SNOW DAY!!!

I have been awake since 5:30 am. For some strange reason, my body did not want to sync up with my brain because today is definitely a snow day! However, I felt like a little girl on a snowy Christmas morning watching the sunrise! I am still in some what of a trance five hours later!
Lots of new things going on lately....
(1) Making a renewed commitment to my blog (again). (2) Preparing to present at the state middle school conference...oh gah. (3) Started a TpT store AND (4) created a Resolution Revolution with about 12 friends where we make one resolution a month and update each other on our success/ failures.
In other news, we're starting our unit on monotheistic religions in class. My kids wanted to learn about Christianity first and I had 45 minutes to impart some knowledge. Instead of doing our traditional vocabulary (flashcards or foldables), I had the kids choose from one of three words from our lesson to define and draw a picture of as their bell ringer. Before the lesson, they partnered up and taught another student their word. This worked really well and took less than 10 minutes. Students were quick to identify the words throughout the lesson and could give the meaning in context by the end of class. Freak snow day success! I'll take it!

Now for editing/ updating site designs...
Happy Snow Day(s)!