Good Friends, Good Food and a Good giveaway, too!

Our sweet buddy Jason! 🙂 Can’t wait to see him take the plunge!!

Hello everyone!

A sweet mentor and friend–Latoshia–came to have lunch with me!
Good old fashioned GIRL TIME!!!

Are you getting ready for school like I’m getting ready for school? I’ve got about two and a half weeks until I’m ‘all the way’ back to school and I’m just trying to get last minute things completed before I go on vacation! 🙂 We haven’t been ANYWHERE all summer really, and it’s been kind of a bummer…so, I am so glad that my old college chum is getting married in Greenville, SC next weekend! It gives Chris and I an opportunity to hang out with all of my old college peeps and just relax! 🙂 Plus…I’ll get to love on all the new babies people have had since the LAST time I visited! God willing…Chris and I will have our own little bundle by the time I visit again! Keep your fingers crossed for us! 🙂 At least its still fun to try! 🙂

This week, I got to hang with a few local friends and I really had a ball! 🙂 I don’t know about you, but I love to try out new local spots to eat. There’s a cute little bistro in my town called the Mad Melon. It is really a house that’s been redone to be a restaurant! The inside was so clean and cute! 🙂 The food was delish too! 🙂 I think I had four glasses of sweet tea–it was THAT good! They serve soups, salads, flatbreads…and WINE! 🙂 Hopefully, I’ll be able to take a few of my teacher peeps over there one Friday after work! They even have live music!! Totally a place that we could hang out and relax! 🙂

We were working off of TWO computers
for this project!!

I met with a different teacher pal of mine, Tammy Wathen–from the Resourceful Apple–this week, to work on long range plans! I’m so glad that we were able to connect over the last year! 🙂 We met at a Kagan training around this time last year…and we’ve been blogging buds ever since! 🙂 She has the sweetest boys ever! 🙂 They were kind enough to share their mom with me for the afternoon as we worked on knocking out the first nine weeks! 🙂 I’ll have to ask her where she gets her deli meat, because I had the best turkey sandwich and lemonade lunch I’d ever had at her house! 🙂 Yum-Oh-La! 🙂 I’ve got to say…nothing improves my practice more than curriculum mapping! It really helps me to see where I need to take the kids! It’s great to do it with other teachers too, because we’re able to tag team ideas off of each other! 🙂 I think our mapping came out pretty great so far. Next week, we’ll be getting together with a third firstie teacher to wrap it up! 🙂 Here’s a picture of the cover and the second week! 🙂

I think that I also mentioned on my facebook page that I’m going to be doing a wishlist sale with a few other blogger buddies of mine! 🙂 What I did was, I looked at the top five wishlisted items in my store and ranked them in order from five to one. I’ll be posting about a different item each day…and having a sale for that one item. 🙂 I was really excited at the top five! 🙂 They are all items that I really spent a lot of time working on…and am really proud of! 🙂 So…if you were planning on picking up something from my store…start checking out what’s on sale every day, starting Wednesday and ending on Sunday! 🙂 A few of my bestest bloggy friends are also having wishlist sales in their stores too! 🙂 So, make sure that you go check them out as well! 🙂

Now, for a giveaway! 🙂

My brand new math assessments pack was actually NUMBER 6 on my wishlist! But, since I blogged about it…40 more people put it on their list!! Sheesh! 🙂 So…I’m going to call this my ‘honorable mention’ giveaway! Two lucky winners will get this set! 🙂

If you need some more information on this pack, click here for a recent post on what it contains! 🙂

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