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Monday, August 4, 2014

Lightning Does Strike Twice!

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Hello Everyone!
I'm going to start of today with a little picture.

This is one of the chimneys on my house! Last week we got struck by lightning in the middle of the night!! It totally fried most of our electronics, pool equipment, garage door opener, one of the air conditioners, and probably more, let alone it scared the jeepers out of us!!! We are still discovering things that don't work. But!!! No fire! The house is still standing! Praise the Lord, we are all safe. It could have been pretty bad. You had better believe we are counting our blessings!!! The crazy thing is, this will be the third time we will be replacing a chimney due to weather! WOW!!! Lightning does strike twice!!!

Needless to say, it has taken some patience as we get everything up and running again. I have the hardest working "do it yourselfer" type hubby!! He has been at it for days!!! First up, was the all important computer network. Took some doin, but he did it!!! Thanking God for my sweetie!!!

All this got me to thinking about some of my school units. I decided that I needed to "strike again" with my beginning of the year unit on "Me and My School." It included some downloads using "David Goes to School." That is still one of my favs to start the year. I also love "Chrysanthemum" and "Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon." So... I went ahead and cleaned up and combined the three books into one unit.

Here are some pics.

The unit is about 55 pages long with poems, chants, reader's response, hands on visual, posters, bubblemaps, and puzzles. These ideas were successful the first couple times around, so, let's strike again!!

You can get your download if you STRIKE HERE!!! :)

OOPS! Gotta go! The air conditioner guy is here! YAY!!

It's all good!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Don't forget to leave a comment and let me know if you can use this unit, or if you need anything else. Up next? Sight Words, I Can's, and a few more things!!

Joyfully!

Nancy

Words DO Hurt

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Hello Everyone!
I am so looking forward to doing our Superhero unit with our new group of Superlearners! As I was thinking about the beginning of the year, I knew I wanted to incorporate the "Wrinkled Heart" activity that I've done the past 9 or so years. We always spend time talking about bullying and how we always need to think before we speak. I like to use Chrysanthemum or Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon for this activity. Take a giant paper heart and have kids crumple it up each time something is said that hurts the main character. After the story, try to smooth the heart. You can't get get the wrinkles out. A great hands on and visual activity to help kids understand that words do hurt. Have kids place band aids on the wrinkled heart as a symbol of their commitment to thinking before they speak! Here are a few pics from previous years. It has evolved!!

Well, to go along with our Superhero unit, I decided to try using a paper superhero cape!! I think it will work. I redid the little poem as well. Take a peek!