I love this weeks TPT Seller’s Challenge!!! It really makes you stop and think what are some of your dreams and what are some ways to reach them.  My dreams are family/friend driven. 1. Build new teacher/friend relationships– I never knew there was a whole new world outside of the

                               Ok, can anyone guess where I am?        I’ll give you one guess!!!!!!!  That’s right on Vacation!!!!!!!!!We just pulled up to our hotel, and what’s the first thing we have to do?????Go hit

This beautiful lady in the middle is our wonderful mother. She is our rock and best friend. For the past few months, Misty and I have had our world turned upside down. Our mother has been diagnosed with a terminal lung disease called Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis  . We have been in

Hope everyone is doing well. This year seems to be just flying by. Maybe it’s because I have such a great group of kiddos this year. They are truly a blessing. Next week, we will be having our Polar Express Day in our room. We are so excited!!!! I have

  It’s hard to incorporate another subject into another- so when Misty needed something to incorporate science into her math lesson for an evaluation- we came up with these!! Great for evaluations, early finishers, science centers,math centers, and just plain fun!!!  Our kiddos love coloring these- it’s just not a coloring sheet- it’s

This year has gotten off to a great start!! I love my new group of firsties!!!! They are so eager beavers and so eager to learn. We have been so busy this first six weeks. Yesterday, our free table from DonorsChoose.org came in. We are so excited!!!!! We have already

Well, it’s the big day tomorrow. The first day of inservice. SOOO excited!!!!!! LOL!! Well maybe not for that, but I am excited about my little firsties coming next week. I’ve had a great summer but I am ready to jump back into a routine. For some reason when summer

Hey Ya’ll We are having a Christmas party in our TPT store this week  CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT’S FOR SALE!!!! Merry Christmas in July!!!

Well, here we are. School starts next Monday. HOLY COW!!! Did I just say that????? I am still in the summer mode. I went to school yesterday for the first time to get started on my room. I stood at the door and took a deeeeeep breath before I opened

  BACK TO SCHOOL WORD MATS Did you think we fell off  the side of the Earth??????     Well, summer has been a very busy family time for us. We went on vacation this summer to the beach. This was my husbands and daughters first time to see the beautiful ocean. It

 I am so happy to have finished our 2nd Grade Common Core Math Assessments Packet! It’s a brand new product!! This packet is SO easy to implement and requires absolutely NO PREP!  Just PRINT the pages and TEACH! There are 160 student assessment pages- that is actual student pages- use them for practice

Can you say snow day? Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! Since we were home today, I wanted to share one of our math lessons that we did last week. We have been talking about 2D and 3D shapes in our room. I wanted to do a small review mini lesson since I

Who doesn’t like girl scouts cookies??? My daughter Aniston, on the right, has been a busy bee selling away this year with her brownie troop. Here she is all dressed up like my favorite cookie. Can you guess which one it is??  They look so cute holding their signs. I told