Frog Dissection!

Our Human Body Unit has come to an end and boy, oh boy did these kids eat up every second of it. And I must admit I LOVED it, too!! Last year, I did my human body unit a LOT different than I did it this year. {This year was MUCH better - more informative, organized, and generally more fun.} I bought a FANTASTIC human body unit from Getting Nerdy with Mel and Gerdy to help me along and let me tell you that it has helped exponentially. There are a ton of great slides for my informational lectures/discussions and then just some really great activities to accompany each human body system that we study. I also brought in some of my own stuff - like my Human Body Lab Stations - and some other really fun activities that I've found in my quest to having the most awesome human body unit ever in the history of teaching. {Not really.}

Yesterday and today was frog dissection. We loved it. I will spare you the gory pictures, but here is a pic of my room set up. It's very medical looking!

I made a presentation to accompany my dissection and I offered it free last year, but just wanted to offer it again in case anyone out there is also dissecting frogs. The material is great for grades 5-8. Also includes safety rules for your lab! Click here to download this fun presentation.

I have been neglecting this blog - but for good reason. I'm crazy busy with school, being a mom, a wife, and trying to maintain at least somewhat of a social life. We're also in the process of trying to buy a house, so it's just crazy all around.

I don't have anything in the works academically-speaking, but I have a TON of clipart in the works, and lots already posted in my TpT shop. I also have an Etsy shop if you prefer to purchase from Etsy! I'm in love with designing clipart and wish I had more time to devote to it. I've got some Valentine's Day stuff up and I should have St. Patty's Day done before the end of the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by! Properties of Matter is coming up and I cannot wait to put my hands-on, fun, and engaging unit to work! {Click here to check that out!}

Monday Made It!

Linking up again with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics on this fabulous Monday for this month's edition of Monday Made It! And how is it already February? Seriously.

I have been diligently preparing for the arrival of my first little baby and I have made LOTS of stuff for her nursery. I will share that first and then I have a little frog dissection presentation I made for school that I will share. 

Let me just do a little plug for Zazzle.com. I had these three little prints printed from them and they did a fantastic job. I drew/traced these using Adobe Illustrator and picked my own custom size and sent the digital files to Zazzle and they printed them for me. Let me just say that they did a fantastic job and I think I only spent about $20 for all three of these, including shipping. These hang right above my Little Olive's crib. Love. I also did one for the bathroom with little rubber duckies, but it hasn't come in yet.

Next is this fun little O. I love this. It was so easy and fun to make and I got so lucky with the yarn color! It looks like it was meant to go with my nursery set and I am so happy with how it turned out. I picked up a letter, the yarn and those fun little flowers from the great Hobby Lobby and a half hour later, I had this final product. I also tied that ribbon there about that little mirror. This is right above the changing table. I'll get to check out how amazing I look every night while I'm changing poopie diapers. Well planned. At least it's cute in there!

Anyway, that does it for my home edition of Monday Made It. On to school. As you may or may not know, we are dissecting frogs this week. Yep, in the FIFTH grade! I am so excited for these kiddos. They cannot stop talking about it. Anyway, I made a little presentation for it so that they can follow along whilst we are carving our frogs. Below are some snap shots of the best pages, but if you happen to be dissecting frogs and need a presentation companion, click here to download the entire file. It's a "PDF Presentation", meaning that I created it in Adobe InDesign and exported a PDF because I absolutely refuse to use PowerPoint. You view it the same way you would a PowerPoint - but just with Adobe Reader instead.

I love Monday Made Its and I look forward to it every month! Head on over to Tara's blog, check out all the fantastic Made Its, and link up!