A few Sundays our guest pastor at our church said that line that is my blog post. I have been reflecting on it for quite a while now. There are many things that I can't seem to do; get all caught up at school, {grading, planning, straightening, recording, etc} finish up all the ideas/products in my 'for TpT & TN' folder, post on my classroom blog & here frequently, BUT I think it has kept me from doing what I CAN do.
God made me ME...I am a share-a-holic as my header on this blog says. I share with my fellow teachers at school every time I discover some great resource and sharing with others that is why I created this blog. I do want to share with whoever might be reading this blog. I may not be able to post daily, but maybe if I shoot for once a week and share what is on my heart & mind it might just have a positive impact on at least one other human being...I can deal with that.
So, here is the first thing I want to share...I purchased Farley's Currently for Kids this summer & did August & September with my students, got busy & didn't do October or November. The students asked for it and we have done it again for December, January, & February {haven't done March YET}.
On the January Currently it has One Little Word. I don't know how many of you are familiar with this, but I had seen this in past years on several bloggers' blogs. I started talking to my students about it and my principal let me know there was a book:
{Although the book title is showing up when I am editing in Blogger, it isn't showing up when I load my blog :-( I will play with it again tomorrow!}
I read it & LOVED it! I kept trying to come up with what my word would be for 2014. I have been feeling very 'Stuck' in many areas in my life...definitely in the area of blogging & TpT & TN! 'Unstuck' just didn't seem to fit right, 'persevere'...'try'...and more words just weren't the one. As I was praying about it what echoed in my heart was
"
, ask Me to get you 'unstuck'" & that's when I knew what my word would be...
My class chose a medium {paint; Sharpies & highlighters; or crayons, markers, & colored pencils} and did their words...
My Word is in the upper left hand corner. I think my students came up with some great words: family, before, listen, heart, harmony, God, painting, peace, help, and other great words!!
I want to share something else {that is COMPLETELY mine} with you. Maybe some of you have had issues with your students having scraps of paper, crayon pieces, odds & ends left on the floor at the end of the day even with reminders to clean up. One day I watched our evening custodian pulling chairs out and picking up ALL KINDS of junk up off the floor before vacuuming. So I created 'custodian awards'. She vacuums every other day (the kids haven't picked up on when she vacuums) and she places the award on each table group desk that had a neat desk area including the floor. They are made from dollar store plungers & dollar store duct tape.
I may not be able to do it all but I did upload a set of 5 posters for $1 in TpT with the quote from my title. Here is a preview of one of the posters.
If you click on the image above it should take you to my TpT store...Step #1 for me...tomorrow I will try to take another step or two!
