Late Night

Mommy Minutes...This is officially the first Friday night that I have been awake past 10pm. My husband and I just Ferberized our daughter and it has been so great!!! Our little peanut used to sleep with us in bed. That wasn't our plan, but it happened one night and then got worse and worse to the point where our daughter would need me to sleep with her in bed so she could stay asleep. This meant that I would go to bed around 8pm. YIKES!!! 

I hated listening to my baby cry for a few minutes while I waited to go back in and soothe her but, I am so proud of how well she gets herself to sleep now. There is no crying and she sleeps an extra 2 hours each night because my husband and his need to toss and turn all night long doesn't wake her. BONUS! :) I want all mommies like me out there to know that using the Ferber method wasn't that bad. It's amazing to see how babies learns to soothe themselves! 

Teacher Time....My kiddos just completed a unit on Immigration. We have the TCI program at our school and the students went through a simulation game where they pretended they are Immigrants traveling to the U.S. I'm not a big fan of multiple choice tests and I like the students to show their learning in other ways. 

For this unit, I had the students write a letter home to mom or dad from the perspective of an immigrant. They needed to explain how and why they traveled to the U.S. and what life is like for them now as immigrants in the U.S. The students did such an awesome job! I love how creative they were with showing how much they had learned about immigration. Love! 

Here are a few pics. (I'm still learning how to upload links....when I do, I'll have some FREEBIES)