GoNoodle’s Back to School Blogger Blitz

Do you give brain breaks?

I love giving them to my class.

Since our curriculum is so tough my students need these breaks.  We have a long day of learning and these breaks help the students get ready to listen and learn.

Have you heard of GoNoodle?

It is AMAZING!!

Not only do I love it, my students do too!

My students ask numerous times throughout the day if we can do a GoNoodle!  They love seeing their monster grow and picking out new ones.

What I love about it is that brain breaks are all in one spot.  GoNoodle has a ton of different "Channels" for you to choose from.  Adding more and more excitement to brain breaks.  Plus, GoNoodle keeps adding more and more videos to their library.

My of our favorites are anything by Koo Koo Kangaroo and Moose Tube.

My first grade son has started coming home and wanting to get on GoNoodle too.  

GoNoodle = Fun!!

I have some exciting news too!!  

I am going to be having a giveaway for one lucky reader.  One reader who is randomly chosen will win 25 Eraselets.  These Eraselets are SO cool.  It is a bracelet that is also an eraser!  Wouldn't your students just love these?

To enter, please leave a comment on my blog about if you have used GoNoodle in your classroom or home.  Please leave your name and email and I will pick one winner on Sept. 7th (My son's birthday).

CONGRATULATIONS CAROLYN!!!!

If you haven't checked out the GoNoodle shop, you need to.  Here is a code for my Wolfelicious reader for 15% off of everything.  Just enter code: BTSwithGoNoodle.  This code will be valid Sept. 4- 11 so figure out what you need for your class.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

       Have a Wolfelicious day!

         

        

                       
 

Classroom Reveal 2015-2016

Are you ready?

Are you ready to see a Wolfelicious classroom?

I have been a busy bee over the summer getting my classroom prepared.  I got new carpet in my room so everything was taken out and I had to start over.

Every year I think about what I liked about my room and what I could change to make it better for myself and my students.

I decided I liked a whole bunch of things about my classroom.  Like, the black and white, the mustaches, and most of the setup.  But, I did want to change a couple things.

Here is how I decided to make the classroom look for this year, 2015-2016 school year.

I hope you enjoy it. 

We are going to start looking into the classroom from the front door straight on.

Looking in from the door you see our whole group area (carpet), calendar board, computers on the left side, and library.  The computers are all against the wall this year, which is a change from last year.

Over by the computers and the library is my bulletin board all ready for my Power Pix.

My Math Vocabulary Posters

I will add the Power Pix throughout the year.  I made new Math Power Pix for myself that go with My Math.  Check out them here and here.

Beside the Power Pix bulletin board is my new birthday board.

Here is where I displayed all the student's birthdays.  I am super excited about this board.  It looks so cool plus I made it so cheap.  Check out my post about it here.  I also bought a Lava Lamp.  It has black lava in it so it goes with the room.  I had a Lava Lamp when I was younger and loved it.  When I saw them in a store I knew I had to buy one for my classroom.

Beside the birthday area I have a cabinet.  This year I decided to use the Go Write on one side of it for Spelling Words.

I love how this turned about and it will be perfect for centers.

Looking at the back wall is my calendar area.  This is also where the carpet is for our meeting area.

Everything I need for calendar is on this bulletin board or around it.  I also have my classroom rules under the mustache.

The next picture is taken from right inside the classroom and looking to the other side of the classroom.

In this picture you see the sink, guided reading area, and my teacher area.  Also, you can see the students are in pods of 4.

Now we are looking in between the other two areas.

Here you can see lots of student desks grouped in pods of 4 and my teacher area.

This picture is taken from the front of the class by the Smartboard toward the back door. 

This picture is taken from the Smartboard but towards the front door of the classroom.

You can see the word wall and the restroom door.

Here is a close up of my student desks.  This year I am trying out the drawers in the middle. 

Top drawer: Math supplies

Middle drawer: Science/Social Studies Notebook and dry erase boards

Bottom drawer: Books in baggies for a browsing box.

On top of the drawer set is a basket for trash.  I also have hand sanitizer and a box of tissues on each group.  

On the other side of the Smartboard is this lovely wall.

It has decor and things I had to put up.  The red frame is for our essential question in reading each week.  Under it is where I am displaying the special of the day for the students to see.  In the middle on the black framed board are my standards.

Here is a close up of the standard board.  Click here to check out the Florida Standards Posters from here and here.

I got the board from Hobby Lobby and the posters are on my TPT store.  I was going to use the clothes pins to clip them on but I decided to use the rings so I could just flip around each standard and instead of taking it off and replacing.

Under the red frame is where I am going to post my special of the day.

The special is just taped on and I can trade it out everyday.  I am using a bucket beside it to hold the other specials.  Check out my Specials Posters.

I hope you have enjoyed your tour of my classroom.  I am excited for the year to begin on Monday!

Check out some of my previous classroom reveals.

2014

2013

2012

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5 Wolfelicious Tips for BTS

I'm going back to school in two weeks.  It is amazing how quickly summer goes by. I have been thinking and decided to put together my Top 5 Wolfelicious tips for back to school.  

Are you ready to go back to school?  Are you nervous about it?

Here are my tips to help you have a successful school year.

1) Relax

I know!  This one is difficult to do.  You are excited to go back and have so much to do, but you do need to relax.  Don't take on too much.  Take deep breathes.

2) You will feel Overwhelmed

Every year I am overwhelmed at the beginning of the year.  You will be too.  It is normal to feel this way.  There are so many things to do at the beginning of the year.  Try to relax.  Take deep breathes.  You will be awesome this year!

3) Model, Model, Model

Make sure you write down all your procedures you want your class to do.  Check them off once you teach your students what you want them to do.  Show them.  Have them practice the correct way.  Practice the wrong way and then again the correct way.  Here are some of the procedures I teach my students.

*Get a tissue

*Bathroom

*How to get a pencil/What to do with a broken pencil

*How to keep their pencil box.

*How to organize their desk.

*How to push in their chair.

*Morning routine procedure.

*How to line up.

*How to work in groups.

*What to do in the cafeteria/playground.

*Go over the rules. 

4)Don't Assume.

Don't assume your students will know how to do things.  Yes, I am sure they do. But is it the way you want or last year's teacher?  Yes, students are smart, but different expectations need to be learned.  How you have your class line up is different than they did last year.  

5)Pick One Subject

If you are a brand new teacher or even if you aren't, pick one subject and master it.  Yes, teach all subjects and do you best, but choose one and really master it.  Then the next year pick another subject and continue until all your subjects are mastered.  This way it won't be too overwhelming this year and you will feel really good about the one subject.  Mastering a subject takes time and energy.  Picking too many to master in one year will make your overwhelmed.  Pick one!!

These are my 5 Wolfelicious Tips for Back to School!  I hope you find them useful!

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My Math Vocabulary Posters

Do you use My Math?  How do you like teaching vocabulary?

I have made some vocabulary posters that correlate to the My Math program.

When I teach vocabulary to my students, I always start out with using Mirrors and Words (WBT).  Then we go on and do Teach! Okay!.  I absolutely love this way to teach my kiddos vocabulary.  The students LOVE learning vocabulary this way.  It makes it fun for them!  I plan on using these posters as my Power Pixs for Math.  This way I have all of the vocabulary my students need to learn for the year.

On each poster there is a vocabulary word.  The definition. A visual to help the students learn the vocabulary and the correlating lesson.

I can't wait to print these off and begin using them.  I hope you like them too.  Please click the picture to take you to my store.

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Florida Standards Posters

I have made a new product.  Wahoo!! 

Do you have to hang up standards in your classroom?

We do at my school so I wanted something sparkly to hang up for my "I can" statements this year.  Since my classroom is black and white I had to keep it with my theme.   This is what I came up with.

Every Florida Standard is written out on a half page in an "I can" statement.  Each standard has the number of the standard on the top right for easy organization.

Just print out the packet and cut in half.  Your standards will be posted for everyone to know what you are teaching.

Check out the packet here! 

I bought this board at Hobby Lobby to put my standards on.  I think these will look fabulous on there.

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Monday Made It #2- Happy Birthday

Check out my next Monday Made It!

I LOVE Hobby Lobby.  I went to check the place out and see what I could find.  I always have to check out the clearance section.  I am SO glad I did.  I found this amazing board.  

I saw it and knew I had to get it.  I mean, come on, it is the correct colors for my classroom.  Plus it was only 4 bucks.  

I knew I wanted to make something new for my classroom birthdays. This would be perfect.  This is what I made.  

The black boards are chalkboards.  I am going to use the chalk markers to write the kiddos name and birthdate on.

I can't wait to hang it up in my room!

   

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            Have a Wolfelicious day!

                        

Dining Room Table Makeover

Happy summer!  I hope your summer is going well!  I have been busy hanging out with my boys and redoing my dining room table. 

Have you ever looked at your furniture and just wanted something different?  

I used to love my dining room table.  I bought the table for my first house.  It was an older house and the naughty wood table looked perfect.  But, it has been awhile since I bought it, and my house has changed.  I want something different.

So...

project makeover dining room table begins!

Here is my my lovely table. 

(Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the whole table so I had to take half of the table since one side is already stripped.)

Nothing wrong with the table, but I just wanted something different. 

I started by stripping the table.  I used Citristrip.  It made it super easy to do.  Spray on and wait 30 minutes.  Scrape off.  Easy Peasy. 

Then my hubby added a filler to the decorative groove.  I have hated the decorative groove since I bought it.  Food has always gotten stuck in the groove.  Gross!!

Filled!  Wahoo!!

Next, the hubby added a cherry stain to the table.  I painted the legs  white.

I also painted the chairs white. 

Next, was my favorite part.  I distressed the white part of the table and the chairs.

Last, I waxed the painted parts and hubby put poly on the table top.

Ta-da!!!  It is all finished!

Now, I need to figure out what I am going to put on the middle of the table. 

Here are a couple more pictures of the table and chairs so you can see the distressed parts.  I don't think the pictures do it justice.  

We also added new coverings to the seat cushions.  2 black and 2 in the damask print. 

Top of table. 

My new, but old table.  Here are a few more pictures of it. 

I love how it turned out.  It goes great with my black distressed buffet table.  Now I need to paint my curio cabinet. 

I hope you have enjoyed my makeover.

Update: I've added a center piece to the table.  My mom made the flower arrangement.  I love how it turned out.

  

Want more makeovers?  Check out my distressed buffet table and my distressed coffee table.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Have a Wolfelicious day!

Have a Wolfelicious day!

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