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All Things Upper Elementary: Guest Poster Shearer-ly Sadler: RACE Reading Responses

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shearerly Sadler 4th Grade

I'm entirely too busy for my own life!!!

 I think I am a crazy person. I feel like a big ol' blogger letdown...I can't remember the last time I blogged but I have been working like cray cray on some products for Shearerly Sadler 4th grade.  I also lost a follower over there!   I don't have that many and to lose one kind of hurt a little.  If I don't get these products posted all of you all are going to defect on me and I will never get to have a big giveaway (that was for you Deb!)   

 

I have been doing some cool things in the classroom since going back to school.  Tune in over at ATUE on Monday and read my guest post over there to get a looky lou at what me and my gang have been up to with biographies.  Its just the start of something great I tell ya!  We are neck deep in fractions in my classroom as well...and I have to say, I love the common core math standards.  I have really been a teacher these past two years of common core inception in Kentucky.  Here is a peek at what I am working on for 4 NF 4 A B & C...

 

 

We were supposed to have district walkthroughs today (a surprise visit that my awesome principal refused to let us be surprised by).  I was going to use this to teach 4NF4A in small groups and some other great things like Snowball Smack from Tara at 4th Grade Frolics, Task Cards from Math Mojo (love me some Math Mojo products), homework and assessments from the Awesome Jennifer Findley...Now these are all things I would be using anyway, but I wanted to show off my TPT and Blogger Pride today since it is TPT and the blogosphere which has totally reshaped my classroom and how I teach in the world today.  I love having a global presence in my curriculum, cause Lord knows I do not corner the market on creativity, organization or planning!  However, with all the great resources I have come across in the past year, I feel like a force to be reckoned with!  My district has taken notice or so I've been told! 

 

 

I just decided to take on a specialists degree!  I should probably be seeing a specialist right now because I am just not busy enough!!!  I started my classes this week and I registered late, praying some financial aid comes through.  Its just one of those things the good Lord puts on your heart to do and you do it and ask questions later.  My hubs is in full support of me doing this...Plus, I am a big old school nerd.  I love learning and sitting in a classroom just reminds me why I do what I do! But, today was a snow day and since the world (including the roads) are blanketed in white, I do not have class tonight.  I think its one of those hybrid classes where you have a couple face to face meetings but the rest is on blackboard.  I will let you know what I find out.  My prof is supposed to email the deets later on today he said.  This is my foundational class, my other class is a full face to face gig and is teaching at risk students.  This is right up my alley since I teach at a school with a sizeable at risk population. 

 

AND, I have an applied learning student from the University where I am doing my graduate work, My Alma Mater, Eastern Kentucky University.  This girl was one of our former students (hence I am getting old) and she is going to be a wonderful teacher.  No reservations, jumped right in on her first day to work with kids.  She wrote a quiz on her first day and I gave it Friday.  Supervising her might be the easiest thing I do this semester!  Since she went to school there, the only thing I had to show her was how to use the copier.  Easier than supervising a student teacher with all the perks of one!  I have been lucky...3 of 4 really good ones aint too shabby! 

 

So as you can tell, I am one busy little woman.  But, I couldn't call it life if I was sitting on the couch blogging all day...There would be nothing to talk about!  My family, my career, my hobbies keep me busy and gives me something to look forward to each day.  So, I wanted to leave you with a little freebie, one that makes my life a bit easier when I need to time to do other thing and still be the mama who feeds her family.  Literally just put it in the oven add to it once and a few hours later dinner is on the table.  I will post up the leftovers recipe next week!  Just right click and save picture!  Enjoy my friends!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shearerly Sadler 4th Grade

New product, a little bit O Wow and life as I knew it...

 

 First for the little bit O Wow...my blog has been viewed 3700 times.  Now, I am sure I am responsible for like 1700 of those, but OMG!!!  That's a heckuva lotta views right?!?!? 

 

Also, another little bit O Wow, I was asked to guest blog over at All Things Upper Elementary!  I am so excited!  Now, I am stressing over what I will share with their readers! 

 

SSSSOOOOOOO...Let me secondly apologize for being MIA from my blog for almost a month.  I have been going through a really tough time, family speaking, but never fear!  There are different seasons in a persons life and there are also things in this life that stop a person in their tracks and have them taking inventory of all things in their lives they value most.  I am in a season where my life as I knew it for a very long time was brought to a screeching halt.  It was a good thing this happened because it has done nothing but brought me closer to my husband and children and made me a better child of God.  I can't share the gories, but just hug the people you love the most extra tight and give thanks that they love you back! 

 

Which brings me to a new product...(That was a horrible segue really)  Anywho...I have like 20 products started and either no time to work on any of them or no clue what real direction I want to go with them.  But, I made myself finish this one so I could put something in my store.  I think there might be cobwebs over at the Shearerly Sadler 4th Grade TPT shop its been so long since I have posted a new product.  But as always, my products are  50% off during the first 24 hours of posting!!  I love this game series...

 

 

This game is a game of speed and accuracy and a real brain test for those basic division facts.  You need 3 players, a human, a calculator (run by a human) and a score keeper.

The score keeper flips the cards and the human tries to formulate the answer to the problem before the calculator.  If they do, they get a point, if they don't the calculator gets the point.  In the event of a tie, both get a point.  Each round runs for ten minutes. 

My students beg for this game so it is always in a center during my guided math time. 

Click on the pic to pick one up for half off while you can!!

 

Well my friends, it is time to bid you farewell for the evening...tomorrow is my last day of break unless Kentucky freezes over Monday and Tuesday (which according to my mother and the weather man, it could)  Have a wonderful rest of your weekend and a great week ahead!

 

Shearerly Sadler 4th Grade

My bloggy buddy Deb is hosting a giveaway!!!

 I love Deb because she loves a giveaway as much as I do...I think there is a twelve step program out there somewhere for us and those of you like us

 

Head on over and enter to win a $10 Starbucks gift card AND a $10 TPT gift cert!!!  I could certainly drink up a white chocolate mocha latte and snuggle in with my laptop for ten bucks of free stuff!!!  Couldn't you!!!

 

Well, Whatcha waiting for... Here's the link...

http://crafting-connections.blogspot.com/2013/12/rafflecopter-addiction-giveaway.html

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Giveaway Entering :)

 

 

 

 

I need some input on Daily 5 and Guided Math...

I know it is maniacal to even be thinking ahead for next year, but I tend to get this way around now.  I start reflecting as the year draws nearer to a close what I can do to make next school year run more smoothly than this one.  I am considering becoming a daily 5 classroom and doing guided math during my math time.  I am a self contained classroom, I know I can accomplish the common core math during guided math.  My concern is how I can make Daily 5 work for me and accomplish Common Core Language Arts standards.  In my mind, Daily 5 affords me a structure to meet with small groups of children and give them guided instruction at their appropriate guided reading levels.  As we all know, Common Core language arts standards are deep.  Currently, I spend about 30-45 minutes in whole group common core reading instruction, then we go to specials and then I do my own brand of literacy rotations/menu of activities.  It is during this time that I meet with small groups and we work on data driven literacy instruction.  This is where I pull out the two sisters materials from the CAFE book and use those to help me formulate small group instruction.  I would like to have feedback on how you accomplish the common core language arts instruction and make Daily 5 work in your own classrooms.  This will help me tremendously as I make instructional and organizational changes to better meet the needs of my students and to make teaching run more smoothly in my classroom.  Any thoughts you have on Guided Math are certainly welcome as well.  Thank you so much for your help!!!

Hello!!!  I wanted to introduce you to the Melonheadz version of ME!!!!  Nikki over at Melonheadz Illustrating in conjunction with HoneyBunch Blog Design whipped her up for me!  I just love her so much!  She is even holding a laptop in her hand because I am forever trying to work on the go...I have three kids, a dog and a husband, a home to keep up, a classroom to keep up with, students to manage, papers to grade and the list goes on.  I have to literally walk around with the laptop in my hands and move it from room to room to get anything put together for TPT or to blog...The life of a busy momwifeteacher!!!!
Anywho...Thanks to Nikki for getting this together for me and for enduring my emails!  Love ya girl!!!

Hey All!  Happy Sunday! 
I hope you are warm and snug wherever you are!  We got some ice last night...I was not expecting this and at 7 this morning when the pelting of ice on my bedroom window woke me up...I panicked and got in the four wheel drive and braved ice to get to the store.  I was out of home essentials...Oreo cookies, Nestle Quik and was running low on TP. In a house of five people (three of those are oreo cookie hounds and chocolate milk-a-holics), you DO NOT RUN OUT OF THOSE THINGS!!!

My hubs did a little decorating before the ice hit...

 He made those trees...didn't even google how to do it!  I am so proud of him!!!

 

 

This is the view of the ice from my front porch...It looks beautiful but it was scary driving in it for sure!

 

So while I was staying home the rest of the day, I was doing my blog stalking reading and stumbled up this cute little switcheroo with a freebie and a giveaway!  Check out Deb and Joey have got cooked up!!!

 

http://createteachandshare.blogspot.com/2013/12/guest-blogger-and-giveaway.html

 

The writing bulletin board and the craftivity are enough alone to get me reading!!!

 

Have a great evening and a wonderful tomorrow!!!