Two in One Week!

Wow!! I've been nominated for ANOTHER Blog award. I started this blog mainly to find other bloggers, but then I found out how much I liked networking and sharing ideas with other teachers. Anywayyyy to the award.

Katie @ Jungle in Room 207 has nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award. Thanks so much Katie!

Now for the rules
1. Thank the blogger who nominated you.
2. Include a link to their site.
3. Include the award image in your post.
4. Give 7 random facts about yourself.
5. Nominate 15 other bloggers for the award.
5. When nominating include a link to their site.
7. Let the other bloggers know they've been nominated.

7 Random Facts...
1. Over the last few years I've lost 45 pounds!
2. I have two tattoos :)
3. I didn't carry a purse until I met my boyfriend at 15.
4. I'm still dating him (We're High School sweethearts, celebrating 8 years this November!!)
5. I have a single parent.
6. My grandmother helped to integrate the schools in the county that I'm teaching in.
7. I'm a vegetarian!

15 Definitely Deserving Bloggers 

1. A Place to Thrive

2. Cardigans and Curriculum

3. 6th Grade All-Stars

4. Heather's Heart

5. Ms. Lulu's Communique

6. Oodles of Teaching Fun

7. Rowdy in Room 300

(It's Horrible but I can only do 7...)

Anyway! Thanks again Katie!!

Wow! My First Blog Award!!

Mallory over at {6th Grade} All-Stars has given me my very first blog award (I knew I followed her for a reason ;))



The Libester Blog Award is a special award for blogs with less than 200 followers that deserve more recognition. There are a few rules and heeerrrreee they are.

1. Copy and paste the award on to your blog. 

2. Thank the giver and link back to them. 

3. Nominate five other bloggers and let them know by commenting on their blogs. 

Now for the blogs I'd like to nominate:

1. Becca Jayne @ 4th Grade For Sure: She has lots of super cute DIY ideas all with a woodland theme!

2. Cynthia @ All Things Teachery: A fellow Title I teacher who has a lot of fantastic ideas, linky parties, and give away information galore.

3. Andrea @ Cheers to School: Just like me Andrea is working her way through Grad School to become a teacher. I applaud her hardwork and her fabulous ideas in the classroom.

4. Ms. Kidd @ Hangin' Out in Third Grade: Awesome blog with different resources on Common Core for the intermediate grades, because let's face it, it's new to all of us new and veteran teachers.

5.  Mrs. K @ The Teacher Garden: As an upcoming first year teacher her tips on Literacy are FANTASTIC!!


Wow!! Thanks again Mallory!!

Monday Made It!

My first Monday Made it!! However, this one is a halfway made it...but all the same I'm joining that Linky Party over at Fourth Grade Frolics.

I really like the idea of posting encouraging art work and pictures around the classroom. Something that is really important to me is letting my students know that I respect them as much as they respect me and that's how I make my classroom work. So I made something I found on Pinterest (naturally haha). Here's the original picture. 

But considering I'm going to be in a portable next year I downsized this considerably so it will easily fit into a 8x11.5 frame. Here's my interpretation in jpeg form if you would like to use it for your own classroom. I know I should sign up for a TPT site, but I just feel as though I'm not on the same caliber as some of the other users haha. 

It's very plain, but I feel like that will let me play around with the frame a little bit more! Tell me what you think

July Currently/Power Outage

Wow, these last couple of days have been quite ridiculous. The MD/VA area got rocked by a thunderstorm and we didn't get power back until about an hour ago. However, Pepco and BG&E expect that they won't be able to restore power 100% until Friday, which is a scary thought. Some of the lines outside of gas stations were three miles long because people were panicking.

Annyywhooo, as usual it's a new month so their is a new Currently over at Farley's. LOVE the new Rule of Three what a great idea to network for other blogs.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of my all time favorite books and now they are making it movie with Emma Watson in it! I'm super excited for the movie, though I'm usually disappointed when books are made into movies. Fingers crossed they will be able to do it justice because the book really is fantastic.

The Organized Teacher is a great read. I just started reading it a couple of days ago and I'm already looking forward to setting up my classroom for next year! It gives teachers both new and old different ways to spruce up their classroom management skills and a variety of other classroom procedures.

Don't forget to Link up!!

Big News!! and a Summer Craft

I'm hired!! I'm officially going to be a fifth grade teacher this school year at a Title I school!1 I'm super duper excited for the year to come. I'll be working with English Language Learners as well so this year will be extremely interesting, but I'm excited for the challenge. If any of you have some resources for working with ELLs I would love to know all about them.

Welllll anyway, on to the crafting. One of my best friends, who is also a fifth grade teacher, and I decided to meet up every week and make some sort of craft. This last week we made something for our classroom.

This craft was really simple, but i love the outcome. I'm going to put it up somewhere in my new classroom (YAYYYYYYY). We bought the letters, painted them in a corresponding color and let them dry for a little bit. Then we traced the letters on to a piece of scrapbook paper, cut them out, and Modge Podged them on to the letters and got the above result. SUPER EASY! SUPER CHEAP! SUPER CUTE!!

Anyway that's all for now, I'm sure there will be more to post about in the upcoming weeks!

Tech in the Classroom

So as a graduation present to myself I bought a brand new iPad. I'm already addicted to it, whether it's checking my email, playing some mindless game, or reading using the iBooks app. I absolutely love it. Now, as I'm researching and looking into things for next year I'm coming across a lot of bloggers/websites, that talk about using the iPad in the classroom.

I recently downloaded the TeacherPal app which works as a class roster, seat arranger, and grade book app. I'm anxious to use it in real life though haha.

Have you lovely ladies used any fun gadgets in the classroom? If so, what were they and how did they work?

I Did It and June Currently

I did it! I graduated and it feels great.

(Me and the bf on Graduation Day!!)

However, now it is on to the hard part, finding employment. Do you ladies have any tips on what to do/say/bring to interviews with principals? My program had us generate electronic Portfolios, but I know that it's common practice to bring in something tangible to interviews. I've already been hired by HR, now I need to find the school/grade that fits me perfectly :)

Also, I joined the Party over at Farley's and filled out my June Currently :D Feel free to do the same!!

Here's to bigger and better things.