Sunday, June 30, 2013

Mentor Texts for the First Day of School!

Happy Sunday Everyone! I am liking up with the fabulous Collaboration Cuties for the Mentor Text linky all about what books to use for the first day of school! 
One of my all time favorite books is the Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn. I think it is the perfect book to use for the first day of school! 


Every child can relate to being nervous on the first day of school! This book is about a little raccoon named Chester. Chester does not want to go to school because he wants to stay home and play with his momma. His mom comforts him and tells him sometimes we have to do things we dont want to do. She tells him that even if it is scary at first he will learn to love school. Before he goes to school Chester's Mom takes Chester's hand and gives him a kiss on his paw. She then tells him that whenever he needs some love from home that all he needs to do is press his hand to his cheek and he will feel his moms love (WAAA so cute)!! Great for making the kids feel like they are not alone in being nervous the first day. Here is a little freebie I made that you can use with your kiddos! It will be part of my upcoming mini unit with the book! 

 How Chester and Students feel at the Beginning and End of their first school day!
You can grab it

-Julia

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Currently July Addition!!

Hope yall are having a great weekend! We had a crab boil tonight (YUM!!) to celebrate us leaving! It was so fun and so tasty! (but seriously how tedious is picking out the crab meat!! ha) 

Can you believe it ALREADY JULY!!! nuts...

Link up with oh boy 4th grade and join in on the fun! I love reading everyone's currentlys! 

LISTENING: To Julie and Julia. Its basically all thats on TV right now on this jammin Saturday night. I am so exhausted though I dont even feel bad about being so lame.

LOVING: Spening so much time with my little one. I just appreciate it so much and am so excited I get this time with him. Hubs taught him how to knuckle bump and he goes around to everyone and knuckle bumps them. Today on our morning walk an elderly couple came up to us so our dogs could sniff each other and my son held out his fist to fist bumb the couple haha thankfully they knew what that was (I was a little worried they were much older) and Connor got his fist bump...oh man

THINKING: I cant wait to make some recipes out of the new cookbook I got. I got the Pioneer Woman's cookbook. Its simple recipes but very comforting :) I am excited to try lots of them!

WANTING: To hopefully get to the Atlanta Blogging get together on July 20th!!

NEEDING: It to be the 4th of July!! The forth is my absolute FAVORITE holiday. I think its all the patriotism, USA, fire works, and BBQs ...just everything about it. Happy Birthday America =)

TIPS: Dont Stress...Its summer :)

 

Friday, June 28, 2013

5 for Friday {June 28th}

Happy Friday everyone! Linking up with Doodle Bugs of course! Hope everyone had a great week! 


ONE

Hubs, Connor and I headed down to the beach for the beginning of the week to get a little bit of relaxing in before the move this weekend! It was really fun and we got to stay with one of my husbands West Point classmates who we probably wont see again for a while since he is moving to Oklahoma! It was great to spend time with his family! 

Jumpin The Waves! 

Drip Castle Building!!

TWO

My very best friend in the world got her first teaching job yesterday!! I am so beyond excited for her and cant wait to see all she does this year!! It is a title 1 school and I just know she will be so great with her new kindergarteners! To celebrate I made her a planning book! You can make your own using The Teacher Wife's editable templates!

I made my friend in Purple since its her favorite color! There are 4 different styles! 

THREE

If you havnt been following Ashley Hughs all week on her blog the School Supply Addict you should start!! There has been so many fabulous freebies and prizes this week for her 4000 follower celebration! Today she has this as a freebie!! Such a score SO CUTE :)


FOUR

I am still very excited about the pack I just put up in my shop! Its all Lemonade Themed and perfect for summer!! It includes both literacy and math printables and a super cute craftivity! Check it out and let me know what you think!





FIVE

Remember Google Reader will be no more after next week!! Follow my blog on Bloglovin to keep in touch :) Click the button on the Left to Follow me! 
 
Have a great weekend!! I will be sweating my bum off moving all our stuff to our grandparents lake house in Alabama because military housing wont let us in our house yet on base in Georgia...typical (whats moving our stuff twice anyways...)

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Bloglovin

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Friday, June 21, 2013

5 for Friday + a new summer activity pack!

So I was about to start writing a post all about the new pack I finally just finished and then I saw on my news feed all my blogging friends posting for 5 for Friday. DUH it is Friday! So here is my 5 for Friday including my news on my new pack that I am excited about :)
 
 
ONE

NEW PACK! YAY!
The ever so talented Krista Wallden the master behind Creative Clips posted a Lemonade clip art pack and I just had to create something! So here it is!! You can check it out in my shop HERE

 It includes a really cute Craftivity! I am planning on having my students make them and put their names in the middle and adding them with one of the writing pieces they do in the Pack!
 Lots of Literacy Activities!
 And math!! Word problems, adding/subtracting, clocks, money!
 Hope you like it!!

TWO
Pool time!! My son is really enjoying the weather we are having!


 THREE

Our sweet Mamo passed away this week. She was 96! She was my husband's great grandmother so my sons great great grandmother. What an amazing life!



 FOUR

Love spending the summer days with my little man :)

 I told him to smile ha this is what I got...close enough

 FIVE

Looks like we are heading to Ft. Campbell KY after we are in Georgia. Got Sean this cake to celebrate!