Clipping Along

I can't believe how January clipped along and moved right into February.  We have spent the time packing and moving to a new house.  For the past few weeks, I have gone to the old house after school to move small stuff and/or clean.  Today is our first day to come straight home to our new house after work.  It was funny to be home for the evening before dark.  I told Stan that I hadn't realized how much light the transom window over the front door allowed inside.  I have been in the living room much during the daylight hours.
My plan, besides unpacking, it to try to write more blog posts.  There has just been little to no time to do anything other than move.  I have to admit that I had way more school stuff at home than I had realized.  I kept asking my daughter to, "Go put this box in my trunk before your Daddy sees it."  It isn't that my husband isn't understanding about all of the things I need to teach, in fact, he 'gets it'. But, he has moved my things so many times that it does become overwhelming.  I 'found' a couple of boxes of books that I had forgotten.  Several of them happened to be ones that I am able to use this month.

These are photos from Amazon, but they are the titles of books I 'found' during my move.  My books have HAYDEN written on them in various Sharpie colors.  They also have the Accelerated Reader information on them and are gently loved.  

My students love to make crafts and projects.  Yours do, too, I bet.  We are working on timelines this year and I wanted to make a fun craft to go with it.  This is what I came up with:

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I think it is ADORABLE!  We are going to start on it tomorrow.  My students watched me put together the one above the other day and they were more than excited!  They haven't stopped asking me when we can start.  This week, we have been reading books about Abraham Lincoln, We have also done some background research online. My second graders are chocked full of information and ready to write their timelines!

I have several students that will complete the timeline with the information they have discovered. However, there are some that are going to need help deciding which information is important.  I created a timeline and will help those students pick the events that they will write.

There are twenty-seven events in all.  In my class, each student will choose six event to hide in Lincoln's hat.  If you have older students, you might want them to add more.  Each page has a place to write the year and draw a picture.  In addition, there is room at the bottom to actually write the information.

If you are interested in this cute, fun, innovative timeline, please click HERE to visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

I hope this is something that you will use in your classroom.  Click HERE to get it now!

Thank you so much for reading, I appreciate it.  I am

Cordially yours,

  Jan’etta

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