the tattooed teacher

Wishlist Wednesday: Word Sort Activities!

this week's most wishlisted product are my word sort activities that can be used with any word list!
that means this is half off today! and on sale the rest of the week as well!

you can read about our spelling routine here
so clean out your wishlists!
and I am super excited to have my first spot on Eleventh Ave. (also Groopdealz)
it's so cool!
and I have these hanging in my office, too!

wishlist wednesday: genre posters!

Today starts Wishlist Wednesday with Jen at The Teachers' Cauldron!
Each week we will put our top wish listed item on sale.
I start at the #1 most wish listed then move down the list!

TODAY ONLY both genre poster sets are half off!
Thursday through next Tuesday they will be 20% off!
so even if you miss the deal, you have some more time

Here's some pictures from of my favorite bloggers!

here's my display above-sorry, that's like the darkest picture in the world!

here's how Natalie displayed them in her classroom-like me, Natalie chose just the genres she teaches

Michelle uses them on her focus wall

and Jen used them in a huge Venn on her wall

if you'd like to play along or just shop some more deals, visit Jen's link up!

Monday Made It: easy peasy silhouettes

I'm linking up with Tara for my first Made it Monday of the summer!

These are our silhouettes displayed for Leadership Day. I actually took their profile pictures on the first week of school intending to make these and never got around to it! They are the most precious things ever!

oops! I think I deleted my pictures! ah!

Everyone added I am a Leader to their papers since this was a Leader in Me project, but you could add names or anything else for that matter! We typed all of the roles we play in Microsoft Word and printed them. I had them add a border around each word as well to give them something to cut! Then we colored each one and cut them out, glued around our silhouette, laminated, and wa-la! Next year I will do this earlier and leave them displayed all year long.

Five for Friday (EOY Fun and Slideshow Edition)

Today was work day number one!
I got ~~absolutely nothing~~ so much done!
I found out my teammie and I would be moving classrooms/hallways.
So 2nd grade will have two rooms on one hallway
and the 2 of us will be on another hallway
I must say I'm kinda excited
I've been in my classroom for 5 years and it needs a good purging!
I threw every single thing from my file cabinet away
and
I'm not bring the file cabinet with me!
We both bought binders for filing
and I'm hoping it will help us remember what we already have!

I am the ultimate procrastinator. Tuesday night I was up until 1AM working on our slideshow for Awards Day the next morning! Why or why do I do this every.single.year?

I really didn't think I would get emotional either, but I needed Kleenex just making the damn thing!

It's funny how memories make you miss someone so much

I used Smilebox again this year

and it was the first time I ever bought songs for the slideshow

I usually just use what they have

which is a lot

but I just found the perfect trio!

Started with Here Comes the Sun (Glee version)

then to Bruno Mars Count on Me (obsessed with it now)

and ended with Taylor Swift Never Grow Up (tear jerker, just try and listen to it!)

SMilebox is just so freakin' easy!

I click add song and wa la!

easy to share through email, facebook, blogger, twitter, wherever!

I generate a link and emailed it to parents

I also chose to disallow sharing on facebook

I like having that option since not everyone wants their kid's face on there

And with Smilebox's Teacher Toolbox program, you can get it for a whole year free!

Lots of the designs are free anyhow though

Just my opinion here, they are not paying me to tell you all this

though Smilebox, if you want to just email me!

The Carson Dellosa Lookbook was mailed out this week
Guess who's in there???
She's fake blonde.
She has some tattoos.
She is wearing a strange headband on the back cover.
Yep
ME!
and some amazing other bloggers!
Like
Cheryl from Primary Graffiti
Kristen from Ladybug's Teacher Files
Denise from Sunny Days in Second Grade
Erica from Erica's Ed-Ventures
Erin from Kleinspiration
yea, I know! right?!
I was like the odd new girl among the popular ones!
But guess what?
they are human just like me!
and simply the sweetest!

I was very lucky to be asked to work with CD this year
this was the 2nd year they had teacher bloggers design rooms for them
I won't lie
it's hard to design a whole room in 2 days
including planning and shopping!
But we did it!
Monday the interactive online version will be posted and I'm pumped!
I mean, this is as close to famous as I'll ever be so it is exciting!
My room was also on the email you *hopefully* received about their annual contest!
I'll be sharing more soon!

My babies all finished up school last Friday,
so I was the only person in the house that had to get up before 6AM!
Boo!
But my how they have changed in the past 10 months...

But these crazy boys aren't my only kids!
This right here is why I love my job most every day!
this gorgeous young lady was in my first 2nd grade class
and she "graduated" 6th grade yesterday
so we said goodbye
so sweet
and bittersweet
and that cutie is another one of my babies!
oh! some kids you just never get over
Happy Friday Everybody!

five for friday (last friday of the school year!)

now=super cuteness.

they had to hatch in the boys bathroom at home!

they were sad to see them go!

the doggies probably were too!

always adventure

read more about hatching quail here

later=kinda icky

feathers=icky

these are the quail we hatched 2 years ago.

they now enjoy a life at the local park.

loving the new outdoor classroom

but it looks like a little church with a pulpit and pews!

it was an eagle scout's project

this was ice cream day

I love that boy's face!

this was the second day of our 10 days countdown

that used to be a 26 day ABC countdown

until we

a. got smart

b. or broke

c. or exhausted

d. all of the above

which you can read more about ice cream day here, other days here, here, and more here

3rd grade day, olympics day (on years when there are summer olympics), and so on.

having a new theme keeps me the kids excited and interested into June, which is hard. for me.

we read scholastic news articles, a cool snack each day, and a daily coloring contest which has really kicked it up a notch this year!)

here's the rundown of what themes we do each year:

art day (rice krispy treat paintbrushes, paint canvases, color famous paintings)

dino day (fossil cookies, trading cards, who would win comparing)

beach day (sandy dessert cups, towels, buddy reading, beach boys on the radio)

3rd grade day (multiplication-arrays, EOG practice test)

outdoors day (trail mix, sidewalk chalk, exercising on gonoodle)

ice cream day (ice cream!, ice cream glyph, astronaut ice cream comparing)

game day (last day)

awards and memories day (brunch, slideshow, and candy awards)

sports day (usually field day)

un-birthday day (party planning activity, birthdays around the world mini unit, and eat cake for summer b-days)

sneak peek at my design for carson-dellosa's lookbook!

both boys finished up their regular seasons

we do get two days off before all-star season!

I'll miss it when it's all over

but it's hard to think that way when it's 110 degrees!

I still have 4 more days, but this is the last friday!

So farewell to Kacey's linky for a few

really

this linky is all I post most weeks!

bless y'all who still read this ol blog!

free watercolor desktop wallpaper

Hi y'all!

I'm sharing a little wallpaper I made awhile back today.

A few weeks ago I shared a wallpaper I made for myself.
I like to have my desktop organized
and when I use an organization wallpaper, I am more apt to move stuff around or trash it!