Let me first wish everyone a successful school year ! I hope all of you
had a restful summer and had a chance to explore the CCSS (Common Core
State Standards) at some point this summer. Maybe your district offered
training, perhaps you attended a Work Wives Workshop, or just researched
on your own. We would LOVE to continue the Common Core conversation
this year and by now we are all back at it ...
EXCEPT
for me (Michele...one of the 3 Work Wives). I am pleased to announce
that I welcomed my baby girl on August 22. Lena Rose was a health 8lbs
and has been an absolute joyous addition to our family. Some bragging
pictures are a must :o)
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| Leaving the hospital...all smiles and a bit of nerves...we ask ourselves - Can we handle 2 under 2?? |
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| Miles is a proud big brother! |
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| Happy In Polka Dots |
To
update you all on the rest of our Work Wives... Diane is expecting her
second baby in November and Kelly has completed her Administration
degree (Wahooo). I could not be happier for both of my Work Wives. We
have also experienced some excitement and change in our school. Our
administration has been shifting and we welcome a new elementary
principal to our building. Kelly has changed grade levels from 3rd to
1st. I will be going back to teach 2nd grade with open arms as I was
able to loop with 11 of my 1st graders from last year. Diane will
continue until her leave as a 2nd grade teacher. We are all experiencing
larger class sizes too. We average about 23 students in our classes
this year. With all this change we also need to embrace SLOs (Student
Learning Objectives), teacher evaluations AND of course CCSS. Is that
enough on everyone's plate??? We hope that this blog continues to be a
place where we can talk about our frustrations, come up with solutions,
ideas of implementation and celebrate all our successes.
If
you are an educator trying out The Math GNOMe and Common Core 4 please
let us know how it is working for you in the classroom. Let us know if
and how you may have modified it to fit your classroom and teaching
style. We are open to suggestions and comments, as we are very aware
that this is a learning process for all of us.
We
hope you will find this blog useful and will let your friends and
fellow colleagues know about us - follow us here and on Twitter. We are
also available to present for workshops - half day, full day or in depth
3 day on our Math GNOMe and Common Core 4.
You can also purchase our book, The Math GNOMe and Common Core Four: Creating the Math Common Core Classroom on Amazon.
Please check our Teachers Pay Teachers store periodically for lessons, freebees, and other useful teaching tools to compliment the CCSS in both Math and ELA.
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| Picture taken from http://leading-learning.blogspot.com |
