Five for Friday -- Just Before It Ends!

Just a quick 5 to share my past week.  Linking with Doodle Bugs.  

I have been "Rebranded!!"  

We drove out Sunday afternoon and began our CAMT experience in downtown Ft. Worth!  I had a blast!!  I have to admit...my strength is Reading & Writing but Math is where I feel like I have to put loads of effort and try, try, try.  This is the 1st year that I am so excited to approach Math.  I have learned so much from this conference.

I tried to take a selfie with the banner.  Not so good -- so a friend helped me out.

Since I'm in a Mathematical frame of mind...

What questions pop into your head when you see this amazing display from the Ft. Worth convention center?  I bet it has something to do with math, right?  Well, that is one of the most fun things I learned from one of the presenters, Dan Meyer.  Math is really all around us.  We have a natural, innate curiosity that can be mathematical driven.  What a great way to make Math relevant and let kiddos see it in the world around them!!!

(BTW -- I don't know how many hats that is, but I'm sure there is a mathematical way to solve it)

It must be Back To School time because there are giveaways galore!!  A good bloggy friend of mine has hit 200 followers and is having an awesome giveaway.

Look at that prize!!  I need that one!!  And on top of the $$ there are some great products for some other buddies including one of my latest products.  Take a look.

Stop by A Grace Filled Classroom and enter for a chance to win.

Along my path throughout the convention center, I met & made lots of new friends.  Here are a couple of my favorites. 

 A fellow first-timer, named Miles.

 It's Miss Math Dork!  And guess what?  She gave me two of her cute earring sets for teachers to put into a giveaway.  Be on the lookout for that opportunity in the future.  I have to put some great products together to go along with it.  

It was so much fun meeting so many people and just getting back in the school mode.

 Then it was back to graduate school mode.  As soon as I was home I had a day to get my display board ready for our end of class, Literacy Symposium.  I think it came out great!  But, now I need a nap.

And that's my 5 for this week.  Now that we are getting into August, I'm sure I'll have more of a variety soon!

Five for Friday -- I'm back!!

I know, I know.  I have not done a Five 4 Friday with Doodle Bugs in a while.

Let's see what I can come up with....

I've finally been able to finish some "works in progress" that have been sitting on my desktop for a while.  Stop by and take a look HERE.

Each packet has journal covers that can be used on whole class journals or as task cards in a writing center.  

My family of 6 have decided to spend some great family time this summer volunteering at a ranch camp for special needs kids.  It has been an amazing experience!  The kids are amazing and the volunteers that are working with us are some of the most awesome people I have met.  We have all had the most fun.  & to top it all off, I have fallen in love.  His name is Chief-Roast Beef.  He's the horse I lead on trail with some of the campers.  He is one of the older guys but is the sweetest thing I have ever met!!

We took a selfie!

And in between all that was mentioned above, I've been working on graduate school work.  I passed my first class with a 95%!!  Woohoo!  Not bad for someone that hasn't been in school since 2001.  I'm finishing up my lecture class over the next 3 weeks.  It's been fun beginning this adventure over summer break...I'm a bit worried about when school is back in.  How in the world will I find time to complete all this writing?  Help!!  Any suggestions from you guys with experience?

 I hit a TPT milestone!!
100 Followers!!!
So I hosted a sale.  It ends tonight at midnight.  Stop by and get 20% off before it ends!!

And finally, the scavenger hunt hosted by Blog Hoppin'!  I love, love, love the idea but am not the best in keeping up with Instagram.  I think I'm going to need to spend a full day hunting some of these things down.  It is so much fun to see what others have already posted and a little discouraging too.  So many of ya'll are so far ahead of me.  I need to get a move on.

It's a Five for GIVEAWAY...I mean Friday!

Wait...what?  Another GIVEAWAY??  Ummm...yup!

I teaming up with some of the most supportive Bloggy BFFs a girl could ever ask for!  

And we are giving away ----   $100!!!

Yup.  You read that right.  We are giving away some BIG "moola!"  

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And here's my 1st GIVEAWAY:

If you haven't already gotten your 8 entries in...you still have time.  My own GIVEAWAY is going through Monday night.  Enter for a chance to win one of my biggest products.  If you want to read some more about it, click HERE.

Needing a way to get your kiddos to master their Addition, Subtraction, or even Multiplication facts?  Then this is the GIVEAWAY for you!  This yearlong program will get your kids in competition mode and work towards some amazing goals.  All you have to do is print out the tests, shove them in some plastic sleeves, and set the timer.  Away they go!!

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LET'S PLAY CATCH-UP

I have really slacked on my blog posts.  I guess the end of the school year has turned back into that whirlwind that shows it's face right around April.  So here are a few things from the last few weeks:

We sent Mrs. Newton off in style.

The book really came out great.  If you need a fun gift to a "future" teacher, check out my "Super Teacher" gift book at my TPT store HERE.

I got to visit my Grandmother and spend mother's day with her AND my mom!  It was so nice to be around my family.  We even were there for a couple of cousin's graduation party and so we visited with everyone we could find.  It was a quick trip but definitely heart-warming!  Once we got back into TX, I was the lucky soul who had the "Take the Teenagers To Take Their Driver's License Test" job.  Wowza!!  That was a memory I'll never forget.  We have two 16yr. olds that both were ready.  My main job was the paper work and my hubby's was the vehicle.  Well, needless to say, I took care of my side of the work and didn't figure out that his wasn't until one of them was in the vehicle line to take off.  After a few trips here and there to get a vehicle with both front and back plates (MOUNTED), we finally got it accomplished.  The kids are official!

Grandma Helen & My Momma

It has been a zoo at school lately!  Let's begin with our Butterflies.  4 out of the 5 chrysalises hatched into Painted Lady butterflies and we released them into the wind.  It was a perfect end to our Science focus on plants, animals, and insect life cycles.  But that wasn't the only excitement.  The kids finished up their Animal Reports with Google Presentations.  They were awesome!!  Then, one day, our lesson was interrupted by a little friend that was peeking in through our window.  And last but not least, our principal, Mr. Aston lived up to his word and hugged a SNAKE!!  He actually did it.  It was all to celebrate the great amounts of reading our school has done with our library program this year.

And that's my Five for Friday.  Linking up with Doodle Bugs again.  Stop by and enjoy the fun.  Don't forget to enter for the GIVEAWAYs!!