I came back to this awesome note on my easel! Hi everyone!  Remember me??  I am Stephanie, you know, the girl who hasn't blogged in a month?  Yeah.  That's me.  But I have three amazingly adorable excuses why. :) Anyway, as we all are well aware, maternity leave can't last forever and mine has sadly come to an end.  While I LOVE my job, I also LOVE my little guy so leaving him is such a bitter sweet thing.  Luckily, I also LOVE my class (let's see how many times I can say LOVE in this post...) I went back last Friday, the day before winter break, and I want to share with you a little math project I did that was standards based but still kept the interest of the students long enough to complete in one day. I found this awesome website called WorksheetWorks.com There is a special section in which you input words, and the machine spits out ordered pairs to create those words.  It is basically like a hidden picture but this time using letters.  Since graphing ord...