Happy New Year Headbands!

Happy New Year all you super teachers out there! 

Re-entry has been a little difficult this week, huh? 

I know some of you lovelies out there had this week off as well.

 I hope you soaked up every last pajama wearing, 

binge tv watching moment of your vacation!

In order to ease the kids (and their poor teacher)
back into the reality of work and school we started off
our week with some big time fun!!
Of course there was learning, writing and math involved as well!
I'm sneaky like that {wink}.

We have this adorable front with 

this graphic that I am in love with by Educlips!

Another front shot because this girl did an amazing job!

Check out those outfits!

Then on each side of the hat we did a little writing about our resolutions.

One side we wrote about a home resolution and one side is a school resolution.

Depending on the age and level of your students 

you could have them draw instead of write their resolutions. 

On the back we have the numbers for the year!

On the template they are out of order 

so the student have to organize them correctly. 

Simply adhere all the pieces onto a piece of oaktag or a sentence strip.

 I had some old borders I used. 

And voila! You have a fun accessory to wear for the day.

I love primary grades because they are so easy to please!

Grab all the pieces for this project HERE!

I wish you all a wonderful and bright 2015!!

Maybe your resolution this year will be to read my blog A Burst of First!

hehehe....

One Word Resolutions Linky

It's great to be back again, I'm CaseyJane from WigglingScholars. 

I am not much for resolutions.

Like many, I feel like I'm setting myself up for failure, making a to-do list, or cheating by choosing things I knew will be easy. A few years ago I came across a great idea to reduce your expectations and increase your success. I use a one-word resolution. That's right, all of the things I need to do can usually be summed up in one word. 

No SMART goals here! 
Measurable? Don't bother.
Timelines? Not a chance.

Just. one. word. 

If you think about it, you can only fix one thing at a time. A resolution should also command a bit of respect. It needs to be a big-something that will improve your life and the lives of those around you. But instead of deciding to take on a second language or lose whatever number of pounds, choose to change or improve one quality of yourself that has been neglected. 

For example, you might find yourself spending more time with TV than you'd prefer, you want to lose weight, and you would like to learn a few more healthy recipes. A good word might be: 'active'. The parent who introduced this to me said that she felt like she spent too much time wading through junk mail, responding to email, and talking about trivial things. Her word was 'intentional'. She wanted to be more intentional in her communication. One year, I chose the word 'measure'. I knew I was going to have a year of significant growth and I wanted to take the time to see how far I'd come as opposed to spend the year thinking about how much farther I needed to go. 

So for our purposes, I'd like you to think about your classroom, career, profession, or overall connection with education. Sure, your word is likely to have some overlap with personal goals, as it should. But I'm curious, what one word are you going to think about this coming year? How are you going to improve yourself? 

A quick tip, put this one word somewhere you will see it often and let it be your secret code to stay focused.

 Link up below! 

 1. Grab the button!.

2. Add it to your blog post. 

3. Stop back here and add your link. 

Have a great New Year!

An InLinkz Link-up

For anyone new to linkys: 

1. Grab the button means to download the picture above. You'll open it and add a text box right on top of the picture. 

2. Add it to your blog post means that you write a post about the topic, insert the button with your words, and please consider linking to this post on Primary Powers (be sure to click the blog title and then copy the URL so you have the exact address of this post instead of just linking to the blog). 

3. Then come back to this post and click the inlinz button. It will prompt you on how to add your blog post (again, please add the specific link and not a generic link).

Happy Holidays!

Not sure about all of you .. but I am WIPED! It has been an amazing week of activities (Reindeer Day, Elf Day, Santa Day, Grinch Day, Holiday Concert, Holiday Party!) ... throw in some sick kids at home, then and some x-mas shopping, cooking, cleaning .. OMG!!! It's been insane, but lots of fun! So, I will keep this short and sweet! New Year's Day is just around the corner .. it will sneak upon you, before you know it! So, I'm giving you this freebie, as a holiday present for all of you!

I would love to wish all of you  ... from my family to yours, a cozy and warm holiday season!