NEW UNIT

Well , I have uploaded a great unit about pumpkins. I am very excited for it. Please go and check it out. My kids and I will be starting it in the 2 weeks. I am even taking them to the pumpkin farm in Springfield, TN. I am SUPER excited. If you would like to check out the unit just go to my TPT sight. I will upload pictures as soon as I get some .

Great start to the year!

Well I have to say that I have the sweetest 2nd graders this year. They are such a joy to teach. This year I am the writing teacher for my cluster. It had been difficult to get all my standards in when I lose about 12-15 kids for an hour. Any way I wanted you to see my sweet kiddos in my Harry potter glasses. I hope to have some new things uploaded to teachers pay teachers soon. Working hard on some forms for teachers and some word wall cards.

Changed My Name

I decided that I needed to change the name of the blog. So instead of the sassy 2nd graders, I decided that it was better to be the sassy teacher. I hope you guys like that better. I am working on creating a facebook page as well.

Another Year about to start

So another year is about to begin. I have open house on July 30 and opening day on August 1. Then, my kiddos on August 2nd. I am nervous because I am switching what I am doing. I am going to be teaching Writing. I think that the only survival will be the strategies that I have learned from Whole Brain Teaching. If you don't know what that is, then you should go and check out that site. Just click on that link. I have learned all kinds of cool techniques for the classroom.

I discovered WBT when I was on maternity with my 2nd child. I fell in love because I had THE worse class of my 12 years of teaching and there was no getting through to them. Well, WBT saved my life. I used the Teach/Okay, Scoreboard, and Super Speed 100 all the time. It helped me to survive. I will go into more details, in another post. I thought today that I would show you a power point that I got from Pinterest. I absolutely love that site. The Power-point is designed to give students my expectations. I will not claim this as my idea. I got it from What the Teacher Wants site. I just changed some things around to work with my class. I hope mine does her's justice.

Well, in the next couple of days, I will be telling you about my new love of WBT.

See ya soon,
Melinda

Observation Time

Well, I'm a tenure teacher and this is my year to be evaluated. So this week is the BIG week. You know, I don't know why I worry so much. I mean really I work hard all the time. I just wish that this would have been done 2 weeks ago. I just hate when people try to make you feel intimidated. SERIOUSLY!!!! Any way, I am done with my venting. Just pray that all goes well. I will try and take pictures of the actual lesson because my 1st graders are going to have author's PIE! See ya soon.

Melinda
BTW: THX to my new follower Vicky1970. I hope that I will be able to give you some ideas. Also, I hope to upload a power point I did on Point of View.

Kid Spelling

Don't you just love kid inventive spelling. It makes me laugh every time a student uses it. Well, my students were working on writing 3 sentences using the words that have the ending nt, nd, nk, or mp. So when I saw this students work, I asked if she would let me put in on the blog. She smiled and said "Yes, Mrs. King!" Sweet Girl!!!! Here it is:
WARING: There is a not so nice word written in the picture!!!!

If you look closely at number 1 and 2 you will see why I had to post it. For those who cant read what she was trying to say. It says: A king wore pants on land. A chimp wore pants and a banana. LOL I love my kiddos. They rock!

I LOVE Giveaways...

if only I every won one. Well, I have my fingers crossed on this one. Ashley Reed from Just Reed blog is having an awesome give away. I so I am hoping to get some followers and they will check it out.
Also, I will be posting some pictures of some of my new reading reward incentives that I have going for my 3 reading classes. See ya soon.