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I recently received a message from the wonderful bloggers Laura from Luv MyKinders and Andrea from Tricks of the Trade in First Grade . I am so incredibly honored and thankful for them to nominate me for the Liebster award! Thank you sooo sooo much!! I was completely surprised and am so appreciative that they noticed my blog!  The Liebster Award is a way for newer bloggers (with less than 200 followers) who have great content, to link up, meet other bloggers and share a little about themselves!  Here are the answers to your questions :)  Here are the answers to your questions :) 1. Why and how long ago did you start your blog? I started blogging in July of 2012. I was always one who loved reading other teaching blogs and was so inspired by them. I had a lot of friends and colleagues tell me that I should find a way to share my classroom ideas. So…. even though I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, I decided to start a blog!   I hope with my blog that ...

We had a great week getting ready for our Thanksgiving Break! Is it me or is this year going by so fast?!? We had lots of fun learning all about the first Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Indians, and the Mayflower. We worked on a HUGE project this week about the First Thanksgiving and look forward to finishing it on our short 2 day week next week! Here is a peek at our fun Thanksgiving Week! Monday We started the week reviewing different kinds of patterns that we learned all about last week. I had my students build an AB pattern and write about what kind of pattern they built and the colors they used to build it. I also had them do the same thing with an ABC pattern. Next week we will be dressing up as Indians on of our two days of school. We started getting our outfit ready today by making patterns on our headbands that we will be wearing! I read 'The Pilgrims First Thanksgiving' by Ann McGovern today. This book was wonderful and really helped my students get a good idea on what Thank...