Happy Fall, Y'all!

Don't y'all just LOVE Fall? I love EVERYTHING about it! Cool air, pumpkins, baking, warm soups in the crock pot, Halloween, CANDY,  hot cocoa, leaves turning...man I could go on and on! It seriously gives me the warm fuzzies! At our school we have a huge fall festival each year. Friday our fabulous PTO members decked the school out in Halloween decor! Although the kids get a little crazy and from Monday on I will be asked every day "Miss Nelson!! Is tomorow Halloween?!?!" or "Miss Nelson!!! Is tomorrow the fall festival?!?!?", I love it! With all the hard work and expectations we have for our little kiddos, they deserve to have a little more excitement around the school, and by golly if Halloween decorations is what does it for them, I'll take it! I included this picture because it listed many of my favorite things about fall and it ended with thankful. We have so much to be thankful for and 'tis the season to be reminded of that!

Well I would make another excuse for why it's been so long since I've posted, but I will give you a freebie instead! Head on over to my TPT shop to pick up a free leader in me themed Notebook Cover. I have included covers for grades K-8. All I ask in return for this freebie is to rate my product!

 Click here for the FREEBIE!

It has been a busy few weeks in Miss Nelson's classroom! I plan to include lots of pictures in my blog post tomorrow of what all we have been doing in first grade. I am also working on a new TPT product that I will include a link for too! :)

Happy Saturday and thanks for reading!

Oh Hey...Remember Me???

Hey there! Remember me? The new blogger? No? Oh, well maybe that's because I have SERIOUSLY been neglecting my little blog since the back to school madness began!

I don't know about y'all, but I.am.BEAT! 

This is week 3 for my district and we are finally getting in a good routine in my class. Tuesday felt like the first day of school again. I don't know if it was having Monday off for Labor Day or what, but my kiddos were insane in the membrane!

 

One of the main reasons this little gem has been neglected is due to the number of hours I have been putting into teaching, lesson plans, making flip charts for our new reading program...the list goes on! Let's just say if I was paid by the hour, I would be rollin' in the dough for the major OT I have put in the past month or so! But this isn't new to the teachers reading this! That is the story of our lives during the school year!

I am working on uploading a few things to TPT. Tune in later this week to get info about my new products!

Thanks for reading!

 

Oi Vey!

Man, oh MAN! The past week and a half have been a whirlwind and I have been surviving just by the hair on my chinny chin chin! ::insert 1st grade kiddo giggle::

I hate to admit, but OBVIOUSLY my little bloggity blog has been low on the totem pole with the craziness that has been the beginning of the school year! Inservice week was a whirlwind. The first two days of school are a daze. All I can remember is having to soak my feet for hours once I made it home and going to bed around 7pm. We made it through hump day and it was our first GOOD day! It was like REALLY good. I have so many sweeties in my class. One in particular makes my heart swell with happiness every time he giggles at my jokes. I must be REALLY funny, because he sure does cackle! :)

Well, here are a few pictures of my finished classroom. Sorry they are so small. I tried making them bigger but for some reason it made them pixilated & I just don't have the energy to try and fix it!I am going to keep this blog post short and sweet because let's face it, it's 8:30 and that's past my bedtime at this point in the school year. I may or may not be having to hold my eyelids open with pencils while I write this beloved blog post. HEH!

Thanks for reading!

Hope you all had a great kick off to your school year if you started this week too! :)

MIA & Blogger Exchange!

 

WHEW! This has been a week for sure! So sorry I have been M.I.A from the blogging world. I have been fighting off some kind of respiratory infection and feeling like poo. Not to mention, I have had a lot on my plate this week. Let's just hope this prepares my immune system for the beginning of the year germies my sweet firsties are going to bring in with their unsanitized hands! Despite the sickness, I have been working HARD this week and have been somewhat productive in the classroom! I am ALMOST finished! Just a few more minor touches (I'm very much a perfectionist) and I will be able to share some pics with y'all! Woop!

Now it's time to share my Back to School Blogger Exchange goodies I received this week from  Molly! There has been a little confusion with my shipping from FedEx, but hopefully I have it figured out and she will receive her goodies tomorrow!! It should have been there on Thursday :-( So sorry it's later than it was supposed to be, Molly! Hopefully you will still want to be my blogger buddy after this!

Well, I am in LOVE with my new back to school goodies she sent me! Isn't that chevron notebook adorable?! I was needing a new notebook :) And the SCISSORS?! TOO cute! I am all set for back to school and have already put those pens to good use! I am usually a flair kind of girl, but I LOVE the way these write too! Can't wait to see all of your goodies! Thanks to Ms. Smith & Covered in Glitter & Glue for the awesome idea!

Tomorrow I will NOT be going to work in my classroom. I repeat. I will NOT let myself go. I REALLY want to go. But I need a day away from school. Maybe I'll go for a few hours on Sunday :) Instead, I have a wonderful day of laziness planned with my sweetheart and then he is taking me to Bonefish Grill and a movie for a much needed date night! I'm a lucky girl :)

Thanks for reading!