Another one?? You're all so sweet...

I've been taking a small break from blogging this past week to focus on, well, everything else. Seems like life takes a bit of a backseat when I'm sucked in to Blog Land! My poor house is cluttered with craft supplies, cat fur, and laundry (don't worry, it's clean and folded, just not put away). During that time, many of you have kept busy leaving comments, shopping at my TpT store and passing on awards. I'm so thrilled to be nominated for The Lovely Blog award.

Thanks so much to the following lovely ladies for recognizing my lovely blog :)

Cyndi at Lacy's Letters

Karmen at Karmen's Kinders of Room 103

Corinna at Teaching Fabulous Firsties!

Robin at The Bomb-Diggity Classroom

Cathy at C is for Cookies, Cakes, Children, Classroom and Crafts

And thanks to Dreamlike Magic Designs for making it so stinkin' cute!!

Now I'm going to take Cathy's advice and nominate 5 others (15 is a little daunting) for this award. I tried my best to really search out some diamonds among the numerous new teacher blogs. So, without further ado...

Congratulations:

Reading with Miss D

First Grade Jungle Room

Teaching is Bliss

Teaching in a Nutshell

3rd Grade Troops

I want to sincerely thank everyone for your support during this exciting new adventure. I know we can all learn from one another and really impact our students!

Before I go, I would like to say one last thank you to everyone who has visited my TpT store. I've been receiving such positive feedback. It really keeps me going!! Creating materials for the classroom has quickly become a new passion and reenergized me like you wouldn't believe!! 

Next week, if I can manage to tear myself away from the Olympics, I plan of hitting my curriculum hard and getting the kinks out of my pacing guide. Why is it that as hard as I plan, I never seem to get through all of my units?! Am the only one?! What do you do to help keep you on track?

Best wishes,

The home stretch...

I can't believe July is almost over!! It's hard to believe i've already been out of school for a month. The good thing is I've already accomplished so much! Last night I put the finishing touches on my new calendar and classroom labels. I can't wait to get back into my room and set it all up! If you're going with an owl or polka dot theme, check out what I created. May I introduce the Owl and Polka Dot Calendar and Classroom Super Pack (what a mouth full)...

These are just a couple of items! This packet is 125 pages of goodies to use in any classroom. It includes a calendar with all the trimming, alphabet, number line 0-20, daily schedule bulletin, birthday mini bulletin headers, lost tooth poster, reward/incentive chart, color chart with weekly tracker for students, word wall (letters) headers, classroom helpers mini bulletin, OWL student binder cover, and a "Welcome to 1st grade!" pennant banner. There are also blank labels for each in case you need to add something. I hope you'll enjoy these just as much as I am. It's the perfect finishing touch! I've listed it for 5 bucks, but you can grab it until Friday for only 3!


On a TOTALLY unrelated note, I was nominated for another award!! EEEEEEEEE!!!! Thanks to Tina at Laugh Live Love Learn for this beauty...

The 5 blogs I'm nominating for this award are...

A Series of First Grade Events

The First Grade Scoop (she has super cute freebies you should check out) 

Laughing with Lane

Scrappy Teaching in Fl

And my absolute new favorite blog... Classroom Couture

Lastly, I just want to say how amazing it feels to have so much collaboration going on. It truly pushed me to keep creating and reinventing new ways to teach old things. I don't know if I would love teaching as much if I hadn't found you all! So thanks! BTW, for those of you who made it all the way to the bottom, the first 5 to leave a comment guess my favorite animal (gee, that's a hard one) will get a free copy of my calendar super pack!

Best wishes,

Drum roll please...

And the winner is... ME!! Yay! Thanks to the wonderful Ashley at Inspire, Dream, and Create, I have received The Versatile Blogger award! See...

I'm thinking about printing it out so I can hang it on my wall somewhere. Maybe I'll create a frame for the next Made it Monday...


Anyways, thanks again Ashley. It's so awesome to have such a supportive group of teachers out there!! I may be new to blogging, but I have been teaching for a little while now. I wish I had all of these resources when I first began. It is such a please to be able to share my trials and errors in hopes that someone (including me) can become a better teacher.


The fun part of this award is learning some random facts about those nominated.  So, here's a little bit about me :)

1. I can touch my tongue to my nose without using my hands (hey, it said RANDOM).

2. Whenever I paint my nails, I ALWAYS peel the polish off within a couple of days.

3. I have a french bulldog names Boris who I'm pretty convinced is part piglet.

4. I have tattoos, lots of them, and no one at school knows!

5. I love flowers, but can't seem to keep anything alive.

6. I love, love, love baking.

7. When i first met my husband, I told him I would never marry him because of his last name. 

The best part about this award is being able to pass it along to others! The blogs I have nominated for this award are:

Crisscross Applesauce

Ms. Fiorini's Stadium

Mrs. Jankord's First Grade Hero Headquarters

Sample's Superstars

Second Grade Nest who, by the way, has a giveaway going on!

Alright folks, I'm off for the night. Can't wait to wake up tomorrow and do it all over again!


Best wishes,