Two Hoots and A Holler

Hoot #1

We had our first house meeting this past Friday!  The students LOVED the time they got to spend with their housemates!   The Welty House made slime, the King House made ice cream, the Presley House made silhouettes to hang around the school, and the Grisham House painted rocks for a rock garden.  We plan on rotating these activities through our house meetings so that every child gets the opportunity to participate in all of these fun ideas!  We absolutely love that the fifth graders are getting to be role models for the kinders...and what GREAT role models they are!!  After the activities, the Grisham House had a little extra time, so they got to have a dance party!  

Hoot #2

Our second hoot is all about teacher morale!  We are striving to keep teacher moral high at our school!  We will have our first staff outing this Friday after school, and we have begun secret pals.  Another way to keep each other smiling and happy is to pass along monthly "happies" to various teachers.  Last month some teachers got penned!  If you got penned, then you paid it forward by sneaking a pack of pens onto another teacher's desk.  It gets fun when there is a lot of teachers who have already been penned because you have to sneak around to find one that doesn't have a sign hanging outside their door without getting caught.  This month we are "mugging" each other!  Can't wait to see who all "gets mugged" with a special cup filled with treats this month!  

These fun activities were freebies on TPT made by Smart Chick.  Go check her store out!

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This Week's Holler...

This week's holler goes out to Abigail over at Kindergarten Chaos.  She teaches kindergarten in Las Vegas.  Her blog is FULL of helpful information for teachers.  She has her blog very well organized, and it is easy to navigate to find exactly what you're looking for! There are links to her products and freebies.  Hop on over to Kindergarten Chaos to see what awesome things she is doing in her classroom! 

A Walk Down Memory Lane

 

  

We were so excited when we go back from the Spring Teacher Blogger Meetup, that we blogged about our trip right away!  We are newbies to the blogging world, and we didn’t realize a linky party was coming up about the meetup!  We kept hearing everyone say something about a linky party, so we had to Google to figure out what exactly it was!  Yes, that’s how new we are to this.  So if you want to check out all the exciting things we did and learned while at the Spring Teacher Blogger Meetup, then click on the picture below read all about it! 

Did you see all of our teacher swag we got while we were there???  I mean it was unbelievable at the amount of give-a-ways and door prizes that were given!  If you want a chance to win the teacher swag, then click on the picture below to enter the drawing!  

This will take you to a blog with the Rafflecopter drawing at the bottom of her post.  

Again, we are newbies, and we don't have a clue how to do this Rafflecopter thing!   
I see lots of YouTube and Google in our future! Blogging is definitely a learning process!

As we have said over and over again, the most important thing we left French Lick, IN with is friendships!  It was truly astonishing at how welcomed we were by other teachers.  It was definitely an experience we will never forget!

Check out the links below from all of the AWESOME teachers who were also at the Spring Teacher Blogger Meetup!  

Two Hoots and a Holler

On the long drive home from French Lick, IN, we were discussing our blog and what all we needed to do when we got home.  So, Jamie started naming stuff off and Jodi whipped out her paper and pen…and What do ya know?  By the time we entered Arkansas our list was made!  One thing we have decided to do is “Two Hoots and a Holler” on our blog every week.  “Two Hoots and a Holler” will come out on Thursdays.  It will highlight two special moments in our week and give a special shout out to someone who has done something spectacular!   We are so pumped and excited about everything we learned this weekend at the Spring Teacher Blogger Meetup!  Neither one of us could hardly sleep from all of the excitement!  We both were so ready to blog, but we needed to let it all sink in before we could even begin!  This weekend was SO amazing, there is NO WAY we can give only 2 hoots and 1 holler, and there is NO WAY we can wait until Thursday!   

This week’s 2 hoots:

1.   We are in a desperate search for this little doohickey thing called a “Selfie Stick” that connects to your phone by Bluetooth!  We looked at every truck stop on our way home.  Every blogger needs one of these!  Thanks to Greg at The KindergartenSmorgasboard for the photography tip!

Check out this pic taken with the Selfie Stick! 

2.  We made so many new friends!  We are grateful for all of the love and laughter that was shared this weekend.

And a holler…(no way to narrow it down to one, its a long list!

Just a few of the GREAT friends we made!

First off, let us say how awesome Holly Ehle and Brittany Banister are for getting everything organized!  The creativity, and passion they have for teaching, sharing with other teachers, and blogging definitely showed at this meetup.  Words cannot express how grateful we are to you both.  Every teacher there was a great inspiration to us, and every one of you were so encouraging.  We were welcomed by everyone with open arms.  We are very new to the blogging scene.  We have never explored this side of our teaching career, and we were not sure what to expect.  The only thing we had to compare this to was conferences and professional development courses.  It was SO different from that!  It was SO much MORE than we could have ever imagined!  It was SO extraordinary to see over 100 teachers together and truly collaborating!  It was AWESOME to say the least!  Not only did we get to meet a lot of great teachers, we actually made friends with them and hung out swapping ideas and sharing stories.  And the GIVEAWAYS!!!  OH MY!!!  It was unbelievable at the amount of support given by Erin Condren, GoNoodle, Scentos, Creative Teaching Press, Lakeshore Learning, Teachers Pay Teachers, Scentsy, Younique, Vera Bradley, Tallahassee Sunday, ESGI Software, BrainPop, HUE (document cameras), School Girl Style, Seat Sack Company….hope I didn’t leave anyone out, there were SO MANY supporters!! 

Here is all of our Teacher Swag we got this weekend from all of the amazing sponsors!

We could just go on and on about this weekend! The things we learned this weekend from the meetup were right on spot.  If you EVER get a chance to go to a teacher blogger meetup, we highly recommend going!