Five For Friday: Summer Time

Oh how I love Fridays... during the school year... but during the summer it's just a reminder that another full week of summer have come to an end and makes me a little sad if I'm being honest.  That's probably one of the main reasons I haven't joined this link up in quite some time, but today I acknowledge that my summer is half way over and I join once again Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!

I've been working on a huge project for my house over the past week.  I don't want to give it away until it's finished, but I've been getting lots of help from my little girl. She's a DIYer in the making!

I've also enjoyed introducing my sweet little girl to the Disney Princesses this week.  We've watch Cinderella, The Little Mirmaid, and Beauty and the Beast multiple times this week.  I  I started collecting the Disney DVDs in college as they came out of the vault so I would have quite the collection for my kids and it's totally paying off!

So on Wednesday I decided I should at least look at the items in my school that have sat untouched since my last day of PD.  I wanted to organize all of my math vocabulary cards that I bought from Mellissa O'Bryan.

I love them and can't recommend them enough!!!  I had printed on cardstock at my print shop and laminated them and then they sat on my desk for the better part of a school year.  I'm ashamed to say it.  So I'm determined to use them this year in several different ways. First, I'm organizing them by Units (determined by my school district), next I'm labeling them by unit and then alphabetizing them all to create a glossary of math vocabulary for my students in their math journals that will be color coordinated by unit.  It's going to be a task especially when I have an 18 month under my feet all day long.  This was the help she offered me as I was labeling the cards by unit.

Luckily they were already laminated so a little polish remover did the trick!

My sweet husband has already had to go back to work on the principal contract, but he's been working so hard to help around the house when he's home.  He even made this little spread sheet to help keep things picked up and organized. 

 It was inspired from this article.  It really is helping us keep a cleaner more organized home.  Love that guy!

Last but definitely not least, Little Bit and I got to get out of the house for a play date this morning with our friends from church

The girls weren't huge fans of the spraying water, and just wanted to eat their snacks and watch everyone play in the water.  

Five For Friday! I'M BACK!!!!

Wow!  It's been nearly two months since I've written a post on my sweet little blog!  Life has been so crazy and hectic lately!  My husband was named principal of his school last month and that has meant crazier hours for him and more responsibility at home for me!  I also had quite the discussion with myself about what I would be doing next year.  After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to stay at my current school in my current position.  I think it's the right decision for me right now and I'm getting excited about preparing for next year!

Since it is Friday, I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!

Ok, so this is the time of year that I HATE being on a non-traditional calendar!  Everyone else  in my district got our yesterday and so many of my blogger friends are already out as well!  I still have 11 more days with kids and then 4 in-service days after that!!!!!  Not to mention the fact, that my first teacher day back for the 2014-2015 school year is July 28!  That is not what I call a summer!  I'll be counting down until October Intercession starting August first!

This year, my school decided to do showcase nights as an entire school to complete our parent nights (required by the state).  Our Spring showcase was last night.  The theme was Art Infusion: Arkansas History.  Our 4th graders designed murals with hidden Arkansas Symbols.  We have a mural in our downtown area that this idea was inspired from.  We even had the actual artist of the mural come and speak with our students about how he design and paints murals.  He's actually painted several murals in our school hallways.  We worked on the murals all week, and this is how they turned out!  I'm so proud of my kids!!!

I've been on an organizing kick as of late!  Mostly it's been weekend projects, but I do my planning and buying my baskets, shelves, etc during the week.  This is my master closet that is beautiful and organized.  Yes, I have a lot of shoes!

Here is my pantry!

Reoganized glassware!

Up next is my linen closet and my entertainment area.  Here are the before pictures!

I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to organization!  I'm am bound and determined to get my house organized! 

My kids took their 5th and final unit test yesterday.  This unit covered fractions with 10 and 100 in the denominator (adding, subtracting, comparing), decimals, and line plots with fractions.  We've done quite a few projects this unit!  I'm trying really hard to make my classroom full of projects to help my students see how they use math in the real world! 

This post wouldn't be complete without a little update on my sweet baby girl!  She is growing like a weed as evidenced by the fact that she can open all the doors in our house!  She is repeating everything we say (watch your language, daddy!). She loves to read books and play her blocks!  Isn't she so cute?!

I'm going to make a concerted effort to be more present on my blog!  I need some accountability!  If you see it's been a while, email me and make me write!  Have a great weekend!!!!