CNY Freebie

Now that is a much more exciting blog post title than my previous one!!

With Chinese New Year coming up (February 19th 2015) I thought I would gather together a few more ideas to help celebrate and teach this fabulous festival in your classroom.

Last Friday, my class made the some goldfish suncatchers as decorations for our classroom as goldfish (and pineapples!) are commonly found in decorations due to their colour being cl'ose to gold. If you are interested in making them, check out my How to... tutorial.

A favourite (and fairly easy chorus at least) song to sing at this time of year is 'Gong xi gong xi'. Why not try and learn it with your class? As an aside, the youtube channel the below video is from has several videos that might be useful.

For even more ideas read my post from last year Gong Xi Fa Chai (early).

Click on the images below or visit my TpT store here to grab a copy of this simple roll and read game. It is currently in my Challenge Area as a themed bit of reading practice!

Gong Xi Fa Chai!

 p.s. Thank you to my lovely commenters on my previous post, you really cheered me up!

Trying to keep some momentum

This post is just a random splurge of my thoughts and, for once, not a link up with anyone! Which will probably just mean that no-one will actually read it as I don't think I get much independent traffic lol!

I've found time management quite hard over the last couple of months and unfortunately blogging is one of those things that gets pushed further and further down the to-do list. There have been the 'normal' (increased?!) workload and in addition I have been agonising over a fairly momentous job decision. (As an aside, as I typed the word 'agonising' the song Agony from Into the Woods popped into my head, the best part of the film imo!)

Anyway, the job situation I think is being resolved and I will be moving on from my current position in the summer to another country (still abroad though) and I really hope that everything works out. If I manage to keep some (any!) sort of momentum with this blog going, I guess we will all find out!!

Currently a 100th post

It seems fitting for me both that I am writing my 100th post with all the '100th day of school' posts around the blogging world and also that I am linking up with Oh Boy the 4th Grade for a Currently post for my 100th post as it's been with me since single figures!

Listening - I just have rubbish tv on for the sake of noise rather than any serious watching going on!

Loving - Only 1 more week of school, then its half-term! Whoop, whoop!!

Thinking - My brain has been fried this week, so its barely processing any thoughts right now...

Wanting - A relaxing weekend, although I feel the mountain of work I should be attempting may interfere with that.

Needing - More sleep. I had a sleep-walking incident last night which massively interrupted my sleep!

Pagent title - I write lists, attempt to prepare in advance, prep, colour-code, sort and constantly try and stay organised or I'll go mad!

Finally posting!

My poor followers/readers who have stumbled upon this page will have forgotten about me soon with the complete irregularity with which I am managing to post!! But I'm back today with a Five for Friday on an actual Friday!

1

Contract for my new job signed and sent, so its official my move! Though I still have several months to get my head around this new chapter in my life. Thank you for all the good wishes I've had so far!

2

Our half-term topic is plants so we planted some beans to observe the germination and growth process. After we got over our disappointment that they did not grow overnight like Jack's beanstalk, it is the favourite spot in the classroom to check on their progress.

3

A doubles game that I found on Pinterest that was a freebie! Find it at The Reading Corner.

4

In the December sale (only just a couple of posts back on my blog, argh how badly I'm doing as a blogger!) I bought these link it up games from Lauren Kuhn and I finally remembered to get them out in class this week. 

5

I went on a school trip this week, so much fun as we went to the theatre! My little darlings first time on a trip and they did brilliantly with the bus journey, 'starving to death' (missing our morning snack time) and then picnic in the park. 

A mid-January Currently

Really quite late to the party this month, but I've been having a difficult few weeks with decisions and life planning to do, but the good news is, I finally know what is happening and I'm very happy about it. More information to follow!

Listening - to Casualty, a programme I haven't watched in years, so slightly confused with the characters!

Loving - that I have the ability to sunbathe in January and I definitely took advantage of that yesterday

Thinking - at last I know what I'm doing this year, such a weight off my shoulders!

Wanting - to sleep later than 5am for once, this week jet-lag from my Christmas trip back to the UK has really affected me

Needing - to do housework, I'm constantly behind on it, it seems

Yes - change job (ahhhhhh, scary times ahead!)

Maybe - do my planning more than a day in advance lol

& Wish - do some regular exercise (this really is quite unlikely to happen)

Please visit Oh' Boy 4th Grade and link up if you haven't already (and you probably have as I'm nearly 2 weeks late!) I'm number 326, oh dear!