Two Freebie Sets

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!  My mom is going to probably get me tomorrow, but several of my friends and I were comparing early 80's pictures.  We were supposed to find a picture from 1980 with our mom, but the closest one I could find was 1982.  Since I was cute and it's over 30 years old, here's the picture I showed them :)  If your mom is like mine, she helped you with projects, took you swimming, made your favorite meals, played Nintendo with you (AND sent you to bed while she continued to play), took you shopping for first day of school outfits, banquets, and other special events, and is now the person you send pictures to if you want to make sure something isn't tacky.  Definitely in trouble tomorrow for the picture, but she loves me, so she will forgive me.  Plus, I'm her mini me, so the picture of her is a skinny version of me today.

This weekend has definitely been productive for me, but it has been one of those weekends where there's very little to share.  Last week, I fought allergies every day.  If it had been any other time of year, I probably would have take a day off to rest, but when it's this close to the end of the school year there are meetings almost every afternoon.  Plus, I have to be honest, I am kind of proud of the fact that I've only missed 3 1/3 days this year.  At this point, I should easily be able to make it until Summer Break, right?

Well, to make a long story short, I didn't end up taking a day, but by the time I got to Friday my voice was pretty much gone.  Not to mention, mornings are torture for me when I don't have my allergies under control.  I ended up spending the weekend getting my voice back, sleeping, and creating.

Before I forget, if you are a blogger that follows me feel free to link up on my Fab Friends page.  That way it will be easier for me to find you and for my other blogging friends to find you.

Also, don't forget, if you like these shirts click on the picture and go order one.  It will look great with jeans or shorts this summer and it will help someone give a little baby a home where they will be loved.

Alright, now I have two freebies.  One, I had Friday, but I forgot to post it.  I'm sorry guys because I know you can't use it now for Mother's Day, but it would still be cute for Father's Day or for an end of the year teacher gift.  Below are pictures of the pages.  If you want this set, click on it and grab it.

My other freebie is a set of two conjunction worksheets.  This is one skill that I haven't had a lot of time to cover, so I threw these together tonight.  I figured if I haven't had a chance to use them, then you may also need them.  If you like them, click on the pictures and it will take you to the sheets.

Stay tuned tomorrow!  My 2nd Grade Summer Fun packet is finished.  I have a few friends proofreading it and then I will post pictures and post it to TPT.

Fantabulous Five for Friday

This might just be the best Five for Friday post ever!  I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday.  Click on the picture below to check out other blogs.

#1 Blog
I have held off blogging the last few days because my friend Christi Fultz got on a roll hooking up my blog.  There was no way I was going to do anything to get in her way.  It is incredible!  This is what I pictured back at Christmas, but I wanted to make sure I took baby steps.  I feel like the last year has been the biggest adventure of my life!  I'd pick a favorite part, but every part is a favorite.  You guys will probably be sick of me blogging by Monday because it is just... Fantabulous!!!!

There are a few new little features and things to notice.  First of all, I officially have buttons for everything you can imagine :)  If you have a Twitter account, you can now follow me there.  I also now have a Facebook Fan page :)  Next up, Instagram!

Next, if you look in the bottom right corner, you will see a little arrow.  If you are ever at the bottom of the page and you want to rocket back to the top, click on that button, and off you will go!

Also, I have MUCH smaller, cute Pinterest buttons on all of my pictures and take a look at my signature.  Kind of cool to see my real signature on my page :)  That was a special request and as always, Christi delivered.

Last of all, I have several new pages at the top.  Right now, there isn't anything on them, but it's coming probably by Monday in the next few weeks.  I can't wait to start knocking out my three new pages.

If you want to meet my blog designer, her button is at the bottom of my blog.  I have to say, she truly is incredible and I am so thankful that I picked her to do the designs.  My favorite part is she gives you several questionnaires, a date that she will be working on your blog, and is open to anything you want.

#2 Adoption
I'm sure you are thinking this is about me, but sorry Mom, still not ready for kids.  However, I have a friend who LOVES kids.   Her hubby and her have two little guys and want to adopt from China.  She's started a blog telling you about their adoption adventure and they are officially selling shirts to raise money.  Adopting from overseas can be costly, so every little bit helps.  Here is a picture of the shirts.  If you like it, click on it and it will take you to her blog.  To order a shirt you pay through Paypal and then you need to put in the special instructions the shirt you want, size, and your information.  I ordered the teal shirt yesterday.

#3 Teacher Appreciation Week
Sorry guys, but hate to tell you, my PTO is better than yours.  If your PTO did half of what mine did, I am certain that you guys had a great week.  What I love most about our parents is they don't just give us gift cards or food, but they personalize everything with a bit of Southern charm.  All of our gifts have cute little notes with scalloped borders, our initials, pretty ribbons, and some how are still practical.  Below are pictures of three of our gifts.  My first gift was eaten before I got a picture :)  They did little bags of different types of mint candies for us.  Yesterday, our gift was a luncheon complete with sweet tea and homemade banana pudding.  Oh, and breakfast was Panera cinnamon crunch bagels.  They had my heart at the word Panera!

#4 Rug 
My rug for my craft room came in on Monday.  It looks perfect in here.  Now for a couch, a small t.v. (for the hubby), and my wall art stuff and my room will be complete!

#5 DONUTS
These need zero explanation!!!!  Should be a good weekend of creating with these close by.

I'll be back tomorrow hopefully with a new packet and a freebie.
Hope you have a Fantabulous night!

New Packet and a Day in My Life

I hope everyone has gotten a good start on filling their shopping buggies for the TPT sale.  Seriously, I've got to narrow down my list.  Right now, I think if you spread out all the pages from the packets I want, plus all of the clip art I want it would probably stretch all the way to Texas.  You know the sad part?  I am really not exaggerating.

Anyway, since we are talking about the sale, I have to share pictures of my newest packet.  It is my favorite packet I've ever created.  I've created a lot of packets, but this one is my heart.  Every summer I like to give my kids a packet to do over the summer.  My deal with them is if they complete it and bring it back to me, I will buy them an ice cream.  We work so hard during the school year, so I definitely don't want to torture them during their off time, but I don't want them to lose what we have worked on either.  So, I created a packet that gives students three front and back worksheets for each week of their summer vacation.  My favorite part is it is a variety of all the standards.  I'm also planning to use this template to create homework and morning work packets for next school year.

Here are a few pictures of the packet and in case you still aren't 100% sure this is what you want, then click on any of the pictures and it will take you to my TPT store where you can download the preview.  I only included pictures for week two since week one is in my preview and all of the weeks are formatted in the same way.  This packet includes 10 weeks worth of summer review.

In other news, my friend Jessica at Second Grade Nest started a cute, little linky party.  The thing I like about this one is she calls it the "Getting to Know You" link up.  The link up this week is a "Day in the Life of..."  I took my pictures Saturday, but there has been so much to share lately that I put it on hold until today.

6:15 - My computer is already running and I'm working on blogging, pinning, etc.  Slept so much Friday night, I was ready to go Saturday.

10:00 - Breakfast at the computer.  The hubby made us Sister Schubert sausage rolls.  YUM!!!  As you can tell, I'm going through a green apple soda phase.  The hubby want touch them, but I heart these drinks!  Good thing is they are difficult to find, so I don't drink them often.

12:00 - Does this look familiar?  I'm really working on making samples to go with my writing packets.  I know I don't like buying writing packets with crafts unless there is a visual somewhere, so time to cut and put a sample together.

2:45 - Happy birthday to two of my four nieces!  The birthday was supposed to be outside, but we got TONS of rain, so it was moved to McD's.  It's hard to believe how fast they are growing.

3:45 - Happy birthday to me!!!!  Yeah, maybe not.  My birthday was in March.  Either way, I have been dying to get a new stylus so I can work on making some of my own clip art this summer.  Don't worry my clip art friends.  I only want to make it for when I don't have time to wait.

That's all on pictures, but after that things got crazy with the summer packet.  I don't think I left my desk for 8 hours straight.  If you want to go learn about some more of my favorite bloggers, click on the button below.  It will take you to Jessica's blog which by the way, was designed by the friend that is designing mine.  Have to tell you guys, Christi (The blog designer) is the real deal!  I am so impressed by her!  Mine is almost finished and it looks fantabulous.  Prepare yourselves because there is NO WAY you won't be shocked.   I can't wait to get to share it with you.

Have a great day tomorrow!

Happy Monday

Wow!  It's been awhile since I've blogged this many days in a row.  It might be a record for a week where I'm in the midst of May Madness.  Yes, I know.  It's technically March Madness, but if you've ever been in a first grade classroom or elementary school in general, you know that it should be May Madness.

First up, I have a friend doing a Fabulous Feedback linky.  I couldn't pass this up because it's a chance for us to recognize our TPT Feedback that has meant the most to us.  To top it off, if you are one of the people that left incredible feedback and you read my blog, let me know on my Ask a Question section on TPT and I will let you choose one thing from my store for free.  There are so many sweet comments, so I scrolled through and picked five.  I will definitely be doing this again :)  If you want to go check out the linky, click on the Bunting, Books, and Bainbridge button.  It will take you there.

Spring Printables

St. Patrick's Day Printables

Spring Printables

Fairy Tales Bundle

Spring Printables

I'm also part of Melissa's 1000 follower giveaway.  She has some incredible stuff available for all grade levels, so click on the blog button below to check it out.

Oh, and last but not least, I have two more freebies to share.  My kids understand true/false questions when it is 4+3=8 or 5+5=10, but they are struggling with 3+3 = 5+2 type of problems.  Anyway, I haven't seen anything out there to help with this, so I created a few printables.  Feel free to grab them.

Have a great day!

Overload of Information

I hope you guys are ready for a slam packed week of blog posts :)  The online world seems to be kicking into a new gear this week.  Can I tell you something kind of funny?  There are so many freebies, giveaways, sales, link ups, etc. going on I had to get a sheet of paper and decide what I would mention each day.  You know that section of the newspaper with all the coupons and sales?  Well, I think this week my blog may be similar to that section of the paper.  If you are a teacher, you are going to LOVE it!  If you are like my hubby, you will read the top and the bottom and skip the "teachery" stuff in the middle.

Oh, by the way, before I forget, I have to show you what I got to paint this morning.  It was so much fun.  I was on stage painting and it looked like I was painting with white on a white canvas.  You couldn't see anything.  Then, the song finishes and "Bam!"  black lights kicked on and you have this.  The picture was better in person, but this will give you an idea.  I also painted a ton of shirts with black light paint.  By the way, when you go to sit back down, it's a good idea to remember when you are carrying around wet paint.  The thing I had paint on was glowing, so I threw my iPad on top to cover it up.  Yep.  The next trip to the skating rink should be pretty interesting.  I went to the restroom and washed it off, but there is no way I got it all.

While we are talking about paint, I have to admit I am the world's worst at wearing flip flops and not thinking to check my toenails to make sure that the paint hasn't chipped.  So, one day this week I got to school and discovered I had 5 of my tiny toes missing a good deal of paint.  If this ever happens to you, look through your Sharpie collection.  Even now you can't tell which toes have bright pink Sharpie and which ones were painted with polish.  

Okay, those are my goofy stories for the day.  Now I have a few things to share.  First up is my newest set of freebies.  My kids can subtract, but they are having just a little bit of trouble with 2-digit subtraction.  I made three worksheets to practice.  Here's the catch.  You have to go to my FB page to download them.  You can click on my 1st Grade Fantabulous at the top of this page or you can click below this paragraph or any of the freebie pages and it will take you there.

Now, here's the surprise I promised.  The TPT sale starts on Tuesday.  I'm working hard at getting a few new products up by then.  My good friend Beth made this incredible blog button for all of us.  Clicking on it will take you straight to my store.  If you need some cute clip art then you can click on the Zip-a-dee-doo-dah button to check her out.  I'm also linking up with a few friends.  Below are buttons for their stores.  You will definitely want to see what they have cooked up for you.

Stay tuned!  I will hopefully have my Top 10 Mother's Day Ideas post later :)