Five for Fraturday: January 9

Kacey over at Doodle Bugs Teaching is hosting her weekly linky party. It is always super fun to see what everyone has been up to in their classrooms and in their personal lives! Here is my week in a 5 snapshots.

My Alma Mater is in the College National Championship game!!! Be still my racing heart! Do not call me on Monday evening as I will be busy cheering, yelling, moaning, jumping up and down, etc. as if I am actually in Arizona watching the game from a front row seat! (Or possibly an extra coach / referee that they had no idea they needed!)

I L.O.V.E. that our Coach Dabo Swinney gives the glory to God as does our quarterback Deshaun Watson. This team just has my heart! I want them to win soooooo badly!!

GO TIGERS!!!

I took my 3 boys to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the holidays. Oh.my.goodness.  They were enthralled! It was the best $30 dollars I spent the entire break. No bickering, no arguing, no rolling around on the floor like wrestlers....#enthralledboys #happymomma

I am working on my next unit. If I don't get extremely busy this weekend, this celebration will come and go before I get this uploaded to my TpT store. It's time to brew some more coffee and find my motivation (which is hard to do since it is raining.....again. ~sigh~ I could never live in the Pacific Northwest.

I spent every spare moment this week continuing to clean out nooks and crannies in the media center. Our building is getting renovated this summer which will include new carpet, ceiling tiles, updated light fixtures, and paint. Since this is my first year as a media specialist, I was a little reserved in the cleaning out this summer since I wasn't sure what I would actually need. Well, if I haven't used in yet this year, I've started purging. The custodial staff either loves me or dreads the sight of me!! #ibribewithdonuts #noworries

Marting Luther King, Jr. day will be here before we know it! I have a fantastic lapbook in my TpT shop that covers the main events surrounding his life, positive character traits that he embodied, a timeline, relevant vocabulary, and an opportunity for students to compare themselves to MLK. You can check it out HERE.

One of my favorite activities to help students understand that people have the same needs and many of the same wants involves using eggs. I bring in 2 eggs- one white and one brown on the outside. We discuss how the eggs look the same and different on the outside (with the obvious difference being the color). We then crack the eggs and compare them. Of course the inside looks essentially the same. We then apply that same principal to people. This works really well in the younger grades where this concept can be somewhat abstract. The students would then record their observations and conclusions.

Have a fabulous weekend!