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From May to September in the Life of a Teacher!
May
End of May/Early June
June/July
First, teachers hear this...
Come July 1st, the comments are more like this:
August
Reality starts to sink in and teachers begin thinking like this...
But then they realize...
Panic sets in...
Days end like this...
And worries of...
Finally a shining light! The HUGE Back to School Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers!!
Everything in The Teaching Bank's store is 20% off! Add code BTS14 at checkout and receive and additional 10% off everything in your cart!
Monday, August 4 - Tuesday, August 5, 2014!
Now teachers can go back to all the warm and fuzzy feelings...
Of course once administration gets involved...
The First Day of School:
All the parents of the world are loving you...
September:
When it all starts over again...
But don't fret, you have the TpT Back to School Sale ready to help! Not only that but TpT and The Teaching Bank will be "Lending Ideas and Saving you Time", providing quality teacher tested resources that will benefit your students and help save your sanity all year long !
My Son is Famous! ;)
My 9 year old son was on the news this morning with his 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Stutzman, from Whitetail Elementary School. Mrs. Stutzman went above and beyond in creating the Wednesday Walkers Club this summer. Through the months of June and July every Wednesday morning we could drop our child off at her house at 8 AM. The group would take a walk around the neighborhood, share their summer adventures, and get some quality fun time with her toddler son. We'd pick them up at 9:30 or she's even drive them home! She went so far above and beyond the classroom and I am so grateful and in awe of her!
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Sam is the blond boy in the neon yellow shirt with gray shorts. He was so excited to participate, not just in the news feature, but in the Wednesday Walkers Club all summer. He adores Mrs. Stutzman and she is deserving of every accolade given! She is a fantastic teacher and I am grateful that Sam has her in his life! :)
The Lost Summer?
I can't believe it has been almost 2 months since I wrote a post on my blog! This summer has totally gotten away from me. I had all these plans and a big to-do list for my store: finish my new unit for Where the Red Fern Grows, rework my Alien Text Talk product into task cards, and edit all the product descriptions in my TpT store with some clarifications and links. So, what I have I accomplished? Well, I've made some progress on my Where the Red Fern Grows unit, but it's not ready for publication quite yet. Other than that ZERO!
Why? Summer should be the perfect time to get caught up on all these things right? Wrong! The main thing that has taken priority over my to-do list is my kids!
I thought as they got older and more independent I'd have so much more time. Again, WRONG! I have become the number one (and lowest paid) taxi service in town! My oldest, Joey, is going on 15, he needs rides to baseball practice, baseball games, friend's houses, and Driver's Ed classes (AHHH!) Ally just turned 12, and she too is quite the social butterfly needing to meet friends all over and be taken to sleepover after sleepover! She also has gymnastics several times a week. My youngest, Sam, is 9 and at least he sticks a little closer to home. He was also in baseball and needs near daily rides (with a van full of neighborhood kids) to the local pool!
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| Vancouver from our verandah. |
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| See Otter in Sitka |
The whales in Sitka!
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| Sawyer Glacier in the Tracy Arm Fjord. |
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| Panning for gold in Skagway! |
The glacier fields from the float plane in Juneau.
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| Riding in a float plane over the glacier fields in Juneau. |
The feeding of the bald eagles from the Aleutian Ballad in Ketchikan. This was phenomenal having them swooping all around. There were at least 50 or more!
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| Catching some crab on the Deadliest Catch's Aleutian Ballad in Ketchikan. |
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| My "Alaskan Look"! |
It was an amazing vacation. Great family time and we all learned and saw so much!
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| With TpT founder, Paul Edelman |
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| Meeting TpT star, Deanna Jump! |
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| Getting the promised hug from Paul! |
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| View from our room on the 35th floor! |
The TpT conference was on Friday, July 11th, so my husband made the trip with me to make it a long weekend. We enjoyed the dining, ambiance, and the pool at the conference hotel, The Palazzo. We also saw the Cirque du Soleil show Mystere which was fantastic!
Drove over to the Hoover Dam for a tour. Stopped on the way in Boulder, NV at The Coffee Cup restaurant that was featured in Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives and had a great Bloody Mary with bacon!
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| The Hoover Dam |
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| The stairs going up inside the Hoover Dam. Glad we were able to take the elevator! |
The view from the Dam of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Bridge
As soon as we returned from Vegas we packed up and headed to Pickerel Lake, in northern South Dakota with my extended family. We had a great week of fishing, boating, swimming, sitting by the bonfire, and eating way too much!
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| My dogs, Katy and Hurley, keeping an eye on the bobbers for us. |
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| Katy resting a bit on her bobber watching duty. |
We're finally back and now there are less than 2 weeks until school starts! So I guess my "Summer To-Do" list now becomes my "Fall To-Do" list! Even though it hasn't been the most productive summer work-wise, it was a very productive summer for family bonding and lifetime experiences. I know which is more valuable in the grand scheme of things and I am so grateful for how fortunate I am to have these experiences and memories!
I promise to get the When the Red Fern Grows Novel Unit finished up soon and to start creating those Alien Text Talk Task Cards! Please "like" and watch my Facebook page or "follow" my TpT store for notice when they are released!
I hope you have been blessed to have a summer as "lost" and productive as mine! Enjoy your remaining days and happy back-to-school planning!
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