IT'S BEEN FOREVER!

Hello Blog Friends,
It's been a very long time since I last blogged. SIGH.. My school year started out rough, I think it was a combination of things and then I just went into survival mode. We are on day 21 (I think) and things are going much better. So this year I plan on sharing my personal life too, since apparently my precious baby girl who btw is a senior!! Gets a little upset when I post pics of her on fb or instagram. LOL. Lets see how long it takes her to figure out that she's on my blog. I can't help it though, I am so proud of her and I can't believe my baby girl is a senior! I know! I know! Those of you that have taught her or watched her grow up its hard! So so HARD! sigh again.. Okay so now you know where my mind has been ( at least part of it). My class kiddos are coming around to my way of thinking, cause you know its all about making smart choices! My whole team is so awesome and we are all over loaded with boys this year. WHEW! So, we are also starting common core this year. Did I mention how crazy been its been? I used my favorite colors to decorate my classroom. I love purple, blues and greens, I love my classroom, I call it my happy place. BTW I hit the jackpot again with having an awesome room mom who is like my super hero!

This is my beautiful daughter on her first day of school (which also happens to be her last time going to school with me) and yes that is her driving herself to school! Yikes! 

I promise now that I am getting the swing of things again, I will blog more often. Except for this week because I have Back to School Night and my daughter has a game  Saturday night and I will be a common core training day all day Saturday too! Good Lord! 

It's July and yet..

Even though its still July let the decorating and all the other stuff begin! I had fun today I re-did a table and if I do say so myself it looks awesome. It's on my Instagram if you wanna take a peek. I am still working on my "Love to Read" board for A.R. and I fell in love with the idea of doing brag tags. So, of course I'm working on a new board to accommodate my BRAG TAGS.. This is so exciting! More teachers are coming back to their classrooms and its so nice to see my friends. I just love this time of the year.

This will hold 32!

Here's what it will look like 

So, this will be short and sweet. The lazy bug got me! I mean for real, I have been sleeping in, reading, napping, watching lots of reruns, and pinning. It's been awesome! Today, I decided to get some work done so I went back to my class AND I finished 4 projects from Pinterest. I really love crafting..I will show some of my stuff tomorrow ..

My Own Project

What a great day I had! I did some reading, gardening and I made my own behavior pocket chart for my classroom. Now, in my room I have to have everything look pretty AND it has to match the colors in my class. So, I found this great little pocket chart for jewelry and knew that it was going to look perfect in my room. I was so close toward buying this one.. which is cute but it does not go with anything in my room.

Being that it is summer and I absolutely love Pinterest! I decided to make one of my own. I had a lot of fun making this one of a kind, Behavior Chart. Purple means you are doing awesome, blue means feeling kind of sad (not making good choices), and green means Oh No You Didn't! ( yep, a note goes home and no Fun Friday). Now, I hope you know that I won't put that on the chart. Lol. So, in case you are wondering I used my cameo on this little beauty and thats it. 

before

After

Its summer..

So, its been almost a month since school is out and its been quite busy. First of all I am still going to teach second grade. Can I say, AHEM! Also, I moved classrooms so now I will be next door to my teammates, poor things. Lol.. So far I have been cutting, coloring and pinning away to come up with a new theme for my classroom. One thing I love is seeing how other teachers around the states create such great looking rooms. Friends and coworkers always ask me how do you make your classroom look so cute? I am not afraid to say this, I let the room talk to me. Don't laugh! I am not crazy. My plan is show my new room in baby steps. I have almost completed one small part of my wall and I am very pleased with it so far. I am leaving the wall blank for a special reason. BTW, I love decorating and since my husband has begged me to leave our house alone, I really have no other option but to have fun with my room.  One more thing, to see if I have any friends out there reading my blog here is my dilemma. If you can see the ugly and I mean ugly (unless you happen to like mustard-like orange) counter tops should I redo them or not?

The adorable houses came from whimsy workshop

Frog Race

I have only one more day with my second graders. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. Today we had our project cornerstone mom read the last book of the year. It's about change and how change is good. It's true, but... Whaaaaa I wanna keep this year going on forever! So, moving on.. I know that I love teaching second grade and I have the best team mates ever, and I made my students promise me that they will come see me next year. Otherwise I might break down in front of them and cry. I gave them an example of what it might look like and they totally promised after seeing my "little show". Lol.
We also had a frog race today (Megan you rocked it girl!) hopefully we will have time to finish it! Next thing I know the bell rings. We had so fun and I yes I did the frog race.. Tomorrow is our pizza at the park day, along with passing out their emergency packs, report cards, and anything else I find that I didn't hang out yet. So, there you have it.

Well its been awhile since I last blogged but people its been crazy! We barely finished the testing and now our team is really working hard to create this darling musical for our second graders. Okay, I will be honest I was also to busy getting spoiled by my parents. Yep, you heard me. Last week was teacher appreciation week and boy was it awesome!! Monday, I went into withdrawals but don't worry I'm okay now. Then it was Mother's Day which was again awesome. Today is my baby girl's birthday. Also, my kiddos and I are trying to glam up the classroom because the night after our second grade performance is our Open House!! I really don't want to hear from people how days of school are left? I just start singing I'm a little bit country.... because otherwise seriously I will start to cry.. Even just typing that part I'm shaking my head no no no no...
Finally here's a project we just finished today. I got the idea from a gifted teacher on teachers pay teachers ( her name is Jaime Pink).

I also have my tool boxes that I got from Pinterest