Phonogram Wall Giveaway Winners!

Due to the low response to entry in my giveaway, I am giving away a free phonogram set to everyone who entered. In return, PLEASE give me any feedback you may have! It's the first item I have ever listed for sale, and I want to make sure it's everything you hoped! Thanks in advance! :)

The winners are: Laurel from "Teach Them Love"; Delighted, Prudence,

Tina from "Quench Your First", and Christine!

Laured, Delighted, and Christine - I have sent you an Email.  Let me know if you don't get it!  Prudence and Tina, I will need your Email addresses as well as whether you would like the polka dot or black and white set.   You can send me an Email at kendralr@yahoo.com.    I'll do my best to send out before Thursday, if I can figure out how to do it from my phone.  But you will have it by Thursday, for sure!  

Thanks, ladies, for reading my little blog, and entering the giveaway! You're awesome!

Last Day to Enter Phonogram Giveaway!

Today is the LAST day to enter my giveaway.  So far, everyone who has joined is winning!  I am giving away 4 phonogram board set printables in your choice of black or polka-dot border.  See this post below to enter, and for more details! 

I will select a winner at 11:00 p.m. (MST) tonight!

Curriculum Mapping & Giveaway reminder

Next week, I will be meeting with my team to plan out our year.  I have started to map it out in my mind, but I can't wait to finally have it all written down.   A few years ago, we decided to do this together for the first time.  Below is the curriculum map I made, and you can download it on Scribd to use for yourself!  We print it out on legal or larger paper, then fill in the boxes in pencil.  Each person's may be a tiny bit different, and the writing seems good for helping the brain remember!  Enjoy!

Also, as a reminder... my phonogram board giveaway ends tomorrow night! Click on the link to find out how to enter!

Joplin Yearly Map

We MATTER.

I had SO much fun today!   We went to the Discovery Center of Idaho (kind of like a children's museum about science), for Space Days.  We did science for four hours, ate freeze-dried ice cream (not recommended), AND my kids got to meet astronaut Jose Hernandez and the first teacher in space, Barbara Morgan!  They were on cloud nine. 

Mr. Hernandez gave an awesome speech that brought tears to my eyes.  He started out as the youngest child in a family of migrant workers, going to 5 different schools in a year.  He had a difficult time learning English - or anything for that matter.  In second grade, he told his teacher he was going back to Mexico for 3 months, and his teacher (Mrs. Young) paid a home visit to his family.  She told them...."Children are like trees.  If you transplant them too much, they grow weak.  If you want a tree to grow strong, it needs to stay in one place so that it can plant deep roots, be nourished, and grow.  Children are the same way."  His parents took it to heart, and they stopped "migrating."  He saw a TV program when he was 10 that made him decide he would be an astronaut.  He worked hard, and he never gave up.   He became an engineer.  He applied to NASA 12 times, was turned down 11 times, and finally accepted after 12 years of trying.  He flew on a mission in the Discovery in 2009.  Before the launch, there was a dinner at NASA and guess who he brought -  Mrs. Young, his 2nd grade teacher!  Awww.... if that doesn't swell your heart, I don't know what would!  

It just goes to show -- sometimes what we do for a child can seem little and maybe we even feel like it didn't matter, but we might find out later that it really did!

(My two darlings with astronaut Jose Hernandez)

Currently.... linky party

Oh Boy 4th grade is hosting a Think, Write, Share Linky Party!

Here is what you do...

Write down what you are currently

listening

loving

thinking

wanting

needing

&

stalking (include 3 Blogs one has to be non teacher)

so here is mine...

CURRENTLY, I am....

•  Listening to my two boys talk about Jabba the Hut pooping.  I know, this is disgusting!  They're done now after a stern look from Mom. ;-)
• Loving Pinterest and all of the great ideas!  (I just need to stop looking and start DOING!)
• Thinking about the ten million things I need to do today, and how my air conditioner must be broken because it should NOT be 76 in here already. :(
• Wanting  beautiful dresses from Shabby Apple and an external hard drive.  
• Needing to get off my butt and take my kids out on errands. (My son says, "Mom, we have so many things to do today, it is supposed to be a road trip!")
• Stalking  Pearls, Handcuffs, and Happy Hour,  The Inspired Apple, and Lesson Plan S.O.S.