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Oh my goodness you guys! I cannot believe that my Punchie buddies and I have been blogging together for a whole year! The Primary Punchbowl is turning 1! It is so exciting to share our celebration with you. I am so incredibly fortunate to know each and every one of the amazing Punchbowl ladies. They inspire me all the time and I am always in constant awe of the fabulous-ness of their lives! So in honor of our celebration we are giving you cause for celebration as well with TpT stores on sale, a blog hop to gather some freebies, AND a rafflecopter to enter for a chance to win some more goodies! My entire store is on sale for 20% for three days. Enjoy! How do you celebrate exciting things in the classroom? I love to give kiddos a special treat such as line leader for the day or a giant pixi stik or a bag of candy loot. They love just to have happy birthday sung to them by the whole class! It's a policy of the school that we don't do cupcakes or actual parties so acknowledging t...

Hi guys! Has your fall so far been going by in a very busy blur of pumpkin flavored everything and stuff to do? Mine has and it's insane and awesome! I'm so happy to be back today with my #bloggybestie Kristi from Pelicans and Pipsqueaks for Thoughts on Thursday for this month.  We are talking about Fall in the Classroom today! Why? Because, pumpkins of course.  There are so many way to celebrate fall in the classroom. You can do pumpkin things, turkey things, bat things, leaf things, coffee things-ok, maybe not so much that last one. But you get the idea. I wanted to share with you my favorite ways to celebrate this special time of year! I love to read books about all things fall. A few of my faves include:  The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, by Steven Kroll How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara Apples and Pumpkins, by Anne Rockwell From Seed to Pumpkin, by Wendy Pfeffer Scaredy Cat, Splat, by Rob Scotten Pumpkin Hill, by Elizabeth Spurr and my FAVORITE Spookley the ...

Hi guys!! I am having such a fun October so far! Enjoying pumpkin spice and flavored everything. And Hocus Pocus, of course.  And the fact that Trader Joe's has everything you never knew you needed until you saw it there. There is always so much to do this month. We've got homecomings and hay mazes and birthdays and trainings and all sorts of things so tha means, there's pretty much no time for anything else.  So I've also been freezer meal prepping! I made about 12 meals in 4 hours and when I posted the pic I got so many requests for the recipes that I decided to write a post. Here goes! These are the ones I made: (I linked to the original recipes) Crockpot Pizza Creamy ranch chicken and potatoes Chicken Alfredo Lasagna Chicken Alfredo tortellini Pot roast and potatoes Cheeseburger soup Cheese stuffed meatballs and potatoes Bacon wrapped chicken Sausage and peppers - my own recipe Italian chicken Chicken fajitas Honey Dijon pork Pizza Muffins I also precooked ground b...

Hi guys! Just a quick jot this morning to tell you about my Spooky Saturday Sale! Get my October Math Centers on Balancing facts for only $1 today! Join in on this sale by grabbing the image below, putting a product on sale for $1, and using the hashtag #spookysaturdaysale in the description and on social media. Thanks!

Hi guys! Today I wanted to share what I'm doing in my Media Arts class to help them become responsible digital citizens. I have been using Common Sense Media 's online curriculum. Have you heard of this? It's AMAZING. It has everything you would possibly want. They have a dedicated page for educators and you can download the PDFs for free. Um, yes please!!! The lessons are aligned to Common Core ELA standards and the ISTE Technology standards. Every lesson comes with a family tip sheet and a student activity sheet as well as student assessment. They've thought of everything! The kids loved it. They have learned so much about their digital footprint. I'm unbelievably impressed. These kids have been born into the digital world and most of them have had phones and iPads handed to them since before they could talk or walk. But oftentimes they haven't been given any information or instructions about protecting oneself in an online world. We started with Common Sense ...

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...