Wednesday, May 9, 2012

It's Been a While...., Currently, Volcanoes, and Some Pack! Giveaway

It's been a while teacher friends and I promise it won't happen again! I have been SUPER BUSY this past month buying a camper and a house! Yes, you read that right a camper and a house! At first it was just the camper and not even one day after we wrote a check for the camper but a house in the perfect location came on the market and we jumped on it! I am still super busy because we are hoping to close on the house June 1st and I am trying to pack up our house we live in now and declutter it so that we can sell it. I've been packing one or two boxes a day and then taking them to my mother's and my mother-in-law's. So much fun, let me just tell you. :)

On to "teacher stuff"......

I have linked up again with Farley at Oh'Boy 4th Grade for this month's Currently. Here is my Currently:
I love the idea of the pageant title. I thought that mine was fitting for both teachers and moms, because let's face it ladies- when it comes to taking care of things we are expected to do it all AND look good while doing it. I know that all of you can handle it though. :)

Every year the 4th graders at my school make a volcano for science and get to bring it to school to erupt it. This year I had lots of great volcanoes that were made of some really unique items. One little girl's dad lays tile for a living, so her volcano was made out of concrete and tile grout. She looked so pitiful carrying that thing down the hallway! Another one made their volcano out of cake! It looked really neat. Here are some pictures of the volcanoes (I couldn't post pictures of all of them erupting because the kids were in them, although I did get a close up of one.)


I have also been working on a Writing and Literacy Pack to go along with E.B. White's classic Charlotte's Web. I had planned on having it ready in April for the 60th anniversary of the book, but as you can see that didn't happen. Then, I planned on having it ready for the big TPT sale, but yet again, I have fallen behind. So, as a way to make up for my tardiness, I am going to give away a pack to the first 3 people to comment on this post, AND I am going to have the pack for 20% off on my TPT store for tomorrow and Friday ONLY. I am really proud of this pack. It is crammed full of writing prompts and graphic organizers that can be used with the book. Go check it out on my TPT store and get your copy while it is on sale!

The clip art in this pack came from MelonHeadz, and can I say that it is amazing? The borders are from JW Illustrations, and I just love them! Her stuff is so cute. :)

I hope you all have a great rest of the week!

9 comments:

  1. Wow, you really have been busy!! Hope everything works out great! Your writing and literacy pack looks awesome! Would love that! I have to post this now in hopes that i'm one of the first three. :)

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  2. How exciting! Good luck to you! I sure hope I'm one of the first 3 to comment. The unit looks great!

    Lori (luvyorkies@gmail.com)
    Teaching With Love and Laughter

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  3. I hope that I am one of the first three...I never win anything and this is adorable!

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  4. Good luck with moving! I just moved into a new house and phew! It's exhausting but so much fun!

    Sara :)
    Smiling In Second Grade

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  5. Thank you!!!! khall312@verizon.net

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  6. Yay!! So excited, got so excited, I forgot to leave my email! stasweet@aol.com
    Thank you so much!! :)

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  7. I got so excited to send it, forgot to put my email, lol. Thanks for reminding me! So excited!!
    stasweet@aol.com

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