Almost time!

Good afternoon everyone!

It's almost time for the first day of school! I am so excited! I have added some updates to my classroom, my lesson plans are ready, and we had our first professional development day today. Sunday is our Meet and Greet. I'm looking forward to meeting all my new kiddos!

Next year I really want to make these valances for my classroom!

I also added my pet GloFish and Tetras! Thanks to my wonderful friend Emily for giving me the tank and Tetras! There is also a little sucker fish in there, but he's dark and hard to see.

The GloFish are named Percy (yellow) and Annabeth (pink. The Tetras are named Harry, Ronald, and Hermoine, and my suckerfish is Dobby. :)

I'll post pictures from our Meet and Greet soon!

Five For Friday: Presenting & Working on New Products

This has been such a busy week!

This week I presented at Camp RTI on our new parish guidebooks for teachers. The Common Core Task Force Committee I'm on created guidebooks that align with our new textbook series, Reading Wonders. 

I've beenvorming very hard on a lot of items that will be sold on my TpT site. Currently I'm working on weekly outlines to go with the Wonders series, a Parent Handbook, and a new Book Study for Who Were the Wright Brothers. I sure hope I get all of this done by the first week of school. I have so much to do. I'm sure you all understand that. A teachers work is never done. lol

I've been working in my classroom some this week as well! I'm done with the decorating part, but I still have the little things to work on in my room. You can see more pics under My Classroom tab. :)

I downloaded these amazing Interactive Notebooks! I am so excited to use these in my classroom!!!! You can find them {HERE}

Last, but definitely not least, today is my hubby's birthday! He's out of town on training for his job, but he'll be back late tonight. I can't wait to see him and celebrate with him!

Five for Friday!

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs again for my Five for Friday. Check out what I've been doing all week! 

I've been working in my new classroom all this week. I'm pretty much finished organizing and decorating. Although, no teacher is ever finished with her classroom. I'm really excited, because I'm trying a whole new look. All the colors are very cohesive. :) I can't wait to show you all the final product!

These are some of my newest T.Shirt designs for my Teacher's Clothing and Goods store. I'm in love with the first one on the left!

These are some of the books I've been using to plan for next year! I am in love with Writing to Texts! The other books are great too, and have really helped me write my own writing prompts the relate back to the novels we'll be studying. Language Arts 4 Today is also great for morning work. I have some other test-prep and grammar sheets I will use as well. :) They make all of these books for each grade level. You can find them on Amazon. 

Here is another sneak peak of my classroom. This is where I will post all of our objectives. I found these at Target and thought they'd be a stellar addition to my room. They were pretty cheap too! :) 

I'm currently reading this novel. It is so great! I can't wait to teach it! I'll be creating a unit for it soon! :) Even if you don't teach 5th grade, this is a great book! It's an easy read since it is on a 5th grad level, but there's so much history and depth inside. 

I LOVE to read your comments, and I always reply! I look forward to hearing from you. :)

Want!

I just found this adorable door hanger! I have two doors to my classroom, and I really want something for both doors. This is just too cute. I've definitely added this to my wish list! 

Check more of her stuff out here: