Five for Friday- Happy 10th Day!

It's been a long week- today is our 10th day of kindergarten!  Two full weeks is a lot for the kinders and their teachers.  Good thing we have a three day weekend so we can catch up!

We made this cute Kindergarten, Kindergarten, What Do You See? book last week, after reading the Brown Bear version.  I have always wanted to try a class book, so hopefully this is the first of more to come!  The link to a template I used is here if you want to try it too.

Have you seen this website?  If you've used it, what do you think?  It has saved my life on more than one occasion.  It has FREE, printable, quick and easy (but rigorous!) Common Core aligned activities.  They are great for small groups and centers.  I need to put it here and also bookmarked it so I can remember to go to it...often I stress myself trying to come up with activities or searching TpT for something.  I need to make this my first go-to!

Another website suggestion...my coworker introduced me to www.planbook.com and I am hooked!  If you are like me and struggling to juggle different required lesson plan templates into something that is streamlined, usable and reader-friendly,  it is worth looking into!  I will say, it is a lot of setup work, so I wasn't sure at first, but I just planned my second set of weekly lessons with it and it went much more smoothly and quickly! Right now, I'm running off of the free trial, but the subscription is $12 for a year which I think is worth it!  Your lessons save from year to year and you can "bump" lessons to other days or even years.  It has common core standards included so you can just check off what you need to teach and it prints out in the lesson plan.  I could go on and on...but it's worth a look! (nope, not getting paid for a review, I just really like it!)

I turned 27 this week and started the year right with some treadmill running! I'm gearing up for some fall 5ks and a 10k. 

I don't have any good munchies to share this week...I need to go to the store and do some decent snack shopping.  My lunches have been a little haphazard and crazy.  But here is a good sunset picture from an evening cruise that my sisters and I took last week!

Have a great Labor Day Weekend!