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I'm so excited that this is Thursday and my friend Kristi from Pelicans and Pipsqueaks and I are launching our monthly link-up of teacher thoughts!  Thoughts on Thursday is a weekly teacher blog link up where we talk about our thoughts on a specific subject. Sometimes we'll talk about classroom stuff, and sometimes we'll talk about life in general. You may even grab a freebie or two along the way ;) It has been a wild month of August and I am beyond ready to get back into the swing of things. So this month - Football!! So it won't come as any surprise, but living in Baton Rouge, I'm a little bit of a Tigers fan. Just a little. No, of course my closet doesn't consist of ALL purple and gold. There is some black. And pink. I may or may not own solid gold shoes with purple laces. I can neither confirm nor deny that when I go shopping I look for shoes and jewelry that match my game day outfits. Yeah, okay. I mean, just look at all this wonderfulness! Who doesn't...

It has been a tough couple of weeks here in Baton Rouge. Since August 12, it has rained every single day. Nothing like we had August 12-13, but the rain comes nevertheless. Friday morning, about 6:30 am this was my courtyard. School was canceled maybe 15 minutes later. Carly and I stayed in. I drank coffee, read some email, thought nothing of the rain. I had forgotten to grab my backpack from the car so I went to go get it.  Then this happened. VERY SHORTLY AFTER. That's my front step. I opened the door and that's what I stepped in.   I turned back on the news and listened more closely. All of the surrounding parishes and school systems had closed. One school system waited until after 7 to cancel and children were on a bus. That bus was overcome by flash flooding and was pushed off the road. Thankfully the children and bus driver were unharmed.  The meteorologist zoomed out the map and it looked like a miniature hurricane had situated itself over southern Louisiana and Mi...

 Oh my goodness you guys!! I am so over the moon about telling you all about our first Louisiana Blogger Meetup!!  I've been known to ramble on, so I'm going to attempt to make this short and sweet and to the point! I didn't get to take a lot of pictures, I was entirely too busy talking and listening to the fabulous bloggers we had with us!  BUT some of the other fantastic teachers there did take some pics! So please make sure you get to hop over and check out their posts.  In addition to reading about our meetup, you'll have a chance to enter to win some sweet swag!  Well, here we go! Thanks to the absolutely fantastic Jasmine from Buzzing with Mrs. McClain some Louisiana bloggers finally got to meet in person! We have been following each other on Social Media and reading blogs for months and sometimes years and it was great to put faces with names.  Everyone had cute sunglasses and name cards at their seats after we signed in. The agenda was perfect and ...

We are having a BLAST learning all about Louisiana. The kiddos are really doing an amazing job with this unit. They love Louisiana!! I wanted to show what our interactive Louisiana Notebooks look like and they came out so adorably perfect that I'm giving this set away!  This is so easy to implement as a mini unit. I just took some blue construction paper and stapled some looseleaf in the middle. Each kiddo got their own booklet and we began! Here are the pics of the whole notebook:  And here is a Vocabulary Freebie as well!! My firsties were so excited to bring their notebooks home and show their families.  {{HERE}} is your FREEBIE!! This interactive notebook is part of my larger We Love Louisiana Unit available in my TpT store.  Happy Teaching!!!