Currently!!!

Good Morning everyone! I am currently linking up with Farley at Oh Boy 4th Grade and completing a currently for this month!

Listening: Last night my mom and my nephew stayed the night with us! When all the cousins get together, the grown-ups are often left thinking "Was this a good idea" they love to get into trouble and do things that they normally wouldn't do. Today's example: playing catch in the living room! They are 2 (my daughter), 3 (my nephew), and 7 (my son) and they love each other, and love to get each other in trouble, lol!

Loving: I live in NC, so when we get snow we MUST buy bread and milk and prepare for the worst, this year the worst was 4 inches. But lost of ice! We southerner, (at least most of us) CANNOT drive in this! There were tons of accidents, we don't have the right equipment for buses, and I have quite a few students that don't even have jackets. It's crazy. So we haven't been to school since Monday. My personal kids and I have LOVED it! 

Thinking: I am always thinking about grad school it seems! I always have something due, and it seems like with school work, family stuff, work stuff, community stuff, and house stuff that I don't have enough time to get them all done the way I do. I'm muddling through it!

Wanting: I have recently opened a TPT store (the link was in my last blog), and I wan to create so much stuff! I see a lot of great clip art that would go with it, but we are currently "saving money" to pay for grad school.  SOOOOOO, I guess we must see if it will play off with the clip art I currently have!

Needing: It's done! No more procrastination, lol

2 Fibs and a lie: 1. I do NEED coffee, I told my husband I was going to give it up for fasting at church and he said NO, I wouldn't be able to live with you, lol.

2. I am NOT into being super fit. I want to be! I always have GREAT intentions, but then they fizzle out. I'm hoping I catch the fever for real this time, lol.

3. I am married to my high school sweetheart, we have been together for 14 years (married for 7 of them!)

I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Check out my TPT store, I added a new product on there! This one deals with equivalent fractions!

Bye Y'all,

Nicole <3

Good evening, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Teaching wise, this has been a rough week. I have a few students that are challenging. It is hard because I had such a wonderful class last year. So I have been doing the naughty thing of comparing, I know, I know bad me! As I said in my last post, I started a Teachers Pay Teachers store recently! Below is the link!

 Southern Love Teachers Pay Teachers Store

I have made several freebies and am working on many other products. As I use them this week, I will take pictures showing how I implement them in my room. I hope everyone has a wonderful Monday! They're mentioning snow here, in North Carolina (the Southeastern part) that means stock up on Bread, Milk and Water!

Bye Y'All!

Nicole <3

I'm Back!

Hello! It has been quite a while! But, I am back and determined to make this successful (it's a goal for this year, lol). Not only am I restarting this, I have also started a Teachers Pay Teachers store!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Southern-Love

I have added a few products and am currently working on a Valentine's Day product based on "Enemy Pie"! I'm excited to unveil the hard work! I am also working on an easy to implement Writing Workshop unit, this may take a little while (I just started it!). I plan to take pictures of anchor charts, add the option for printable anchor charts, adding as many resources as possible, and options! I hope you check back soon!

Bye Y'all,
Nicole

Find of the Day!!

So, since I am at a year round school my back to school shopping and bargain hunting literally begins the day we're out of school! I have been eyeing some storgae containers (there like a 9X12X4) from a favorite teacher supply magazine. Unfortunately I cannot justify to myself (or Mr. S, for that matter!) 6.99 for a storage container! Yes, 6.99!! Today while at Target, I found the same size on clearance for 4.24, too irresistable! I had to buy them, so I bought 6!

Test Prep?

Hello! Long time, no type! This is, of course, the busiest time of the year. In North Carolina (at least in my county) we will begin testing next week and so everything seems to be in an intense worp speed time zone! This always brings up test prep. I often wonder how different schools or districts prep for tests? I have taught at two schools, one of the schools I taught at  had an INTENSE test prep. An hour a day per subject of straight problem solving, working on passages. I tested in three subjects, so our day (for a month before testing) was devoted to test prep. At my new school it is based on the teachers decisions and how they feel test prep needs to be handled. How about your school? How does it work in your district or school?

Currently!!

OK... as stated before, I have NO idea how to do linky's, work on them, link them, create them! Nothing! I attempted to complete Farley's linky for the "Currently"!! I have no idea if I did it correctly, but can I get an A for effort?

I have no idea!

Listening- I have two awesome kids! Louis is 6 and currently in the first grade and Samantha is 2 and she is a little pistol. I love listening to them and hearing all the crazy things that kids like to talk about at home!

Loving- I LOVE TeachersPayTeachers. I have found such wonderful resources and blogs through this amazing site! As soon as I can link up to people (when I figure out how) I will definately be giving some shout outs to some awesome teachers!

Thinking- I have very recently started considering this option, I wasn't too sure for a while about what I wanted to do, and what I wanted to do it in. But I have a serious passion for reading. I love to read, I love to teach reading, and I love to teach about reading. So I'm thinking of starting a Masters in Reading program at the local university, Methodist. I received my undergrad degree there and really loved it!

Wanting- What girl doesn't always want new shoes?!?!? I wear a size 12 (WHOA!! Right?) and shoes are so hard to find in my size! So I feel as if I am always wanting/needing new shoes!

Needing- Currently we are very involved with differnent community organizations between baseball and church, being on the board for our local baseball league, and just plain old work that I feel like I NEVER get enough sleep!

Summer Bucket List- I currently teach at a year round school, which means only 4 weeks of summer vacation. So during the summer my bucket list is never that long, but I really want to have more station ready (you know, printed, cut, laminated, etc.) before school begins for us, which will be July 18th!

If you want to read more Currently's, check out Farley's blog (oh' boy 4th grade) and read some awesome blogs!

http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/

And in some wonderful news, I won a giveaway! I feel as if I should give some background. I never, and I mean never, win anything! I was having pretty bad day (I caught some kids doing the big c.... cheating), I just so happened to check Antonia's blog over at forkin4th and saw that I WON!!! I was so excited! I can't wait to get my email of goodies! If you haven't checked out her blog, you should! It's wonderful.

Bye Y'all!!

Nicole

I have to start this by saying, it has been hard to transition from a blog stalker follower, into a full fledged writer! I wish I would have been a little more "on it" about writing blog posts! But new goals can be made, right? I have TRULY enjoyed this year so far in the fourth grade, it has been such an excellent adjustment from where I was before. I really love my school, team, and students. This year has given me such a boost about the teaching field, my expectations, and the successes of my students. I am looking forward to continuing. I'm so excited now, compared to where I was, I am even going to graduate school. A lot of the happiness I have with teaching comes from stalking the blogs and reading about experiences other teachers have. Also being able to take some of the ideas (okay.... A LOT of the ideas) that have been posted on the different blogs I am reading and adjust them to how I teach!

Please bare with me during this blogging evolution, I have no idea how to participate in linky's! So things like currently, fab five for friday, etc. I am going to try!!! But I'm not sure what to do! Most importantly I'm looking forward to the comrardie I read about between the different bloggers! Welcome and I hope you stay with me :)