Summer of Color!

You guys!  I found out about a really fun website/blog today that will keep me excited about creativity this summer!  I am so happy. It's called Twinkle, Twinkle - Sparkly Things and Such.  The girl in charge is named Kristen and she is mad talented!  

Every week there will be a color scheme and you have to create ANYTHING using those colors.  Or just post a picture with those colors.  Then enter your name and the URL where your image can be found and boom!  That's it!

This is her blog link: http://twinkletwinklelikeastar.blogspot.com/

Go there and check it out!

It is officially summer!!

Ahhhhhh!!!!  Do you hear that?  It's the chorus of cheers as I celebrate waking up today with nothing to day!  SUMMER IS HERE!  Finally!  It is so important for us teachers to have this time off.  Well, if that is what you want to call it.  I have already begun working on next years things.  Bus this gives us the opportunity to recharge, refresh, and rethink.  It gives us a chance to reflect on the past school year and allows us to dream about why we got into teaching in the first place.  

I am looking forward to so many things this summer.  Most of all I am excited to be traveling to see my family! This crazy family!  This picture is a few years old but these are nieces and nephews.  My world.

I also look forward to painting.  

I look forward to maybe making it to the beach once or twice.  Not too much though because I am not really a beach person.  I just live in Florida.  ;-)

I will also celebrate a birthday as I turn another year older. 

Surely I will see a movie or 10.  We LOVE movies around here!

The summer will be filled with endless possibilities!  I can't wait for the adventures to begin.  But for today and probably the rest of this week, I will be a bum.  I will just enjoy not having to work for the next 9 weeks!  Oh the the glorious possibilities!

Getting Ready for Next Year

Technically, this school year isn't over until 3:30 pm tomorrow, but I just can't help myself!  I think every teacher begins thinking about the next school year before the current one is over.  I have been pouring over blogs the last few days and I have so much more to see but these are some of the my favorite things so far.

These can be found at Teacher By The Beach!

   

I also found this AMAZING brochure at First Grade Blue Skies.  What a great idea!

I have made my own and here is what it looks like.  The very first page is similar, but that's where it ends.  I love the finished product and can't wait to pass them out.

I also downloaded this First Grade Helper last year and I am finally going to use it this coming school year.  It is such a great thing.  I have some now that I made about 3 years ago and I realized last week when I was collecting them from the students to put away that they were pretty word down. 

That's all for now!  I will have so much more to tell you about because I have slacked so much this year.  I am uploading about 250 pictures into my DropBox account so I can do blog updates.  THanks for reading!