Weekly Newsletters

Well, I have finally decided (or rather been pushed by an awesome co-worker/friend) to start a blog. I am really nervous about this new adventure! This blog is mostly about my teaching life (I know, that is obvious if you've read the title), but will have some of my personal life sprinkled in! I really try hard to find a good balance between home and work! It's so hard....I usually wait until my boys are asleep to do school work, but I am ready to pass out when they do! Let's not even mention that the baby (6 month old) still thinks he should nurse at 12:30 a.m., 4:00 a.m. and then every two hours after that! LOL- oh and my alarm goes off at 5! So if any of you (well, hopefully there at least a few of "you" reading!) have any advice about striking a perfect balance, please comment away! :-) 

Ok- now on to weekly newsletters and homework..... I have trouble deciding on how I feel about homework. Ideally, I would like the kiddos to do some type of activity at home to reinforce what we do at school.  Having said that, I also feel like family time is very important as is time to play outside (please don't burst my 'kids still play outside and not on computers' bubble).  I am trying something new this year.  I am sending home a weekly newsletter with a homework packet.  These will go home on Monday each week and be returned on Friday.  I know it sounds like a lot of work to do a weekly newsletter, but I've created a super easy and simple template for myself to use and so far (okay, confession- this is week 1 of sending it home!) it's not terrible! 

So here is a picture of what my Weekly News looks like: 

My next post will be what I actually use for homework! 

Thanks for reading friends! I am so extremely new to the blogging world in general so if you have advice or if you see something I've done wrong, please let me know! :-)