Did you hear that it is time for a sale again!?!  I love the TPT sales because it helps me get ready for some great times during the school year!  I have some awesome products in my cart ready to purchase on Monday!  I wanted to share with you some of my most wish listed items in my store!

I LOVE my products that are in my top three list!!  They are some of my favorites, and some of my most used products!

This writing product is one of my favorites, and the kids LOVE it!  They get to color their own superhero and then they describe their superhero.

I LOVE teaching religion, it is one of my favorite parts of our day.  My students enjoy using these notebook pages because it keeps them involved in their learning, and helps them feel as if they part of the lesson.  There are notebook pages where they get to color each day of creation, and then reflection questions to reflect on their learning.

My most wish listed idea is a FAVORITE in my class every year!  We have a superhero day and we have so much fun using these math centers!!  I have math centers for both first and third graders.  The centers range from adding, multiplication and graphing.

I hope that you have found some awesome ideas, and if you are looking for more make sure to check out the linky above so you can find more great ideas to add to your basket on Monday for a great price!!

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I can't believe I only have one more Friday of summer!!  Next week is my last week of summer!  Where has time gone!?

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to bring you my Five for Friday for this week!

I was so excited that we were able to begin our week on the beach in Orange County!  I lived in Orange County for five years, and those years were some of the best years of my life.  I LOVED living so close to the beach, and being able to drive PCH whenever I wanted to.  It was a blast to be able to bring the kids, and walk on the beach again!

I was able to get into my classroom again this week!!  I am so excited that I am ALMOST done with the decorating!  Plus, my partner and I got together and we were able to plan outline two subjects until November!!  AMEN!!

These ladies are some of my best friends!  I LOVE that I am able to chat with them daily, and that they are a great support system that I have!  Do you recognize them!?  If you don't, please go check them out!!  Ashlyn, The Creative Classroom, Jennifer, The Blessed Teacher, and Caitlin, The Kinder Garden.

We had to take our kiddos to the allergist this morning.  Last summer they were both diagnosed with being allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, her eggs, and him dogs.  It was time for our annual check in, and we are hoping that with some new studies baby girl will be able to outgrow her allergies!!  We had to wait to get some blood work done, and nothing entertains a 2 year old more than a camera!!

I LOVE this song!  One of my favorite Jeremy Camp songs!!  I love that he shares with us at the beginning of this video too!!

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I am so excited that I have been challenging myself this summer with my TPT business!  I am also excited that I have been able to connect and team up with some AMAZING people doing this!!  I LOVE the relationships that I have been able to find through my blog, IG and Facebook!  The teaching community is seriously an amazing community!!

This past week we were challenged to complete a new project and then reach out to some one to exchange our product with!!

I teamed up with Elizabeth from Hodges Herald!!  It was awesome to get feedback on my newest creation for you!!  It was my summer goal to conquer my monthly math centers, and I am so excited that I just finished my October centers!!

All of my monthly math centers are focusing on five different areas that I believe our students need constant focus on!  I started my math centers with August because I begin school in August, but there is no indication as to when the centers should be used.  There is nothing on the centers to show that they are for a certain time of the year.  No pumpkins, no holiday decor, no spring grass, just bright colors!!  This way you could differentiate if needed too!!

My October centers have a great variety of activities for students to do!  Some of the centers come with QR code options, as well as full color or ink friendly versions!

I can't wait to share these with you again in October when my students start using them!  I am working on a whole year of centers, and I have a growing bundle started already!!  Right now the growing bundle has August, September and October centers already uploaded!!

Check out Hodges Herald too so you can check out her awesome resources that I was able to check out!  I can't wait to use them in my classroom too!!

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Crazy to think that my summer is flying by!  Here I am, and already done with week 3!!  This week has been a busy week again!!  I can't believe how quickly time is flying by!!  I can't believe this was posted this week too!!

This morning I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!

The week started with some family time!!  I love going on walks with my kids through my parent's neighborhood!  It's so nice and we don't have to worry about cars going too fast!!

In church on Sunday the sermon was AMAZING!!!  This part really spoke to me!

This week I was able to take two girls to go get pedicures and lunch!  It was a blast, and they helped me remember why I spend these hours during the summer doing what I do.  They helped me remember how much I love teaching, and how much I love spending time with students!

I stopped by my school on Wednesday to check things out.  I switched classrooms at the very end of the school year, but am still waiting to move into my new classroom.  I left all of my stuff in one of the new third grade rooms.  When I walked in it was all pushed to the sides, and now I have no idea where anything is.  Does this make your head hurt like it does mine!?!  I'm hoping to be able to get in by the end of the month to start setting things up!

My current favorite for the week!!  Love Crowder!

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I am sitting in Starbucks right now, typing this, waiting for a friend to get here so I can tutor her in math before finals this week.  I CAN NOT believe that this school year is over in 5 days!!  Where has this year gone!?!

I am excited to share with you my Sunday Scoop because it is the last one that will have to do with teaching for a while!  ha ha, who are we kidding, we're teachers!  All summer it will be about teaching, but at least it won't talk about the piles of grading I have to finish!!

I have to move my classroom this summer, actually I have to move it in a week!!  My classroom is no where near ready to move!  I have stuff EVERY WHERE!!  Plus, they want to move classrooms and I'll be out of town heading up to my sister's wedding!  I am hoping we'll be able to use some "kid" power this week to help us move some things.  Other than that luckily the class that is going into mine is a male teacher so he doesn't have too many things and I will be able to move when I get back!

My son's last day of school is Tuesday, so I have to finish up his teachers' cards.  Instead of making them some of the super cute Pinterest things I've seen we decided just to get them Target gift cards.  This way in case they get all of that other "stuff" they'll have something they will absolutely be able to use and LOVE!

I have to finish my student's end of the year presents too!!  I need to print out their summer pack full of goodies to help them avoid that summer slide!!

Since I am DONE GRADING for the year I'm excited to be able to work on some fun TPT stuff this week, and work on my DVR playlist at the same time!  It has become quite backed up!  Plus Ashly, The Creative Classroom, introduced me to Reign last night!!  AHH!  I can't wait to binge watch it!!  Last night I might have watched 5 episodes while grading the REST OF MY PAPERS!!  :)

I'm excited my last day of school is Friday.  I LOVE teaching, I LOVE my students, but I am excited to move my room, recreate my learning environment, and to jump into my new ideas for next year!!!

Check out what everyone else is up to!!

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Cassandra

I hope that you've all had as great of a Sunday as I have!!

I woke up this morning in Prescott with my babies, and we enjoyed a FANTASTIC sermon at my parent's church!!  I LOVED IT!!

Then when I got home I realized that I was in this week's TPT Newsletter!!  #cloudten #smallfish

Tonight I am linking up with The Teaching Trio to bring you my Sunday Scoop!

Our school is in the middle of a HUGE reading contest right now!  My class has been winning the whole contest, but this last week everyone works super hard because the prize is a paid day off for the teacher.  My class always looses in the end because everyone else pushes so hard!

My husband's school auction is Friday night!  I'm excited for our date night!  We haven't had one in a long time!

I started reading a new book, The Last Little Blue Envelope, and I love it!!  It's a YA novel, but these are my favorite.

I can't wait to finish my taxes!!  We are going to be getting some money back!!  YES!!

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I was talking with Ashley Thursday night and I was telling her how much I wished I worked with more people like her and Angie!  I could go on and name so many more!  I know you have your favorites too!!  Jennifer, Ashlyn, Amy, Kristen, Marcy, Nicole, Sarah, Heather, how can I just name a few?!

But . . . then I got to thinking.

How great is it that we all have this PASSION and DRIVE to be the best teachers we can be?!  Sure, there may be days when we are down, or wish that things had gone differently, BUT we are still working hard.  We still put in the hours it takes to create the perfect lesson or idea to help our students succeed.  We work before school, after school, and during our "breaks" to make sure that we have the best we can possibly have to give to our students.

We aren't only trying to teach a whole class lesson, but we are trying to reach that one students who is still confused about the long a or short a sound.  We're trying to find hands on ideas to help our students master the difference between perimeter, area, and volume.  We work hard to make sure every student can read.  And EXCELL!

I work with some amazing people!  These ladies help me get through the day!  They share my determination to think outside the box, and to explore more than the textbook.  They help me be a better teacher!

I am so excited for Vegas this summer, I even use my new favorite hashtag #isitjulyyet ALL THE TIME!!  I can't wait to meet up with so many people that have the same passion, and drive that I do.  Being a mom is amazing, and something that I wouldn't trade for the world, but I LOVE teaching.  I love finding ways to challenge my students, motivate them to do their best, and to stay away from that copy machine!

I can't wait to connect, and be in a room full of people who have this same love that I do!!  I have started my bucket list for who I can't wait to meet in Vegas, who I can't wait to spend some more time with, and who I want to sit down and brainstorm with!  I know the conference will be over before I know it, but I am truly looking forward to what I believe will be an eye opening, exciting, AMAZING experience!!

#isitjulyyet

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I was so excited to join in a product swap!  I was paired up with Adam Thompson.  I was excited to be able to check out his Stop and Respond Reading Graphic Organizers.

We started a new book this week, Gossamer, and I knew this would be perfect to use!!

I shared this picture on Monday, because on a separate paper we are keeping our predictions as we read each chapter.  This book is awesome for those, because it is such a strange subject, and something my kids have never thought about.

We started our story on Tuesday, and we have been using these sheets every day.  I copied the different pages on different colored paper so that way the kids would know easily what sheet we were going to be working with.

On Tuesday we started filling out our first sheet about our first character Littlest One.  We walked through how to do this one together so that way we could do the next one on our own.  It was interesting to see what they were able to pull out of the book, and fill in to describe the character, and figure out what this character is because she isn't a human, but it doesn't come out and say what she is.

On Wednesday we were reading and there was a twist at the end of chapter 3 that the kids didn't see coming already.  We used the Good or Bad Effect page so that way the kids could reflect on what had just happened.  Then they were able to say what good thing could happen, or what bad thing could happen.

Thursday we weren't able to add another page to our notes, because we were still developing the characters, and learning more about the setting.  We were able to add more predictions to our notes, and were ready for a full day on Friday!

Friday we jumped right back into our book, and the kids kept asking for more!!  We started learning more about our characters, and the setting.  During one chapter I really wanted them to pay attention to where the story was taking place, and what was so important about it, so we filled out the setting page.

We also learned A TON more about one of our main characters, so we filled out another character page.  I had them fill this out by themselves, and then we went over it so they had the opportunity to add more details.

I can't wait to continue to use these, and to watch my kids dive into the novel more!!  I love these, and love the way the kids are able to think more about what we are reading!

You can check out all of the other awesome products that were swapped over at Learning to Be Awesome!!  Thank you for such a fun opportunity!

You can check out Adam's blog too!  He reviewed my Snowy Fractions task cards!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Good morning!! I'm linking up this morning with Doodle Bugs Teaching to bring you my Five for Friday!

This week has been a busy week, but I was so excited Tuesday night!  I registered for the TPT conference!!  Have you registered yet!?!  I can't wait to see so many friends there this summer, meet so many new people, and to learn so much!!

I saw this video on You Tube this week!  If you haven't seen it, please make sure you do!  I want to share it at devotions too, it is that good!

I've been working on a secret project with some of my blogging buddies, and I am so excited where we are so far!  It is going to be amazing, and I think you will all LOVE it!!  I can't wait to share it with you!!

I love Instagram, and if you aren't on there yet, you should be!!  It is my favorite way to connect with friends daily, and it is also great for helping me get dressed in the morning!!  Follow @jro1583 and @aem8168 to see their pins for the week!  I love these!!  Plus Jameson and Lindsey do them too, and Jameson taught me how to take my full body selfie!!  Sorry you don't really get to see it in these pictures!!

Finally, my music video to share with you this week is a new favorite of mine.  I LOVE this song right now, and was listening to Pandora and came across it!!

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Cassandra