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OMy husband birthday was on Friday, sept. 26. I took him to the beach. Hilton Head Island, he loves The beach. He need a get away where he can relax and feel at home. He's from Gambia and the beach is a couple of miles from home. He says when ever he goes to the beach he feels like he's at home. I love the beach as well it makes me happy and it relaxes me. I did take a short nap on the beach and we did witness a wedding that was being performed on the beach .




I have so much to post. I do things with the kids through out the day and say I will post it but I never get around to it. I am so busy. I go to work then come home help my kids with their homework do my wife duties and them I have home work cause I am still in school and I just never get around to post or talking bout what I want to talk about. It's going on the 8th week of school, seems like the weeks are going by so fast.

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Candace❤️

This well be the 7th week of school for me. I am working on my lesson plans from the wonderful OWL curriculum. The theme is "We Help"!



The next thing I am doing is cutting out apples for our pattern strip that we will be doing this week.


I am making counting wheels so that they can count the dots and place the clothes pin with the number on it. 


These cards are for number recognition. The kids will look at the number on the card and they will place that amount of clothes pins on the card. 


I am also printing out upper and lower case letter. I will laminate these and the kids can circle the correct letter with a dry erase marker. I am also thinking about doing clothes pin for this to LOL. 



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Candace 


Today I received a coin of excellence from my school , Oakley ES! I was so shocked and surprise. I always think no one really notice me cause I always keep to myself unless I have a crazy moment with some one lol. But Principal Coxton awarded me with the gold coin of Excellence cause she noticed what a great job I have been doing with the kids! Thank you thank you thank you ! 

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Candace ❤️

So I love my teacher Instagram family! They are always sharing ideas, things that may be helpful in the classroom ! So I seen a lot of teacher posting #gonoodle so I decided to try it. Gonoodle is a brain break, it's like a way to channel postive engery. This program is really helpful in my classroom considering I work with #prek kids. They get restless at times especially during morning meeting time . And in large groups. I was super excited when I finally set it up! I dance along and sing with the kids when we are using gonoodle. I would really recommend this to anybody even for exercise purposes. 

Sooooo... Today while going to lunch, walking in line one of my students pulls the fire alarm . OMG just embrassing lol. One of the janitors quickly came out and took care of it. So if things couldn't get any worse lol. I went to go lamanite some things to hang up and my papers got jammed in the lamaniting machine, so they had to take the laminator apart to fix it. 



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Candace ❤️

I love how sponsors/ supporters start the school year off right! DD has free coffee every Monday for the month of September! And I was just talking about coffee in an earlier post lol. So I'm excited about that! I look forward to going to DD on Mondays!!



Also Racetrac is in support of teachers! We can get free drinks the whole month of Septemnber !!😃

  
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Candace❤️

Our theme for this week is "My Family " so we have been talking about family. For one of the small group activites I asked the kids to draw a picture of their family. One of the kids drew a picture of my family, I thought it was so cute and thoughtful! 


We also made the letter D for for "dog"


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Candace❤️

This was am activity I got from the OWL curriculum. I wrote some letters on square pieces of paper lamanited them and and let the kids fine the letters in their name . Some of them even went on to spell their last name. 



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Candace❤️

Yesterday completed one month/4 weeks /19 days since school has started.  The Kids are for sure getting into the day to day routine. The days are going by so fast, it's like Friday comes and it just seems like it was Monday.  Some days I wish I could extend the day so we can finish up projects or if there is a child that needs extra help with writing their name or recognizing letters. 

Thursday we had Curriculum night, that's where the parents came and we talked about expections and the curriculum we will be working from. I also had a chance to chat with some of the parents and meet some parents I didn't get a chance to meet before. 
On Friday we had skate night at Skate Town for the kids, that was fun. There were so many kids there. I love going to fun events and seeing my kids and parents. It gives me a chance to see them on another level also they can see me on another level ( still professional ~ just a lil laid back) . Some kids think I don't have kids or I don't have a mom LOL. So they can see another side at those type of events . 
All in all I had a pretty fun and sucsseful month, praying for more fun and successful months and a continued successful school year! 

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Candace 

I have really never been a coffee drinker, I don't like the way it makes me feel. It makes me feel so jiggery  and it speeds up my heart rate. I have always worked with kids and really never needed coffee to wake me up or give me engery. Lately, I have been drinking coffee every morning to give me a boost and the reason why is because I am in school, so I stay up wayyyy pass my bed time (9pm) and it's hard for me to get myself together in the morning. I get coffee from DD and I love getting coffee from there because I can afford it and they have so many flavors you can add in your coffee. So now I kind of got use to getting coffee from DD as a motaviating tool for me to get out of the bed and don't hit the snooze button .. LOL. It's like I look forward to getting the coffee. It's like if I stay up pass my bed time doing homework I tell myself, "don't worry, finish this cause your going to get coffee in the AM" lol I know crazy lol  but all in all coffee is working for me I tell them to do the half and half so I won't feel so jittery and my heart won't be racing .