Lessons With Coffee

Do you Birchbox, Ipsy, Julep, Umba, Love With Food, For The Makers, Kiwi Krate, Or BarkBox? I do.  Introducing..... SLANT Sending Love Across the Nation to Teachers SLANT : Verb - Reach out and be rewarded! Click Here To Sign Up **** UPDATE**** International friends, there is plenty of interest to send abroad!  Please do not hesitate to join...We got no post code hate!!! I really love getting mail; especially mail that does not involve me paying a bill.  I love the smell of ink on paper that someone spent time writing (really writing) a letter on.  Sometimes I can even get a whiff of that person who sent it to me.   I also love presents.  So much so that I regularly get myself presents in the form of Birchbox, Ipsy and Julep (There are more that I am probably going to get, it's a sick habit.)  I used to do a fabric scrap swap and it was always so fun to see what the other person found for me every month. I recently found a program simi

I posted a picture of my to do list on Instagram and had quite a few questions about what some of them are.  Here is the picture I posted: The first question I got was "How do you plan to paint a pocket chart?" from Katie at Keep Calm Float On .  Well it is a little hard to explain so I will do a tutorial of it sometime next week.  :)  Promise. The Second question I got was "What is your get to know me poster?" from Marissa at  My Classroom Is My Runway . WELL.  Here it is: Click the picture or HERE to download.  It is what I am going to have my kiddos to on the first day of school, then I am going to take them per class and put them in a binder for myself and for new kids.  They can check out the book and get to know their classmates. I will fill one out for each of my classes books too.  BUT!  I also create a huge one (anchor chart sized) and post it up first day. First day of 6th grade, new school, 5 elementary schools merging into 2 mid

OK.  I have gone and done it again!  I have received a Liebster Award.  Thank goodness there is more than one button!  LOL.  Going to make this a super short one though as I have a TON to do today! As you probably know, The Liebster Award is for blogs with less than 200 followers in order to promote that blog, show appreciation, and hopefully draw more followers. I am totally down for that. To accept the award you have to do a few things: (1) Link Back to the Person that Nominated You Thanks  Jessie  at  Mrs. Hester's Classroom (2) Answer the Questions from your Nominator (ok!)   1. What is your favorite thing about your job?   Definitely the super rad kids I get to work with on a daily basis.  I have spoke pretty openly about my desire to move to a k-3 classroom.  This has actually nothing to do with the fact that I teach middle school kids.  I love them - call me crazy- they are to that point where they want so desperately to prove how independent and adult

Linking up with Run! Miss Nelson's Got The Camera!  For her Saturday Snap Shots!  I just found out about this link and what I posted earlier totally works! I have one week left of summer.  Once August hits it is PD town, Grad Studies, Tech Organizing, LEGO League Prep and Opening Week. Holy Cow.  That is a lot!  I am freaking out a little bit.   A few posts a go I posted a list of things that I wanted to get done.  I have been working pretty hard (If you follow my Instagram you are probably aware of this fact),  Speaking of Instagram, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE FOLLOWED ME OVER! Here are some of the pictures of things I made this week.  I am SO stinking excited to get them into my classroom I can not wait until August 12th!  That is when I can finally get into my classroom and start putting together all of the fun things that I have created, purchased, and drooled over!  Looking at other classrooms I have gotten some ideas of how I am going to change my