2 more Fridays..

After today, 2 more Fridays in the school year.  I am SUPER jealous of those of you who are finishing school so much earlier than me! *POUT* But we are SOOO close to sweet summertime. 

Happy to link up this Friday with Doodle Bugs Teaching for this week's Five for Friday!! Click on the picture below to join in on the fun :)

1. Started off with an awesome trip to see my favorite sports team, the San Antonio SPURS!!! Mr. Rhodes did a great job supporting even though he was born a Rockets fan.. Proud of him for wearing a Spurs jersey although I'm pretty sure it killed him a little bit.. Games are always most fun to attend when your team wins, which is why I was super grateful that we didn't drive 6 hours to watch them lose! :) Here we are on the way there!

2. We rewarded ourselves for driving 6 hours in one day (ON A SCHOOL NIGHT) with a long stop at BUC-EE'S. Heaven on Earth.  Cleanest bathrooms I've ever seen in my life. The 50 different fountain drink options weren't bad either.. Look at all that beauty!

3. With all of the ADORABLE pins going around of people's Teacher Binders I just had to make my own.  I am a little obsessed with Washi Tape and it definitely shows on the cover of this binder..

GOAL: BE ORGANIZED NEXT YEAR.

4.  Already preparing for next year, half proud of myself, half ashamed of myself, but it's ok!  I updated my kindergarten information sheet that we have parents fill out before school.  Just as a quick reference page for any parent information I need! Click on the picture if you'd like to download it!

5.  Last but not least I found the CUTEST owl additions for my classroom this week, I can never have enough..

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!! :)

Finally Friday!

Happy Friday!!! Even happier to say that there are only 3 more Fridays left in the school year..YIKES.

Linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things that happened this lovely week in my class/home! Click on the picture below to join in on the fun!

 1. Started the week out right with a trip to my FAVORITE store, Lululemon :)  They sell work out clothes (yoga, running, cycling etc.) that are absolutely beautiful to look at.  I'm just a LITTLE bit obsessed.

2. In the classroom we continued to learn about adjectives as we used this anchor chart to describe a beach ball.  They were very creative with the words they came up with! We display the anchor chart that we just created for a few days to remember what our focus is, then it gets moved to the wall or ceiling.

3. We finished our Mother's Day projects!!! (finally..) We took pictures holding a speech bubble that said "I love you to pieces!" they glued all the puzzle pieces onto popsicle sticks that I had hot glued to create a make-shift frame.  Then they chose a color and we spray painted them. A lot of work, but totally worth it for our wonderful Moms!

4. I finally broke down and decided to buy myself some new running shoes!! AND I LOVE THEM (and not only because they were on mega sale.)

Here's a picture of me and the hubby trying them out on a run..looking very athletic..HA.

5. Also not school related, I had the best sushi of my entire life.  It's called the WWW Roll (already cool), and it is wrapped with cucumber, filled with grilled shrimp, crab, spicy tuna, and avocado! YUM YUM.

As always, thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the weekend!

May Currently

YAY for MAY! SO ready for this Currently and the excitement of only 20 more school days before sweet summertime.

Listening: Maroon 5 on spotify.  Nothing better to wake you up!

Loving: My husband, he is wonderful and I appreciate everything he does for me.

Thinking: When May rolls around it always gets me thinking about how far my sweet kiddos have come! They are so smart and I'm sad (and happy) to see them go on to first grade.

Wanting: SUMMER. You get it.

Needing: to clean!!! My house AND my classroom.

Summer Bucket List: ALASKA.  My mom and stepfather just moved to Alaska and I absolutely must visit this summer, it is one of the most beautiful places on this earth. Anyone been??

Click on the button to join in on the fun with Farley!

Back to Bloggy Business!

After what felt like the longest month of my life I am finally back to blogging!  A little over two weeks ago I was lucky enough to marry the best man in the world and with all of the wedding hoopla blogging had been moved to the back burner.  I went from a Ms. to a Mrs. and let me tell you it has blown my poor sweet kiddos minds.  I think they don't know what to call me half the time so they just look at me haha!!

I won't OVERload you with pictures but I've narrowed it down to my favorite 3 to share:

Well since it is officially/finally May I thought I'd share how excited I am that it is ALMOST summer.  My kids can tell because we are already writing about our summer plans.  The kids drew a self portrait and wrote about their plans for the summer or what they wanted to do over the summer.  Then they cut out the glasses and glued them on over their face.  This is my FAVORITE time of year because their writing has just sky rocketed to a whole new level of wow.  I am so impressed with what these littles are capable of and I don't know why it always surprises me.

Click on the pictures below if you'd like to use this with your kiddos.

April Currently

YIKES. It's April already.  Although I'm pretty sure I'm shocked every time we change to a new month so nothing new.  Linking up with Farley for this month's Currently!!

Listening: Only my favorite show in the world. Walking Dead, sad it's over!!

Loving: HEB salmon burgers! While trying to eat healthy this is something that I actually enjoy cooking and eating! :)

Thinking: (MORE LIKE STRESSING) about my wedding, April 13th. SO CLOSE. Ready for it to just be here already!

Wanting: CHOCOLATE. CHOCOLATE. CHOCOLATE.

Needing: More chocolate, specifically those delicious Reeses Easter eggs...

Advice: GO WITH THE FLOW, and I should really take my own advice this month :)

Thanks for stopping by, click below to join in on the Currently fun!

THE best website for newsletters

Well! Spring Break was a much needed ACTUAL break this year, and it was wonderful.  I stayed out of my classroom for a whole 9 days!  When it was time to crawl out of hibernation and write my newsletter for this week I just knew that I had to share this little gem!

I used to create my newsletters on Word and print them out and send them home every Monday.  This year, ALL of my parents have access to either a computer or ipad/iphone and when I heard about this website I was so excited to save time formatting, printing, and putting the newsletters in the kiddos' folders every week. Plus, now my newsletters are like 23048773 times cuter, AND I can put pictures in them.  I take wayyy too many pictures so it's only fitting. But the best thing is that using this website is EASY and FREE.  It's called Smore!  Here is the link: SMORE

Here is what the home page looks like when you are logged in.

All you do is click on the "Start a new flyer" and you go from there!

It keeps all of your previous flyers saved on your profile, it keeps track of page views and gives you stats for each newsletter.

They add new backgrounds for every holiday/season.  They just added some very cute Easter and Spring backgrounds!

The side bar is really easy to navigate and lets you change backgrounds and fonts, and the Add Content bar let's you add text, a title, links, videos, pictures, audio, an event or a bio.

When you are finished with your lovely creation, click "Done Editing" and your newsletter will be online.  Smore will give you a link for you to email out to your parents! 

Hope this helps save you even a minute in your crazy day!! :)

Five For Friday

FRIDAY? AND SPRING BREAK?
Double win.  I feel like this week went by SO slowly, I am planning to do nothing but sleep in for the next 9 days and couldn't be happier with these boring plans.
Excited to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!!
 Here are my 5 random things from this crazy week!

1.  We are in the middle of our Texas Unit and this week got to do one of my favorite activities!  It's called "Name That Texan".  The students bring in a picture of them as a baby, I post the pictures with a number and then the students try to guess which picture is who!  They get such a laugh out of the pictures and it is funny to see which pictures stump them!!

2. Today was one of two Enrichment Days we have at our school.  The theme for our enrichment day was "Design on a Dime".  We turned trash to treasure by using collected recyclables and trash to create something new!  Here is a picture of the big pile of trash we collected!! Storing that in my room all week was a REAL treat :)  They created robots, tanks, helicopters, mailboxes and so on!  SO fun to see what they were able to create.

3. Read this little gem! My kiddos and I just LOVE Mo Willems.  In a few weeks will create our own Pigeon stories and I cannot wait!!

4. Got this bad boy as an early wedding present and have been making smoothies all week!!

5.  I am really looking forward to a week off.  My wedding is 34 DAYS away. DAYS. So while relaxing and sleeping I suppose I will be also freaking out about every small tiny little detail for the big day!  :)

Hope you had a fabulous week and enjoy the week off fellow Spring Breakers!!