Happy Friday!
We made it! I wasn’t sure if I would. It was the week after Spring Break… which is hard enough… but we also had testing alllllll week. Brutal! To celebrate making it through the week I’m linking up with Doodlebugs Teaching for a Five for Friday Linky Party– Here we go!
So, after a glorious week of Spring Break and a difficult re-adjustment to real life (getting 4 kids into my minivan at 6:20 am Monday morning) I had to administer SAT-10 testing to my poor kiddos all week. It’s a lot on these little guys under the best of circumstances… and let’s just say, in my humble opinion, standardized testing at 8:00 in the morning after coming back from vacation is not really the best of circumstances... but they were troopers!!!
In addition to getting back into the swing of early mornings and standardized testing, I started a new professional development class this week. It’s a bit of a long story… I will spare you… the short version is that certification requirements have changed in the past few years and when I got ready to renew my certificate this spring I found out that I needed to take ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY HOURS of professional development hours to keep my ESOL certification. (Again, long story…)
I knocked out the first 60 first semester and it was pretty painless. I signed up for another class this spring where I would do 5 modules online and then go to 5 weeks of classes. Of course, the classes started this week… AND the online modules had to be completed before the classes began. (I had missed that little asterisk when I signed up…) So, I found myself sitting at my computer for many, many hours completing the online portion of the class this week… AND I spent Thursday night sitting in class.
I guess that wasn’t the “short version”. (I am never good at “short versions”!) Okay, the short version of that story is: I’m taking a linguistics class this spring. I completed 60% of it this week. I’m tired.
My adorable nephew is turning 8. I love this kid so much! He is just the cutest, funniest kid. He had a “Nerf Battle” party last weekend. (It was such a cool party. It was held at a gym that was set up with blockades and barriers. The kids were divided into teams and it was a full-on Nerf war. He was in heaven!)
And as much as I loved watching my nephew in “8 year old boy heaven” I also loved watching my little Ella let her personality shine through. She isn’t one to be left behind, but she was much younger than anyone else at the party and was definately the only “warrior in a tutu” but it didn’t slow her down for a minute!
We have been continuing with measurement in math this week (which the kids are LOVING!). My awesome intern had the kids do this adorable “Measurement Monster” activity from the Applicious Teacher this week. They came out SO CUTE! They had so much fun. It was the perfect “after testing” activity. They were working on the standards, using the vocabulary and talking about math… but they were also getting to be creative, make something cute and act like 8-year-olds… I love that kind of activity!
It’s officially spring! I hear that in some places that is a really big deal! (I can not even IMAGINE being somewhere where it snows in MARCH! – or ever I guess…) Here in sunny Florida we don’t really get “seasons”. Our seasons go from warm, to warmer, to hot, to so hot you can’t breathe outside. You don’t really want to be here in August… trust me on that one… but March? We are good at March here in Florida!
My girl is especially good at March. She is soaking up every moment of sunshine! She got new rain boots for her birthday. Aren’t they cute? Poor girl has been DYING to “stomp in muddy puddles”… but she’s not going to let a little sunshine get in the way of her plans! She will wear her rain boots and she will look adorable in them! So there, sunshine!
Well, I don’t know about you, but I am having a “wild and crazy” Friday night! I am sitting here on my couch next to a sleeping 5 year old. I just finished watching “Night at the Museum” with my cute dates and I am sipping a glass of Chardonnay while cutting out my butterfly laminating. Oh, the wild and crazy life of a teacher-mom 😉 Wouldn’t change it for the world! (Well, I might change the amount of sleep I get… but that’s about it).
So, after listening to the squeals of joy my kiddos let out while cutting out their monsters this week I vowed to spend the next 9 weeks (ONLY NINE MORE WEEKS!!!) giving them more of those fun, eight-year-old experiences. I am just going to find ways to make it work.
So, this upcoming week, I am going to integrate science and literacy standards and put my Butterfly Close Reading Unit in a literacy center for students to work on independently. There are lots of great informational texts, text dependent questions and writing prompts included. Once they have completed the “work” activities they are going to do the craft and make their own butterflies… because they are eight… and eight year olds should learn about and make butterflies. So there.
Have you found ways to squeeze “more childhood” into your classroom? I would LOVE to hear your ideas! I need to find more ways to put FUN in my lesson plans. Please leave a comment and let me know how you are making it work!
Happy WEEKEND!
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Do you remember the blockbuster hit film The Matrix that was released in 1999? You may not know this, but it has deep spiritual implications concerning the times we are living in and Bible prophecy.
It tells a story of how these “agents” are trying to turn us into machines. We are closer then ever before for this to become a reality when they cause us to receive an implantable microchip in our body during a time when physical money will be no more.
You may have seen on NBC news concerning the implantable RFID microchip that some people are getting put in their hand to make purchases, but did you know this microchip matches perfectly with prophecy in the Bible?
“He (the false prophet who deceives many by his miracles) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…
You also may have heard of the legendary number “666” that people have been speculating for possibly thousands of years on what it actually means. This article shares something I haven’t seen before, and I don’t think there could be any better explanation for what it means to calculate 666. This is no hoax. Very fascinating stuff!
…Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666″ (Revelation 13:16-18 NKJV).
To see all the details showing why the Bible foretold of all these things, check out this article!
Article: http://1.voicetruth.org
GOD is sending out His end time warning:
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:9-11).
In the Islamic religion they have man called the Mahdi who is known as their messiah of whom they are waiting to take the stage. There are many testimonies from people online who believe this man will be Barack Obama who is to be the biblical Antichrist based off dreams they have received. I myself have had strange dreams about him like no other person. So much so that I decided to share this information.
He came on stage claiming to be a Christian with no affiliation to the Muslim faith…
“In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned — by people who don’t know me — or they’ve said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing,” – Barack Obama
…but was later revealed by his own family members that he indeed is a devout Muslim.
So what’s in the name? The meaning of someones name can say a lot about a person. God throughout history has given names to people that have a specific meaning tied to their lives. How about the name Barack Obama? Let us take a look at what may be hiding beneath the surface…
“And He (Jesus) said to them (His disciples), ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'” (Luke 10:18).
In the Hebrew language we can uncover the meaning behind the name Barack Obama.
Barack, also transliterated as Baraq, in Hebrew is: lightning
baraq – Biblical definition:
From Strongs H1299; lightning; by analogy a gleam; concretely a flashing sword: – bright, glitter (-ing, sword), lightning. (Strongs Hebrew word H1300 baraq baw-rawk’)
Barak ‘O’bamah, The use of bamah is used to refer to the “heights” of Heaven.
bamah – Biblical definition:
From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation: – height, high place, wave. (Strongs Hebrew word H1116 bamah baw-maw’)
The day following the election of Barack Obama (11/04/08), the winning pick 3 lotto numbers in Illinois (Obama’s home state) for 11/5/08 were 666.
Obama was a U.S. senator for Illinois, and his zip code was 60606.
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