Peek at My Week: Pre-planning

Happy Sunday to you guys! :)

It's another installment of Peek at My Week hosted by the lovely DeeDee of Mrs. Wills' Kindergarten! :)

This past week was pre-planning for me! :)

My mom came all the way from New Jersey to help me out! :) There's nothing like mom!  Gosh!  I am so lucky that she LIKES to come and do Back to School stuff with me! :)

I also got my fall intern! :)  One of the new things UCF is doing, is asking that interns come during pre-planning so that they can experience prepping the classroom.  I think its a great idea, but...I have to admit I was a bit stressed by it. :/  Thankfully, I have a sweet intern who is really excited about helping out in the classroom and eventually taking over! :)  Plus...he's really handy for picking up heavy things and stapling things up high! LOL! :)  We have several new teachers on our team this year!  Crystal just came to our school from Jacksonville!  I am so excited about her fresh ideas! :)  

Ya'll know how much I love pirates!

Well, I had some old students visit and new ones too! :)

Here were a few of my 'mates' in their pirate gear!! :)

In keeping with my theme, I had some of these awesome puff goldfish in class for my kidletts! :)

They were gluten free for some of my littles with allergies!

They taste super yummy! :)  The kids seemed to enjoy them! :)
Do you have a pirate theme in your room?
Feel free to click HERE to download my labels for this quick Meet the Teacher or first day of school healthy treat! :)

After the kids left from meet the teacher, I spent the rest of the morning prepping for the first week of school! :)
I have my lesson plans done, my files in order, and I'm ready to rock out on Monday morning! :)
Before I share my plans, I wanted to share that I do a weekly update for my parents using these editable newsletters from Laura Martin over at Peace, Love and First! :)



They are super easy on ink, and since they are editable, and I used them faithfully last year...I just have to tweak them a bit this year and I'm ready to go! :)
Here's a peek at my first newsletter to my parents! :)

Next, up...my first week of visual lesson plans! :)




I'm so excited about the new ideas I have planned for the children this week! :)
If you want to have a copy of these plans with clickable links so that you can get to the units, please click HERE.

I am super excited about my first week of math lessons! :)
We use a basal for math, and it really doesn't make any room for review, so, I wrote this mini unit so that I had some resources to get the kids 'warmed up' this week! :)

If you wanted to check out my Nutty for Numbers Unit, please click HERE.

Here are the new pirate themed coloring sheets that are on every desk for the first day of school! :)
If you like them and teach K-2, click HERE to download the file! :)



What are you up to in you room?
See you next Sunday night!