Wow! What a few months.... I have just returned from the most incredible around the world honeymoon after two amazing weddings!! That's right, two weddings! I married the love of my life Matthew Steffenson on the 30th of August in Sydney, Australia. One day later we flew to the USA (with a little "mini moon" break in Hawaii, USA for two days) flying onto Minnesota, USA for our second wedding reception! After honeymooning to London, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Prague and Dubai we flew back to Australia and the next day I started teaching again! I missed my gorgeous students, it was lovely to see their smiling faces again! I am no longer Miss West and am now Mrs Steffenson, something that has taken a little while to get used to!
We have been busily learning new things and creating lots of memories. Here are a couple of the new ideas I have had:
I recently acquired some Kinetic Sand, so I decided to incorporate it into my Literacy Groups. Students loved the unique idea and feeling the texture of the sand... The activity included digging for sight words in a tub of sand and putting them into alphabetical order. They then had their own individual container of sand (old video boxes) and used a pencil to write sight words (at their own ability level) into the sand. When students got a word correct, they put a counter into a cup at the end of the Literacy group rotation the student with the most counters (words correct) was the winner!
