Yeah!!! It's Currently Time!!

I love this time of month! I haven't participated in a few months but better late than never!

Listening to: Phillip Phillips -LOVE his new CD.  Man on the Moon is one of my favorite songs!

Loving the that our foyer and living room floor is finished! It turned out awesome!!! Now all we have left to do is our stairs and upstairs hallway. The stairs will take some time. We tore carpet off and the stairs underneath were not to pretty. So we are replacing the treads and risers. I have to stain the treads but finding the "right" color has been a pain. I think I have it now. It is a mixture of 2 different color stains. 

Thinking:  That I need to find a workout buddy. I want to work out but I hate doing it by myself. I know that I need to loose weight but it's discouraging when hubbs comes home "I lost 2 lbs this week" He can work out at work on his lunch. I have a gym membership but don't have the extra money to pay a trainer. 

Wanting:  I want to get more stuff finished and uploaded to my store. It's a motivation and time thing. We have been working on our floors and painting ect. So it hasn't left much time for anything else!

Needing: I need to update my resume. There are several teacher job fairs coming up here in Michigan that I want to attend. I love my job but I need something full time. 

Yeah!!! It's Here!! October Currently!

WOW!!! I can't believe that it's the beginning of October already!! Fall is my favvvvvvvvvoooorite time of the year! I am of course hooking up with Farley from Oh 'Boy Fourth Grade! 

Don't forget to enter the giveaway I have going for a box full of BIC Goodies!! I promise you will LOVE what you get from them! I am LOVIN the pens and pencils that I  have left from the review I did. 

Click above to take you to the post & giveaway!!!!

Friday Letters & August Currently!

I linking up with Ashley for Friday's Letters!!

Dear Hubby, Thank you for working 12's this weekend so we can have the extra money to have the leaky pool looked at and fixed!

Dear Nathan, I am sorry that you have to start summer school on Monday, but we have to get you back into a routine for 7th grade!

Dear Resume, Please work your way up to the top of the “yes” list at every district I've applied to thus far. I’m counting on you! (Claire I'm stealing this from you! Very well said!)

Dear Mom, Thank you for being my best friend. I love our daily chats!!

Dear Olympics, Thank you for keeping me up at night watching you! I love gymnastics and swimming!! 

Dear Readers, I love you, your fab!!

Have a great weekend!!!

Love, Cindy

Back from vacation, currently & More!!!

We we are back from vacation for a few days they we are off again on another camping trip. Our camping trip was great except half way through I got a horrible nasty heat rash and had to stay indoors! It was NOT fun! When we purchased our new to us pop-up camper my only demand was that we had air and it came in handy this past week. When it was upwards of 100 degrees mid week my camper was 85 and cool! My hubby and son enjoyed hanging by the fire and fishing. Nathan went on a massive turtle hunt he was determined to find a friend for our turtle Franklin! He wasn't as lucky as the other kids were :-) I am glad that he was branching out and finding friends at the campground!

Since I started my trek to becoming a teacher I almost completely stopped reading for pleasure. I always had textbooks and professional books to read. Well this summer I made a vow to myself that I was going to read for primarily pleasure. Right before school go out I read the 50 Shade of Grey Trilogy. Easy, controversial read! Over our first camping trip I was able to read 6 more books!!! 

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I'm hooking up with Farley over at Oh' Boy Fourth Grade  for the July Currently! 

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The one thing that I have found that I can't live without in the elementary classroom is.............. IXL Math!!! We are fortunate that our district has paid for a district wide license. The kids LOVE it!! 

It is skill specific from Pre-K through 8th Grade and they just added Algebra, and they will soon be adding geometry, trigonometry and other advanced topics.

This works well for all students in our math intervention because we can have them focus on skills at home that they we are working on in our math intervention groups. As teacher we get a weekly update on how much time each of our kids spend working on IXL too. 

Fun in Room 4B is ALSO having a giveaway. She's giving away the best pencil sharpener ever. Literally ever. Check it out!!

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3rd Grade Gridiron is having a awesome giveaway to help with the dreaded summer slide! Head on over and check it out!

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June Currently, One Lovely Blog Award & Giveaways!

Sorry about the double post today! I can't believe that it's the beginning of the month and time to hook up with Farley over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade.

Today I received the "One Lovely Blog Award" from Claire over at Live, Laugh, Love, Teach! 

Thank you very much Claire! 

I look forward to blogging everyday! I have found so many new classroom ideas, lesson ideas and freebies since I started blog stalking. I am grateful that everyone is willing to share their knowledge it has been big help being a new teacher! 

Ok, so here are the rules...

After you are given the "One Lovely Blog" Award:

1. Follow the blog who gave the award to you.

2. Mention that blogger that has given it to you in a blog post .

3. Pass on the award to 15 new blogs.

4. Make a list of the new blogs so others can check them out.

And so, the award goes to.....

1. Kathy @ First Grade a la Carte
2. Every New Beginning 
3. Kathleen @ Growing Kinders
4. Sharon @ Mrs. Winter's Pre-K Paradise
5. Natalie @ Teachery Tidbits
6. Sarah @ Sarah's First Grade Snippets
7. Ruth @ Teacher Park
8. Rachelle & Natalie @ What the Teacher Wants
9. Jennifer @ Empowering Little Learners
10. Beg, Borrow, and Teach!
11. Laura @ Love to Teach
12. Jena @ First Grade with Miss Snowden
13. Miss Klohn@ The Adventures of a 6th Grade Teacher
14. Kimberley @ First In Maine
15. Deb @ Oh My Little Classity Class
16. Miss Jessica @ A Turn to Learn

That was tough!  I hope that everyone I gave the award to doesn't already have it. I looked at all of the sidebars and didn't see the award! Most of the blogs are newer teaching blogs! I enjoy each and every one of them.......I hope you do too!

Here a a wonderful giveaway!

Jessica is giving away her whole TPT store.......head on over and enter for a chance to win!