March Currently

Hello Fabulous Blogging Friends!

I am excited to be linking up with Farley for her monthly Currently!

Listening- Hart of Dixie is my new favorite show.  It reminds me a little of Gilmore Girls, which is a favorite.  I like keeping it on in the background when I am working.  What is your background thing to listen to?

Loving- I have been blessed with some amazing friends!  I love to laugh with them, cry with them and challenge each other to be better people.

Thinking- It is snowing again!!!  It has been snowing all day and is suppose to continue through the night.  I am wondering when it is all going to come to an end!

Wanting- SPRING...see above!

Needing- Lesson Plans...even with the possibility of a two hour delay or no school tomorrow I don't want to take a chance!  Lesson Plans need to get finished!

Spring Break Plans- relax is the major plan, hanging out with friends, maybe put in some skiing and watch some basketball...I really want to go to the sweet 16 which is taking place in Albany!

Go check out the other fabulous bloggers who are linking up with Farley!

A Superhero Product!

You are a Superhero!!!  You may not feel it all the time, but as a teacher YOU ARE a superhero!  Because of this Teachers Pay Teachers is honoring teachers with a sale!  

Click HERE to go to my store!

With the upcoming TpT sale, we want to help you find "heroic" products that have helped others in their classrooms. I recently received some wonderful feedback on my Bones & Muscles Interactive Notebook.  This provides you with various interactive notebooks pieces that help reinforce vocabulary and concepts related to Bones & Muscles.  

Click the picture above or HERE to go to the product.

Make sure you check out Fifth in the Middle's linky party.  There are some terrific products highlighted by some awesome bloggers!  Go check it out!!

February Currently

WOW...It has been a while since I have blogged!  I don't know what is the matter with me this year!  I hope to become better, even if it is just once a week.  I have ideas in my head, I just can't them onto the computer.  I haven't even been keeping up with Currently! But, I am home with a headache so I thought it was a perfect day to do some blogging!

Listening- I woke up with a bad heachache and didn't have the energy to get dressed for church so I decided to listen online to a church I went to in South Florida.  Christ Fellowship is an ever growing church that has expanded since my days there.  I love listening every once and a while in order to hear former pastors and listen to their amazing worship!  Check out Go Christ Fellowship Online.

Loving- We have had a mix of two hour delays and snow days since Christmas break.  It has been a nice change of pace.  The school I work at received kids from various different school districts so sometimes they will have a two hour delay, but the school will not.  There have been times I have started the day with only 2 out of 8 kids until about 10:30 then the rest get there.  It has been a little strange, but I have made it work!  It is nice to have a little one on one time with some of my students.

Thinking-  I have amazing friends and I am so blessed by all the knowledge that they have given me.  Most of my friends don't live near me and I am blessed that when we see each other or talk, we pick up right where we left off!

Wanting- I was thinking about all of my student loans lately.  There is a bunch and I would love to be debt free and have them all paid off.  I am going to work hard this next year to try and pay a little more each month. 

Needing- Lesson plans and report cards need to be done.  I hesitant to write lesson plans because we are suppose to get 12-16 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow...do I write them or wait...Report cards are due on Friday so I need to start working on those.  I also have annual reviews coming up so I need to start thinking about goals for my students!

Pageant Title-  Queen of Procrastination...yes that is me!  I always say, 'I work better under pressure!'

Check other bloggers Currently!

I am also throwing a quick TpT sale today and tomorrow!  Check out my store for 20% off everything!

Fifth Grade Freebie Blog Hop!!!

Hello Blogging Friends!

I am so excited to be teaming up with a wonderful group of fifth grade teachers to bring you an amazing blog hop of 
FREEBIES and a GIVEAWAY!!!!!

First, a little about me!  I have taught third grade and fifth grade in two different private Christian school.  I am currently teaching a 3rd-4th grade class at a school for students with Behavioral and Emotional problems.

 The years I spent in fifth grade, I spent learning to love my fifth graders and teaching them new and exciting things.  I was blessed to have great students who were excited to learn.  Some of my favorite topics to teach them were about the two world wars, rocks and minerals, biomes and anything math!  I tried to make learning exciting each day and challenge them to think a little harder on certain topics!

Now for my freebie!!!!

One of my favorite subjects to teach was math!  I love math!  Most kids don't have the same feeling about math as I do, so I always tried to give them tools to help them remember some of the concepts.  One tool I gave them was a divisibility rules reference sheet.  I would actually give them two copies...one to paste in their notebook and one to keep at home.  They would refer to this so often to figure out what large numbers were divisible by.

Click the picture below to grab my Divisibility Rules Reference Sheet!

I have a few other Divisibility products in my store for you to check out!  

Click on the picture below to take you to my store!

Check out our Fifth Grade Freebies Blog to enter to win one of THREE 

$25 TpT Gift Cards!!!

Thanks for hopping to my blog.  Click on Katie from Teaching...the art of possibility's icon for your next freebie!!!

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!!

We are so excited for the holiday season that we couldn't help but spread some love! Lots of your favorite TPT Teacher-Authors and I have teamed up to give YOU some TPT spending money. We love you and appreciate you (and we wish we could give all of our fabulous followers some money)!

Enter the Rafflecopter below by simply following our TPT stores, and you will have a chance to win one of five $25 TPT gift cards! Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

October Currently with a trick!

Hello Blogging Friends!  

I am sorry I have been absent for a while...I have been here, just in a little bit of a transition!  I started a new job last week!  I am going to be a Special Education teacher in a school with students who have behavioral and emotional disturbances.  It is somethign totally different from what I have ever been in before.  I have eight students with two teaching assistants, plus behavior support.  Academics is not the most important part of this school, but getting students to be able to function in life.

I can't wait to share more with you in the coming weeks about this new adventure I am on!

Today, I am linking up with Oh' Boy Fourth Grade for her Currently!

Listening- Gilmore Girls...love it!  I am so excited to watch it on Netflix now...even though I own all of the seasons on DVD!

Loving-  I LOVE fall!  The colors of the trees are beautiful and I am so grateful to live in a beautiful part of the country!  I could look at them all of the time!

Thinking- Since I have started this new job, I have been chipping away at my classroom set up slowly! The classroom was just opened in my school this year and another teacher has been running it since the beginning of the year.  I don't feel like it is mine yet!  I am hoping to spend a week-end working on setting it up before I officially take over in a week!

Wanting- see above!

Needing- Motivation...I feel like that is the story of my life.  I want to make more TpT products, go to the gym, quilt, read, etc.  I just need some motivation!

Trick-  I actually got this tip from another teacher I was observing in my school.  Academics are not the focus in our school so we try and get it in where ever possible.  One of the teachers wants her students to learn the presidents, so she assigns a different one each week as their cue to line up.  This week it was James Monroe.  I thought this was a clever way to incorporate some academics into the classroom!

Wordless Wednesday: This makes me happy!

Well...it has been a while!  The month of September has been a bit of a crazy month, where I could do nothing, but trust God.  I finally started school today!!!  A blog post will be posted soon about the new adventure I will be going on this year!  

Today I wanted to link up with Sugar and Spice for her Wordless Wednesday.  

This picture makes me happy!  These are my nephews that live in the Netherlands!  I saw this picture at the end of my first day of school and it just made me smile!  I think it might end up on my desk!  What makes you happy after a long day?