April Currently and Freebie

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!  Has anyone been watching The Bible series that has been on the History Channel?  I'm behind everyone else and have only watch the first few episodes.  Today after church, I was watching it with my two sons and I was truly blessed to hear my oldest, who turns 20 in a few weeks, tell me what happens in his own words before it showed it.  I have tried very hard to keep him in church growing up but never realized how Bible knowledgeable he was.  I asked him when and how he had learned all those stories and he replied, "Mom, you raised me right - in church."  How blessed I am for God to have entrusted me with two wonderful sons while we are here on Earth.  

I am linking up with Farley and the April Currently.

Stop by and link up. 

I have posted a freebie of writing paper for the spring.  Stop by and pick it up if you would like.

Spring Cleaning Sale

Anyone up for a Spring Cleaning Sale?  

I am throwing a SALE in my TpT store Saturday and Sunday - 20% off everything. 

Thanks, Krista, for this amazing graphic!!

I have added a new unit to my TpT store - Bubblegum Literacy Centers.  Below is a preview.

I am off to enjoy my last few days of Spring Break!  We go back to school on Tuesday.  The family and I are in Nashville for a few days and I am excited to go shopping and sight seeing...even if it is raining here today.  I hope to be back in a few days with pictures from our trip.

Blessed

Sorry friends for me being MIA for a while.  There has been so much going on in my life, I hate to admit it, but blogging was not my top priority.  I'm hoping things are getting back to normal - but I can't guarantee it.

A little history about me:

I was a paralegal for a law firm for about 6 years or so and then I decided to follow my dream and go back to school and get my teaching degree.  I LOVE teaching!  In the past month or two I have been questioning whether or not I was doing what God wanted me to do.  After a lot of time kneeling on my knees in prayer, I got my answer last night. 

See, yesterday in class we did this cute activity

found at:  http://theteacherwife.blogspot.com/2013/03/who-is-worth-more-to-you-than-gold.html

I loved how they turned out.  Here are some...

 

This is the one that helped me tremendously.  "Jesus and God are worth more to me than gold because they will love me no matter what."

This is the message I got from his mom on Facebook before I went to bed last night

Let me just say - I felt like God was shaking me, telling me not to doubt.  I am so blessed to be able to love each one of my students on a daily basis.  God is good!  I thank Him daily for my valleys...because without them I would not have any mountain tops.

Maybe now I can start blogging and working on things for my TpT store, which I have neglected for so long. 

Goodnight friends and God Bless!

 

Sale

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am particpating the in big sale on Sunday.
  Stop by and check out my store

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Long Draining Day Today

Hello friends!  I had planned on posting something great about school...but then today happened.  Have you ever had one of those days?  Let me set the background....on Thursday we dismissed an hour early due to bad weather.  On Friday school was canceled (LOVE snow days that we don't get very often!) and we were off yesterday for the holiday.  We returned to school today, after not being able to get ready for this week before we left on Thursday, and during our planning time we had a PLC Meeting.  At this meeting, we express how overwhelmed we feel due to our system wanting us to do more and more...we walk away feeling very frustrated and unheard.  This puts us all in a wonderful mood, lol.  I hate to feel that I pour my all into teaching the students, which I LOVE to do, and we are expected to do more and more from our district and if we express our concerns, that we are not really listened to. Okay, I thought my day couldn't get any worse....I came home to my downstairs heat not working.  Ugh!  It had acted up when we first turned the heat on in the fall, but it has been fine for almost 2 months and I thought that it would be fine.  My  husband always says I have the special touch to get it to kick back on (not sure what I do), but it is going to be COLD tonight and I can't get it to kick on.  This is one of those times that I am thankful that I have two separate units and I can go upstairs where it is warm.

Enough about my pathetic life.  A few weeks ago, my class learned about penguins.  I always love to teach penguins and then polar bears.  Here is a picture of our penguin craft with writing.  They turned out so cute!

Due to the snow, I finished teaching about Martin Luther King, Jr. today.  At the end, we talked about how no matter what someone looks like on the outside, we are the same on the inside.  We demonstrated this by using a white egg and a brown egg.  The kids loved it!  Here are some of their writing about it.  We did a craft today and will finish the writing with it tomorrow.  I will post pictures when it is finished.

I am off to crawl in bed and sleep this day away.  I just hope tomorrow will be better.  I will begin teaching polar bears and I know my students will love it!

 

Giveaway

There is a great giveaway that I joined recently.  It is hosted by Rockin' Teacher Materials.  It's a Flash Drive Giveaway and looks so great!

The giveaway is divided by grade levels and the above link is to the second grade giveaway.  It's open until Sunday evening, so go on over and enter!  You don't have to jump through as many hoops to enter, so it's easy!

Penguin Freebie

Well, as many of you have already come to the realization, Winter Break has come to an end and we have to go back to school.  I know some of you went back this week - I go back on Monday, with the kids returning on Tuesday.

I thought that I better start my lesson plans, as much as I dread it.  I am planning on working in activities on penguins and polar bears the first few weeks back.  I love learning about polar animals!  I have made a few graphic organizers for penguins that I am sharing.  Just click on the the picture to grab a copy.

Also, I made a January calendar and a few pages of winter writing paper.  The graphics for these came from DJ Inkers.  I just love their graphics.  Just click on either picture to grab a copy.

I have so many things going through my head that I need to get done to prepare for my kiddos next week.  I have enjoyed spending time with my boys over the break and really haven't done anything for school.  Sometimes when our breaks come to an end, stress sets in.  I hope each of you have a wonderful start back to school.