A Valentine's Day Freebie and A New Packet

Hello, sweet friends!

Valentine's Day is this week. I wanted to share a freebie with you from the Valentine's Day packet.  My class LOVES to make ABC books, so I cannot wait to see what they come up with. Each student will be assigned a letter of the alphabet and will write and draw a picture of something they love that starts with that letter.  Click the picture below to grab your freebie. If you download, please leave me some love. :-)  I love reading your sweet comments.  They truly make my day.

I finished a new packet today!  I'm so excited.  St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner, so I created another "How To" writing packet.  Students will write about how they would get the leprechaun to share their pot of gold.  I can't wait to use it.  I'll give this packet away for FREE to the first three people to leave me comment telling me what you'd do if you found the leprechaun's pot of gold. :-) Click the picture below to check out my new packet.

Lots of love,

Five for Friday (or Saturday)

Hello, friends!

I had such a busy day yesterday, that I didn't get a chance to share 5 random things about my week with you.  So, instead of Five for Friday I'm having a Five for Saturday. 

1. My husband is a huge golf fan.  This week Brayden, remember he just turned 1 in January, picked up a golf club and started hitting golf balls.  My husband was jumping up an down for joy. I should have taken a picture of that! ;-) Looks like I'm gonna have to learn to love golf. It's not my most favorite sport...

2.  I uploaded my latest packet today.  My students have been having a blast with mental math.  The 2nd grade math common core standard has students mentally adding and subtracting 10 and 100.  I think it's safe to say that most of my students understand it!  Yay!  Check out my packet below if you are teaching mental math now or just need a fun way to review.

3.  I made some delicious potato soup this week.  I'd never heard of adding cream cheese into potato soup, but it was super duper YUMMY.  Click here to check out the recipe for yourself.  It's definitely worth it. It is from an issue of the Paul Dean magazine...that means it has to be good.  Ms. Paula doesn't steer us in the wrong direction when it comes to food! The picture below is from their website.  I didn't think about taking my own picture.  

4.  My field trip didn't go very well.  I was highly upset that we were told there wasn't anywhere in the building for us to eat and we would have to eat outside.  Normally, this wouldn't be a problem BUT it was cold and rainy.  We had to eat on the school bus.  Not fun at all.  My students loved the museum, but next year we will not be going back. :-( 

5.  I'm SO ready for Spring.  The weather has went from hot to cold, hot to cold all this week.  I LOVE living in the South, but I sometimes wish weather here could either be hot or cold.  I can't handle 4 different weather changes in one week.

Next week friends, my goal will be to tell you about  my week on FRIDAY.  Fingers crossed...I know I can do it.

Have a great weekend!

February Currently

Hello, friends!

I'm linking up with Farley from Oh Boy, Fourth Grade for February's Currently.  I know I'm a little late, but better late than never! :-)

First, my husband found a show on TNT called Castle.  It's one of those mystery crime shows which I normally don't get into.  However, I LOVE this show.  Highly addictive!

I'm loving the warm weather that has hit the South these last few days.  I'm hoping the groundhog was right and warmer weather is on its way.  I hate the cold!!

I thinking that 15 parents will be fun on our field trip tomorrow.  I have a love/hate relationship with field trips.  You never know how the trip is going to turn out.  We are going to the Children's Museum and they require 1 chaperone for every 5 kids.  That's A LOT of parents!

I'm wanting to have my pre-baby body back.  I'm going to the beach for Spring Break in April and dread getting into a bathing suit.  I need to exercise, but I can't find the time.  

I'm needing to grade papers.  I usually don't get this behind, but I have.  They WILL all be graded this weekend.  That's the plan anyway! :-)

My biggest pet peeve is lying.  I can't stand when people lie to each other.  Just tell the truth.  You'll eventually get caught anyway!

Link up with Farley and let us know what you are "currently" doing in February.

Lots of love,

Take a Peek at What I Bought!

Hello, friends!

I told y'all that I'd be back to blog about all the awesome things I bought during the Super Sunday Sale.  I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin' to share all of the fantastic things I found.  Click on any of the pictures to purchase them for yourself. :-)

Now, on to my FABULOUS finds...

I love linking up with Farley each month to do her Currently (working on February's Currently now).  In her preview she has January's Currently as a freebie.  I tried it with my kiddos and they absolutely loved it!  Such a cute idea.  My smarties did their currently this week during their writing center.  I'll have to share pictures with you of their answers.

These frames are from Ashley Hughes.  I just love her stuff!  I've already used her black frame in my next product that I hope to have uploaded this weekend.

I'm such a loser that I did not know that Melonheadz had a TpT store.  How did I not know this?I?! knew she had an Etsy store which I have browsed through so many times.  I've always loved her clip art, so I took the plunge and bought these ADORABLE graphics!  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!

I've been racking my brains over how to add in the speaking and listening skills that Common Core requires.  The answer to my problem...Show and Tell.  Why not bring back show and tell.  I loved it as a child, and I'm glad that I decided to bring it back.  :-) 

These borders and from the adorable Krista Wallden from Creative Clips.  I just love all of her stuff.  Super duper cute!

What did you buy?  I'd love to hear from y'all! 

Lots of love,

Wanna Play a Game?

Happy Sunday, friends!

I've already bought SO much stuff today.  I can't wait to share with you all the goodies that I've bought.  First, I wanna tell you about a fun game that I'm involved in.  I teamed up with some fantastic bloggers and we each have a letter in the words: 49ERS RAVENS.  Each of us have a packet that begins with one of the letters of the above word.  The first person to buy each packet listed below, find the letter (it's on the 2nd page of each packet), and post here will win a FREE packet from every blogger participating.  I'm so excited.  

Here's the info below.

Happy Shopping! :-)

Are You Ready for Some Shopping?

Thanks to Lindsay from Primary Polka Dots for the ADORABLE graphic!

Hello, friends!

Are you ready for some football shopping?!?! I know I am.  Who doesn't love a sale??? I will be participating in the big TpT sale on Sunday.  AND...I am continuing the sale until Monday! :-) Make sure you enter the promo code SUPER at checkout to receive 28% off the total price.

I'll be watching the Super Bowl while shopping at the same time.  I love me some football! I'm not a huge NFL fan, college is where my heart is at, so I don't really have a preference for which team I'd want to win.  Who are you going to be pulling for? My preference usually depends on which quarterback is hotter. Shhhh...don't tell my husband! ;-) 

Here are a few of my packets that you might be interested in for the month of February. Click the picture to check them out from my TpT store.

Happy Saturday, dear friends!

Lots of love,

Hip Hip Hooray for the 100th day!!

Hello, friends!

Today my 2nd graders were 100 days smarter. We had a BLAST today doing all sorts of things!

First, if you haven't had your 100th day of school yet, then you definitely need to check out Rebecca's, Darlin' in First, packet. On Monday my students were given the assignment to collect 100 items and put them into a mystery bottle. Then, they came up with clues to help the detectives figure out what their mystery item was. So much fun!! Check out these pictures.

Detectives hard at work!

Mrs. Hunter can I shake the bag to figure it out?

Second, we used my 100th day packet in math and writing. My students learned they there are so many more things you can do with a 100's chart. We counted by 5's and 10's, colored odd and even numbers, and even wrote 100 words. Then we ended the day by writing what they thought life would be like when they are 100.

This one was hilarious!  Her life will be over.  

I had to share this one because he will be old enough to have a beer!  I asked him to read it because I thought maybe, just maybe, he meant beard.  NOPE!  He said beer, you know the kind that old people get to drink.  I almost busted out laughing! Crazy things that my smarties think!

Click here to check out my packet if your 100th day of school is coming up.

Only 80 more days to go, for me! :-)

Lots of love,