The One With The Bucket List

Summer Vacation has officially started!  Yay!  I still cannot get over how quickly this year as gone by.  I dare say it has been the best year of my 6 year teaching career.  I have truly enjoyed this group of students.  I even enjoyed teaching Math this year.  We tried something new with Science that I think worked very well.  So in a way the end of this school year is bittersweet. 

I thought I would join the summer bucket list fun now that I'm on summer break.  My list always seems to be a mile long.  My brain starts thinking about the next year in April.  I have a huge list of ideas before school ever even ends.  Pinterest has not helped.  There are so many great ideas on there.


With no further ado, in no particular order here is my summer bucket list.


1.  The biggest thing on my list is preparing for next year.  Since I'm making a change in content areas I have my work cut out for me.  I like to be prepared with a general overview of what my year will look like before school starts.  I don't always have detailed lesson plans for the whole year, but I like to have general plans for the year.


2. There will be lots of scrapbooking. I have several projects that I would like to finish. The project I want to do first though is a scrapbook for my sweet Liam Bailey. He ran away over 2 months ago. He miss him so much. I've been meaning to do a scrapbook for him and our other dog since we first got her 5 years ago. With him being gone, it just seems the perfect time to do it.

3.  I love the bunting hanging from the ceiling with the pom poms in this picture.  One of my goals is to make my own for my classroom.



4.  Reading great books is always on my summer bucket list.  This year my reading list is slightly different as I'm reading young adult and teen novels.  I cannot wait to get paid to discuss books with my students all year.  Can you say Dream Job?!?

5. I have been drooling over the Erin Condren teacher planners since discovering them.  They aren't cheap though so I am thinking about making my own planner/binder with all my important information in one place. 

6.  I want to clean and organize our home this summer.  I'm thinking a little bit at a time.  It's a big job and I do better with small chunks.  Same goes for my classroom.  I have stuff that was there when I started teaching at the school.  It's good stuff that I don't want to let go of, but I'm not using it so it needs to go.

7.  Last but not least is to label all of the books in my classroom library with their AR level and points.



The One With The Questions

I'm excited to say that I've been tagged by the 24/7 teacher. I'll admit I'm a bit of a nerd and I love stuff like this.

Here are the rules:

*Post the rules.
*Post 12 fun facts about yourself in the post.
*Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create 12 new questions for the people you tagged.
*Tag 12 people and link them on your post.
*Let them know you've tagged them



So here we go with those 12 fun facts.

1. Married to my best friend! He's the best.
2. Momma to two sweet dogs.
3. Obsessed with owls.
4. Love to read and am rediscovery a love for young adult novels as I read recommendations made by my students.
5. Scrapbooking is one of my favorite past times.
6. Dream of being a photographer.
7. Deathly afraid of snakes.
8. Cry every time I go to the dentist, even for a cleaning.
9. Have been mistaken for a student and a student-teacher by two different subs in the past week
10. Taylor Swift fan
11. Don't eat marinara sauce on my pizza.
12. Said all my life I would never teach the very two subjects I'm currently teaching and loving.


Now on to the questions asked of me by the 24/7 Teacher.

1. Favorite part of Monday? Hearing about what my students did over the weekend
2. Favorite part of Tuesday? Spending time at home with the husband. Tuesday seems to be the only day of the week we are both home all night.
3. Favorite part of Wednesday? Zumba class!
4. Favorite part of Thursday? Watching The Office with the husband
5. Favorite part of Friday? 3:15 :) I LOVE my job but I also look forward to time with the husband every weekend. Our weeks are normally pretty busy.
6. Favorite part of Saturday? Saturday morning breakfast runs with Liam Bailey (my puppy)
7. Favorite part of Sunday? Church & Sunday naps
8. Favorite part of Spring? Bright colors and skirts.
9. Favorite part of Summer? Finding great ideas and preparing for the upcoming school year
10. Favorite part of Fall? Razorback football
11. Favorite part of Winter? Scarfs & Hot Chocolate
12. Favorite part of your school day? Getting to brag on my students because they've succeeded at something that started as a struggle.


I'm supposed to tag 12 of you, but to be honest I don't know if I know 12 of you that haven't already been tagged. If you read this please consider yourself tagged and play along. Leave me a comment letting me know you are playing. I would love to get to know some of you better.

Here are your questions to answer.

1. Favorite TV Show?
2. Favorite TV or Movie Character?
3. Favorite Children's book?
4. Most unusual name of a student you've had?
5. One thing you couldn't live without in your classroom?
6. Dream vacation?
7. To go or eat in the restaurant?
8. Milkshake or Malt?
9. Facebook or Twitter?
10. Favorite band?
11. Sweet or Unsweet tea?
12.See a movie in theater or wait until it comes out on dvd?