November Currently... My poor blog!!

Its that time again... and for me its been a LONG LONG time since I have been on my blog!!! Wow I feel so sad for those of you that follow my blog... Not that you have missed me all that much!!! However I am back for now!!! It has been a rough few months with a new school, new teaching position and then moving into our new apartment!!! Seriously are we CRAZY?!?!?! So here is my currently, link up with Farley and check out all the other loverly teachers out there and see what their Novembers look like! 

Listening: Magic School Bus!!! Yep that's right! Be jealous!!! Amazon had an amazing deal about a month ago for the entire 52 episodes for about $20!!! So I was pleased beyond compare when my 3 1/2 year old wanted to start watching them and loves them!!! Not only is he learning from them but to him they seem like funny cartoons that he likes to watch. I had originally bought them to use in class, but double duty!!!

Loving: We moved in about two months ago now and are finally getting settled into it and have made it our home. It was a rushed decision but it was what we needed to do for our little family! We are working hard to make the transition as easy and fun for our 3 year old.. He loves it that he has "two" houses! I am also a Thirty-One consultant and am loving the new opportunities that I am being presented with! At the end of last school year I wasn't sure when I resigned with a month left of school if I was going to get picked up by anyone during the summer... I had looked for almost two years before I was hired by my old district... Then things just didn't work out and they didn't feel right so I resigned... Well like I said I wasn't sure if I would find a job so I needed to make sure that I had SOME money coming in so I signed up to be a Thirty-One consultant and have been doing well... I am not as hard core since school started but I now use it for extra spending money... I love how the company is faith based and you can go at your own pace and make as little or as much money as you need! So one thing on my list is to mail out mini catalogs this weekend/early next week!

Thinking: Well this past week was not a good week for me... it was a rough week at school and I have a lot of things to prepare for other teachers... I am the only Special Education teacher on my campus and I currently service 20 students from 2nd - 5th grade... My schedule has changed 100 times and is something that I will be working on when I finish this!!! I keep getting new transfer students and newly qualified students and of course some of the teachers don't want to deal with my students so they are saying that they need more help differentiating for their students... That my students are taking up too much of their time that they can't focus on the students that they know have a chance of passing the STAAR! Really teachers!!!!! This just makes me angry, I understand that its a lot of work when you have other students but I'm doing more than the previous person did and I gave you all sorts of ideas and have told you that if you need help come to me and I will help you... but don't tell me that I'm not helping you enough when every time I ask if you need help or want me to pull your students for extra support when I have a free second and you tell me NO! Ok Rant Over!!!

Wanting: Yes I need a Printer!!!! Not only do I not have a Special Ed printer at school I also don't have any type of printer at home!!! No bueno!!!! So if you have any suggestions for a nice color printer that doesn't cost an arm and a leg or take up a lot of space I would appreciate the input!

Needing: I was doing really good at the end of last school year with working out... I went down an entire pant size!!! I put it all back on from the summer and the beginning of the school year!!! With my crazy new schedule and having to drive 45 minutes to my school and then back home... Its just been one thing after another and I need to stop making excuses for not working out!!! So NO MORE!!!! I will start working out and get back into a better shape and back to skinny!!!! That is my goal to end the year at least two sizes smaller than I am right now!!! Not impossible at all!!!

Yummy Pin: Caramel appletini cupcake

Recipe

Thanks for stopping by... My goal is to post at least once a week... Accountability partner where are you!?!?!?

Currently!!!

O.M.G... I can't believe that it's already JuNe!!!! That means sooo much in this house!!!! So I am linking up with Farley over at her blog for her monthly Currently!!! I have been MIA from my blog with the end of school and all that has been happening in my life at school!!! I am hoping this summer to be a better blogger, even though I won't have school to write about exactly... I'm sure I can find something to write about!!! I am also wanting to create a few products this summer!!!! Wish me luck!!

Listening: My son is sitting on the floor driving his trains around the blanket saying "I think I can..." over and over again! He is really intro Thomas the Train. I am very excited that I get to spend a lot more time with him now that its summer time!!!

Loving: This school year is OVER!!!!! To say the least it has been the longest, hardest year from HELL for me!!! Not only was my class very difficult, but my admin didn't like me from the first day I stepped foot on their campus! Not sure how I made her not like me before she even knew me but somehow I did it!!! So of course she made my year very difficult and almost made me want to not be a teacher anymore!!! Seriously! I was thinking what else could I do with a teaching degree because this is NOT for me!!! But then I realized that I was a good teacher and my kids loved me and I was doing what I loved and to hell with her!!! 

Thinking: I HATE the unknown!!! Since I resigned from my job I have been called for two interviews, I felt very confident for the first one and was planning on getting that job... well a week went by and NO news... NOTHING!!!! So I came home and I had a message from a different school in the same district for an interview!!! I called back on Friday and the Principal wasn't on campus... she was the one who called me the day before wondering if I was interested in an interview!!! 

Wanting: This one sort of goes with the above statement!! I want to know where I will be working next school year!!! I am also wanting to be finished with my Masters degree!!! My school is starting to make me angry!! They keep changing around advisors and classes!!! So instead of being finished THIS December I am looking more like NEXT AUGUST!!! Oh yeah I also have to finish packing up everything in my room on Monday!!! Geez I feel like I just did this... Oh wait I did!!!!

Needing: My classes start on the 10th and I need to go up to school and buy my books... Not sure exactly which books I am needed because they keep changing the stuff online! I also need to email one of the schools that works with children with Autism during the summer to "get a kid" to study and work with this summer for one of my projects!!! Super excited about that!!!

3 Vacay essentials: Electronics: phone, iPad, computer... I think that all counts as ONE item... RIGHT?!?!?!?! Well in my house they DO!! Haha, I need my phone for games, movies and whatnot.. my son needs my iPad for his games and movies, I also have my kindle books on my iPad so it is also my "books", and of course I need my computer for when all other electronics are dead. Then I need sunscreen otherwise I BURN!!!! My son also got my fair skin, we both tan easily however if we don't wear sunscreen we burn burn burn!!!! OUCH!!!! And last but not least... My Thirty-One bags!!! Since I started to sell these I am OBSESSED!!!!  I have always had a few Thirty-One bags but now I keep looking at the magazine thinking about how I can use EVERYTHING!!!! I am so excited about what this company has to offer for their Independent Consultants!!! 

Currently!! Oh WoW its already MAY!!!

Wow I can't believe that it is already May!!! In my student's mind it's MY MONTH!!! Haha got to love the mind of a 2nd grader!!! I am also loving that there are only 21 days left for me!!
So on that note I am linking up with Farley for her monthly Currently!! I get excited about the beginning of each month to link up and find others blogs through this link!

Listening: Yes I know I know... But it is one of my guilty pleasures!! I find them entertaining and sometimes I feel so sorry for them because of what they are having to go through, it also makes me happy that I waited until I was a little bit older to have my son, and I am so happy that he is a relatively healthy boy!

Loving: YEP I took the day OFF!!!! My son does have an ENT appointment today to look at his ears again and to see if we need to remove his tonsils however the appointment isn't until 4. SO I am enjoying the quiet time at home... We slept in, ate a little breakfast at home, started a load of laundry, then I took him to his school, and decided to get my nails manicured and finally went and got a Venti Starbucks!!! 

Thinking: I can't believe that there are only 21 days left in the school year!!! I keep looking at my calendar and thinking wow there are only a few more pages to turn in my planner and we are DONE!!!! I am also thinking wow there are only 21 more days of me having a Teaching job!!! Let me just say that this has been the WORST year in the three years that I have been teaching... I will post about that tomorrow! But I am now needing to find another job!

Wanting: YES I was planning on finishing my Masters degree this December... However they decided that they weren't going to follow the schedule that they had planned out when I met with my advisor, so now I can't graduate until MAYBE next Summer!!! GRRRRR!! Oh well! At least I am almost finished, and I'm choosing to look at is as I get to slow down... I had a day where I was on my way home and I hit every single light Yellow... I am all about signs and I took it as a sign to SLOW DOWN... A lot has happened really quickly in my life here lately and I have been super stressed, so I took those yellow lights as a true signal to slow down and take things one day at a time and that things will happen when they are suppose to!

Needing: YEP I am an elementary teacher but I HATE grading!!!! I put it off until the last minute, however I am trying to get better about it! So I'm sure that I will get around to them this weekend. 

Summer Bucket List: 1: Read for enjoyment: I haven't read a book in I don't know how long... All of the books I have been reading have been for school and I haven't had a chance to read for pleasure, so this summer I am hoping to enjoy a little me time and read a few books! 2: SEA WORLD: I am looking forward to taking my son to Sea World a lot this summer! We get free passes as teachers and we used it a lot last year and this year he is older and LOVES the shows and to swim!! Just great family time spent doing fun activities! 3: Find a new JOB: Yes that is pretty much self explanitory. I think I have applied for every district even close to where I live. My husband even told me to branch out a little further than I was willing to go because we could just move to where I found a job, that he could pick up horses wherever we were at! I love that man!!! So if you are reading this please pray for me that I can find a new job!! I am switching back to Special ED so I am hoping that will help me out!

OK well there is my Currently! If you want to link up follow the link above over to Farley's blog and remember the rule of 3! The rule of 3 is that you look at the two blogs before yours and check back and look at the blog behind yours!!! 

Happy Blogging and Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Currently & My next attempts...

I am linking up with Farley for her Currently... Yes I know it's the 5th of the month... It has been a CRAZZZZZYYYYYY week so far!! I can't believe that it is already April! That means for our school we only have one more month of school... 39 days to be exact!!!

Well here you go... Hope you enjoy!

* Listening: Yes I am still at school on a Friday at 4:30, I need to get everything I can prepped and ready to go for next week so that I can feel some sort of accomplishments... I am also going over to a friends house for dinner tonight with my 3 yr. old son and I don't want to take a lot of work home with me this weekend! 

*Loving: I am seriously happy that I made it to Friday... Not sure what was wrong with me this week but it was an off week and I was about ready to quite multiple times during the days... My kids were off, I was off, it was just an off week! I don't know about y'all but these kids are different than ones that I am use to working with! I know coming from special education the students are different but I mean in general the students are different. My class is just different!

*Thinking: I can't believe that we only have 39 more days left in school! That number is CRAY-CRAY if you ask me!!! I seriously feel like the year just started! I am nevrvous and anxious at the same time... Did I teach them everything that I needed to get in... Did I teach them correctly... Are they going to remember it all in 3rd grade?!?! YIKES!!! 

*Wanting: I don't know about y'all but I wouldn't have any luck if it weren't for bad luck... Seriously I don't think anything "good" has happened to me in... 3 years... When my son was born... Seriously I feel like I am always putting out fires or dealing with the let down of this or that... I just want things to go my way for once... Not asking fro a lot... Just once!!! We put in an offer on the land we want, next day it gets pulled from the market; guy changed his mind... Start working out: Gain weight back! WTH REALLY... REALLY!!!! GRRRRRRR x1000000

*Needing: I feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything that I need to get done accomplished... I am actually looking forward to our calendar for next year because twice a month we have early release days for the kids so that we can actually have time to PLAN! We are going to be using those days for PLC's with other campuses and actually having time to work together as a team to prep for our new units! We are also switching around our curriculum from 9 weeks scope and sequence to 6 week grading periods with 3 week units! I am a little nervous but excited at the same time! We have seen the samples and they look GOOD!!!!

*Advice: My favorite Dr. Seuss quote! I think it is very true and we all need to remember it when we are having an off day (or week in my case)!

Now on to my Next attempts: I am going to a start working on a new TPT *thing*. I wouldn't really call it a unit because I am going to make different 2nd Grade High frequency word cards for your word wall. I will be creating them with different themes. I am also going to try to create some content word wall cards using the same themes. I have an Ocean theme in my room so the first attempt will be to use the words with an Ocean theme. I am hoping that these are things that people will find useful for their classrooms. I know that my handwriting is not always stellar so me writing their High Frequency words sometimes makes it harder for them to read... SO I thought why not print them up and cut them out so that I have them for years to come!!! I might then attempt to create 1st grade HF words!

With that being said if you would please let me know what other themes you would be interested in seeing I will work on finding what I need and creating them!

Hopefully I can have them up and running before school is over! However it's not like the words are going to change in the next few weeks so they should be fine to use next year as well... Of course if they change I would update the packet *Packet* that's the word I was looking for... Blah (ADD Brain). 

Currently and What I bought on Sunday!!!

First off I am linking up with Farley over at Oh Boy 4th Grade! for the February Currently. Let me just say that the fact that I haven't done a Currently in easily 4 months is insane!! I can't believe that I've neglected my blog for that long! I still can't believe how so many of y'all blog almost daily PLUS create items for TPT and teach!! I'm slowly getting the hang of blogging and teaching... I guess one thing at a time! I am trying harder to be a better blogger...

Most of my Currently is self explanatory... My pet peeves are pretty much that... smacking bugs the heck out of me!!! I want to go over and say something to whomever is doing it!!! Instead I just stare... Rudeness goes to a few of the other teachers that are getting their Masters degree with me, they come off as rude and arrogant thinking that I don't know what I'm talking about because I'm young in their eyes... Fakeness: people pretending to have more than what they actually do and/or trying to make you feel bad for what you actually have earned and worked hard towards!

Thats the first part of my blog! Now on to the extra fun stuff!!! My purchases from the SUPER sale on Sunday!!!! 

So for this I am linking up with Blog Hoppin' to show you what I spent my money on from Sunday's big sale!!! Let me tell you I think I actually bought things at three different times because I couldn't stop!!! 

Dragon's Den: Its Time for Guided Reading... Now what?

Reagan Tunstall: Daily Math Complete Set

Lory Evans: May Math Stations

Lory Evans: Daily Math Term 1

Lory Evans: April Math Stations

Reagan Tunstall: Edit with Eddie

Everyday February Math Journal Prompts

Laundry Day sentence types and endmarks

So here are my purchases I hope that I you can find some use of the things that I bought!! Let me tell you I am looking forward to using them in my classroom!

August Currently (already... YIKES!!!)

Well its that time again!! The start of a new month means a New Currently from Farley over at Oh boy 4th Grade!!!

My B2S stuff: 1: Organizational items: I have bought two sterilite drawers from Walmart 

I bought one that was this color and another that was a hot pink color!! this is where I will store my guided reading group stuff!

I also found one very similar to this one that was on sale for only $30!!! I will store all my papers and copies for the week in here!! Since I won't have a teacher desk I am trying to find as many cute storage things as possible!!!

I also bought the toolbox from Lowe's to make my teacher toolbox that everyone seems to be doing this year! I just bought all the scrapbook paper today from Hobby Lobby so I will have to take pictures of everything that I have been getting for my classroom!!!

Also on my B2S stuff was my Erin Condren Life Planner!! This has been such a life saver for me this summer keeping track of everything that I need to do and all the different places that I have to be!! If you don't have one or are debating on getting one I would Highly Suggest Going over there and checking them out!!!

And of course NEW CLOTHES!!!! 

I will post tomorrow some pictures from my room and then a small haul of things that I have been collecting through out the summer for my classroom!!! 

July Currently

WOW Its already JULY!!! My birthday has come and gone (July 4th) and I am starting off my 26th year great! I haven't really had a summer break I am in two grad school classes and they are going to finish next wednesday and then I start my third grad class the next day for the last four weeks of my summer vacation!! Then when I finish that class I officially have a three day summer vacation!!! The following Monday we start our Workshops for two weeks before the kids start back with us!! 

Well here is my July currently!! For the Reads I wasn't sure what to put because this will be my first year in a Gen Ed. classroom, I have taught special ed for the past two years and didn't really have a go to read aloud book. The one that I really wanted to list on here I couldn't remember the title and I couldn't find it in my mountain of boxes that are stacked in my library at home! The 2nd book is what I am currently reading right now to get ready for guided reading in my classroom! My principal is very big on the Daily 5, so a fellow teacher let me borrow her two Daily 5 books! I am currently reading the CAFE Menu book and am getting more and more questions as I go along and getting more nervous/excited about using it this coming up year!! Do any of y'all use the Daily 5? What are some suggestions that you have about using it or using the documents?  

Any way link up with Farley over at Oh Boy 4th Grade!!

May Currently

This is the first time that I have linked up with anything! It was a lot of fun filling out the form. The last one was a little hard for me so I did the best I could... Totally don't know if that's even right. I got the idea from Erin over at Creating & Teaching, so I thought I'd play along!

If you want to play along too go and get your May Currently from Hadar!