am in the process of creating PowerPoints to guide instruction and have been selling them on my TPT store. So far, I only have Lesson 1 on Fragments posted. I will add my others as I try to find the free time! Let me know if you've used this program and what your thoughts are on it. I love that Jeff recommends teaching grammar through exploration and mentor sentences rather than correcting/editing incorrect sentences. Why teach students the wrong way?... Let's just teach the correct way!

Honestly, I don't know how all of you teachers out there with kids at home do it... it's just my husband, my cats, and myself and I can barely stay afloat! Cheers to October! :)