Sunday Scoop - September 27th

Before I begin... Happy birthday to my sister-in-law Autumn! <3 Here's a throw back picture to celebrate: (hopefully she doesn't read my blog a lot or she'd kill me for this...)

LOOK AT DA BABY FACES!

I was probably 21 ish in this picture which would make her a teeny tiny 15 ish. :P

Now onto The Sunday Scoop!

As mentioned in my last Sunday Scoop post, my Kindergarten Wonders packs are all bundled together with the exception of a couple of missing units. Unit 4 is up next to add and I promised it would be done by the end of September. I still have a few days left to keep my timeline going... but let's be real here... not a lot gets done after school in my exhausted state (am I right, teachers?), so I'm going to try to finish up today. NO... I HAVE to finish up today. One less thing to worry about this week! Other than that, the gym and the seriously never-ending laundry pile are on my to-do list today.

 Unit 4 INCOMING!!!

My best friend was feeling under the weather this week and she texted me yesterday that she got all her homework done (my friends get really big degrees and stuff... I'll stay over here and play with the 7-year-olds for now). I'm hoping I get everything I need to do DONE so she can come over and we can have some friend time. I'm missing the summer days! But in the mean time, I'll be working on lesson plans for the week and binge watch Gilmore Girls at the same time. Anyone else do that?

Speaking of lesson plans, I'm excited to plan for the Wednesday Science Day!!! I don't know about your school/county, but in our district on Early Release Days, we do Science ALL DAY LONG. The kids love it, I love it, and it gives us the time necessary to really delve deep into hands-on experiments that we don't normally have the time for. We are working on the human body right now and I have a lot of ideas colliding in my brain. Can't wait till Wednesday!!! 

I also have a Human Body Unit in the works to post to TpT and will be finalizing it in the coming weeks to share. I am loving the results so far and I think you will, too.

Have a fabulous Sunday, everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

What's the Scoop?

Yesterday FLEW by, ya'll. Don't you hate when your weekend days just fly by like they didn't happen?? Phew! Another busy week ahead and I'm telling ya, I just want to lay around today. Can't do it though! I have a LOT to do and here's the scoop:

BUSY BUSY BUSY!!

I am not happy that I have another week of soft/liquid foods after this oral surgery. Two weeks!!! That's just too long! On the bright side, I've lost 4 pounds... But I really need to blend up my lunches for the next couple of days. My Ninja blender is too loud to do in the morning.

I REALLY hope I have the time today to work on a couple of projects for my TpT store, one possibly being a freebie (more on that later...)! If you haven't seen, my Kindergarten Reading Wonders packs are now bundled together. They are quickly becoming some of my best selling packs on TpT and I'm so excited to get them finished. I bundled them together before I have completed Unit 4. The good news is that the bundle is a growing bundle, meaning it's cheaper right now than it will be when it is fully completed. I really would like to finish up Unit 4 today (probably won't happen but if I work SUPER hard, maybe...) and add it. So if you are on the fence about purchasing the bundle, NOW is the time before the price goes up. If you purchase it before Unit 4 is added, don't worry, you will get the updated product free of charge when the unit is added. This goes for Unit 10 as well which will be posted in February.

Click the image below to check it out now. It has all the links to the products included which are individually $20.

I also really hope I can get some reading in today! I am reading Ken Follett's World Without End at the moment and it is soooooo good. It is the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth which was AMAZING. 

These books have been out for a while, but I just recently discovered them. He also has written a newer series which I can't wait to get my hands on. Have you read these books? I LOVE them! 

Have a great Sunday everyone!

Back in the Swing of Things

Well, we are a few weeks into school where I am (Central Florida) and boy, am I tired! I saw a hilariously true thread of comments on a post somewhere about "You know you're a teacher when..." and they were all related to back to school. For real, though, you know you're a teacher when you wish bed time was 6pm (and sometimes it really is...).

I'm pretty sure everyone is back to school now, being it's after Labor Day. When did you start school this year? We started August 17th!

But let's get to it: the back to school CURRENTLY!

Had a dental procedure last week and it's one of those ones that takes freaking FOREVER to heal... so I'll be on a soft foods/starving myself diet till the 18th... I also have dragon breath. It's not pretty.

Moving on...

This is my first year in Second Grade and so far... I am LOVING IT SO MUCH. My class is fabulous (and crazy small... only 15 kids?!). They are so enthusiastic to learn and excited to be there. We were doing a close read the other day and coloring the sentences where we found text evidence and a student seriously just yelled out, "This is so cool!" What?! Is this real life?!

Here are a few pictures of our first few days and more to come later!

Gotta love it! This is out "stuck" board. It's an exit ticket on Fridays with something that stuck with them. The plan is to find out more about what interests the students, make sure they learned something valuable, and that there aren't any misconceptions on a topic they learned about. It also helps me find out more about what my students respond to (what types of lessons, activities, etc.). On the first week we went to the library, this student was so excited to get a book! 

I put polka dot tape on their desks for a quick math game and you'd think they won the lottery!

I asked them what they WANTED to learn in 2nd grade and these were the answers I got. I told them I wouldn't delete this picture from my phone so that I could make sure they get to learn some of this. Luckily, a lot of it is actually stuff they WILL learn! Lucky me!

Stay tuned for more fun photos of Back to School!!!

Sunday Scoop on the New Blog!

I know I've had this blog design by Blogs Fits For a Queen for a few weeks now, but I can't stop starting at how beautiful it is now! If you are looking for a blog designer, check these girls out! They were amazing to work with and the quality of their work is fabulous.

I'm back on the blogging train, ya'll! Let's get this party started with my favorite linky brought to us by The Teaching Trio!

My biggest priority today is to make sure I have what I need for the week. I have a dental procedure on Friday so I need to do some sub plans and there MIGHT be a hurricane day on Tuesday. Living in Florida means August and September are our weird months for weather and Tropical Storm Erica is looking pretty nasty right now. I spent yesterday making a few new centers for my second grade class since all my centers from last year were for Kindergarten. I gotta tell you, I'm really enjoying my second graders. I am having a total blast planning for them and LOVE their personalities. I can't wait to really dive into the curriculum this week and be DONE with teaching procedures. *yawn*

Don't forget to click the tab at the top of my new gorgeous blog and check out my classroom this year! Here are a couple of sneak peek pictures in this post:

Thanks for stopping by!

The Moment We've All Been Waiting For!!! BLOG RE-LAUNCH GIVEAWAY!!!

OH. MY. GOSH! Notice anything different?! You certainly should because MAN, what a makeover! I am thrilled that I can finally reveal the amazing work the ladies at Blogs Fit for a Queen did on my little ol' blog! Thank you SO MUCH! Take a look at this before shot! I love the transformation!

Not only is this a celebration of a new blog makeover, but my TpT store also hit 500 followers last month! Woo-hoo! You guys are so awesome! This week school is also starting back for me and I know that I have an amazing year ahead, so this giveaway is HUGE to match the amount of celebrating I get to do!!!

A fabulous team of teacher-authors are helping me celebrate by giving some lucky winners a ton of loot for the back to school season! I am so thankful for them and excited that they are joining me for my celebration.

The giveaway will end on August 30th, so don't wait! Enter now! And make sure you come back and check out all the linked up blog posts below. Teacher-authors will be adding in their links with the products YOU could win!

In addition to ALL of the prize packs below, each winner of this giveaway (that means 3 winners!!) will be receiving a HUGE prize from ME! I have never given this product away IN MY LIFE but I think today it deserves to be won. I will be giving away to three lucky winners my Pirates and Polka Dots Classroom Decor Bundle!! It is valued at $25 in my store and is the decor pack I used in my own classroom last year! I can't wait to share it with 3 winners!

Click the image to see what's included!

Not only that, but my ENTIRE store will be on sale for the entire 2 week period this giveaway is going on, so snag your swag from my store at a discounted price!!!

Here are the giveaway packs, people! Prepare to get excited!!!

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August B2S Currently!

Okay, so 9 days into August and I'm just now realizing it's a new month?! I'm apparently trying REALLY hard to hang on to summer, ya'll! But ready or not, teachers go back tomorrow in my county, so I'm waking up at 5:30 am with or without my brain.

Thanks again, Farley for the great linky! If you haven't checked it out, Farley also has her currently's as printables for your students! I just bought her second edition during the big back to school sale, and I can't wait to get my students excited about using them to write this year. Click the link below to go check it out! It's seriously awesome. And it's helping me get excited about a new grade level! Kinders would have had a hard time with this activity last year. My second graders are sure to LOVE it!

And now, my August B2S Currently!

LISTENING:

I am NOT and never will be a morning person. I am enjoying this last summer morning of sleeping in and staying in my PJs till I can't possibly call it morning anymore (that's usually around 1pm for me...)

LOVING:

There is a LOT of excitement around a pretty big surprise today for my husband's streaming page. My husband streams live video game play as his profession (living the dream, right?) and there's a HUGE surprise involving ME and some other awesome people at around 1pm today (guess I need to get out of the PJs and into some real clothes...). If you have never stopped by his stream, you MUST! It will be so much fun! Click the button below to head there now, but remember nothing will be playing until about 1pm. His page has a lot of links to his YouTube though which is super fun to watch. Proud wifey!

THINKING:

I cannot WAIT to meet my new class of nuggets this year! They will be slightly larger nuggets from my kinder class last year, but I've got a new larger classroom to fit them in, so I should be okay. ;) I can't wait to meet them on Friday at orientation!!!

WANTING:

My allergies are in mega full swing today. The weather here in central Florida this time of year is just plain painful for me!

NEEDING:

I am still in the dangerous summer mode. I really hope tomorrow gets me in the B2S mode quick, because I've still got a lot of work to do! Once I'm done, I'll scope a classroom tour and post pictures! If you haven't followed me on Periscope yet, look me up! I'm DaisyDesignsTpT.

B2S RAK:

I have been secretly boxing some extras for a few new teachers at my school this year. One is teaching 1st grade and my pod-mate will also be teaching second, so any extra pairs of scissors I find or extra box of crayons, I've been hiding away for them. First year teachers should always get first dibs!!

Real quick, before I end my currently, I want to mention a super fun Instagram FREEBIE loop that will be going on TONIGHT starting at 8pm. Myself and a handful of other awesome teachers and bloggers will be looping together to give you some new FREE B2S swag, so go to IG by clicking the image below and follow me to join the loop tonight! I'm so excited!

My Instagram name is @DaisyDesignsTpT if you would rather look for me on your phone.

And don't forget, my blog makeover will be done soon (hopefully) and there is a huge surprise waiting to be revealed at the same time! So stay tuned!

Ready or Not! Back to School Season is Upon Us!

Are you ready for back to school? I'm totally NOT just yet. I can't seem to wrap my head around it and I still feel like I'm in summer mode!

Well... maybe a HUGE TPT Sale will help me get in gear!! My cart is totally ready... is yours??