Book Talk Tuesday {Favorite Back to School Books}

Back to school is right around the corner so I thought what better books to share than back to school books! 

I love reading aloud to my students at the beginning of the year. Books can teach so many valuable lessons about acceptance, friendship, and school. Here are some great books I read at the beginning of each year.

 

  

What are your favorite back to school books?

Five for Friday

Hey! I'm back to blog about this week. Join in the five for Friday fun! 

We just got back from the beach this week. We had a fantastic time! We went to a Dave Matthews concert, ate great seafood, and had a relaxing time at the beach.

I'm feeling pretty accomplished with my professional development this week. I finished two online courses this week. One was all about our internal system (IMS) that has curriculum information, scope and sequence, and links to other resources. The other was a lovely (enter sarcasm here) Marzano class. The only good thing that can be said about that class is that I have the first six weeks of math all planed out. A special thanks to my team that helped me through all the tedious modules.

Speaking of planning I have planned out the first six weeks of science as well. I don't have the plans in my actually lesson plan template yet but they are all typed out in word. Yes! 

We are doing scientific method, 5 senses, night/day sky, stars rocks, and slow and fast land changes. 

Since I was obviously into planning this week. I did a long range plan that I got from Sunny Days in Second Grade. You can edit anything you want and it was super easy to use. I found it very helpful to make a plan for the whole year to guide me along. I sent it out to my team as well. It's free right now on her blog so go check it out. 

Don't worry I haven't only been planning. I've also been reading.

I finished reading The Cuckoo's Calling and starting reading The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith. This is actually J.K. Rowling alias. Both books are about a detective Cormoran Strike and are mystery/thrillers. I recommend both books! They are a fast read, interesting, and well written.