pieces of bree: a blur.

life is a blur. a blur of pumpkins, family time, and fall. i love this time of year. i have always been a big fan of summer. funny how things change as i've gotten older. i am now proud to say that fall has stolen my heart. hands down best time of year. my slight obsession with pumpkins is inherited (much love to my mother dearest), but my affinity for pumpkin patches is something i have acquired independently. so far this year we have hit 3.
school life is a blur as well. so many ideas and so little time. creating projects and having all 34 kids complete said projects takes tiiiimmmeee. holy geez. but we are hangin' in there. chuggin' along if you will.
we have been ~~struggling~~ learning integers. i probably should clarify...some are struggling. luckily, we are fortunate enough to offer before and after-school tutoring, so there are definitely more and more light bulbs going off!

i used a manipulative to introduce positive and negative integer addition. worked like a charm.

we have been learning via angry verbs and making connections. i stole the angry verbs idea off pinterest and made it my own. (seriously what don't i do with pinterest?) i honestly have no clue what the draw is concerning angry birds. dare i say i've never even played?! but considering the number of angry birds shirts and backpacks we have floating around room 33, the kids apparently have a clue in a major way.